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<\/a> <\/p>\nFinn Russell is intent on helping Scotland<\/a> develop the consistency required to capitalise on a year of big opportunities as he closes in on his 100th cap.<\/p>\n The talismanic Bath<\/a> stand-off made his debut in 2014 but he is yet to get close to winning silverware with his country.<\/p>\n Russell senses a chance to change that over the next 12 months or so, with an encouraging run of results in 2026 elevating the Scots to sixth in the world as they prepare to finish their maiden Nations Championship<\/a> campaign next month less than a year before the start of the 2027 World Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s three competitions over the next 12 months, we\u2019ve got the Nations Championship the next four weeks, then Six Nations<\/a> and obviously the World Cup,\u201d Russell said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that\u2019s amazing to have the opportunity three times to potentially win something. Since I\u2019ve been with Scotland we\u2019ve never won anything, in terms of tournaments, so I think you\u2019d have the chance to do that.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve put ourselves in a good position for the Nations Championship just now (second in the northern hemisphere table) with three tough games before the finals weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n Nations Championship <\/p>\n North<\/p>\n P<\/p>\n W<\/p>\n L<\/p>\n D<\/p>\n PF<\/p>\n PA<\/p>\n PD<\/p>\n BP T<\/p>\n BP-7<\/p>\n BP<\/p>\n Total<\/p>\n 1 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 2 <\/p>\n 1 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 12 <\/p>\n 2 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 2 <\/p>\n 1 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 11 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 2 <\/p>\n 1 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 10 <\/p>\n 4 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 2 <\/p>\n 1 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 10 <\/p>\n 5 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 1 <\/p>\n 2 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 5 <\/p>\n 6 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n South<\/p>\n P<\/p>\n W<\/p>\n L<\/p>\n D<\/p>\n PF<\/p>\n PA<\/p>\n PD<\/p>\n BP T<\/p>\n BP-7<\/p>\n BP<\/p>\n Total<\/p>\n 1 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 15 <\/p>\n 2 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 15 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 1 <\/p>\n 2 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 8 <\/p>\n 4 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 1 <\/p>\n 2 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 7 <\/p>\n 5 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 1 <\/p>\n 2 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 4 <\/p>\n 6 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 3 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n 0 <\/p>\n Russell believes Scotland\u2019s display in their 42-28 defeat away to South Africa<\/a> in July highlights that they are not far away from contending for glory but he acknowledged the hard-luck stories need to stop.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d definitely say we\u2019re in a good place,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had some good performances in the summer and we just need to kick on from there and try and beat the top teams rather than running them close and losing.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a big win away from home against Argentina, then travelled to South Africa and ran them close.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was great to have a good performance but that was a game that we had enough chances where we definitely should have won that.<\/p>\n \u201cSo there\u2019s a lot of positives there but at the same time there\u2019s a lot that we need to work on and we need to get better if we\u2019re going to start competing to win these tournaments.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t go off a big win against France<\/a> to then losing to Ireland<\/a> like we did in the Six Nations. We need to be stacking these wins one on top of the next. And in the summer we didn\u2019t manage to do that after Argentina. We need to be winning these games back to back to challenge to win tournaments.\u201d<\/p>\n Russell, who has 95 caps for Scotland, is on course to reach his century for his country in next year\u2019s Six Nations.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s definitely something that\u2019s there in the back of my mind but if I think about it too much I probably won\u2019t get it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m on 95, so I\u2019m just looking to stay fit, play well and see what happens. I\u2019m looking forward to the next few games coming up and if I get to 100 I\u2019ll cross that one out when I get to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 11 hours ago | 28 October 2026 13:27 EDT Updated: 11 hours ago | 28 October 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"France\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/806.png.webp\")
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