Cotter's backs, in particular Mark Bennett and Tommy Seymour, are coming to the boil nicely and South Africa's recent woes means that match is earmarked as one of the potential shocks.
Cotter Jr. struck back with his own petition, calling the allegations against him "nonsense" and "fictional".
But that wasn't even Dinklage's only unaired pilot: He also played Bob Hart in Testing Bob, which looks like it was meant to be 2005's answer to All in the Family and Welcome Back Cotter (that is to say: a show about a cantankerous, broken-down high-school teacher).
Just as a fan remonstrated in front of the Scottish coaching box, shouting: "You should be ashamed," at Vern Cotter, the full-back burst over the Irish line and for all the world appeared to get the ball down.
However, Cotter's blend in the back row was particularly eye-catching.
"When people drink this kind of beer," Mr. Cotter said, "they never go back to drinking less-good beer".
Elaine C Smith will return as Nesbitt's long-suffering wife Mary Doll while Tony Roper is back as Jamesie Cotter.
Replace the castellated nut cover and insert a new cotter pin into the hole (back up slightly if needed to match the hole, do not tighten to gain access to the next hole).
Cotter has in his two back-row Johns, Hardie and Barclay, effectively picked two open-sides in the belief that if a disciplined, athletic Scotland can stay on their feet to win the battle of the breakdown, as Australia did against England, and most others, in the World Cup, then Scotland can stretch the English.
And while the Welsh region again battled to the end, Scotland-bound Clermont coach Vern Cotter will be able to look back on a grim afternoon's work well done.
