{"id":244482,"date":"2025-11-05T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244482\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:21:10","slug":"liam-mcconnell-denied-all-blacks-opportunity-as-scotland-make-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244482\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam McConnell denied All Blacks opportunity as Scotland make changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Liam McConnell has returned to club duty with Edinburgh, along with team-mates, hooker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/harri-morris\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harri Morris<\/a> and utility back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/ross-thompson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ross Thompson<\/a>, despite making a stunning debut in the 85-0 rout of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/usa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA<\/a> last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>With Scotland\u2019s foreign-based players now available to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/gregor-townsend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gregor Townsend<\/a> for the visit of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a>, Scotland\u2019s head coach decided to release the capital city club trio, as well as making an injury-enforced addition to his front-row stocks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/glasgow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glasgow<\/a> tight-head Fin Richardson, who became the 80th player to be capped in the Townsend era, after making his debut in the summer, has been brought in to the squad because both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/leicester\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leicester<\/a> prop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/will-hurd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Hurd<\/a> is unavailable due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back-rower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/alex-masibaka\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Masibaka<\/a> will have to wait for his first cap after picking up an elbow injury while playing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/montpellier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montpellier<\/a> last weekend. He has been ruled out of the entire Quilter Nations Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam McConnell has returned to club duty with Edinburgh, along with team-mates, hooker Harri Morris and utility back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-244482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}