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Scottish coach Frank Hadden seemed happy to have had his gamble of a reduced-strength team hold the All Blacks to a 40-0 margin in Edinburgh this morning.
He said the All Blacks had been pretty impressive, and good in most areas of the game and they deserved to win.
But he stood firm to his view that Scotland's success in the competition would not be based on this match but later in the week.
There was some concern when star back Chris Paterson was forced to leave the field with an eye injury, but he was fully recovered by game's end and Scotland will have a full team to practise for its game with Italy at the weekend.
"Having so many guys available to us is tremendous. We're still very determined to make our supporters very proud of our performance at this World Cup.
"It's not our decision to have the format of the World Cup the way it is.
"I couldn't believe the format when I first saw it. We do whatever we need to do to go as far as we can in this competition. I am not unhappy with where we are at this moment," he said.
Scotland had gone down more heavily to New Zealand teams in the past but it was a gutsy performance, a gutsy defensive performance, he said.
"We would have liked to be more accurate and to get off to a better start. I was proud of the efforts of all the players on the pitch today.
"We will obviously have a look at how the scrum went," he said.
Scots captain and lock Scott Murray said the game was 'right up there' when compared to other All Blacks Tests he had played in.
"We let ourselves down a little by making stupid little mistakes. I thought some of our defence was great but you can't make mistakes against the All Blacks.
"They gave us a lot of problems in the scrum," was his summation of one of the worst areas of their performance.
