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Scotland make two additions to squad, with four players ruled out


Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
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Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has had to reshuffle his squad for the November Tests.

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They face Wales at the Principality Stadium this Saturday and preparations have been somewhat disrupted with six alterations necessary to his squad.

Scotland will be looking to avenge their 34-7 defeat to Wales in the 6 Nations last February. The sides will compete for the ‘Doddie Weir Cup’. The match falls outside the international window so Townsend was already without several players including the likes of Finn Russell and Greig Laidlaw who are playing for their French clubs, while Stuart Hogg and Zander Ferguson are long-term injury absentees.

Harlequins back James Lang has been added to the squad for the 2018 Autumn Tests.

The 23-year-old made his first and second Scotland appearances on the summer tour earlier this year as part of the side that defeated Canada and Argentina in Edmonton and Resistencia.

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Lang has been drafted in as a replacement for injured Glasgow Warriors centre Sam Johnson, who sustained a knee injury in his club’s narrow Guinness PRO14 loss to Munster in Limerick on Saturday, and as cover for Edinburgh centre Matt Scott, who is suffering from concussion.

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Meanwhile, the status of uncapped and in-form Edinburgh back Darcy Graham has been elevated from ‘training with’ the squad, to a full squad member.

The Scotland medical team also confirmed that back-row trio Magnus Bradbury, David Denton and Luke Crosbie (who was training with the squad) will return to the care of their clubs’ medical teams for further care and assessment on shoulder, head and jaw injuries respectively.

After the game against Wales in Cardiff, Scotland face Fiji on November 10th at Murrayfield, followed by games against South Africa and Argentina.

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Nations Championship: 'The data shows the north has finally caught up with the south'

Fact: the gap between the North and the South has narrowed considerably - that I get. However, determining that only selecting only Home grown players or playing in the home country is is the optimal strategy is a bit of a toss up and highly reliant on the economies of the home union. I do understand that England and to a lesser degree Ireland selects home based only. The top 14 is a massive threat to their domestic product. France would probably not be affected (the money is at home). Fiji, Argentina, Samoa, Italy and you could even argue Scotland have only benefitted from this. Their players either go overseas to learn at higher levels (Fiji, Samoa, Argentina) or players coming into their leagues to strengthen the home product and their National teams (Scotland, Italy, Japan).

South Africa used to limit its selection to the home based players, but the reality of a weak currency vs what players could earn oversees meant that you lost access to your best players at some stage of their careers, with very few exceptions. Kolbe left SA as he was considered too small for International Rugby (yes coaches/selectors view), but ironically in France he forced selectors to notice his endeavors and select him. He is only reaching 50 caps now despite being north of 30 - granted rotation and the odd injury also played a role, but for the most part it is having debuted or becoming a regular so late.



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