Scotland have introduced that 5 gamers have returned house from their tour of the Americas with two matches remaining.
Northampton Saints duo Robbie Smith and prop Elliot Millar-Mills, Glasgow Warriors fly-half Ross Thompson, Edinburgh lock Glen Younger and his teammate Ross McCann are the 5 gamers.
All 5 featured in their 73-12 win over Canada within the first match of the tour, with each Smith and McCann making their debuts for his or her nation. Smith, Millar-Mills and Thompson had been retained in Gregor Townsend’s matchday squad for the 42-7 win over the USA in Washington, with the trio that includes from the bench.
Whereas Scotland have revealed in a press release that lock Glen Younger has suffered a pectoral damage, there isn’t any clarification as to why the quartet have returned house.
Three uncapped gamers have been flown in as replacements. Glasgow’s new signing from Exeter Chiefs, tighthead Fin Richardson, is joined by his soon-to-be membership teammate scrumhalf Ben Afshar, in addition to Edinburgh lock Rob Carmichael as ‘improvement gamers’ within the squad.
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Following the wins over Canada and the USA, Scotland face Chile and Uruguay over the subsequent two weeks.
Townsend chosen an inexperienced squad for this tour, with ten gamers making their debuts towards Canada. Talking forward of the tour, he mentioned this was a chance for gamers to place their fingers up for choice later this 12 months, the place they host Fiji, South Africa, Portugal and Australia.
“Once we chosen the squad, one of many ideas we had was, can we imagine these gamers can play for us not simply now, they get a chance now, however November (Autumn Checks) and within the Six Nations? That’s the aim,” he mentioned, as reported by the PA.
“Gamers that we predict could make a distinction for us as we go into subsequent season.
“Perhaps I can provide an instance of Elliot Millar-Mills.
“Elliott was known as up on the Sunday night time, after Will Hurd bought injured on the Saturday taking part in for Leicester the week earlier than we got here into our Six Nations camp.
“He grabbed his alternative coming off the bench towards Wales and in different video games and has taken his recreation to a different stage because the Six Nations.
“Now now we have a view of him being somebody who’s competing actually onerous with Zander (Fagerson), that may not solely add depth to us at tighthead however could make a distinction when he performs.”
