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Apr 08, 2024

Scotland finally move through gears in last World Cup warm

It has been a World Cup warm-up campaign of fits and starts for Scotland and the pattern continued here as a largely miserable first half gave way to a much more convincing second 40, which still

It has been a World Cup warm-up campaign of fits and starts for Scotland and the pattern continued here as a largely miserable first half gave way to a much more convincing second 40, which still failed to tell us much we didn’t already know — or fear — ahead of that first tournament match against South Africa in two weeks’ time.

What we can be certain of is that the Springboks will be far more than six points clear at the break should the Scots produce the same sort of feeble, fetid guff that characterised their early efforts here.

There was much more to like — so much more dynamism and intent — in their post-interval work but as a dress rehearsal for that