Gregor Townsend: Scotland can match Ireland for physicality 

UNDAUNTED: Scotland's head coach Gregor Townsend says his sides match against Ireland is a straightforward shootout. Pic: INPHO/Craig Watson

It was a game that awed the rugby world but Gregor Townsend didn’t see anything in the meeting of Ireland and South Africa on Saturday night that his Scotland team hadn't experienced before.

The consensus was that the Pool B clash of the world’s two top-ranked sides brought a physicality and a general intensity that was several levels above pretty much anything we had seen up to that point at this World Cup.