M embers of Scotland's most successful Commonwealth Games team in history were last night challenged to continue improving their performance levels to ensure they are on the plane for the Gold Coast in four years' time. Having overseen an effort which was already assured 19 gold medals of 52 in all, Jon Doig, Team Scotland's chef de mission, has been generously rewarded for his decision to name more than 300 athletes in the nation's biggest-ever team for these home games.

Yesterday, two golds and a bronze were added to the host nation's impressive medal tally as boxer Josh Taylor won the final of the men's light-welterweight and Charlie Flynn emulated that achievement in the flyweight division, while Imogen Bankier and Robert Blair were victorious in the badminton mixed doubles bronze-medal match.

But with public spending priorities likely to be markedly different four years down the line, the question of whether such a large team can be sustained when this event moves to the other side of the world remains to be seen. Amid all the euphoria over this record medal haul, it is also worth noting that it will also set an exacting standard to live up to.

"We will review these games, and set the standards for the next games, then it is up to the athletes to meet those standards," said Doig last night. "We always said we wanted this to be our biggest team. The competition programme changes slightly for the Gold Coast, but we don't start with a number and work backwards.

"There has been a lot of investment over a period of time, but we have shown that if these athletes are invested in then they can deliver. You have to make a case in the modern world in terms of that investment and we hope we have made that case. And can continue to make that case going forward."

All such worries are for the future. For now, Doig should simply be allowed to bask in the immediate afterglow of a home games which has won over the sceptics and more than lived up to expectations. While a canny spread of events with Scottish interest has allowed them to build momentum, and a patriotic home crowd has roared individuals on to victory, he feels the medal haul has mostly been a reflection of his athletes getting their just rewards.

"You plan for this, but in sport there are no guarantees," said Doig. "This is probably a case where more people are getting out of it what they deserve - and that isn't always the case. But that is sport, that is what attracts us all to it. It was really important we got off to a good start and while I believe those athletes would have succeeded no matter where they were in the programme, it allowed us to get a momentum."

Doig's joy isn't confined to the medal rostrum. He is equally delighted in seeing young athletes going out with the attitude where they are prepared to take on the world, even if the experience can be bruising at times. Marc Austin, who went with the formidable Brownlee brothers for three laps in the individual triathlon, is one example, as is Guy Learmonth, who excelled himself to finish sixth in the 800m behind world class athletes like Nijel Amos of Botswana and Kenya's David Rudisha.

"What Marc did epitomised what has happened," said Doig. "He could have sat in the pack, and maybe finished 13th or 14th, but he didn't, that is the attitude that has pervaded.

"Every games is different," added the administrator, who plans to continue on to the Gold Coast. "I have been to five now and they have all been fantastic in their own right, but there has been something special and different about these games. It is the best ever that I have been involved with and it will take some doing to beat the feeling that I have got at the moment."

That euphoria was reflected by Taylor and Flynn on an emotional night at the Hydro. Gutsy Flynn saw off Northern Ireland's Joe Fitzpatrick to clinch the lightweight title and Taylor followed him by beating Namibian Junias Jonas and triumph at light-welterweight. Motherwell fighter Flynn declared: "The roar was unbelievable. You just hear it echoing up and up and up. You feel it in your chest when you're in there, roaring in your chest."