Borderers Kerr Johnston and Harri Morris added to Scottish national rugby team’s training camp squad
Borderers Kerr Johnston and Harri Morris are among four up-and-coming players added to the Scottish national rugby team’s training camp squad ahead of their three Nations Championship fixtures next month.
Glasgow Warriors winger Johnston and Edinburgh hooker Morris, formerly at Gala and Melrose respectively, have been called up to train in Spain with head coach Gregor Townsend’s squad of 36 this week, along with the former’s Scotstoun Stadium teammates Fergus Watson and Kerr Yule.
Johnston, 21, is uncapped, as are fellow winger Watson and centre Yule, both 20, but Morris, 24, has one international appearance to his name, as a 63rd-minute replacement for West Linton’s Patrick Harrison, a teammate of his at Edinburgh, during Scotland’s 85-0 win at home to the USA at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium in November.
Johnston and Watson have made two senior appearances for Warriors and Yule is on four, and 50 miles east, Morris has played six games for their United Rugby Championship rivals.
Ex-Gala back Townsend’s squad, including Hawick’s Darcy Graham and Rory Sutherland, are due to play a training match against the Spanish national team this Thursday while based in Madrid for their camp.
They go on to play Argentina away in Cordoba on Saturday, July 4, and South Africa on the road in Pretoria seven days later, followed by a home game versus Fiji at Murrayfield on Saturday, July 18, in the championship.
Edinburgh winger Graham, 29, and Warriors loosehead prop Sutherland, 33, respectively on 55 caps and 48 at the moment, are the only representatives of the region in the Scots’ playing squad.