Declan Kidney will not be able to avoid talking about a Grand Slam for long after his side moved to within one win of a first clean sweep since 1948 with a hard fought win in Murrayfield, but he is not ready to do so yet, preferring today to focus solely on his side's fourth win of the campaign.
Asked after the 22-15 win if any talk of a whitewash was permitted yet, Kidney said: “No, not at all. We play Wales away next week, there is a lot to play for, but we’ll just enjoy today and come in on Monday.”
“We are delighted to have won, we knew it was going to be tough coming over,” he added. “It was just that, it was a great win.
“There was a lot of pressure and expectation but we try not to feed into that.”
Ronan O’Gara was happy to return to action and become the top points-scorer in Five and Six Nations history with his second penalty of the game.
It was in stark contrast to last time out when O’Gara failed with four shots on goal and he told BBC1: “It was an awful long two weeks after the England game. People kept asking me what went wrong.
“I’ve had bad days before but I keep coming back and that is the most important thing I think.”
Asked how much he dwelt on breaking Jonny Wilkinson’s points record, he added: “I was aware of it before the England game but tried to put it out of my mind before this one.
“It’s all about next weekend now.”
Captain Brian O’ Driscoll gave credit to another dogged Scottish performance but said his side were too much to handle in the second half.
“You never have an easy game in Edinburgh and it was the exact same again today. We really had to fight for our victory. To come out seven points up, we’re really happy with that.
“We really dug in, it’s never easy here, we’ve never had a landslide here.
“To be honest I think our work rate and our fitness showed in that second half. We ramped it up and in the end I don’t think they could live with the intensity we brought to the game.
“Our pack was excellent for the first 20 minutes in the second half and we continued to take it to them.
“Three or four times we must have accumulated eight or 10 phases, we picked up penalties, made half breaks and obviously the bit of magic from ‘Strings’ (Peter Stringer) and the great offload to Jamie makes it a little be easier.”
