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4 Nov 2022

Josh Bayliss

Though not selected for Rugby World Cup 2023, Bayliss played in warm-up games with France and Italy, notching a first Scotland try against the latter. Having made his Bath debut in 2016, he has gone on to make 70 appearances for The Rec side. Bayliss qualifies through his grandmother, who was born in Aberdeen.

4 Nov 2022

Jamie Ritchie

A former Scotland U20 captain, Ritchie also played a dramatic role as Heriot’s won the BT Premiership in 2015. His rapid rise to the full national team was complete when winning a first cap against Canada on Scotland’s 2018 North America tour. Selected for Rugby World Cup 2019, he played at a second such tournament […]

4 Nov 2022

WP Nel

He was named in the 2015 World Cup squad and played every game, including a pool stage try against USA as Scotland reached the quarter-finals, before featuring in all four matches of the 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign, too. Known to his teammates as the Squadfather, the durable Nel won a 50th cap for Scotland […]

4 Nov 2022

Richie Gray

It was 14 years ago that a young Richie Gray won a first Scotland cap in a Six Nations encounter with France at Murrayfield, his impressive early career form earning selection for the 2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia, where he won a cap in the series-clinching final Test. Gray’s 50th Scotland appearance […]

4 Nov 2022

Jack Dempsey

An abrasive open field runner, Dempsey represented the country of his birth, Australia, 14 times between 2017 and 2019 including at the Rugby World Cup in Japan. However, an ability to earn selection on the basis of his maternal grandfather having emigrated from Scotland led to his inclusion by Gregor Townsend for the 2022 Autumn […]

5 Oct 2022

Sam Skinner

Scotland honours followed with a debut against Fiji in 2018 before memorable involvements in games such as the 38-38 thriller at Twickenham in 2019, and then away triumphs over England and France in 2021. Sam moved to Edinburgh Rugby ahead of the 2022/23 season and was selected for last year’s Rugby World Cup in France, […]

5 Oct 2022

Grant Gilchrist

That was the start of an international career now over a decade – and nearly 70 caps – old. Such longevity has seen Grant feature at three Rugby World Cups (2015, 2019 and 2023) and now in the winter of his career, the redoubtable second row is on the cusp of becoming a double centurion […]

4 Oct 2022

Zander Fagerson

A product of High School of Dundee and then Strathallan, Fagerson has gone on to amass nearly 150 appearances for Glasgow Warriors in the best part of a decade since his October 2014 bow against Treviso. Zander and younger brother Matt became the 48th such pair to represent Scotland in a Test, against USA in […]

4 Oct 2022

Pierre Schoeman

Named as Edinburgh’s Player of the Year in 2019, Schoeman qualified on residency grounds in 2021 and made his Scotland debut against Tonga later that year, scoring a try into the bargain. ‘Schoooo’ as he is affectionately called by Edinburgh and Scotland fans alike, was an ever-present in both subsequent Guinness Six Nations campaigns and […]

4 Oct 2022

Rory Darge

His incessant work rate and speed both with ball in hand and at the breakdown typify a player who has impressed many onlookers. Darge won 13 caps for Scotland U20 and featured in the FOSROC Super6 for Southern Knights, and has also represented Melrose. He earned a first Scotland cap against Wales in the 2022 […]