I wonder how close Tyrone Green is for a call up to SA. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Green in the squad to face Scotland as bench option.

I'm sure I read somewhere around the time of his signing that he also qualifies to play for England?

I think you're overly optimistic/pessimistic as to the number of players we'll be missing, assuming no new injuries:

1. Baxter
2. Walker
3. Kerrod
4. Lewies
5. Symons
6. J. Chisholm
7. Wallace (When is Evans back?)
8. Lawday
9. Care
10. Allan
11. Murley
12. Andre/Jones (we'd be very unlucky to lose both!)
13. Northmore
14. Greene
15. David

16. Gray 17. Garcia-Botta/Els 18. Collier 19. Tizard 20. White 21. Gjaltema 22. Edwards 23. Morris/Chisholm

I agree that we don’t need to be that pessimistic. When I wrote ‘worst case’ that’s exactly what I meant …

I don’t actually think it will be worst case scenario.

I do think Kenningham and Lynagh have a decent chance of being capped against Tonga. I’ll be more annoyed if they’re not and we find ourselves in a similar situation to Wasps with Odogwu last year i.e. they’re unavailable to us, but not actually playing for England either.

Scott Steele is not included in Scottish squad.

Pretty sure this Scotland squad contains no players from the Premiership or Top 14 as the Scotland vs Tonga game is outside the test window. Saying that, Scotland have some really promising young scrum halves so wouldn’t be surprised if Steele isn’t included in the autumn squad.

Scott Steele is not included in Scottish squad.

Only players playing in the URC in training squad. All based in Scotland except for one player who plays for a South African side.