Many of the Scotland camp have already talked about belief. How, in the past, perhaps there were doubts about the capacities and limitations of this squad, but now they had been banished forever.
Even when Captain Soone Tuipulotou and the influential second rowman Scott Cumming were discarded from all six nations, when Josh Bayliss and Dylan Richardson also left, and when Italy was defeated but not convincingly on the opening weekend, the message never hesitated : This team is finally ready to compete for a championship.
Scotland fans have no choice at this juncture, but to take the floor of coaches and players for that.
Perhaps behind the scene, the various sessions with sports psychologists and mental strength gurus have had a revealing impact.
Perhaps having several people who have tried glory at club level during the past year has infected in the international group.
Perhaps having a large equipment established, most of which are located or approaching their peak years, has provided a solid base for this new wave of self -control.
The Hat-Tork hero, Huw Jones, and his lovers of Scotland, celebrate the victory over Italy
Jones notes the fifth attempt of Scotland in an afternoon of positive and negative moments
Darcy Graham is released from the Italian rear to cause the decisive of Scotland
The cold truth, however, is that there is nothing tangible so far to support any statement that this is a renewed strength squad.
Simply wishing a sustained inclination in the title, since no Scotland team has finished more than the third for a quarter of a century, it will not make it come true.
Supporters have witnessed too many false sunrise to afford to be dragged into a wave of euphoria based on nothing more than an empty rhetoric.
No, it is the actions instead of the words that will show us thoroughly if it is a Scotland squad capable of achieving much better than those that were before them. And the day of the trial is approaching.
That Scotland has never defeated Ireland in her 10 previous meetings is a condemnatory statistic, one that would have cost some chief coaches their jobs much earlier.
The statement that it was close in Dublin last year either has water in a closer inspection, Scotland could not violate the Irish line and losing 17-6 up to two minutes when an attempt by Huw Jones made it looked stronger than It really was.
Even the previous match in Murrayfield in 2023 was a case of what could have been like an Ireland team that lost its two prostitutes during a wear issue found a way to win despite being left behind early to another Jones score.
It is reduced to this Sunday, then. Defeat your Archionemigo for the first time since 2017, exactly eight years ago today, will not guarantee Scotland a Grand Slam, a championship or even second place.
But if they can navigate this substantial mental obstacle, at least it will finally show that this is a group capable of competing with the best. Words alone, after all, can only take you so far.
“We have improved greatly,” said Darcy Graham after the victory over Italy. 'I think trust is there, belief is there. And that is a big thing: we actually believe we can win now.
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'I think, maybe two seasons ago, we talked about that, about winning, but they probably didn't really believe it. And I think now is the time we really believe it.
'As individuals, Ireland are world class and, as a team, they are also world class. In your day, they can appear and put 30 points on you.
'But control is always in our hands. It's about not giving them easy sanctions or an easy way in the game. It depends on us. It's about appearing on Sunday, being in the ball during the full 80 minutes and not letting them into the game.
Ireland is without chief coach Andy Farrell, in the duty of the British and Irish lions in the predictable future, and also lost the established strikers Tadhg Furlong and Joe McCarthy for short -term injuries.
Looking for an unprecedented third consecutive championship, they could have been vulnerable in their opening game against England, but, again, they found a way of fighting through adversity to do the job.
Scotland also deserves credit to survive a bamboleo of half of the game against Italy before winning, but, with that, comes the warning that a better team would have punished those periods of indiscipline and neglected game.
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“We started very well against Italy, then we have a bit,” Graham added. 'It was individual errors that recovered them in the game. Our discipline too. We gave them 12 points of the TEE, so that is a murderer. If we do that against Ireland, it will be a difficult day.
That both Graham and Co-Capitán Finn Russell recognized that victory over Italy was far from perfect was encouraging. There will be no rest in Laureles.
It was Graham who provided the spark so necessary that he helped accumulate the 19-19 draw, his vision of detecting a GAP box in the field was released to see Jones for the second score of his hat-trick making a significant difference.
However, Edinburgh's end was not happy with his own performance or with that of the team.
“That was really the first time I put on the ball, so it was a frustrating game for me,” he said. 'I left that launch and I was not too happy with how we had played.
'But when we needed to find something I felt like me, so I'm happy enough.
'We needed some magic, I created it and obtained it. Sometimes, everything you need is a bit of magic for the team to return to the front foot.
Scotland fans will wait for something of that brightness for Sunday.