Sean's grandparents, Alan and Jean Coogan, both in their eighties, are making the short trip from Coupar Angus to watch him play and he wants them to leave the stadium with a warm glow. "Perth's a place I know well; I've got a lot of childhood memories of the area," says Sean in today's Herald. "I lived in Blairgowrie for 11 years and was just about to start high school when we moved south."
That was before rugby had ever been played at McDiarmid Park, so being a local gives him no advantage. "I've never known rugby to be played there," he admitted. "I know it's the home of St Johnstone and my grandparents took me to watch one match there, but I can't even remember what it looks like. They saw me on TV last week, but they've never been ringside, as it were."
Looking back to last weekend's game against Australia Sean identifies Nathan Hines as being a catalyst for the fightback after a nightmare first 40 minutes.
Sean says in todays Evening News: "When you see the type of never-say-die attitude displayed by Nathan in covering to deny Australia what would have been a vital try - would we have come back as we did had they been allowed to go further ahead? - as a team you have to respond.
"Not only did Nathan get back to clear up over our line when a kick was blocked but in doing so he thwarted a very quick stand off and that is what gives everybody a lift. Our team was boosted a lot and from there; instead of looking at conceding another 28 points we had the better of proceedings."
Sean himself did much to stop the rot with a crucial try to stabilise Scotland which he recalled, saying: "A gap arose three metres out leaving me the chance to dive under the cover which I did in the knowledge they would most probably try to hold me up."
You can read the Herald article here and the Evening News article here