Greig Laidlaw urges Scotland to continue playing attacking rugby

Scotland skipper Greig Laidlaw insisted that the attacking nature of game-play will benefit his team in the upcoming Six Nations tournament.

In the 2016 edition of the Six Nations tournament, Scotland managed just two wins from five games and finished fourth in the table.

However, since then Dark Blues have completed a 2-0 series victory against Japan and also registered wins against Argentina and Georgia in their autumn internationals. Their only defeat came against the Wallbies, which they lost by just one-point margin.

Describing the current group is the best squad, he has played with, Laidlaw believes if Scotland can work on their defence in combination with their aggressive play, they will be a formidable force.

"This is definitely the best Scotland squad I've been a part of; that's quite an easy question actually for me to answer," said Laidlaw.

"We're starting to get more strength in depth through the squad.

"But we're not getting ahead of ourselves because we've not won any games in the tournament yet.

"I think it suits us because of the make-up of our players.

"We're certainly scoring a lot of tries in November, we can hurt teams on that front.

"If we can back that up with strong defensive performances we'd like to think we'd be hard to beat."

The Six Nations tournament will see bonus points introduced for the first time in history to motivate teams adopt aggressive style of play and Laidlaw believes Scotland have the right kind of players suited for it.

"That does build our identity," said Laidlaw.

"The make-up of the players we have through the team, myself, somebody like Finn Russell, he's a wonderful player, he spent some time in New Zealand, which I think you can see has really helped.

"Huw Jones came in on November and played extremely well, there's Stuart Hogg at the back and Sean Maitland doing very well at Saracens too.

"Certainly I enjoy that style, and I think the Scottish public do too.

"You need to score tries to win games.

"If you go in and try to defend your way to victory then it just won't work.

"To have that ability and to have teams be able to worry about your attack is a great weapon for us.

"So we feel it's now time to start moving the whole thing forward again."