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How do you fancy a Scotland back three of Stuart Hogg, Sean Lamont and Tim Visser? What about Euan Murray keeping everything solid at tight-head prop? Big Richie Gray looking after the lineout and Dave Denton rampaging around in the loose?

Pretty tasty, eh? That’s what we all thought as Scotland readied themselves for their final Test outing of 2012. It had been a tricky year for them, but a Six Nations whitewash had been followed by three straight wins (including one against Australia) on their summer tour and some decent resilience in their autumn losses to New Zealand and South Africa.

So now they had a chance to go out on a high on their away-day trip to Aberdeen’s Pittodrie stadium. They could bid