The heartbreaking World Cup quarter final defeat to Australia last autumn made Peter Horne more determined than ever to be a success for Scotland.

The Glasgow Warriors playmaker - who scored the Scots' opening try that day at Twickenham - felt the gut-wrenching loss as keenly as the rest of Scottish rugby, after referee Craig Joubert's controversial late penalty award to the Wallabies gifted them a 35-34 victory.

Australia take on Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday in the first meeting of the sides since the World Cup, and Horne reflected on how he used that match to fuel his ambitions.

The 27-year-old, who is expected to back up Finn Russell at stand-off during the autumn test series, said: "I remember a couple of days after [the quarter-final] we were coming back on the train from London back up to Glasgow and I was thinking that games like that just make you hungrier for more.

"I was just desperate to get another crack, get another game in a Scotland shirt and play in front of a big crowd like that.

"It just makes you hungrier and hungrier and it is great that we are playing [Australia] this weekend.

"We get another crack at them off the back of a brilliant win for them at the weekend.

"They put away a good Wales side so it will be a really good test.

"That's why you play the game - to take on the best players in the world."

Assistant coach Matt Taylor admitted the backroom staff had a responsibility to manage the emotions of the team as they bid to exact revenge on the Wallabies in front of a near-capacity crowd at Murrayfield.

The defence specialist said: "You have got to manage your emotion in any test match.

"You certainly need to be up for the occasion but you've also got to be accurate and that is what we have been stressing.

"You don't want to be too helter-skelter.

"We are desperate to put in a good performance at home."