Discover out who Gregor Townsend has named within the Scotland squad for the Autumn Nation Sequence
Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has named a 45-man squad for the upcoming Autumn Nations Sequence and has picked a brand new captain for the Assessments.
Sione Tuipolotu has been named skipper with Finn Russell made a vice-captain alongside Rory Darge. Russell and Darge had been co-captains for the 2024 Six Nations.
Townsend stated of the slight change in management: “Sione has been one in every of our key leaders during the last couple of years and thrives in that management position. We’ve seen that in his outings as Glasgow captain and when he had the chance to steer the crew towards Chile a number of months in the past.
“He typically units the emotional tone and mindset required for the crew and he additionally contributes considerably to each our assault and defence. Final season we regarded to deepen our management group and we now have a variety of individuals who might step up as captain. Sione is conscious that he may have leaders round him to supply assist and share the management tasks wanted all through the week and in the course of the sport.”
Learn extra: All of the upcoming Scotland fixtures
Elsewhere within the squad, 5 uncapped gamers have been named. Alex Samuel, Tom Jordan, Ben Muncaster, Freddy Douglas and Mosese Tuipulotu have all been known as up.
Scotland Autumn Nations Sequence squad 2024
Forwards
Ewan Ashman (Edinburgh Rugby/19)
Josh Bayliss (Tub Rugby/7)
Jamie Bhatti (Glasgow Warriors/34)
Gregor Brown (Glasgow Warriors/3)
Scott Cummings (Glasgow Warriors/39)
Luke Crosbie (Edinburgh Rugby/11)
Alex Craig (Scarlets/4)
Rory Darge (Glasgow Warriors/22)
Jack Dempsey (Glasgow Warriors/20)
Freddy Douglas (Edinburgh Rugby/uncapped)
Matt Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors/47)
Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors /67)
Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh Rugby/72)
Patrick Harrison (Edinburgh Rugby/2)
Will Hurd (Leicester Tigers/2)
Ewan Johnson (Oyonnax/3)
Nathan McBeth (Glasgow Warriors/2)
Elliot Millar Mills (Northampton Saints/5)
Ben Muncaster (Edinburgh Rugby/uncapped)
D’Arcy Rae (Edinburgh Rugby/1)
Dylan Richardson (The Sharks/3)
Jamie Ritchie (Edinburgh Rugby/51)
Alex Samuel (Glasgow Warriors/uncapped)
Pierre Schoeman (Edinburgh Rugby /34)
Rory Sutherland (Glasgow Warriors/32)
Max Williamson (Glasgow Warriors/4)
Backs
Matt Currie (Edinburgh Rugby/3)
Jamie Dobie (Glasgow Warriors/6)
Darcy Graham (Edinburgh Rugby/39)
Adam Hastings (Glasgow Warriors/30)
George Horne (Glasgow Warriors/32)
Rory Hutchinson (Northampton Saints/7)
Huw Jones (Glasgow Warriors/50)
Tom Jordan (Glasgow Warriors/uncapped)
Blair Kinghorn (Toulouse/53)
Stafford McDowall (Glasgow Warriors/5)
Harry Paterson (Edinburgh Rugby/3)
Ali Worth (Edinburgh Rugby/67)
Arron Reed (Sale Sharks/2)
Kyle Rowe (Glasgow Warriors/7)
Finn Russell (Tub Rugby/80)
Mosese Tuipulotu (Edinburgh Rugby/uncapped)
Sione Tuipulotu (Glasgow Warriors/27)
Duhan van der Merwe (Edinburgh Rugby/41)
Ben White (Toulon/22)
Scotland Autumn Nations Sequence fixtures 2024
Saturday 2 November 2024
- Scotland v Fiji
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Kick-off: 5.40pm GMT / 7.40pm SAST / 3.40am AEST (Sunday) / 6.40am NZDT (Sunday) / 1.40pm ET / 10.40am PT
Sunday 10 November 2024
- Scotland v South Africa
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Kick-off: 4.10pm GMT / 6.10pm SAST / 2.10am AEST (Monday) / 5.10am NZDT (Monday) / 12.10pm ET / 9.10am PT
Saturday 16 November
- Scotland v Portugal
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Kick-off: 3.10pm GMT / 5.10pm SAST / 1.10am AEST (Monday) / 4.10am NZDT (Monday) / 11.10pm ET / 8.10am PT
Saturday 24 November
- Scotland v Australia
Murrayfield, Edingburgh
Kick-off: 1.40pm GMT / 3.40pm SAST / 11.40pm AEST / 2.40am NZDT (Sunday) / 9.40am ET / 6.40am PT