The transplanted Scot doing famous father proud in New Zealand

Eight of Laidlaw's Hurricanes players are in Dave Rennie's touring squad and it might have been double figures had injury not taken a number of others out of the reckoning. Laidlaw is a New Zealand passport holder now, but he'll be on Scotland's side on Saturday."You're gonna see New Zealand's strongest possible team, but there's no reason why Scotland can't win," he reckons. "It's been a bounce of the ball here and there [in recent games]. "Scotland are definitely knocking on the door. I want Scotland to beat the All Blacks and I want the All Blacks to win every other game."He was 30 when he left Scotland for Taranaki, as a skills coach on the north island. Given his upbringing he always had a curiosity in him. His father always spoke about being a student of the game."I just thought there must be different ways to look at the game and different ways to look at life, really," he explains. "I used to go and pass my rugby ball against a tree at lunchtime and train at night. I used to say to the old boys, I wasn't going to be staying here."They'd be like, 'Yeah, you'll be here'. I just knew I didn't want to be there for 20 years. It's not like I had a bad life in Scotland. "I had a g...