Captain Chris Paterson produced a faultless display of place-kicking, landing seven penalties as Scotland successfully bounced back from the heavy defeat at Twickenham on the opening weekend of the championship.

But it was the efforts of the Scotland pack, who have not been lauded for many years, which particularly pleased Hadden and made him most proud.

The intent was shown in the opening minutes when the Scottish pack drove their counterparts back several yards  a feat not achieved by those in navy blue jerseys for many years.

Hadden, whose side lost 28-18 in Cardiff last year, said: I am so proud about that performance.

Lets not forget abut how young and inexperienced a side we had out there and the pressure was on them, make no mistake about it.

They had to produce the goods today and they knew that, wed talked about it during the week.

Of course we wanted to do it in style but the weather conditions made that a wee bit difficult.

A number of people have been a bit disparaging about the Scottish pack over the past few years and Id just like to pay tribute to the job (forwards coach) George Graham has done with them.

They were still smarting from what happened to them in the first 20 minutes at the Millennium Stadium last year and I thought they very much proved their point today.

Hadden was also full of praise for defence coach Alan Tait after the former Lions international plugged the porous gaps which were evident in Scotlands defence against England.

Wales, arguably the championships most free-running side, could not breach Scotlands line and never looked like crossing for a try.

Hadden said: The same goes for Alan Tait as it does for George. Now that they are on board full-time, its not such a lonely place up the stairs for me!

Alan has got the grips with the strengths and weaknesses of our players and has done a superb job with the defence, making a few alterations from last week.

Most important of all was the alertness we had about our play, which was lacking last week and it cost us.