Stuart Hogg says Scotland are on the brink of something special

Stuart Hogg believes Scotland are on course to do something special after coming close to claiming a famous win over New Zealand on Saturday.

Scotland fell agonisingly short of a first win against the All Blacks, losing 22-17 to the world champions at Murrayfield.

A brilliant team-try, finished off by Beauden Barrett, appeared to have sealed another win for the tourists, but Huw Jones touched down before Hogg's brilliant solo effort in the final seconds almost snatched a dramatic win for Scotland.

Hogg was brought down by Barrett metres from the try-line and knocked the ball on before the final whistle blew, but the promise of the performance was not lost on the Glasgow man, who believes Gregor Townsend's side are capable of special things.

"We just came up short against the best team in the world for however many years, and next week we play the Aussies and they're just as good," Hogg said.

"I truly believe that we're in a position to achieve something special."

However, despite the performance and running the back-to-back world champions so close, Hogg was still left deflated by the nature of the defeat.

"The boys are devastated with that. We got ourselves in with a good opportunity of scoring some tries, but probably left a couple out there," he said.

"But we can take a huge amount of confidence going forward."