Preview: Scotland v Wales

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - MARCH 07: Darcy Graham during a Scotland training session at Scottish Gas Murrayfield, on March 07, 2025, in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Williamson / SNS Group)

What they said

Head Coach Gregor Townsend said: “You can see Wales are playing with freedom, they move the ball wide, some quality players and I’m sure they’ll come up with that same mindset to move the ball, to attack the breakdown and give it everything.

“(On Darcy Graham’s return) He’s been doing contact for 10 days, he was in great form before his injury and we expect him to be in similar form, he’s trained really well.

“We pass Doddie’s statue as we come into the stadium on home games, we see a lot of our supporters wearing his foundation’s tartan. It’s a really good fixture, the stories over the decades of thousands of Wales fans coming up to Scotland and enjoying not just the city but the clubs all over Scotland.”

The teams

The stats

• Duhan van der Merwe and Huw Jones are now level with Stuart Hogg on 16 tries as Scotland’s top try scorers in the Six Nations.
• Scotland’s Rory Darge is the only player to attend 100+ attacking rucks (112) in the 2025 Guinness Men’s Six Nations, he also ranks in the top five players for dominant tackles (6) and offloads (5).
• Scotland’s Blair Kinghorn tops the charts for carries (58) and metres gained (371) in the 2025 Guinness Men’s Six Nations so far, he has chosen to kick the ball just six times.
• Ben White has scored a try in each of the first three rounds of this year’s Guinness Men’s Six Nations; he is the first Scotland player to manage that in the Championship’s history.