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Scott Cummings forced to withdraw from Scotland squad through injury
By PA
Scott Cummings has dropped out of the Scotland squad after suffering an injury against Ireland on Sunday. But Zander Fagerson has been called up after sitting out the game through suspension.
Lock Cummings and 21-year-old back Rufus McLean are the only two players to drop out of Gregor Townsend’s squad following the 27-24 loss, which ended Scotland’s Guinness Six Nations title hopes.
Glasgow player Cummings suffered a suspected hand fracture while fellow lock Jonny Gray sustained a shoulder injury and stand-off Finn Russell picked up a head knock, which looks likely to rule him out of Saturday’s visit of Italy.
However, Gray and Russell are both included in the 35-man squad.
Uncapped back-row forward Ally Miller and his Edinburgh team-mate, back Damien Hoyland, have been drafted into the squad.
Fagerson is also back in the camp after serving three games of his four-match ban following his red card against Wales.
The punishment was due to be split between club and international duty but it had been unclear whether Fagerson would miss the game with Italy or the yet-to-be-rearranged meeting with France.
Speaking on the injury situation after Sunday’s narrow defeat, Townsend said: “It is quite early to tell but Finn was removed from play with a concussion, so it’s unlikely he will feature in six days’ time.
“And Scott Cummings, we fear he may have a fracture in his hand, so if that’s the case he won’t be involved next week. Jonny Gray had a shoulder issue, so we will wait and see how he is.
“That’s three players – I imagine there will be a few more that turn up at training on Tuesday sore and we’ll just have to see where we are then.”
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I think you have gone in the wrong direction here Nick. I think you need to delve down into the rules etc around Moana Pacifica’s selection policies and then you need to understand that a lot of KIWI BORN rugby players have PI heritage. It appears ok for the 4 home nations to pillage NZ born players constantly without retribution but you want to question whether NZ BORN players should be eligible for NZ? Seems a real agenda in there.
Go back and look at the actual Aims and agenda for MP becoming a entity and you see lots of things enshrined in policy that you arnt mentioning here. EG there is an allowance for a percentage of MP to be NZ eligible. This was done so MP could actually become competitive. Lets be real. If it wasnt this way then MP would not be competitive.
There also seems to be some sort of claim ( mainly from the NH ) that NZ is “cashing in” on MP, which , quite frankly is a major error. Are you aware of how much MP costs NZR Financially?
39 NZ born rugby players played at the last world cup for Samoa or Tonga. PLUS plenty for Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales.
Taumoefolau is a BORN AND BRED NZer. However I very strongly doubt he will be an AB, but who do you believe he should be allowed to play for? Levi Aumua is ALSO a born and bred Kiwi.
Aumua was eligible to represent Samoa and Fiji for the Pacific Nations Cup in July that year but ended up playing for neither. He IS eligible for his nation of Birth too Nick
He is a Kiwi. Are you saying an NZ born, raised Kiwi cant play for NZ now?
Sorry Nick Kiwi born and bred actually qualify for NZ.
Go to commentsYeah, Richie certainly stepped up for the ABs in 2022 and 2023 and proved he could translate his skills into the test arena. You have to understand many fans checked out at that point though, only to tune back in for a directionless WC final.
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