{"id":380623,"date":"2026-01-20T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:51:09","slug":"gregor-townsend-recalls-experienced-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380623\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregor Townsend recalls experienced duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREGOR TOWNSEND has called upon two proven warhorses from previous campaigns to bolster his Scotland pack, with 35-year-old hooker Dave Cherry (Vannes) and 31-year-old Jonny Gray (Union Bordeaux B\u00e8gles) being named in the 40-man training squad which will begin preparation for the 2026 Six Nations next week.<\/p>\n<p>Notable absentees from the initial Autumn training squad include Saracens back-row Andy Onyeama-Christie,,\u00a0Glasgow Warriors second-row Alex Samuel and Sale Sharks winger Arron Reed.<\/p>\n<p>Glasgow hooker Gregor Hiddleston, Bath centre Cam Redpath, Leicester Tigers second-row Cam Henderson and teenage tight-head prop Ollie Blyth-Lafferty were also in the selection mix but didn\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>All those players apart from Samuel have been named in the Scotland \u2018A\u2019 squad to play an Italy XV the night before the senior team\u2019s opener (6.30pm on 6th February).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREGOR TOWNSEND has called upon two proven warhorses from previous campaigns to bolster his Scotland pack, with 35-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[54026,5903,200,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-380623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-divi","tag-rugby","tag-scotland","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380623","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=380623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}