Scotland centre Huw Jones summed it up perfectly - for the national side to claim the autumn Test series a success and for his team to be taken seriously by other countries they had to beat Australia in their final game. Mission accomplished there.
Jones’ international argument can be extended to Scottish professional club rugby. For Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors - regardless of their URC title win-to be taken seriously by others outside Scotland they need to win a European trophy.
Mission not accomplished yet but it’s not so far out of reach they need Tom Cruise to get involved. It is certainly not a Mission Impossible for either pro team to lift European silverware this season.
I have never made such a bold - some may argue foolhardy - prediction in the past but this could be the year the European drought ends.
In the past both sides could be relied upon to win a few European games then self destruct when the pressure was on. Neither side could grind out narrow wins.
Edinburgh has come closest in the past to picking up major European silverware losing 22-19 in the 2012 Heineken Cup semi-final to Ulster. They also lost to Gloucester in the final of the 2015 Challenge Cup at The Stoop.
It’s been close but no cigar for both Scottish clubs in Europe up until now.
Until that changes and one or both become a major force on the European stage there will still be those, particularly in England, that will continue to look down their noses at Scottish professional club rugby.
They have no right to do so but will point to the fact that no Scottish club team has ever picked up a European trophy to back up their argument.
They also have the experience of a losing Challenge Cup final only over a year ago and a historic away win over the Bulls in South Africa that clinched them the URC title.
The quality team they have - and off the back of that title triumph- they have it in them to win the biggest club trophy in northern hemisphere rugby.
Now that would make everybody take Scottish professional club rugby seriously.
They dug out a victory against Scarlets at home over the weekend and begin their European campaign at home to Sale Sharks next Saturday and follow that up with a trip to France to take on Toulon the following Sunday.
Warriors head coach Franco Smith will have taken heart from the performances of his players on Scotland duty - especially Tom Jordan - during the autumn Tests. Lots of other people certainly did and that will build confidence heading into Europe.
Off the back of what they saw in the first four international weekends when pundits named their starting British and Irish Lions to take on the Wallabies next summer there were a high number of Scots in the line-ups.
England’s World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward named four - Blair Kinghorn, Sione Tuipulotu, Duhan van der Merwe and Finn Russell - in his.
On top of that the Opta statisticians looked at topics such as who had the best tackle rate, who made the most metres, beat the most defenders, assisted and scored the most tries, etc, as they ran the rule over all aspects of the game involving those eligible for Lions selection.
Based on their data there were seven Scots in the top 15 Lions eligible performers in the autumn Tests.
But as Mark Twain said 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.’’ Certainly, these Opta stats are open to interpretation.
Scotland had easy games against Fiji and Portugal where lots of successful tackles were made, lots of metres ran, defenders beaten and tries scored so not too much should be read into the overall stats of the Scottish players.
It could be that Scotland had lots of players nominated for the Lions - all stats were compiled ahead of the final game between Ireland and Australia in Dublin at the weekend - because the Irish, the Welsh and in particular the English have gone backwards in terms of performance.
Ireland managed to beat Australia 22-19 in Dublin at the weekend but weren’t as impressive as Scotland when they beat the Wallabies at Murrayfield six days earlier.
Scotland players are certainly performing well in a Lions season and one way they can keep that momentum going is to stand out in the European Champions Cup and the European Challenge Cup over the next fortnight.
More importantly the Scottish players at Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors need to play well and put a few good European wins on the board to keep them in the mind of Lions coach Andy Farrell who starts work in his new role this month after stepping down from Ireland.
A Glasgow win in an old fashioned cross-border match against Sale Sharks in the Investec Champions Cup at Scotstoun next Saturday evening is a fixture that Farrell will be watching closely.
A win there and also against Toulon the following weekend in France will set Glasgow up for a good run in Europe. That will impress the new Lions coach and whoever he picks to be part of his backroom staff.
Edinburgh are in the European Challenge Cup which is for the teams that failed to make the top eight of the URC table last season and the also-rans from England, France, Ireland, Wales and Italy. Georgian teams are also included.
The Challenge Cup is a tournament that Edinburgh could win with their opening match against Gloucester at Kingsholm next Friday. They then take on Bayonne at home before resuming league duties.
With van der Merwe - whose try after 65 seconds set the foundations for the 50-33 win over Benetton on Saturday - and Graham on the wings there is always the threat of Edinburgh scoring lots of tries provided the back division can get the ball out to them.
There is not the same kudos given to winning the Challenge Cup but lifting European silverware of any kind would be a major boost to the capital club.
In previous years both Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors were always classed at the very most as dark horses when it came to Europe but never managed to get over the line.
Dark horses no more, both are among the favourites for European success and should dare to dream heading into both tournaments this year.
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