Greig Laidlaw seeking Scotland confidence boost with victory over Georgia

Image: Scotland celebrate their win over Argentina last weekend

Scotland skipper Greig Laidlaw hopes to build more momentum heading into next year's Six Nations by completing back-to-back victories this weekend.

The Dark Blues kicked off their autumn internationals with a narrow defeat to Australia but they bounced back by edging out Argentina last Saturday and now take on Georgia at Rugby Park in Kilmarnock this Saturday.

Scotland kick off their 2017 Six Nations campaign with a clash at home to Ireland on February 4 and Laidlaw, who kicked a stoppage-time penalty to see off the Pumas, already has that match in his sights.

The Gloucester scrum-half said: "If you can win games back to back, it builds confidence and it builds momentum.

"The next time this group comes together after this game will be for the Six Nations so if we can win again after Saturday, it will be huge for us.

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"It makes such a big difference. It means the boys have confidence in each other and everything we are trying to do out on the field.

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"To be honest, even though we fell short against Australia, we can still take confidence from the type of performance we put in.

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"If we can get a performance and a result this weekend we'll be in a great spot."

Laidlaw is ready for a physical test against Georgia, who defeated Samoa 20-16 on Saturday largely thanks to their muscular forwards as they were rewarded for their efforts with a penalty try and another push-over surge.

Image: Laidlaw's boot has been a key weapon for Scotland this autumn

"Georgia are developing into a good side," he said. "They have had a lot of positive results this year and I'm sure they will be confident in their own right.

"They are big on their scrummaging and their forward play. Coming off the back of a big win they will be coming here to cause an upset. We will have to be right up for it.

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"We need to play an aggressive game because they are an aggressive team themselves who like the contact side of the game. But so do we and we have shown that these last two weeks.

"We enjoyed winning on Saturday so it's very important we finish off this series with another win.

"The two games so far have been pretty brutal and that's part of the challenge. It won't drop off and we as players have go to drive that part of our performance forward.

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"We understand what this game will be about and it's up to us to put in a performance at the weekend. We need to get our own stuff right, though. We can't be too worried about Georgia.

"If we can get our skill sets right and get our dangerous players with ball in hand and space to run in, then I think we can cause them some problems."

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