Scotland wing Tim Visser eager to forget Six Nations campaign and focus on the upcoming World Cup
ESPN Staff
July 5, 2015
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Scotland's Tim Visser has urged his team to leave the disappointment of their shambolic Six Nations campaign behind them to focus fully upon the upcoming World Cup.

Despite the resurgence of Scottish club rugby, with Glasgow Warriors claiming their first PRO12 title after comfortably seeing off Munster in the final, Vern Cotter's men lost all five matches in the Australian's first Six Nations tournament as coach.

Following a positive start to the new era of Scottish international rugby in the Autumn Internationals, the Six Nations campaign seemingly deflated the new-found optimism and according to Visser has sparked some deep introspection in squad meetings.

"Of course we were down in the dumps after the Six Nations, but you never can be for too long because everyone goes back to their club teams," said Dutch-born winger Visser, who will head to the Twickenham Stoop to join Harlequins ahead of the new season.

"Of course in the back of our minds we knew that the Six Nations was disappointing and when we came back together as a group we talked about it, but you have to leave that kind of stuff behind you, especially when you are going in to something as special as a World Cup."

Visser, who has spent the past five years at Edinburgh, acknowledges that Scotland must focus on their physicality if they have any chance of imposing themselves on teams such as South Africa and Samoa, both of whom will pose stern tests to Scotland's dreams of advancing from Pool B.

"We are now focusing on the physical side of things, making sure that we will be one of the fittest sides at the tournament and then in the next few weeks we will start playing more rugby," he said.

Scotland have four warm-up games before beginning their World Cup campaign against Japan at Kingsholm on September 23rd and Visser believes that he and his teammates must not get too far ahead of themselves.

"Every team wants to make it out of the group stages and we are no different," he said.

"We are just trying to get the physical stuff out of the way first and then I'm sure we will sit down and try and set out our goals and look at what we want to do."

"As a team we cannot look too far ahead. We have some really tough warm-up matches and then we cannot look further than Japan."

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