Fair play to Scotland, awesome in the first half. Turned them around and offloads killed their big men.
With the amount of ball they had and the apparently great team they've got they should have scored more points than they did but Scotland held them out superbly. Sets group C up very nicely indeed.
The quality of coach and support staff is something that is starting to show in the last few days I think.
I don't know much about Charlie Tonga other than he was once a fringe firstgrader who played 22 NRL games for 2 clubs, but it shows that he isn't a top flight coach I think. Tonga had the cattle, he just didn't get them to perform.
On the other hand we have seen Rick Stone use NRL experienced support staff and put in the time with Fiji, and we see they have made huge strides since the last WC.
If a top flight coach had put the same amount of time and effort into Tonga as Stone put into Fiji, I think the talent he would have had to work with would mean we would see a very strong contender for the semis.
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