[2] Allan Massie thinks his 1981–82 international season was his best, and describes him as "an individualist rather than a link-man"[5] and that A player of precocious talent, Jim Renwick was aged nineteen when he won his first cap against France in 1972.
[6] Richard Bath writes of him that: Renwick was a slightly unorthodox player, and considered suspect in defence in the early part of his career – this saw him left out of the 1977 Lions – although appearances were deceptive.
In Bucharest, in May 1984, Renwick broke Andy Irvine's previous record of fifty-one caps playing Romania, even though he'd missed the first past of the season through injury.
[7] Equally unorthodox in appearance, the sight of the later Renwick, bald and moustached, slightly rotund, with his head-nodding as he ran, jinking and weaving and breaking into open space, was one of the more peculiar joys of international rugby.
[2] Allan Massie thought his handling and evasion skills were marvellous: Renwick retired at the beginning of the 1984 season, just before Scotland claimed its first grand slam since 1925.