WHEN Scotland travel to Argentina for this summer’s three-Test series, they will do so with happy memories of the last time they played there. Four years ago, after a big win over Canada had been followed by a shock one-point loss to the USA, Gregor Townsend’s team rounded off their tour of the Americas with a 44-15 victory in the northern city of Resistencia.
The Pumas were painfully low on morale at that point, and about to change coaches, so the scale of their defeat did not come as a huge surprise. They were still in a period of transition later that year when they came to Murrayfield later that year and lost again, albeit on that occasion only by 14 points to 9.
