Scots defiant

The Scotland coach Jim Telfer said Australia's record win over his team in the opening Test in Sydney was the right result, but not by the right margin.

"Australia deserved to win, but I don't know that they were 42 points better than us," he said on Saturday. "We gifted them one or two tries because we were trying to play a more expansive game."

The Wallabies scored five tries but were far less dominant than in the 76-0 thrashing of England. "We didn't play as well as last week, but that was because the opposition were a lot better," said the home captain John Eales. "They played very well; the scoreline flattered us."

The Scots, long-odds outsiders with eight of their top players not on tour, suffered an early setback when the West of Scotland hooker Gordon Bulloch dislocated his shoulder as a scrum collapsed in the fifth minute.

They inevitably struggled at the line-outs in Bulloch's absence and tried to compensate with some creative running from their outside backs. But, as Telfer admitted later: "The Aussies sussed it out very well - they seemed to know what we were trying to do, especially in the line-out."

As against England, the Wallabies took a long time to hit full stride. They scored their first try four minutes before the break but finished strongly with two late touchdowns inside the final five minutes to surpass their previous biggest win against Scotland, by 37-8 at Murrayfield in November.