Scotland surge under Gregor Townsend with their most exciting side since 1999

This current Scotland team have won nothing yet, but on this form they will at least be contenders for next year’s Six Nations titleScotland’s optimistic autumns have too often been followed by despondent springs in recent seasons but this time, surely, they can look forward to the Six Nations Championship with real self-belief. They may have been rusty, above all in defence, in their first outing this month against Samoa but the subsequent narrow defeat by New Zealand was a significant step up. And then came Saturday’s 53-24 triumph over Australia at Murrayfield: easily the Scots’ biggest win…