Scotland Rugby Union president Andy Irvine believes new chief executive Gordon McKie will team up with chairman Allan Munro to provide the ``dream team'' his sport badly needs.
The 48-year-old McKie, who boasts no background in the game to speak of, was appointed to the post vacated by Phil Anderton primarily due to his formidable business record in the engineering industry.
However, Irvine insists McKie, described by Munro as a ``business doctor'' took only five minutes to convince the board was the right man to cure the ailing Scottish game.
Irvine said: ``Gordon and Alan are a dream team. You won't get a better chairman and chief executive and I will be able to sleep in my bed at night now.
``Gordon will be immense, he is highly respected and I bet that after six months in the job he will have the unanimous approval of all the people here.
``He doesn't suffer fools gladly, he drives people hard but he's very honest and he will bring an organisation that we haven't seen before.
``Gordon had to make a presentation to us and after five minutes he could have walked out.
``He won't be able to wave a magic wand and produce a 19-stone loose head prop that's going to demolish the All Blacks but make no mistake, this is a fantastic day for Scottish rugby.''
However it has emerged that the SRU almost lost out on McKie after the head-hunter appointed to find a new chief executive failed to include him in the original four-strong list of candidates who were interviewed - then rejected - last month.
Munro admitted it was a quirk of fate that enabled the SRU to step in at the last minute and snap up McKie before he joined another company.
He said: ``The head-hunter came back in (after the first four were rejected) and he had the list of applications for the job and he also came forward with some new names.
``I was going through the long list of names and I came across an application from Gordon.
``His application was rejected by the head-hunter because at the time it came in, I suspect that the board had already put forward the list of candidates.
``Fate played a huge part because Gordon was on the point of signing on the dotted line for another major Scottish company when Andy made the approach.
``But I'm delighted that Gordon accepted our invitation.''
Irvine insisted the appointment was never really in doubt, adding: ``We were not even close to appointing someone else.
``We went into the meeting with the four candidates with great expectations and in fairness a lot of them had excellent attributes but none of them had them all.''