Scotland have won just four of 10 Test matches this year and were left with an all-too-familiar feeling at full-time.<\/p>\n
Tuipulotu was asked if criticism from the stands was justified after another defeat and said: “I think so, yeah. <\/p>\n
“Gregor has spoken in the changing room about back-to-back home sell-outs, not every stadium does that.<\/p>\n
“We watched some rugby yesterday and there were some empty seats in the stadium, but not in our stadium and there’s a little bit of guilt there because people pay good money to come watch us.”<\/p>\n
It was the nature of Scotland’s collapse that was so alarming.<\/p>\n
From a position of dominance to being carved open almost at will, with no way of stopping the tide.<\/p>\n
Scotland shipped penalty after penalty during the Argentine onslaught as players tired and Santiago Carreras took the game by the scruff of its neck.<\/p>\n
Replacements Tom Jordan and George Horne were left on the Scotland bench as they were swamped by wave after wave of blue-and-white attack.<\/p>\n
“Decisions and discipline will be the two areas we look most closely on,” Townsend said.<\/p>\n
“We have to be better in our discipline. If you give a team with momentum penalty after penalty, it makes it easier for them.<\/p>\n
“We obviously didn’t handle that momentum change when we went 21-0 up and had an opportunity to go 28-0 up. It flipped on that moment.<\/p>\n
“Credit to Argentina, they put us under pressure and deserved to win in that final quarter.”<\/p>\n
Scotland came close against New Zealand last weekend, coming from 17-0 down to level before conceding at the death, but both captain and coach agreed this result was the bigger disappointment.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think I could be as disappointed as I was last week, but I think this is more disappointing,” Tuipulotu said.<\/p>\n
“I said to the boys, ‘We are going to have to take a really hard look at ourselves’.<\/p>\n
“The next couple of days are going to hurt and it starts with me, I’m the captain of the squad and I take responsibility as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland have won just four of 10 Test matches this year and were left with an all-too-familiar feeling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-288939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}