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Former British and Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton has labelled Scotland ‘cocky’ and lacking ‘the mindset of a Championship team’ after accusing two unnamed players of drinking beer at a function after this year’s win in Wales — while still wearing full kit and flip-flops.
Warburton felt the actions after Scotland’s first win in Cardiff since 2002 were ‘shocking from a cultural perspective’ and gave an indication why Gregor Townsend’s side failed to put up a sustained challenge for this year’s Six Nations Championship.
The former Wales captain also felt Scotland would never ‘win a Championship with this group of players’ in a damning assessment of the squad made both in his newspaper column with The Times and then again on the BBC’s Rugby Union Daily podcast.
He said: ‘Scotland? It is the same old, same old, unfortunately. They were competitive again but I don’t think they will ever win a Championship with this group of players. It is just not there. I know they were dealt a bad hand against France but to go to Italy and lose in the way they did just showed that they lack that last bit of ruthlessness, that killer mentality, to be a Championship-winning side.
‘I don’t know how they find that. I do worry about their mindset and I saw an example after the win against Wales that really worried me, when two players came to an after-match function still in their kit, drinking beer, and acting as if they had beaten a top side to win a title. They just seemed
