{"id":434317,"date":"2026-02-19T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434317\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:44:08","slug":"six-nations-scotland-head-coach-gregor-townsend-set-to-name-team-to-face-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434317\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations: Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend set to name team to face Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland&#8217;s depth is decent and they need to kick on nowpublished at 12:46 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:46 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/d976c74e-425b-4e67-8cf3-cc1c4ca90b57.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Tom English<br \/>BBC Scotland chief sports writer<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That&#8217;s a really good Scotland team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I thought Grant Gilchrist was going to come back in but if you&#8217;re putting Gregor Brown to six then Max Williamson is the coming man in the second row. Huge man, huge talent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Consider the guys who are not in this 23 for one reason or another &#8211; Jamie Dobie, Kyle Rowe, Ollie Smith, Stafford McDowall,  Rory Hutchinson, Cam Redpath, Arron Reed, Adam Hastings, Fergus Burke, Rory Sutherland, Ewan Ashman, Gregor Hiddleston, D&#8217;Arcy Rae, Alex Samuel, Alex Craig, Jonny Gray, Cam Henderson, Andy Onyeama-Christie, Freddy Douglas, Jamie Ritchie, Liam McConnell, Jack Dempsey, Magnus Bradbury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Might have missed one or two. Healthy amount of depth in most areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s depth is decent and they need to kick on nowpublished at 12:46 GMT 12:46 GMT Tom EnglishBBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-434317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434317","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=434317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}