• Greig Laidlaw praises Scotland coach’s half-time appeal for quiet
• ‘The message at half-time was don’t panic and you’ll grind them down’Greig Laidlaw admitted Scotland needed a calming word from their head coach Vern Cotter as their World Cup quarter-final hopes were left hanging in the balance at half-time of their final pool game,against Samoa.
Needing a win to secure their space in the knock-out stages, and against a team that had already been eliminated, or the Dark Blues were behind for much of the first half as Samoa cut through their shambolic defence seemingly at will.
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Source: theguardian.com