Scotland squad named for Autumn Nations Series matches against Fiji, South Africa, Portugal and Australia at Murrayfield in November
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00:00Hello it's Graeme Bean from the Scotsman at Orium Sports Centre where Gregor
00:05Townsend has just named his Scotland squad for the Autumn Nations series.
00:09Scotland are playing four matches. They open up against Fiji a week on Saturday
00:13and then it's a world champion South Africa followed by Portugal and
00:17Australia. All the matches are at Murrayfield and the big news from Orium
00:22is that Gregor Townsend has named a new captain. Sionni Tupelotu takes over
00:26on his own, no longer co-captains as they were in last season's Six Nations with
00:31Finn Russell and Rory Darge. They've both been named as vice-captains for the
00:35series. But it's Tupelotu on his own and the big news for him and his family is
00:40that his younger brother Mozesi Tupelotu is also in the squad after a
00:44good start to the season with Edinburgh. He's one of five uncapped players. The
00:50others are Freddie Douglas, the 19-year-old Edinburgh flanker who's yet
00:54to play a competitive match for Edinburgh and looks like he will play
00:56for Scotland before playing for Edinburgh competitively, which is a
01:00remarkable achievement. And also we've got Ben Mundcaster, another Edinburgh
01:05back row forward and the Glasgow pair Alex Samuel and Tom Jordan. Jordan
01:10qualifies for Scotland after fulfilling the five-year residency requirement
01:14and he can play either standoff or centre and a real asset for the
01:18squad given his form over the last couple of seasons with Glasgow Warriors.
01:23So that's all from Moriame at the moment. There are a couple of notable
01:25omissions from the Scottish dimension before we go. The Gray brothers, Johnny
01:29Gray and Richie Gray, are not part of things this time around and neither is
01:33the Glasgow hooker Johnny Matthews. Read more about it in The Scotsman.