22-05-2025
‘I knew I was done' – Matt Scott's Edinburgh highs and lows
When he first broke through in season 2011/12, Matt Scott signalled a new era in Scottish centre play, bringing a flash of power and panache to an arena which had long been dominated by honest plodders and basic bashers.
Stuart Hogg burst onto the scene at almost exactly the same time, fired by a rich running game and exquisite spatial awareness, and when Finn Russell followed suit a couple of years later, the national team had the right conductor to pull the whole thing together.
In the meantime, Scott had swiftly established himself as a centre of class, composure and so few clunky elements that it was easy to forget he himself had long been identified as the future at number 10.
'I was playing
