Tommy Seymour has picked out some crafty angles this season - he has scored three tries in the Guinness PRO12 and another in the European Champions Cup - but the one that put the Glasgow Warrior on a collision course with Montpellier's Sitaleki Timani two weekends ago was certainly not the smartest he has chosen.

In the bestiary of rugby, Seymour is what is generally known as a tricky winger. Timani, by way of contrast, is what is known universally as a complete monster. In a contest between the dancing feet of Seymour and the 6ft 8in, 19st bulk of the Tongan lock there was only ever going to be one winner. Their clash of heads left Seymour out cold and flat horizontal on the Altrad Stadium pitch; it was not exactly clear whether Timani even noticed the impact.

"The guy's a pretty big dude," said the chastened Seymour as he reflected on coming a distant second in that catch-weight contest. "I don't know what I was thinking, to be honest with you. I'll not be running that line again."

Over the past couple of seasons, rugby has belatedly begun to take the issue of concussion seriously. Yet the most wincingly vivid events do not necessarily inflict the greatest damage and Seymour was up and walking - and, touchingly, phoning his anxious girlfriend - within a few minutes. Since when, he has come under the care of the Scotland team doctor James Robson, a man whose passion for protecting players is such that the suggestion that he would rush one back can be dismissed with contempt.

"I've been taken good care of," Seymour said with a smile. "All the boxes have been ticked. Everything has been handled really well by everyone. The Glasgow physios and doctors on the day, Dave [Pugh] and Lisa [Casey], as well as the French staff, took really good care of me when I was over there and that continued when I came back.

"All the protocols have been done. It definitely wasn't rushed. So we have got back to the stage where I'm feeling really well."

Which is good news for Seymour and good news for Scotland, as the 26-year-old has been on fire this season. Those times, two or three seasons ago, when the Nashville-born player was a peripheral figure at Glasgow seem a long way off, for if he was slow into his stride in his first couple of years with the Warriors, he has more than made up for it since. These days, Seymour is pretty much a first-choice for both club and country.

On which point, he is keen to stress the difference between the two. The Scotland squad for the autumn Test programme is dominated by Glasgow players, and the Scotstoun side could even be in line to provide six of the seven backs chosen to face Argentina at BT Murrayfield on Saturday. However, Seymour is adamant that a distinctly international mindset should prevail, that the national team should not think of itself as a Glasgow-plus-invited-guests selection, even if national coach Vern Cotter seems determined to tap into the energy and style of the Warriors' recent form.

"It helps a lot that [Glasgow] guys are coming in with a lot of confidence, with each other as well as themselves," said Seymour. "Guys are really confident and they are enjoying playing their rugby. They're trying things, moving the ball around.

"So it's great to see so many guys coming in from Glasgow. But that said, the other guys that are coming in from England, France, wherever it may be; the vast majority if not all of them are incredibly confident individually too.

"That's the way it should be done. It is important that we focus as a Scottish rugby team, not as a collection of club-based players. We have to create an identity that is solely Scotland rugby."

Seymour missed out on the North American leg of Scotland's globe-trotting summer tour this year, but figured in the later games against Argentina and South Africa. The Springboks game, which the Scots lost 55-6, was Cotter's first Test defeat and a rugby lesson for a Scottish side made up entirely of home-based players, but the corollary is that Seymour is reluctant to read too much into the 21-19 win over Argentina as the Pumas were also operating without their exiles at the time.

At full strength, he believes the South Americans will be a very different team this weekend. "Argentina are going to be a huge challenge," he said firmly. "They played incredibly well in the Rugby Championship and could have got a couple more wins, so they're going to be very confident.

"They'll be looking to come over here and cause a lot of chaos for us in our own backyard, especially considering what we did to them in the summer over there. They'll be disappointed in that and they'll be looking to get one back. So we've got a really stern challenge against Argentina first. It's going to be a full 80 minutes against them."

It is generally assumed that victories over Argentina and Tonga, plus a decent showing in defeat against the All Blacks, would be a satisfactory return for the Scots over the next three weeks. However, if Cotter's side lose the Pumas match - the Scots have not beaten them at Murrayfield since 1990 - then the likeliest prospect is that their series-ending meeting with Tonga in Kilmarnock on November 22 would be a face-saving exercise.

However, Seymour refused to look beyond the first November hurdle. "We're really focusing on getting a consistent level of performance," he explained. "It's got to be 80 minutes of consistent rugby, week-in and week-out. If we can do that, then hopefully that turns into wins."