Hive crowd pushed Scotland over the line – Skeldon

Lana Skeldon says the Hive crowd “really pushed us over the line” as Scotland beat Fiji 59-15.

Skeldon scored a try as she helped her team to victory but was keen to heap praise her team-mates for their hard work.

“The crowd were fantastic, they always are, that’s why we love playing here so much,” she added.

“The noise that they made today was outstanding and it’s just something that we absolutely love.

“It’s the effort of the people in front of me that gets me over the line. Scoring tries is just part of the fun.

“We stuck to what we set out to do, which was to score tries and express ourselves.”

Scotland now head into the defence of their WXV 2 crown and 30-year-old Skeldon says the team have “set high standards”.

“We just want to get out there now and get stuck into the games and perform the way we want to perform,” she added.

“We’re really tight as a group, so to go to another tournament, we’ve set high standards for ourselves and we’ll go out there and try to do the job.”

Meanwhile, Lucia Scott says she is “buzzing” after scoring her first try in her second appearance for the Scots.

“I was pretty buzzing I can’t lie,” Scott said. “Evie [Gallagher] definitely didn’t need to give me that, that was very selfless of her, but I’m absolutely buzzing with it.”