Gregor’s boys brought crashing back to earth as Fijians turn on the power

areas of the pitch and we’d turn the ball over, we’d give away penalties, we’d make too many mistakes, we’d do things that are not natural to us.

“We did crazy stuff that was just not in our system of playing.

“The boys are flat. We all know we didn’t show the same kind of maturity against Fiji that we showed against Australia.

“We know we didn’t deserve to win the game.”

Scotland applied more of the early pressure but their handling in the steady drizzle let them down until home lock Tevita Cavubati was sent to the sin bin for pulling Jonny Gray down in the line- out.

A catalogue of errors from the Scots as they tried to run clear gave Fiji an attacking platform.

Volavola had missed a longrange penalty but made no mistake with his second shot from straight in front. While Scotland were having problems with their handling, Fiji continued to struggle with their discipline, so when they also lost prop Peni Ravai for collapsing a maul, Toony’s boys took advantage.

They set up a line- out maul and Ford, on the day he broke the Scottish caps record by winning his 110th, claimed his third try of the summer tour.

The islanders ramped up the pressure, with Nakarawa f licking the ball clear from a maul on the Scots 22.

Volavola’s cross kick was perfectly placed for Patrick Osborne on the wing and he found Yano to take the scoring pass.

Volavola could not land the conver - sion but it still meant Scotland were trailing at the break. They were not helped by yet another turnover near the halfway line that allowed Fiji to zoom across the field, where Osborne banged the ball downfield. Greig Tonks, on at the break for Duncan Taylor, made a mess of clearing up the loose ball, handing the home side a scrum. They had shots at scoring a try but eventually settled for a penalty, with Volavola doing the honours for a seven-point lead. Scotland should have been level when Henry Pyrgos spotted a gap but he missed his runners with his pass, only for Fiji to mess up their attempt to clear. The ball squirted out straight to Jackson, now up at fly half, who had an easy run-in for his first Test try.

His conversion levelled the scores, for a few minutes at least, until Volavola put Fiji back in front with a penalty.

Home joy was soon doubled when a piece of brilliance from Nakarawa saw him break through and offload to replacement scrum-half Seniloli for a brilliant try that pushed the lead out to 10 points after Volavola’s conversion.

Scotland did fight back with Brown grounding at the back of a driving maul but again their mistakes cost them as they handed the ball back to their rivals after the restart.

Del ighted Fiji boss John McKee said: “We have very talented players who are top players in Europe.

“We’ve made a lot of progress as a team in the time we have been together.”