Any weekend in which Scotland’s men at full international level and at the under 20 age grade both notch easy wins has to be celebrated because they don’t happen very often. Yes they were only playing Canada and Hong Kong China respectively but you can only beat what is put in front of you and both Scotland sides did excellent demolition jobs.

I did not think it would be so easy against Canada on the opening leg of the Americas tour, but I did think the under 20s would run up a cricket score against Hong Kong China and I spent most of the match wondering if they would reach the 100 point mark which they did with the last of 15 tries and the final conversion by stand-off Matthew Urwin, his 13th of the match.

That made the scoreline at the Hive Stadium 101-0, and note the importance of that ‘nil’ score by the visitors. Coach Kenny Murray was certainly pleased, saying: “The big thing for me was that we didn’t allow Hong Kong any points. Hong Kong scored three tries against Japan in round one. I thought the boys showed some good defence today.”

They certainly did, with some of the tackles making me wince. The Scots were well nigh unstoppable in attack, and have put themselves........

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