Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has said Scotland must learn to handle the task of playing away from home.
Scotland lost convincingly to Wales by a score of 34-7 on Saturday, a game they never really seemed to settle into.
Gareth Davies’ interception run back for a try in the fifth minute set the tone for what was a difficult day for Scottish rugby, especially considering the optimism surrounding the team after an incredible Autumn that saw them defeat Samoa and Australia, and only narrowly go down to the All Blacks.
But their record away from home makes for grim reading, a fact Townsend is all too aware of.
We don’t have a great away record – we are not getting away from that,
I read the stats in the Six Nations, and we have to be better.
I felt there was real determination from the players in the second half to go out and show who we were, but to be caught in our 22, playing phases that weren’t really on, and then to come away three points further down was disappointing for everyone
Scotland will have to pick their socks up for the home matches against England and France, before they travel again to Rome and Dublin to close out this year’s Six Nations campaign.
