Watching the Fijian runners take the ball into contact drew reactions akin to a horror film. Wincing, grimacing, hiding behind the sofa in sheer terror.
The Scots were brave at times, superhuman at others, but they could not handle the heat of the Fiji flair.
The visitors made 105 tackles in the first half but missed 24 – not surprising when the hosts have hot-stepping Jiuta Wainiqolo in their ranks, right enough.
Keeping up that kind of defensive effort, especially in that humidity, being run at by wrecking balls, seemed impossible and something had to give.
The brave should be remembered though. Darge led from the front, making a few Serge Betsen-esque tackles. Kyle Rowe and Fergus Burke did brilliantly to deny Josua Tuisova when it looked for all the world that he would score.
Matt Fagerson seemed to somehow be involved in every contact, picking himself up off the deck time and again.
However, when the whistle blew and bodies were strewn like litter in a park on a hot summer’s day, you knew that it was a matter of time until the points started to flow.
