Close finishes abounded in the men’s Guinness Six Nations, with Scotland involved in the best of them, and having survived that late conversion attempt on Saturday against Wales, it looks like Scotland’s women are carrying on the trend. Like our men, they are also history-makers.

That’s the trouble with making rugby history in the midst of the Guinness Six Nations. No sooner do you do it than you have to go out and face opponents who are going to do their level best to make everyone forget you are history makers.

It has now happened with both our men’s and women’s teams, coincidentally by both winning their first match of the 2024 tournament against Wales. That narrow defeat of Wales in Cardiff by the men was immediately followed by that controversial loss to France at Murrayfield, and now our women are facing a similar scenario having beaten Wales away and now facing France at home. Let’s just hope for a different result for our women, hoping that luck and dodgy officiating calls go their way.

The women’s team made history by establishing their longest-ever run of victories at seven, and they are now at their highest position ever........

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