TWO more recruits from what used to be the British Empire take up residence this week in Scotland’s training squad. Anton Bressler arrives via Windhoek and Durban; Phil Burleigh from further afield in Christchurch.
The Edinburgh pair are the latest ‘project players’ to graduate to the national squad, products of an assembly line still rolling after the best part of 30 years. Sean Lineen’s pioneering conversion from New Zealand to Scotland in 1989 set a trend which has changed the shape, and sound, of Test rugby in these islands.
Everyone else piled in. When Wales und...