Chris Harris hailed Scotland’s opening win over Italy as the ‘perfect start’ to the 2019 Guinness Six Nations.
Gregor Townsend’s side ran in five tries in total in the bonus-point win, including one for Harris off the replacements bench in the second half.
The 33-20 victory puts the Scots top of the standings and confidence is clearly brimming with Ireland the visitors to BT Murrayfield next weekend.
Click here to see the full standings after round one of the 2019 Guinness Six Nations
Scotland have not lost at home in the Championship since the first round of 2016, and downed Ireland convincingly in 2017 in the Scottish capital.
But after shipping three late tries to the Azzurri on Saturday, Harris knows they will need to be at their best in round two.
“We are absolutely delighted, it’s the perfect start for us isn’t it?” he said.
“That will stand us in really good stead for Ireland next week but we will need to work on that last 15 or 20 minutes because it wasn’t quite where we need it to be.
“It is frustrating, maybe we started to tire a bit and we lost a man to the sin bin which didn’t help but we have to be more focused for that.”
Victory was already secured, thanks largely to Blair Kinghorn’s hat-trick, when Harris was introduced in the second half.
But the Newcastle Falcon was on hand to collect Josh Strauss’ offload and go over for the fifth and final Scottish try of the day, much to his delight.
“It was class (to score my first try for Scotland), but I didn’t really have to do much! It was a good break and Straussy with the good offload,” he added.
“I was just happy to dot down, it was an amazing feeling.”
