Scotland coach Frank Hadden has made one change to the team who will face Wales in the RBS 6 Nations Championship at the Millennium Stadium on Sunday.

Scotland head coach Frank Hadden has handed Mike Blair the scrum-half berth ahead of Chris Cusiter for the opening RBS 6 Nations Championship game with France on Sunday.

Scotland coach Frank Hadden has named two uncapped players in a 32-strong squad for training at Murrayfield next week as the Scots intensify their preparations for the forthcoming RBS 6 Nations Championship.

INTERNATIONAL trio Malcolm O’Kelly, Shane Horgan and Denis Hickie will be sprung from the bench if things go wrong for Leinster against Glasgow in the Celtic Cup quarter-final at Lansdowne Road tonight (7.30).

ENGLAND boss Andy Robinson has warned his players they will face a Scotland side fuelled by a raw “hatred” of their oldest foes in this evening’s Calcutta Cup clash at Twickenham.

Simon Taylor has been named in the Scotland team to face Italy in the RBS 6 Nations Championship at Murrayfield on Saturday.

Scotland coach Matt Williams has kept faith with the same 15 which narrowly lost in France for the RBS 6 Nations Championship clash with Ireland at Murrayfield on Saturday.

Scotland international Allister Hogg is facing an anxious wait on his fitness ahead of the RBS 6 Nations opener against France on February 5.

Scotland coach Matt Williams has reduced his squad ahead of Saturday’s Autumn Test against Australia to 23 players.

Hugo Southwell completed a remarkable rise to prominence today when he was named as Scotland’s starting full-back to take on Australia, the World Cup finalists, in Melbourne on Sunday.

Head coach Matt Williams today admitted Scotland face a “massive task” in Sunday’s first Test against Australia in Melbourne but backed his players to rise to the challenge.

Instead of preparing for Friday’s Test match against Samoa and a sixth Scotland cap, Tom Philip was today left to contemplate knee reconstruction surgery and nine months of intense rehabilitation after a seemingly innocuous accident on the beach left him with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.

Glasgow winger Sean Lamont will make his Scotland Test debut against Samoa in Wellington on Friday.

SCOTLAND coach Matt Williams admits the loss of Tom Smith and Cameron Mather is a huge blow ahead of their trip to Rome to play Italy tomorrow.

Scotland head coach Matt Williams has added three players to his squad for the RBS Six Nations Championship game against Italy on Saturday, March 6.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan has taken a massive World Cup gamble by naming Chris Paterson at stand-off for Saturday’s make-or-break qualification decider with Fiji.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan identified the United States’ physical strength as his team’s biggest obstacle when the two sides meet in their World Cup Pool B match in Brisbane on Monday evening.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan has brought prop Tom Smith back into his starting line-up after injury but left veteran fly-half Gregor Townsend on the bench for the World Cup opener against Japan on Sunday.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan has omitted Brendan Laney from his World Cup squad to play in Australia next month.

Scottish fly-half Gregor Townsend has a simple recipe to stop South Africa in their first Test tomorrow at King’s Park – halt Joost van der Westhuizen and the rest will follow.

SCOTLAND coach Ian McGeechan has made five changes to the side for tomorrow’s Test match against South Africa in Durban.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan has reshuffled his back line for tomorrow’s encounter with the Barbarians at Murrayfield.

Worcester centre Ben Hinshelwood returns to the Scotland international fold for the first time since November.

Scotland fly-half Brendan Laney has been ruled out of the squad to play Wales in the RBS 6 Nations Championship at Murrayfield on March 8.

BARRY EVERITT gets an unexpected chance to impress the Irish senior selectors when he lines out for Ireland A against Scotland in Stirling this evening (7.30).

Scotland A squad to play Ireland A at Bridgehaugh, Stirling, on Saturday February 15 (kick-off 7.30pm):

MUNSTER’S three new signings will all play their club rugby in Limerick this year with Eddie Halvey returning to play his club rugby with Shannon, Dominic Malone teaming up with UL Bohemians and Australian prop Simon Kerr joining Garryowen.

Newcastle lock Stuart Grimes has been axed from the Scotland side to face Lloyds TSB Six Nations favourites France at Murrayfield.

Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan is confident his side can get their Lloyds TSB Six Nations campaign back on track against Scotland at Lansdowne Road tomorrow.

Kenny Logan has been recalled to Scotland's 24-man squad for the Six Nations Championship game against Italy.

Teams for Scotland versus England, Lloyds TSB Six Nations Championship, Murrayfield, tomorrow, 4pm.

Scotland squad to face England at Murrayfield in the Lloyds TSB Six Nations opener on February 2:

Nathan Spooner has been forced to withdraw from the Leinster team for tonight's game against Glasgow, his shoulder injury preventing him from making his debut.

Scotland international Gregor Townsend will play in any position for a Six Nations appearance.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan has lived up to his loyalty label by avoiding a selection panic in the wake of his team’s record 43-3 defeat by England.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan has kept faith with the side that suffered a record 43-3 defeat by England on Saturday at Twickenham.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan has made two changes to his team to face England at Twickenham on Saturday - ditching Kenny Logan as his goalkicker.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan has made one change to his line-up for Saturday’s Six Nations clash with Wales at Murrayfield.

Giant Scotland lock Richard Metcalfe has shrugged off the injury to one of the smallest parts of his body and admitted he was champing at the bit to face Wales.