PETER JACKSON

SINCE the turn of the century, three Gloucester scrum-halves have played for England: Willi Heinz, Peter Richards and Andy Gomarsall. Three more are to be found elsewhere on the starting grid for the Six Nations in contrasting shades of blue.
Ben Vellacott arrives in the Scotland squad at the age of 26. Now at Edinburgh, the newcomer is eligible because his mother comes from north of the border.
Callum Braley, a Bristolian late of Gloucester now resident in Treviso, resumes duty with Italy on the strength of his grandfather’s nationality.
Stephen Lorenzo Varney, the one ...