Despite Scotland's early exit from the World Cup the Scottish Rugby Union retain faith in coach Andy Robinson.

For the first time in their history the Scots failed to qualify for the quarter-final stage of the competition, with loses to Argentina and England seeing them finish third in Pool B.

Having seen Robinson pen a contract extension until after the 2015 World Cup earlier in the year, SRU chief executive Mark Dodson has reiterated his support for the Englishman despite the recent failure.

"We shouldn't get too carried away about what happened here. It was a loss, it was disappointing," said Dodson.

"What we have to do is to learn from this and make ourselves even more competitive and turn ourselves into a winning team.

"Andy knows full well what went wrong over here. He will go back, talk to his coaching group and I think he's going to look at the players and the ways in which we can be more successful going forward.

"I'm not in the business of losing; there's no way you can take comfort from a loss like this.

"We have to learn from it, but we don't have to accept it.

"We're going to build a winning culture within Scottish rugby.

"Andy Robinson's going to be a continuing part of that and I want the whole nation to remain buoyant about what we're going to achieve here."

Dodson added that the board were eager to hear Robinson's World Cup debrief.

"We'll listen to Andy and listen to the learnings that have taken place over here," he said.

"Once a result like that happens there is a natural pause that takes place and a period of reflection and I don't want to rush Andy with this.

"He will want to tell us about what happened out here and he'll want to tell us what he's going to do to put it right.

"We'll be listening intently to that and giving him all the support he can possibly ask for."

Key to the future of Scottish rugby is renewed investment in the game at grassroots level and the provision of assistance to the professional outfits in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

"We still have a very clear road in mind about where the game's got to go, whatever happened in this tournament," explained Dodson.

"Our plans won't be affected at all by what's happened.

"We know what we have to do with the pro game. We know what we have to do with community rugby and grassroots. We also know what we have to do with the national team.

"When we come back we'll put all those factors into place and build for the future."

Source: Planet Rugby