First time I've been able to get on the PC since being away so my thoughts if anyone is interested...
Two players shut me right up as I'm often critical of one and wrote off the other before the game started. Russell - I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that is his best game in a Scotland shirt to date is it? He did very little wrong. Aussies looked so dangerous with the ball in hand, whenever one of their big strike runners got the ball in space and started to accelerate he was soon mowed down. When looking to see who kept rushing out to stop them dead in their tracks, more often than not it was Finn Russell. Brilliant all round game. The other is Tonks - superb game in defence and in open play he was solid, he drew his man and made his passes. I don't think anyone would have stopped Folau - the question is why were we drawn so tight to begin with?
On the whole, I thought we played mindlessly at times but still got the result. A very odd game for me. Not specific to the toony regime but over the last couple of years I think we've got a lot more 'dog' that has been missing from the team in the form of Swinson, Hughes, Wilson, etc...
Thought bringing Pyrgos on took the wind right out of our sails. Finn wasn't taken off because the drop off between him and Horne is huge. I'd argue it's even better between Price and any other scrum half in Scotland. Pyrgos is capable but he has been in rotten form for a few months now - he almost cost us the game with some of those box kicks.