Pittodrie, Aberdeen, Sunday 23 November, 1.45am (AEDT)
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland). Touch judges: Alan Lewis (Ireland), Steve Terheege (England). Television match official: Nigel Whitehouse (Wales). Assessor: Michel Lamoulie (France)
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Scotland forward John Barclay is desperate to help his side break their November international series duck by beating Canada here Saturday - if only to shake off their tag of gallant losers.
The Glasgow flanker says he is fed up with well-wishers offering him "patronising" praise for almost winning.
And he wants any congratulations to be merited by a performance which results in a victory.
Scotland have produced patches of sparkling rugby against New Zealand and South Africa over the past two weekends and went agonisingly close to edging out the world champion Springboks only to lose 14-10 after being 10-0 in front.
"We have often talked about making progress in the bigger picture. But we can only talk about that for so long before people get bored," Barclay said.
"During the after-match function last weekend, lots of folk told me how well we had played - and that made us feel as if we were being patronised.
"We have to stop putting ourselves in positions where we get patronised. If we are to be taken seriously we need to win - and win regularly."
Barclay added: "If only we could have won these two games it would have given us a massive confidence boost.
"Yes, it was good to run the world champions so close last Saturday and the crowd really supported us, but you can only take so much from losing.
"We don't just want to 'do well' - we want to win. Nobody likes losing, I hope. And we need to use the mixture of frustration and anger to motivate us against the Canadians."
Canada coach Kieran Crowley admitted his priority is to balance the physical and psychological needs of the players as the minnows approach their fourth international in as many weekends.
Their last outing was against Wales in Cardiff where they lost 34-13 after twice being in front.
"There was a lot of pleasing aspects but we still didn't play a lot of rugby as far as creating a lot of opportunities," Crowley said.
"Overall, there has been progress but still with room for improvement," added the former All Black who, earlier this month, saw Canada suffer a 55-0 thrashing by Ireland.
"The Scotland game will be a real test and an accurate measure of where we are at the moment and I would like to think we will have come a long way in a few weeks."
Scotland: Rory Lamont; Simon Webster, Ben Cairns, Nick de Luca, Nikki Walker; Phil Godman, Mike Blair (capt); Simon Taylor, John Barclay, Alasdair Strokosch; Jim Hamilton, Nathan Hines; Euan Murray, Ross Ford, Allan Jacobsen. Res: Dougie Hall, Alasdair Dickinson, Matt Mustchin, Scott Gray, Rory Lawson, Dan Parks, Max Evans
Canada: James Pritchard; Sean Duke; Ciaran Hearn, Ryan Smith, Justin Mensah-Coker; Matt Evans, Ed Fairhurst (capt); Aaron Carpenter, Adam Kleeberger, Jebb Sinclair; Josh Jackson, Tyler Hotson; Scott Franklin, Mike Pletch, Kevin Tkachuk. Res: Frank Walsh, Mike Burak, Sean Michael Stephen, Morgan Williams, Nathan Hirayama, Bryn Keys, TBC
Past encounters:
Canada 26 Scotland 23, Vancouver, 2002
Scotland 22 Canada 6, Edinburgh, 1995
AFP
