The players will now return to their clubs for the remainder of the calendar year, with the Scots-based ones to be rested for a few weeks.
The coach admits that nothing is taken for granted though as he's not contracted for that long.
Scotland needed a miracle against Ireland but they were already defeated by half-time.
He is looking forward to the fixture.
Jack Dempsey’s old man is a ‘fair dinkum’ Australian who had serious doubts about his boy switching allegiance to Scotland last Autumn – but it is safe to say is now fully on board.
Needing to win by eight points, the conclusion has clearly been reached that grinding their way to glory is not tenable.
Qualification to the tournament quarter-finals is on the line, with Scotland needing to win by eight points or more whilst depriving their opponents of a four-try bonus point.
Horne added that while Scotland’s own talismanic stand-off, Finn Russell, is widely regarded as a very different sort of character to Sexton, the two playmakers actually have an awful lot in common.
First Ewan Ashman missed the opening weekend defeat to South Africa in Marseilles because of a concussion suffered in training earlier that week.
Dropping down the pecking order this calendar year behind Ben White and at times his Glasgow Warriors clubmate George Horne has been frustrating.
