Glasgow Warriors full-back Ollie Smith is poised to bring his year-long spell on the sidelines to an end on Saturday after receiving a call-up to the Emerging Scotland squad to face Italy at Edinburgh's Hive Stadium.
Edinburgh lock Rob Carmichael has been selected in Gregor Townsend's 31-man Emerging Scotland squad that will play for the first time against Italy U23 on Saturday at Edinburgh's Hive Stadium.
Mosese Tuipulotu will get his first outing in a Scotland jersey when he starts for the Scotland A team in Saturday’s fixture against Chile at Edinburgh’s Hive Stadium.
Marler baited the All Blacks ahead of Saturday’s autumn opener at Allianz Stadium by writing on the social media site X on Tuesday night that “the haka needs binning. It’s ridiculous”.
Three matches are scheduled for Stellenbosch: Ireland vs Georgia (kick-off 2pm local), France vs New Zealand (4:30pm) and South Africa vs Argentina (7pm). Over in Athlone, Wales vs Spain is the opening match (2pm) followed by England vs Fiji (4:30pm) and Australia vs Italy (7pm).
Sean Everitt has challenged Edinburgh to recover from back-to-back defeats in South Africa by prolonging their European run with victory at home to Bayonne in Saturday’s Challenge Cup last-16 clash.
Sean Everitt has challenged Edinburgh to recover from back-to-back defeats in South Africa by prolonging their European run with victory at home to Bayonne in Saturday’s Challenge Cup last-16 clash.
Inexperienced and heavily criticised, Wales silenced their doubters in emphatic fashion in 2011.
England age-grade coach Alan Dickens has named a Six Nations team that includes eleven starters making their debut at U20s level. The opening match of the championship is against Scotland in Edinburgh on Friday and No8 Toby Knight, one of the debut-making contingent, will skipper