2 Players Who Will Not Feature for Scotland in 2017 Six Nations

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Published: April 6, 2016

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Scotland finished fourth in the 2016 Six Nations, continuing their gradual improvement under Kiwi coach Vern Cotter. Given the building process Cotter is overseeing, there will not be many personnel changes over the next year, but in this article, Bleacher Report analyses two players who will probably not feature in 2017.

One is a seasoned campaigner too old to retain his place. The other is a forward often a leading player for Scotland, but whose lack of recent form and competition for places at club level threaten to cost him his place at the forefront of Vern Cotter’s plans.

 

Sean Lamont

Sean Lamont, 35, and a veteran of 104 caps for Scotland has probably played his last Six Nations game. The winger, who can also play at centre, has scored six tries in 45 Six Nations matches, but with Scotland on the up, we should not expect there to be a place for Lamont in Cotter’s 2017 Scotland squad unless there is a serious injury crisis in the back line.

Lamont has had an inconsistent career. He broke onto the international scene in the mid-2000s and had a big impact in the previous Scotland win against France, scoring two tries in a 20-16 triumph in 2006.



Lamont’s powerful running was one of Scotland’s key weapons then, but it is a measure of his struggles to regularly impact matches Lamont was never called up for with the British and Irish Lions. A late developer, in 2005 he was only six months into his international career, in 2009 he was out of form and by 2013 Sean Maitland and Stuart Hogg were ahead of him in Scotland and the Lions’ thinking.

It is very hard to evaluate Lamont’s career with Scotland. He is in the test centurions' elite club, and is a reliable, whole-hearted figure. In fact, only Chris Paterson has more caps for Scotland (109).

Overall, though, there is a strong sense of disappointment. One of Scotland&r...
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