Try-scorer Geoff Cross happy to switch focus to Springboks THE focus in the Scotland pack was moving swiftly last night to the next challenge from a Southern Hemisphere nation and turning the promising aspects of Scotland's display against the All Blacks into something more substantial against a South African side with an even more physical set of forwards. There were concerns that Scotland would be turned over in the scrum by New Zealand when Euan Murray's unavailability left the team with Geoff Cross as the sole tighthead. The worst-case scenario of Cross being injured and Ryan Grant having to shift from loosehead to tighthead did not materialise, and Cross not only played well in the set-piece and finished strongly, but had a first Test try to his name. Yet, asked whether he felt mixed emotions at the end, he responded bluntly: "There aren't mixed feelings. Nobody likes losing and we don't like it. We lost today and that annoys us. It's always good to score and what I'm pleased about is that when we did pressure we got some reward for that. As ever, with most scores I'm involved in, it was very much a team effort, the culmination of team pressure, with a lot of good things done, building phases, prevented them from attacking, and when we got close enough I was there to be the battering ram and get the reward, but it was very much a team effort and they are my favourite tries. We scored three tries against New Zealand, which hasn't been done in a wee while, and I'm proud of that, but we have to defend much better. It was our mistakes that they capitalised on. I wasn't actually happy with more than one scrum but they improved, and by the end we were in the ascendency and had a stable platform, and so that's good, but the important thing now is to recognise what worked for us, why it worked and how we can apply it to beat South Africa.