Gregor Townsend on Scotland v Australia

Scotland coach Gregor Townsend on the challenge posed by Australia and his team selection for Murrayfield match

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00:00Looking forward to taking on what's a very impressive Wallaby side at the moment?

00:05Yeah, I think we're looking forward to the team going out again. It's the last game of

00:09the year for us as coaches and players. We know it's going to be a solid crowd and we're

00:15up against a team that is on form but also plays good rugby. I think it'll be an open

00:19game if the weather stays dry as forecast and we've had real close competitive games

00:26with the Wallabies over the last two or three years.

00:28What have you made of them in the last couple of weeks? They've come through a real difficult

00:33period and all of a sudden two wins and things are looking a lot rosier for them at the moment.

00:38Yeah, and you can see how they were progressing even before those two wins. They had a very

00:45good win against Argentina away from home. They had a lot of play against the All Blacks

00:51in particular and the coaching of Joe Schmidt was coming through. A possession-based game,

00:59evolving that to bring the centres into the game as much as possible. And then the last

01:05two weeks scoring a lot of points which shows their attacking threats.