{"id":229616,"date":"2025-10-21T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229616\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:36:08","slug":"uncapped-trio-named-in-scotland-squad-as-bradbury-ends-long-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229616\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncapped trio named in Scotland squad, as Bradbury ends long exile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Edinburgh<\/a> captain Magnus Bradbury<\/a> is set to win his first cap since the summer of 2022 after being recalled to the Scotland<\/a> squad for the November internationals.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old won the last of his 19 caps against Argentina<\/a> but has been back in the selection conversation since returning to the Scottish capital after a spell at Bristol<\/a> in the Gallagher PREM.<\/p>\n

Bradbury is part of a back-row contingent including the uncapped Alexander Masibaka<\/a> and Liam McConnell<\/a>, as well as Jamie Ritchie<\/a>, Matt Fagerson<\/a>, Rory Darge<\/a>, Jack Dempsey<\/a>, Andy Onyeama-Christie, Josh Bayliss<\/a> and Gregor Brown.<\/p>\n

Edinburgh hooker Harri Morris<\/a> is third member of the uncapped trio in the squad and played for Emerging Scotland last year against Itaky, along with flanker McConnell.<\/p>\n

Masibaka toured with Scotland in the summer and will also be aiming for his first cap this autumn.<\/p>\n

Fresh from his Lions<\/a> exploits, Sione Tuipulotu<\/a> returns to the Scotland squad and will lead them as captain.<\/p>\n

Ahead of fixtures on consecutive weekends against USA, New Zealand, Argentina and Tonga, 45 players have been initially selected, comprising 27 forwards and 18 backs.<\/p>\n

In the second row, fresh from the British & Irish Lions tour in the summer, Scott Cummings<\/a> is joined by Glasgow<\/a> Warriors teammates Max Williamson<\/a> and Alex Samuel<\/a>, alongside evergreen Edinburgh Rugby stalwart Grant Gilchrist<\/a> and clubmate Marshall Sykes.<\/p>\n

There are four hookers named, with George Turner<\/a> joined by Edinburgh Rugby trio Ewan Ashman<\/a>, Partick Harrison and Harri Morris. Ashman is one of 11 British & Irish Lions included. Dylan Richardson<\/a> has impressed at flanker recently for Edinburgh and he also selected.<\/p>\n

The forward selection is completed by the seven-strong group of Pierre Schoeman<\/a>, Rory Sutherland<\/a>, D\u2019Arcy Rae, Nathan McBeth<\/a>, Murphy Walker<\/a> and Elliot Millar Mills, with Zander Fagerson<\/a> making a welcome return to the international squad after injury curtailed his British & Irish Lions journey in the summer.<\/p>\n

The backs have a familiar look, with recordf try scorer Duhan van der Merwe<\/a> \u2013 on the cusp of 50 Scotland caps \u2013 named alongside Darcy Graham<\/a>, Kyle Steyn<\/a>, Arron Reed<\/a>, Blair Kinghorn<\/a> and Kyle Rowe.<\/p>\n

Tuipulotu, Rory Hutchinson<\/a>, Ollie Smith<\/a>, Tom Jordan<\/a> and Stafford McDowall<\/a> are options in the centres, with Finn Russell<\/a>, Adam Hastings<\/a> and Fergus Burke<\/a> included as the three stand-offs.<\/p>\n

Finally, Ben White<\/a>, George Horne<\/a> and Jamie Dobie<\/a> once more make up the scrum-half selection.<\/p>\n

Scotland squad for the 2025 Quilter Nations Series (caps in brackets):<\/p>\n

Backs (18)
Fergus Burke \u2013 Saracens (2)
Jamie Dobie \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (14)
Darcy Graham \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (47)
Adam Hastings \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (34)
Rory Hutchinson \u2013 Northampton<\/a> Saints (9)
George Horne \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (38)
Tom Jordan \u2013 Bristol Bears (9)
Blair Kinghorn \u2013 Toulouse (60)
Stafford McDowall \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (14)
Kyle Rowe \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (14)
Arron Reed \u2013 Sale<\/a> Sharks (4)
Finn Russell \u2013 Bath<\/a> Rugby (87)
Ollie Smith \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (11)
Kyle Steyn \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (25)
Ross Thompson \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (5)
Sione Tuipulotu \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (30) \u2013 Captain
Duhan van der Merwe \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (49)
Ben White \u2013 Toulon (29)<\/p>\n

Forwards (27)
Ewan Ashman \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (29)
Josh Bayliss \u2013 Bath Rugby (11)
Magnus Bradbury \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (19)
Gregor Brown \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (10)
Scott Cummings \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (42)
Rory Darge \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (32)
Jack Dempsey \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (26)
Matt Fagerson \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (57)
Zander Fagerson \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (75)
Grant Gilchrist \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (82)
Patrick Harrison \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (3)
Nathan McBeth \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (3)
Alexander Masibaka \u2013 Montpellier (uncapped)
Liam McConnell \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (uncapped)
Elliot Millar Mills \u2013 Northampton Saints (9)
Harri Morris \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (uncapped)
Andy Onyeama-Christie \u2013 Saracens (9)
D\u2019Arcy Rae \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (2)
Dylan Richardson \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (6)
Jamie Ritchie \u2013 Perpignan (60)
Alex Samuel \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (1)
Pierre Schoeman \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (42)
Rory Sutherland \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (43)
Marshall Sykes \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby (4)
George Turner \u2013 Harlequins (47)
Murphy Walker \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (5)
Max Williamson \u2013 Glasgow Warriors (7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edinburgh captain Magnus Bradbury is set to win his first cap since the summer of 2022 after being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-229616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}