The future of at least one of Edinburgh Gunners, Glasgow Warriors and Border Reivers is in doubt after SRU chief executive Gordon McKie announced cuts to stem a £23million debt.

However, the Scotland boss is convinced the players will rise to the challenge of proving themselves in the face of adversity.

Hadden said: People say the players heads will be down about the possibility of losing their jobs.

But, in fact, they will be looking for an opportunity to make sure they are kept on.

The thing about professionalism is players know, every time they step on the pitch, their job is on the line.

This is not hugely new territory for Scottish rugby players. We have been here before. I was involved when four teams became two in 1998.

We just havent got the financial and playing resources in Scotland to make it a smooth ride all of the time, and the nature of professional sport means it is a pretty uncertain world.

I think our players, on the whole, cope remarkably well with that side of it.

Over a number of years, we have all become pretty adept in dealing with uncertainty both on and off the pitch.

I dont think the position at the moment is that different to where we have been at the end of previous seasons, maybe this year we are just being more open about it.

Hadden concedes the prospect of losing one of the professional teams was disappointing but insists the move will not be detrimental to the World Cup campaign in France next year.

The former Edinburgh head coach has announced a combined 54-man squad for training ahead of the tour to South Africa and the Scotland A trip to Canada in the Churchill Cup.

While he does not want to see players leave Scotland to find a professional club, Hadden is convinced the current squad will battle on.

He said: In the short term, it wont have a massive impact on me, because I dont expect too many guys we dont know about to suddenly appear from nowhere.

Ideally, we dont want our best players to be based outside Scotland.

But the bottom line is we just have to deal with the situation which is in front of us, and we are actually quite good at that in Scotland  battling in adversity.