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Kinghorn back in Scotland squad as Graham suffers new setback
By Josh Raisey
Toulouse fullback Blair Kinghorn has returned to the Scotland squad ahead of the Calcutta Cup clash with England on Saturday in the Guinness Six Nations.
The 27-year-old missed the opening two rounds of the Championship with a knee injury, but has been drafted back into Gregor Townsend's squad alongside fan-favourite Hamish Watson, Magnus Bradbury, Alex Craig and WP Nel.
Javan Sebastian, Ross McCann and Josh Bayliss have left the squad, the with latter being ruled out with a concussion.
Despite returning to training with Edinburgh last week following a quad injury, Darcy Graham has suffered a new setback, this time a groin injury. Scotland have said that he will be assessed this week.
Scotland squad
Forwards
Ewan Ashman – Edinburgh Rugby (14)
Magnus Bradbury – Bristol Bears (19)
Jamie Bhatti – Glasgow Warriors (34)
Alex Craig – Scarlets (2)
Andy Christie – Saracens (5)
Scott Cummings – Glasgow Warriors (35)
Jack Dempsey – Glasgow Warriors (17)
Rory Darge – Glasgow Warriors (16) CO-CAPTAIN
Grant Gilchrist – Edinburgh Rugby (69)
Matt Fagerson – Glasgow Warriors (42)
Zander Fagerson – Glasgow Warriors (64)
Alec Hepburn – Exeter Chiefs (2)
Johnny Matthews – Glasgow Warriors (1)
Elliot Millar-Mills – Northampton Saints (1)
WP Nel – Edinburgh Rugby (61)
Jamie Ritchie – Edinburgh Rugby (47)
Pierre Schoeman – Edinburgh Rugby (28)
Sam Skinner – Edinburgh Rugby (32)
George Turner – Glasgow Warriors (42)
Hamish Watson – Edinburgh Rugby (59)
Glen Young – Edinburgh Rugby (3)
Backs
Ben Healy – Edinburgh Rugby (4)
George Horne – Glasgow Warriors (27)
Rory Hutchinson – Northampton Saints (8)
Huw Jones – Glasgow Warriors (45)
Blair Kinghorn – Toulouse (50)
Stafford McDowall – Glasgow Warriors (1)
Harry Paterson – Edinburgh Rugby (1)
Ali Price – Edinburgh Rugby (66)
Cameron Redpath – Bath Rugby (11)
Arron Reed – Sale Sharks (uncapped)
Kyle Rowe – Glasgow Warriors (3)
Finn Russell – Bath Rugby (77) CO-CAPTAIN
Kyle Steyn – Glasgow Warriors (16)
Ross Thompson – Glasgow Warriors (3)
Sione Tuipulotu – Glasgow Warriors (24)
Duhan van der Merwe – Edinburgh Rugby (36)
Ben White – Toulon (20)
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Not if England are going to give him a couple o appearances a year for a 200k top up, he won’t need to break into the top group. This is not the ABs in more ways than just England matching them in loose fowards.
His skill set will be unique though!
Go to commentsThe extent to which rugby pundits in NZ rely on their rose tinted spectacles really baffles me. Anton Lienert-Brown has been a good but nothing more player for a few seasons now. For an experienced player he gives a maddening amount of penalties and yellow cards too so I don’t give him any credit for all that experience.
If you had a clean slate and knew nothing about history, the guy wouldn’t be anywhere near people’s choice for 13 (or 12) if you only watch super rugby the last couple of seasons. Bailyn Sullivan / Billy Proctor / AJ Lam / Tavatavanawai to just just a few have all looked miles better than ALB.
How on earth does that end up with people saying he should be in the squad let alone starting. We have to move on from these type of players - he was never a great player and we have so many alternate options.
There is a group of mediocre players that we need to clear out, or at least try other options. We know how limited that group are, now is the time to see if some other talent can step up (the time was last year, but anyway…).
Jacobson, ALB, Papali’i, Christie, Lord, Havili, Reece. Just move on from them all and try for some upside. Thank god Cane/Perenara have finally moved on because they were in this camp too.
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