McConnochie aims to fulfil boyhood dream

By BEN JAYCOCK

Bath wing Ruaridh McConnochie is eager to fulfil his boyhood dream of playing for Scotland after being called up to Gregor Townsend’s Six Nations squad.
The London-born flyer, 31, featured for England at the 2019 World Cup but can now represent the country of his parents’ birth because three years have passed since his last England cap.
“People disagree about the ruling but I think why not?” said McConnochie, whose mother grew up in Edinburgh and whose Glaswegian father moved to London in the 1980s.
“Your career is short – why shouldn’t you go for the most you can? It’s bee...

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