Winger Tommy Seymour says it's time for Scotland to be more ambitious
Sunday 16 November 2014 13:31, UK
Tommy Seymour insists Scotland need to demand more from themselves if they are to become a force in world rugby.
Seymour scored his second intercept try in as many weeks in his side's 24-16 defeat to New Zealand at Murrayfield on Saturday - a display which earned the hosts plenty of praise for holding the world champions at bay for long periods.
The result was the first time in 23 years that Scotland got within 10 points of the All Blacks, but they have still not beaten them in their 109-year history and Seymour says they will never challenge the world's best until they stop being pleased just to have avoided a hammering.
"We have to be pleased with the consistency levels we have shown over the last two weeks and we have to be pleased with the performance against New Zealand," said the Glasgow winger.
"But we have got to stop being a side that allows itself to take positives when you lose to the best team in the world, because if you do that you start drawing lines that you can't cross.
"We can't keep saying we are pleased with 'this much', because if you come up against a side and your only aim is to come up close, then it will never be good enough.
"We have to go out to win games and in a backwards kind of way, it is pleasing to be disappointed after Saturday's result, because if it is a 30-point runaway, your disappointment only has one shade of grey. But the reason why we are disappointed after Saturday is because we were in a position to do more.
"We want to become a consistent threat and allow ourselves to be disappointed by the narrow margins, because once you do that you can really push on."
