There is no place for Rory Hutchinson and Centers Huw Jones, although stuart McInally will captain Scotland in the Rugby World Cup.
McInally was chosen before John Barclay and captains Greig Laidlaw to lead the group out because of their opener with Ireland at Yokohama on September 22.
Nevertheless, the decision to leave both Glasgow middle Jones along with his rival kind Northampton Hutchinson out of their 31-man squad of head coach Gregor Townsend is surrounded by the news.
Jones burst onto the Test scene with nine attempts in his 14 looks for the Blues but in the 18 months because he scored a stunning double over England in the 2018 Calcutta Cup win, his form for club and country has fallen considerably.
His deficiencies in defence also have counted him out of contention, even though a deficiency of expertise seems to have led to the choice to leave Hutchinson behind despite the 23-year-old creating a late bid for choice with a brace on his very first Scotland beginning during Saturday’s win in Georgia.
With Sam Johnson and fit-again Saracens centre Duncan Taylor Townsend has opted to take Peter Horne – that can even fill in at 10 – and Chris Harris as pay.
Adam Hastings has been given the nod to star guy Finn Russell at stand-off despite his ropy showing against France .
But prop Jamie Bhatti gets paid the price because of his failure to impress during the mauling inflicted upon his side at the Allianz Riviera, with Townsend choosing to take Gordon Reid and looseheads Allan Dell plus Willem Nel and Zander Fagerson’s tighthead pair.
Simon Berghan also receives a seat on the airplane according to his capacity.
Forwards Josh Strauss, Matt Fagerson and Magnus Bradbury also miss out No 8 Blade Thomson selected on the basis he could also slot into the row if needed.
Lock Bradbury hasn’t featured in any respect throughout the Scots’ three warm-up clashes so far because of rib injury as well as also his lack of activity has cost him his position, even though fellow second-rower Jonny Gray and hooker Fraser Brown have made the cut despite being also sat out the double header together with France and final weekend Tbilisi triumph through injury.
New skipper McInally, speaking as he and the remainder of the group were introduced in Linlithgow Palace, stated:”it is a really proud moment. I ended up missing the World Cup through injury so this makes it all the sweeter.
“The focus is firmly on Georgia this Friday and placing in a good performance until we head away.
“I am very fortunate that there’s numerous players either side of me who have captained the group before so I won’t be short in that respect.
“We are just going to take every sport that comes and try and acquire all of them. If we could get out of the group, it is knock-out rugby then.”
Forwards: John Barclay (Edinburgh), Simon Berghan (Edinburgh), Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors), Scott Cummings (Glasgow Warriors), Allan Dell (London Irish), Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors), Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh), Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors), Stuart McInally (capt) (Edinburgh), WP Nel (Edinburgh), Gordon Reid (Ayrshire Bulls), Jamie Ritchie (Edinburgh), Blade Thomson (Scarlets), Ben Toolis (Edinburgh), George Turner (Glasgow Warriors), Hamish Watson (Edinburgh), Ryan Wilson (Glasgow Warriors).
Backs: Darcy Graham (Edinburgh), Chris Harris (Gloucester), Adam Hastings (Glasgow Warriors), Stuart Hogg (Exeter Chiefs), George Horne (Glasgow Warriors), Peter Horne (Glasgow Warriors), Sam Johnson (Glasgow Warriors), Blair Kinghorn (Edinburgh), Greig Laidlaw (Clermont Auvergne), Sean Maitland (Saracens), Ali Price (Glasgow Warriors), Finn Russell (Racing 92), Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), Duncan Taylor (Saracens).
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