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Scotland replace rogue Barbarian Sean Maitland ahead of Wales match

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Stuart Hogg with Sean Maitland (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

Sean Maitland will not join up with the Scotland squad ahead of Saturday’s clash in Wales following his involvement in the breach of coronavirus protocols that saw Barbarians’ game against England cancelled.

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Maitland was among the players whose trip to a restaurant undermined attempts to maintain a hygiene bubble.

Ahead of Scotland’s final Guinness Six Nations clash, head coach Gregor Townsend said: “We are working hard to ensure our training camp remains secure in terms of Covid protocols and, as such, Sean’s actions last week with the Barbarians mean that he won’t be able to rejoin our group now and we will review the situation in the coming weeks.”

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Glasgow winger Ratu Tagive has joined up with the squad ahead of Saturday’s game in Llanelli after another winger, Damien Hoyland, received treatment for an ankle injury in hospital.

Hooker Ewan Ashman has returned to Sale, Edinburgh lock Grant Gilchrist has been ruled out of the autumn series with a groin injury but Matt Fagerson remains with the squad after suffering an ankle injury against Georgia on Friday.

Exeter players Stuart Hogg, Jonny Gray and Sam Skinner have joined up with the squad after adding the Gallagher Premiership title to their Heineken Champions Cup win.

Townsend added: “Ratu was unlucky to have missed out a couple of weeks ago, picking up an injury on the weekend we selected our training squad.

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“It’s great to have him with us now in addition to our three Exeter Chiefs – Jonny, Sam and Stuart.”

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That's Cron's job though. Australia has had one of the most penalised scrums in international rugby for a long time. Just look at the scrum win loss percentage and scrum penalties. That is your evidence. AA has been the starter during that period. Pretty simple analysis. That Australia has had a poor scrum for a long time is hardly news. If bell and thor are not on the field they are woeful. So you are just plain wrong. They have very little time for the lions so doing the same old things that dont work is not going to get them there.


Ainsley is better than our next best tighthead options and has been playing well at scrum time for Lyon in the most competitive comp in the world. Superstar player? No. But better than the next best options. So that is a good enough guide. The scrummaging in the Prem is pretty good too so there is Sio's proof. Same analysis for him. Certainly better in both cases than Super, where the brumbies had the worst win loss and scrum pen in Super. Who plays there? Ohh yes... And the level of scrummaging in Super is well below the URC, prem and France with the SA teams out.


Nongorr is truly woeful. He's 130kg and gets shoved about. That just should not be happening at that weight for a specialist prop who has always played rugby cf pone with leauge. He has had enough time to develop at 23. You'd be better off with Pone who is at least good around the field for the moment and sending Nongorr on exchange to France or England to see if they can improve him with better coaching as happened with Skelton and Meafou. He isn't going to develop in time in super if he has it at all.


Latu is a better scrummaging hooker than BPA and Nasser. and he's the best aussie player over the ball at ruck time. McReight's super jackling percentage hasnt converted to international level but latu consistently does it at heniken level, which is similar to test level in the big games. With good coaching at La Rochelle he's much improved though still has the odd shocker. He should start the November games.

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