Scotland hold off late Australia rally to secure narrow victory

Scotland 15-12 Australia Fagerson and Dempsey touch down in Murrayfiield After the pyrotechnics in Paris on Friday and a wondrous Welsh win in Cardiff on Saturday, this was a much more prosaic affair. Not that the stakes were low: both teams badly needed a win, and Gregor Townsen

Scotland 15-12 Australia Fagerson and Dempsey touch down in Murrayfiield After the pyrotechnics in Paris on Friday and a wondrous Welsh win in Cardiff on Saturday, this was a much more prosaic affair. Not that the stakes were low: both teams badly needed a win, and Gregor Townsend’s side claimed one by dealing with the quintessentially Scottish conditions better than their opponents. Scotland could not afford another patchy performance like last weekend, when they excelled in the first half against New Zealand before capitulating in the second.

They edged over the line at a sodden Murrayfield, but might have fallen to a calamitous defeat had Darcy Graham not foiled a last-minute attack by the Wallabies. Continue reading...