Scotland 15-13 AustraliaHosts earn third successive win over WallabiesIn the end Murrayfield was rocking. This might not have been a classic – too many mistakes for that, too little continuity – but it had plenty of high points, plenty of tension and drama. And then it had the result. No one should get carried away, however much the sell-out crowd had cause to roar, but here is another important win for
Scotland – and this against the No 3 side in the world, who lately recorded consecutive victories over the world champions.
Murrayfield has been re-established as a formidable fortress for a while now, but there remains the hint of a fault line in Scotland’s confidence in general, which this win should help them work on. And next those same world champions,
South Africa, come calling. What might a win next weekend do for that confidence. Australia will point to the disruption they have suffered, particularly in their back line with the withdrawal from the tour of Quade Cooper and Samu Kerevi. It must be said their back play lacked a certain fluency.