Former British and Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton has labelled Scotland ‘cocky’ and lacking ‘the mindset of a Championship team’ after accusing two unnamed players of drinking beer at a function after this year’s win in Wales — while still wearing full kit and flip-flops.

Warburton felt the actions after Scotland’s first win in Cardiff since 2002 were ‘shocking from a cultural perspective’ and gave an indication why Gregor Townsend’s side failed to put up a sustained challenge for this year’s Six Nations Championship.

The former Wales captain also felt Scotland would never ‘win a Championship with this group of players’ in a damning assessment of the squad made both in his newspaper column with The Times and then again on the BBC’s Rugby Union Daily podcast.

He said: ‘Scotland? It is the same old, same old, unfortunately. They were competitive again but I don’t think they will ever win a Championship with this group of players. It is just not there. I know they were dealt a bad hand against France but to go to Italy and lose in the way they did just showed that they lack that last bit of ruthlessness, that killer mentality, to be a Championship-winning side.

‘I don’t know how they find that. I do worry about their mindset and I saw an example after the win against Wales that really worried me, when two players came to an after-match function still in their kit, drinking beer, and acting as if they had beaten a top side to win a title. They just seemed a bit too cocky.

Sam Warburton slammed Scotland’s team culture and ‘cocky’ mentality in a scathing attack

The Wales icon hit out at the actions of Gregor Townsend's side after their win over his country

The Wales icon hit out at the actions of Gregor Townsend's side after their win over his country

The Wales icon hit out at the actions of Gregor Townsend’s side after their win over his country

‘I am not going to throw these two players under the bus, so they will remain anonymous, but they were two senior players in the Scotland team at the moment. I remember watching it and, in my head, I thought it was shocking from a cultural perspective. They came in, beers in their hands, still in their kit, flip flops on, giving it the big one.

‘Bear in mind this was over just one win. They were doing this Q and A and I thought they were really arrogant. I’ll be honest. I would never have accepted that from players in a group I was involved with.

‘I would have said: “Are those our standards? Let’s celebrate when we win something.”

‘I don’t know for certain but, for me, that told me there is not quite that hard edge in the Scotland camp.

‘I was watching, thinking, that’s how I would celebrate winning a World Cup. What I saw with Scotland, I’m thinking, that’s not the mindset of a Championship team.

‘I don’t want to sound too negative but I just think if you want to be truly elite, you have to really act as if you are elite. I think maybe it’s a cultural thing.’

Former England winger Ugo Monye echoed the sentiments and accused the Scots of over-celebrating the Calcutta Cup win at Murrayfield.

He also questioned their attitude and said they would never win the Six Nations with this group

Warburton felt the standards needed to be higher much within Gregor Townsend’s side 

He said: ‘I know I’ve joked in the past before that, if they (Scotland) beat England, they have a bank holiday but every joke is a half-truth.

‘That’s the energy I get from Scotland and they get too excited too quickly. I am trying to think — what is this based upon? Is this based upon this history of dominating this tournament or having won it a few times? But it’s nothing.

‘I just keep getting fed this message of this “golden generation”. We give them their praise when it is due but for too long Scotland have underdelivered.’

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