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0 r, s e s e e. e r l s f id e a e e f d pictured, added. “So to go out there against a full-strength Argentina team who were going to be coming out fighting and do what they did – the confidence and the execution – was great to see. They felt as comfortable playing the way we know they can play in north-eastern Argentina as they would have done at Murrayfield. “That was one of the goals for this tour, that we put a performance in, hopefully three, that showed we can play to our potential away from home. We certainly did that on Saturday.” Bearing in mind some of the names missing from the tour party – Greig Laidlaw, Finn Russell, Jonny Gray, Ryan Wilson, Willem Nel, Tommy Seymour and more – this victory was all the more remarkable, and deserves to be remembered as one of the great Scottish performances of recent times.
Summer tours are sometimes written off as meaningless end-of-season excursions, and sometimes that is indeed all they are. Not this one.
The growth in the squad from the 48-10 win over Canada then the 30-29 loss to the USA to Saturday night’s triumph has been extraordinary.
The players and coaches responsible will now take a short, well-merited break for summer, but for them and for the Scotland support, next season can surely not come quickly enough.