Darcy Graham

Yeah.

Darcy Graham's l- three-month injury now.

Duan van der Merwe.

Duan van der Merwe.

Because last season, it was just whoever's golf sense.

Well, like we said last season, the plan was Darcy Graham, you score tries, Freddie Douglas, you get turnovers.

But only one of those things could happen because Darcy Graham was out.

But from keeping an eye on the group chats, Freddie Douglas was getting a lot of plaudits.

Oh, yeah.

Ha! The news coming out of Edinburgh, John.

Darcy Graham is out for Edinburgh and Scotland for 12 weeks, which will include the Autumn Internationals, and that's a minimum.

He was injured in the pre-season game against Quinns.

Almost like playing your superstars in pre-season runs the risk of getting them injured, eh? All

did i know

i think there's something there about obviously with this with this new kind of way that we're doing summer and autumn tests as well if the guys are going to take it more seriously in terms of it being a tournament or whatever there does have to be understanding of i think scotland traditionally have been very good at making sure players get breaks but i know certainly there's a few of the glasgow players are being Brought back in very slowly at the start of this season.

I would never have expected to see a first-team player like Darcy Graham, who has had a busy summer, who has had injuries last season.

To see him in a pre-season friendly, for me, is ludicrous and terrible management.

And he said, like, in my team, I've got...

Darcy Graham.

What's his name? The flanker, the young kid, the flanker.

Oh, Freddie Douglas.

Freddie Douglas.

Yeah.

He said, I've got Darcy Graham and Freddie Douglas in my team.

And he said, so I just got to hope that Freddie Douglas gets a load of turnovers and Darcy Graham scores a load of tries.

But now you've got the very, very difficult questions to come.

For 125,000 or 20-- yeah, $25,000, your question is: who is the current top try scorer for the nation of Scotland? Is it A, Huw Jones; B, D'Arcy Graham; C, Duhan van der Merwe; or s- or D, sorry, Chris Patterson?

C-- Well, it's either, uh, D'Arcy Graham or Van der Merwe straight away, I can tell you that.

They've gone back and forth a lot.

And I should probably double dip, but I'm actually pretty sure it is D'Arcy Graham.

So I think Van der Merwe's fallen out of favor a bit more, so I'm gonna lock in D'Arcy Graham.

Are you sure you don't wanna do Duhan van der Merwe?

Yeah.

Some will come into contention for the second pre-season game against Harlequins on September 18, while others will only be available for the URC kickoff, also against Ulster, on September 26.

And Laurie added, "It's right that we look after guys." Asked for specifics about when star men like Duhan van der Merwe and Darcy Graham will return, Laurie added, "You might see some in round one, you might see some in round two.

It will just depend on Shaun's discussions with David Nucifora.

But we know that, and we've got depth there.