We should have been more than 3 points up at half time, but poor execution cost us.
Then we should have been able to close the game out but poor discipline cost us.
Sadly that's pretty much the story of watching Scotland recently, particularly under Townsend.
We are a much better team with Russell at stand off, he lifts the performance of the whole team, but particularly the back, we just look so much more dangerous with him in the team. He might make mistakes sometimes, but that's because he is trying to make thing happen. There's no way Townsend can go back to Kinghorn now when Russell is fit and available, and if he does he should be out of a job.
The yellow card for Dempsey looked very harsh to me, I'm not convinced that it was deliberate, looked like it just hit his hand in the act of wrapping for the tackle. A scrum 5m out for a knock on with no yellow card would have seemed fairer. Having said that, when the footage was slowed right down for the replays it does look like he looked at the ball for a split second which maybe made the referee think that he knew what he was doing. At full speed there's no chance (IMHO) he looked at the ball and knocked it away deliberately. I have an issue with them using slow motion for incidents like this as you can misread situations when slowed down.
Edit: It's also clear to me that Stuart Hogg had the captaincy taken away from him for his horrendous hair. Man buns should be nowhere near a rugby pitch....
