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Captain Stuart Hogg, Finn Russell and Ali Value had been amongst six Scotland gamers disciplined for breaching group protocols after their Six Nations victory over Italy final Saturday.
The group had been punished for leaving the group lodge to go to a bar in Edinburgh after getting back from Rome.
Darcy Graham, Sam Johnson and Sione Tuipulotu had been the others concerned.
When Scotland’s administration was made conscious of the group leaving, the gamers had been ordered to return instantly.
Hogg, Graham, Johnson and Value have all been named within the group to start out Scotland’s ultimate Six Nations match towards Eire in Dublin on Saturday.
Russell will begin on the bench having been changed at fly-half by Edinburgh’s Blair Kinghorn.
Russell walked out on the Scotland camp on the eve of the 2020 Six Nations after he was disciplined by head coach Gregor Townsend, who dropped him for the opening match of that marketing campaign in Eire.
Tuipulotu has been launched from the squad and will play a component from the bench for Glasgow Warriors towards Edinburgh in a while Friday.
The SRU stated in an announcement: “The Scotland administration group have this week handled a post-match matter involving six gamers following the sport towards Italy final weekend.
“The gamers concerned have been spoken to individually and people conversations and outcomes will stay non-public.
“Preparations for the match towards Eire this week have been good and the entire squad is totally centered on attaining a optimistic end result on Saturday.”
‘This is not six boys moist behind the ears’ – evaluation
BBC Scotland rugby reporter Andy Burke
There is a feeling of deja vu about all this. Two years in the past, Scotland travelled to Dublin in a state of flux following Russell’s fallout with Townsend and subsequent departure from the squad.
Now the Scotland head coach is left choosing up the items of one other breach of protocols, solely this time on a larger scale.
Townsend will really feel let down by Russell given the work put in on either side to restore their relationship, however the coach will maybe be much more dissatisfied in his captain, Hogg.
The person who is supposed to cleared the path on and off the sector has made a severe error in judgement.
This is not six boys moist behind the ears who’ve change into embroiled on this. They’ve over 250 caps between them. They need to know higher.
