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up front on the lack of organisation of the Islanders so a stream of penalties and the two yellow cards that effectively turned the course of the game duly followed. This will surely work against similar opposition down the road.

Of course South Africa wouldn’t have wilted this way, but there is a different plan for the Springboks, and then also for Argentina, just as they were different plans for Samoa, the All Blacks and the Wallabies in successive weeks last year.

“You know what’s coming from South Africa,” continued Townsend. “They’ll put huge pressure on your scrum, excellent lineout defence, and a huge lineout drive.

“What they do in open play, there’s more nuances to it (now under new coach Rassie Erasmus) but the fundamental is them coming round the corner and running hard. They’ve done that since they were teenagers, it’s the way they play in South Africa, and they have the biggest men in world rugby.

“This was a good test in some ways, there were some huge men in the Fijian team and we put in some really good tackles, double tackles that knocked them back. We just have to do that time and again next week.”

It’s a much more formidable challenge and you’d imagine that there won’t be as many wide grins in the second half as there was on Saturday.

But while sticking to their overall philosophy of speed, Scotland can play more than one way now, and continuing the recent Murrayfield run is well within their capabilities.

SNS. Picture: Tommy Seymour, left, celebrates after scoring his third try of the game with George Horne.