To Townsend’s plan

the try was one of the few bright spots on a wet day at BT Murrayfield.

er for us to say we play Italy, we play England, we play France, all the teams that have huge packs, we need a South Africa performance, plus our own game getting imposed on the opposition.

“We played really well that night [a year ago against the All Blacks]. Maybe the games haven’t gone as fluently. [Against Argentina] I would say the conditions mean you have to play a different game, both teams, and also the opposition the way they play means you may have to play slightly differently.

“When you play a team that is playing as open rugby as we intend to play then it allows you to play more. So, there’s been parts of our game, especially the Fiji game, when we did that and really played at pace.

“The last two weeks have been more about making

sure the opposition don’t get an upper hand in their strengths and finding a way to win.

“We did that [against Argentina], we didn’t do that last week [against South Africa]. But that was certainly a benchmark, the New Zealand and Australia performances last year that we maybe reached a couple of times against England and Argentina in the summer.”