Scotland have dished up plenty of entertainment in their two championship games so far, but there comes a time when all you want is a win.

I don't doubt that they will get it against Italy in their next game, but they only have themselves to blame for missing out at Murrayfield yesterday afternoon.

They had plenty of chances to get the victory, but they only took two of them. There's no use complaining about the seconds they were denied at the finish, for the truth of the matter was that they should have got their noses in front long before that. We had many more clear-cut opportunities that Wales, but we let them slip away.

Scotland played some lovely stuff at times. Stuart Hogg was the most dangerous player on the pitch and Mark Bennett made some impressive contributions as well. The defence was excellent for most of the time, although there were a couple of little lapses that cost us.

Our composure in the Wales 22 wasn't what it should have been. We also lost the aerial battle and that cost us dear. It is as much a part of the game nowadays as the scrum and the lineout, but Wales were streets ahead. Dan Biggar was outstanding when it came to chasing and collecting kicks and Wales got some great field positions from that.

Overall, it was disappointing. Again, our discipline was poor, with a penalty-count well into double figures. The game management was poor in that final quarter. Scotland won a stream of penalties in the Welsh half in the closing stages and there was a strong case to be made for taking the points that were on offer rather than pushing on for a try. Had they picked up three points at that stage they would have been in a position of real strength and the game's dynamic would have been firmly in their favour.

Finn Russell had a curate's egg of a game. He is an outstanding young talent and he seems to have made the number 10 jersey his own this season, but I don't think he played as well against Wales as he had against France in the first game. He did some nice things, of course, and I like the fact he is a genuine all-rounder, but he has a tendency to make sloppy errors.

The missed touches, especially from penalties, were costly. His charge into Biggar was clumsy rather than malicious, but it certainly deserved the yellow card. He did the same playing for Glasgow against Toulouse recently, with similar results - 10 minutes in the bin and a stack of points for the opposition.

The players will be enormously frustrated this morning. If you are on the wrong end of a drubbing then you just have to take it on the chin, but when you lose a game that you were perfectly capable of winning it is so much harder to take.

Sure, Scotland were the underdogs, but a lot of people fancied them after their performance in Paris. And Wales undoubtedly had problems after their loss to England. Overall, I wasn't hugely impressed by Wales they are certainly not the side they were a couple of seasons ago, but they know how to dig out a win. That is a skill this Scotland team still has to learn.

There were a couple of missed tackles that will make uncomfortable viewing in the team review. Matt Scott was caught flat-footed in the build-up to Jonathan Davies' try. On the whole, though, I think Scotland were pretty resolute in defence. It was certainly a vast improvement on their horror show against Wales a year ago!

We asked a lot more question of the Welsh defence than they asked of ours. Unfortunately, Wales had the answers, which is why they won the game. They were also far more efficient at making their few chances count. Aside from the two tries they scored, and the one that was rightly disallowed, they never really looked like crossing our line very often.

If there is one thing Scotland need more than anything at the moment, it is composure in the final third. A win would help that to develop, and hopefully they will get that with something to spare when the Italians come to Murrayfield. This team deserves a win and I'm already looking forward to them getting that in two weeks' time.