Former Scotland back Chris Paterson thinks that his country can achieve World Cup success in the near future.

Scottish Rugby Union chief executive Mark Dodson has targeted a Six Nations win and World Cup triumph by 2016, as well as making Glasgow and Edinburgh two of Europe's elite clubs.

While he admits that this is ambitious, Paterson does believe that the four-year plan is possible to accomplish.

"It's an ambitious target, but I think it's good to set ambitious goals," Paterson told BBC Scotland. International rugby is so close, so why wouldn't it be doable?

"We've seen Scotland win three games on tour over the last three weeks and international rugby is so close that could have been zero wins out of three.

"And, if you turn that on its head, in the Six Nations, Scotland won zero out of five, and certainly the first three could have been wins against England, Wales and France."

Scotland won all three of their tour matches against Australia, Samoa and Fiji last month.