What a great start to the Autumn Tests, with a Scotland win, half a dozen tries, opposition that came at us and scored plenty of tries of their own, and a game that was nip and tuck right to the last whistle. Fantastic.

We can break the game down and scrutinise it, and we will, but in a minute. I just thought Saturday was a great advert for the way Gregor Townsend wants Scotland to play. If we come out on top, playing like that, you won’t be able to get a seat at Murrayfield, although it might be different if you lose a few matches in that manner.

But Saturday was hugely entertaining and the boys Toony brought in didn’t take long to make their mark.

My man of the match would have been Ben Toolis, the Edinburgh second-rower. I thought he was immense; great doing the donkey work, outstanding in the line-out delivering very clean ball.

Darryl Marfo also gets a deserved mention. Another Edinburgh man who got stuck in and secured some good turnover ball and held up his corner of the scrum, which others will judge him on. But he fitted in really well to the game the coach is trying to instil across the team.

The same could apply to some weel-kent faces.

Hamish Watson is a player I love watching, in the guts of everything, an old-school, genuine open-side flanker. Aye, he had a couple of spills, but he ripped a few balls for us as well. Mistakes will happen, especially if you are in the thick of it, not just stopping the opposition from playing, but also as a key ball winner. Easy to criticise, but he is hugely effective.

Stuart Hogg looked leaner and meaner, and Finn Russell seems to have matured in terms of his game control. I did think he kicked well in the first half, but gave the Samoans too many opportunities to burst on to short or misplaced kicks later on. Do that against the All Blacks and they’ll run over you.

But I thought the pick of the back division was Huw Jones.

You hear it more in fitba, people taking about playing with your head up, but he has great vision, and can spot a line or the channel to run really quickly. When you couple the speed of his decision making with the turn of pace that he’s got, what a great combination. Watch the try he scored. It's all about running out the tackle and picking the spot where he was going to score. A class act.

Yet still, we only won by a handful of points and there are simple reasons for that.

The brand of rugby we are playing – and it is much the same if you watched other games from the weekend, with Wales and England in action – means being more open, with the game being more fragmented and maybe less structured.

I don’t have an issue with that. I always thought, historically, Scotland were at their best when play was broken and you play off the cuff stuff. Think of all the great tries we’ve scored over the years. All the best ones have come out of nothing. So, we should be in our element.

Rugby has changed in the last year to 18 months. Teams are being more expansive because it is the only way to give yourself any room to play in and avoid the rugby-league style defences that just smothered teams, and I have to say, had the same effect on international rugby for too long as a spectacle.

There will be points galore, because teams aren’t set to defend in the same way if you are concentrating on simply outscoring the opposition, rather than trying to close them down and stifle them.

But, if you play that way, at a high tempo and commit more bodies than you should in attack, or in securing ball, you will leave spaces for the opposition to exploit. That is the way rugby is right now. And when you have two teams playing that way, you can end up with a cracker like the game at Murrayfield on Saturday.

When play broke down, or there was a turnover, rather than just setting up a maul or ruck, it was bang, bang, bang, pass, pass, pass and you were away again, trying to find a gap or a hole to break through. The speed of the game on Saturday was frightening.

We edged it in the end, just, mainly because we did have a bit more direction and structure when we had the ball, either from the set piece or if we churned it back.

A week away from meeting New Zealand, there are a couple of things we’ll need to improve on.

Kicking could be better, yes, but the only real concern is our fringe defence – or what you might call the fringe-fringe defence.

We coped with the first attack. But too often we just didn’t have anyone covering the offloaded ball or the next pass from the breakdown. New Zealand will have seen that, and so too will Gregor. He has a week to get it right – not just right, but spot on for the All Blacks, because no-one is better at exploiting a weakness.

Defensively we need to tighten up. But you can work on that. Frankly, I think we’ve got more going for us than not.

A couple of years ago we couldn’t buy a try for love nor money, and now we’re doing it from just about anywhere on the pitch.

And from what I can remember, if you score more than the opposition, don’t you win the game?