Summary
Scotland 10 - 45 South Africa Try - Penalty try Penalty - Paterson Conversion - Paterson Tries - Fourie, Tyibilika, Habana 2, Van Der WesthuyzenPenalty - Montgomery Conversions - Montgomery 4 Drop goals - Van Der Westhuyzen 3 Be still, oh beating bokke hearts, for if ever a victory demanded clarification and context, it was this. No doubt you would have swarmed the streets of Edinburgh and hailed your side as world-beaters last night, but a very large asterisk must be placed beside their achievement. In short, the sheer awfulness of Scotland's performance must be taken into account.
To borrow one tersely fitting assessment, many words could be used to describe Scotland's display, but none would serve the purpose quite so well as "crap". They were hopelessly off the pace, witless with the ball, feeble in contact and so glaringly profligate in giving away scores they should consider an application for charitable status. You don't want to rain on South Africa's parade, but their schools team could have won yesterday. Scotland were glaringly, grimly, gallingly dreadful.See the full content of this document
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Power Failure
Long before they lost the match, they lost the plot spectacularly. The only allowance you could make is to observe that scrum-half Chris Cusiter and lock Nathan Hines departed with injuries inside the first quarter, but Scotland's failure to cope with those setbacks was alarming. Against a South African side who will never, to be honest, be considered among the great Springbok teams, they ...
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