Scots’ prop McIlwham joins Gaffney’s squad

MUNSTER have signed Scottish international prop Gordon McIlwham. The 33-year-old former Glasgow and Begles Bordeaux prop will join Alan Gaffney’s squad at the conclusion of Scotland’s World Cup campaign, until the end of the current season.

Munster had originally agreed terms with former Auckland prop Mike Storey but the New Zealander suffered an injury playing with Northland in a pre-NPC warm-up game that will rule him out for most of the season, thus leaving the Munster management with a vacancy in the front row.

McIlwham who played with Bordeaux last season made his international debut against Fiji in May 1998 and won his 15th cap against Ireland in Murrayfield earlier this month.