"It's easy to get depressed about the situation, but there's a huge amount of happiness and optimism to be drawn on," he said.

Ben: The injury to Tuipulotu plus Glasgow's result against Harlequins has definitely put a dampener on optimism for the Six Nations.

“They didn’t share his optimism that physics will be able to actually produce any theory of intelligibility and consciousness which is responsible for the physical picture of the world.”

The Blues faithful had been given hope and optimism by the managerial change, but were left taking in a dose of reality by full-time.

Although she had been ill for some time, she maintained a sense of optimism.