It took Scotland 15 minutes to achieve their major aim at Murrayfield this afternoon and considerably less to beat the Netherlands as they recorded a 99-0 win, with the points scored in danger of eclipsing the attendance total as Scotland made light work of the Dutch.
While today's record 15-try bonanza was billed as an important warm-up for the A-team version of the Six Nations championship, which starts with a trip to Italy in February, it also fell conveniently before the January 1 deadline for internationals to represent more than one country.
Thus, former Zimbabwe prop Paul Johnstone started the game and a quarter of an hour into the match Alistair Murdoch, who has played twice at fly-half for Australia, duly made an appearance to add their weight to the Scotland cause.
Not that either man's contribution could be measured in a one-sided mis-match which served little other purpose. Certainly if Scotland's Six Nations foes are as feeble as the Dutch, northern hemisphere rugby is in big trouble.
It took the home side less than two minutes to cross the Netherlands line, skipper Graham Shiel and centre partner David Officer combining to send Derrick Lee scooting home.
Lee was destined to be the man replaced to make way for Murdoch, although the Scotland coaching staff would have been hoping that his retirement would have come through choice rather than injury.
The full-back limped off just as Chris Paterson was converting Scotland's third try, flanker Jason White crashing over to follow up Conan Sharman's debut score five minutes earlier.
Sharman added his second on the half hour, completing a blistering points feast which included scores from replacement winger Alan Bulloch, scrum-half Iain Fairley and hooker Gavin Scott. Paterson brought up the half-time half century and the rout continued after the interval with Shiel and Fairley both darting over as Scotland cruised past their record A team total of 61 posted against Italy earlier this year.
The visitors retained their enthusiasm but offered little in terms of constructive play.
They appear to have gone backwards since conceding a century of points against England in a World Cup qualifier in Huddersfield last year, although the glamour of a freezing cold afternoon in front of 200 spectators four days before Christmas may have resulted in a weakened team making the journey to Edinburgh.
At one stage, the Scots went 10 minutes without scoring a try but Bulloch woke up the scoreboard operator with his second before Murdoch marked his re-birth with a touchdown under the posts.
Sharman nipped in for his hat-trick, Murdoch added another and Shiel rounded off the try romp when he took advantage of a piece of good fortune when a Dutch pass under the visitors line bounced off a post into the skipper's arms as he was advancing to make a tackle.
Having taken over the goalkicking duties, Paterson impressed with a couple of excellent touchline efforts, landing 10 from 13 attempts overall to leave Scotland one point short of a century.
As a contest it was a non-event but at least Scotland now have two extra players to choose from. If they had temporarily loaned them to the Netherlands, it might have been more of a match.