THE PERFECT SPUR AS SCOTS STROLL AGAINST FIJI

though Peter Horne had appeared to dot the ball down over the line moments before.

Greig Laidlaw converted both, but the Scots then gifted Fiji a score when Brown overthrew a lineout and Edinburgh star Bill Mata barrelled over.

Wales’ two tries last week came from missed tackles and yet another, this time from Dell, let centre Semi Radradra cut through the midfield and Volavola’s conversion gave Fiji a 17-14 lead on the half-hour.

Stung, Scotland roared back up the paddock and after Tevita Cavubati was sinbinned for collapsing the maul, Brown thought he’d notched his second close-range try of the half. But as Laidlaw lined up the conversion the TMO flagged up obstruction by Ritchie and the score was chalked off.

However, the Scots’ driving maul was working well and when former Glasgow ace Leone Nakarawa joined his secondrow partner in the bin for collapsing another one, the ball was eventually flung wide for Tommy Seymour to dive over and Laidlaw’s conversion made it 21-17 at half-time.

Scotland roared out of the traps after the interval, Sean Maitland dotting down less than two minutes after the restart, and Seymour bagged his brace when he came off his wing looking for work and cut a great line to take Laidlaw’s scoring pop pass.

And Seymour, looking much more like his old self, completed his hat-trick when he crashed over in the corner from Chris Harris’s pass.

But it was back to close-range scores for Scotland’s seventh try of the afternoon when Jamie Ritchie rounded off a concerted assault on Fiji’s line.

Adam Hastings brought up the half-century when he cantered over to finish off Finn Russell’s break.