Much has been made of Scotland's backline before the Six Nations, yet 10 minutes into the second game, we had Tom Jordan at 10, Stafford McDowall at 12 and Jamie Dobie, a scrum-half, on the wing.
I thought Scotland were better than this, I thought we could impose our game on any team for a period of the match to properly impact the outcome of that match.
Calum Crowe: For Scotland to be 17-0 down after only half an hour, it was difficult to envisage how things could have gone any worse for them at the start of the game.
Here, former Scotland captains ANDY NICOL and JASON WHITE join our deputy chief sports writer CALUM CROWE to pick over the bones of another bruising defeat to the Green Machine...
It was a familiar tale of woe for Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday as Ireland underlined their superiority to claim an 11th-straight win between the sides and puncture any home hopes of a title challenge.
