After the exhilaration of that outstanding six-try demolition of Wales, captain Rachel Malcolm has spoken this week of how the squad had to have an “emotional decompress”, rather than simply riding the momentum from Wales into Fiji.
She pointed out you cannot just “go from cloud nine to cloud 10”.
Whereas matchday one was viewed in advance as a 50-50 game – nobody saw a 30-point win coming – this time Scotland are firm favourites.
Fiji are ranked 14th in the world, eight places below the Scots, who moved up to sixth off the back of the win over Wales.
Having been thrashed 65-7 in their Pool B opener by Canada, the Fijians look there for the taking, but the Scots are not about to allow complacency to creep into their psyche and risk squandering such a promising start to the tournament.
“There’s no option there, we have to go and get the job done,” Malcolm said.
“We have looked at the game from the weekend and looked at some of the missed opportunities as well as the things that we did well.
“It’s quite easy when you lose to completely pull a game apart and look at all the bits that you can improve on, but it’s also really easy when you win to think that was the complete performance.
“The first thing we did was when we looked at it, recognise those bits that we can still change and we can still get more from.
“There’s loads of small fixes within the game where I think we missed opportunities so that’s what we’ve tried to do.
“We’ve tried to treat it the exact same that we would have treated it if we’d come out the other side of that result, to make sure that we’re not missing anything.
“We know against Fiji it’s going to be such a different test. We need to be ready to take every opportunity that’s given to us.”
