CLIVE WOODWARD will seek to raise the contentious issue of international training days with the home nations in a bid to ensure the Lions head on their journey to New Zealand as the best prepared squad ever to leave these shores.

Clive Woodward will seek to raise the contentious issue of international training days with the home nations in a bid to ensure the British and Irish Lions head on their journey to New Zealand as the best prepared squad ever to leave these shores.

Ian McGeechan is determined to remove the barriers which saw him end his second stint as Scotland coach seething with frustration.

Flanker Andrew Mower was today ruled out of Scotland’s opening World Cup match against Japan on Sunday.