These two teams are often presented as rugby’s bridesmaids but the ingredients are in place for an intriguing contest
The schedulers have saved the weekend’s most intriguing contest for Sunday. All too often in recent years
Scotland and Australia have presented as rugby’s equivalent of bridesmaids, but the Wallabies turn up to Murrayfield on a five-match winning streak, including a swaggering double over
South Africa, the world champions. And Scotland will field seven
British &
Irish Lions, which, by the standards of the rest of this century, must feel more than they know what to do with.
Gregor Townsend, a returning Lions coach (alongside another in Steve Tandy), welcomes back his captain, Stuart Hogg, who is joined by other headliners in Finn Russell, Duhan van der Merwe and Chris Harris. Ali Price, Hamish Watson and Zander Fagerson were already in situ for the 60-14 win over Tonga last Saturday. If Rory Sutherland had been fit, there might have been eight.