SCOTLAND have released five fringe players from the 39-strong summer tour squad which flew out to South America last week.
Winger Damien Hoyland, who scored a hat-trick in the team’s non-cap tour opener against Chile, is heading back to Scotland, along with Edinburgh team-mates Ben Muncaster (back-row), Matt Currie (centre) and Jamie Hodgson (second-row), as well as Glasgow Warriors hooker Johnny Matthews.
These players have been released as focus turns to the bread and butter of this expedition, which is the three-match Test series against Argentina. kicking off in JuJuy on Saturday evening.
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