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9 Scotland A players ruled out but game versus England A is still going ahead

(Photo by Bradley Collyer/PA Images via Getty Images)

Scotland have confirmed that an A team player has tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of this Sunday’s game versus England A in Leicester, a development that had resulted in eight further players being ruled out of selection due to contract tracing protocols.   

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The SRU have not named the nine players affected but they have called the following five players into camp to ensure the match will go ahead as scheduled: George Taylor (Edinburgh), Stafford McDowall (Glasgow), D’Arcy Rae (Glasgow), Ben Vellacott (Wasps) and Callum Hunter-Hill (Saracens).

An SRU statement read: “A Scotland player has tested positive for Covid-19 while preparing to face England A this weekend. The player started self-isolation as per Scottish Government guidelines. 

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Maro Itoje explains what it is like playing for Saracens

Jim Hamilton sits down with Vitality ambassador and former teammate Maro Itoje before he jets off to South Africa for the British & Irish Lions Series.
The Saracens lock told us all about Saracens rugby club and the defining effect it has had on his rugby career.

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Maro Itoje explains what it is like playing for Saracens

Jim Hamilton sits down with Vitality ambassador and former teammate Maro Itoje before he jets off to South Africa for the British & Irish Lions Series.
The Saracens lock told us all about Saracens rugby club and the defining effect it has had on his rugby career.

“Subsequent internal contact tracing identified a group of eight potential contacts who are also isolating and as such nine players have been ruled out of Sunday’s A international fixture against England A at Mattioli Woods Welford Road. 

“To respect medical confidentiality, Scottish Rugby will not name the individuals affected. Yesterday’s [Thursday] travel to Leicester was postponed as a precaution and the entire squad and management team were PCR tested early on Thursday morning. No further positive results were returned from the playing group.

“Consequently, this week’s team announcement has been rescheduled for 10.30am on Saturday to allow time for travel. Scottish Rugby continues to operate an extensive health and safety coronavirus mitigation plan and follow all respective health guidance aligned through Scottish Rugby’s threat management group.

“This Sunday’s A International fixture against England A at Mattioli Woods Welford Road is still scheduled to go ahead as planned.”

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JW 14 minutes ago
‘The problem with this year’s Champions Cup? Too many English clubs’

fewer = equal share Finn


How do they resolve the URCs make up? Does the league itself only have 1/3 part involvement in EPRC? I thought it was nation based all round. How much should English teams be given over Irish, South African, and the two other groups?


Strength wise they might indeed deserve more than equal share. How would be the question. Otherwise for lack of a good solution, yes, just the same number all round. What English teams are you talking about, the 6-8 ones?

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JW 34 minutes ago
Leinster player ratings vs Clermont | Investec Champions Cup

9 for Jordie lol


He was encouraging but fairly rusty mistake riddance performance. Is this a high bar in european rugby?

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JW 36 minutes ago
Watch: All Black Jordie Barrett scores another for new club Leinster

Chiefs are New Zealands best side.

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JW 37 minutes ago
Watch: All Black Jordie Barrett scores another for new club Leinster

Not to mention easily beat and English team that I think was near their best that year/at that point.

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JW 38 minutes ago
Watch: All Black Jordie Barrett scores another for new club Leinster

And were still too good for Europes best teams.

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JW 41 minutes ago
Watch: All Black Jordie Barrett scores another for new club Leinster

And yet he still made a few mistakes looking like he had played FB in years?

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JW 45 minutes ago
A 22-word RFU statement has ended Felix Jones' time with England

Haha that's a good one! Don't you think it would have played out the other way if that was the case though😋

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JW 55 minutes ago
‘The problem with this year’s Champions Cup? Too many English clubs’

I'd suggest theres no "merit" based reward in your ideas, were as there is in mine. It also has better balance and is more thoughtful to rugby as a whole, instead of the side you want to try and give merit to (like a losing semi finalist).


To spell it out another way, I am applying merit in what I believe is a more rewarding manner (as well as more functional), in that the team has to earn it more.


Don't like? Sorry?


Now now Finn, you must have something more severe than simple reading comprehension issues if you couldn't understand who a winner of the 6N might be LOL

sorry if you have CTE, and I was too blunt for you

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JW 1 hour ago
'It doesn’t make sense for New Zealand to deny itself access to world-class players'

They were those "hypothetical situations that are miles from reality", you know, if those 1 and 3 point wins had of gone the other way, on top of the losses to Arg and SA.


Who plays Japan and Ireland if Dmac had of been the orchestra in those 5 losses?

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JW 1 hour ago
'Razor's conservatism is in danger of halting New Zealand's progress'

He did exactly that conservative thing.

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YeowNotEven 1 hour ago
'It doesn’t make sense for New Zealand to deny itself access to world-class players'

There’s a dude down south called Sam Gilbert who I rate very highly, but hardly anyone else does.

You’ll occasionally see someone on social media (very correctly) comment that Sam Gilbert should get a shot and there’s 50 comments from The Visionless about how that’s dumb as a sack of hammers and how did you type that with crayon and blah blah blah.

But everyone seems to have a weird mate that reckons Sam Gilbert is worth a look.

He’s no Ollie Mathis fair enough but he would develop into an international 10 if they gave him the 10 jersey and season of starts, results be damned.

Should be 10 at the crusaders instead of James ‘Jimmy Coke’ O’Conner in my opinion.

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YeowNotEven 2 hours ago
A 22-word RFU statement has ended Felix Jones' time with England

Do we know why he quit or are we still repeating rumours we’ve heard. Cos the last one I read was that Jones called Borthwick’s wife a “moose in a dress” during some function and Borrhwick had to be escorted out.

Apparently there’s video.

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Head high tackle 2 hours ago
Watch: All Black Jordie Barrett scores another for new club Leinster

Sorry I dont understand the comment. He played 15 didnt he?

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Head high tackle 2 hours ago
Watch: All Black Jordie Barrett scores another for new club Leinster

Haha thats fantasy. Our 9th finishing team from this season had a 1 point loss in SRs preseason to Munster. No ABs, no warm=ups, and against a team 3/4s into its season. You and many like you cant see the weakness of your own comp but it comes thru in Test matches all the time. NH comps dont produce world cup winning players.

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Icefarrow 2 hours ago
Watch: All Black Jordie Barrett scores another for new club Leinster

Crusaders, Highlanders, Hurricanes, Chiefs, Blues, Warratahs, Reds, Brumbies have all regularly beaten the South African franchises. So yes, I think they are all capable of winning a match.


If we're talking about the "juggernauts" of the Champions Cup, then based on current form... only the Blues and Hurricanes have a real chance. Crusaders are up in the air.

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Head high tackle 2 hours ago
Watch: All Black Jordie Barrett scores another for new club Leinster

Id love to see Reiko Ioane sign with Leinster.

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Icefarrow 3 hours ago
'South African rugby' warned of 'disastrous' scenario

This competition has not helped SA whatsoever in World Cups. Have they forgotten the Springboks won in 2019, back when they were still in Super Rugby? Not to mention the enormous gap between club and country. International regimes always go on about how the first thing they teach you is to forget everything your club taught you.


Also, no one is forcing them to simultaneously compete in two tournaments. It's a European competition, they shouldn't have to roll over just because South Africa find the current schedule problematic. The franchises seem to be coming to the realisation they have no political sway within Europe. During the Super days, they were able to demand things like additional franchises in exchange for allowing the Jaguares and Sunwolves into the competition.

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Icefarrow 3 hours ago
Watch: All Black Jordie Barrett scores another for new club Leinster

Mate, you can't be serious. The Crusaders under Razor lost to a decently strong BIL side 9-3 back in 2017. A match in which both sides had such strong defence and high discipline, not a single try was scored, and almost no penalties were conceded.


You can't take a club or franchise's scores at face value, as internationals, coaching personnel etc all have a massive impact on how well a team performs. Let's not forget The Crusaders had a horrible season this year under Penney, after 7 consecutive years as champions under Robertson, and that was despite an injury crisis for the last two in which they were scraping the bottom of the barrel in some positions.

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SD Kiwi 3 hours ago
Japan shock the world to win title over New Zealand and Australia

Japan have now been in the Finals 3 years in a row winning twice, so how did they shock the world??

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AlanP 5 hours ago
‘The problem with this year’s Champions Cup? Too many English clubs’

Ok, so let's have it like in the UEFA champions league then, based on previous clubs performances. So let's start with 6 top14, 6 URC and 4 Prem. And if the prem outperform the other league then they can take one of their spot.. or lose another one

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