Ex-Wallaby picked for Scotland after Rennie snub

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Former Wallabies escaped guardant Jack Dempsey is acceptable to tackle his erstwhile teammates aft being named connected the Scotland seat for Sunday's (3.30am AEDT) Test successful Edinburgh.

Sydney merchandise Dempsey played 14 Tests for the Wallabies betwixt 2017-19 and featured nether Michael Cheika astatine the past Rugby World Cup.

But the past Waratahs prima did not diagnostic for Australia nether Dave Rennie and took up an accidental with Glasgow Warriors - Rennie's erstwhile nine - successful 2021.

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"We've watched him intimately portion he's been distant and he's surely ever been a truly bully athlete, large with shot successful hand," Rennie said.

"We ever felt helium lacked a small spot of physicality and we gave him that feedback and I cognize he's worked hard connected that and we've seen it prosper and blossom astatine Glasgow.

"He's a truly bully subordinate and I cognize he'll beryllium keen arsenic to get among our boys, helium knows a batch of them truly well."

Dempsey's gramps was Scottish and he precocious made himself disposable pursuing changes successful World Rugby's planetary eligibility rules.

"There's a batch of accusation to instrumentality connected committee erstwhile you're caller to a team, but he's adapted well," Scotland manager Gregor Townsend said.

"He's played precise good for Glasgow and we privation to spot his strengths erstwhile helium comes on.

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"We person tons of players that travel from antithetic backgrounds and Jack is portion of that inclusive, divers radical we person and we can't hold to spot however helium does for us."

Scotland bushed the Wallabies 15-13 astatine Murrayfield past year, which snapped Australia's 5 crippled winning streak and triggered a melodramatic descent down the satellite rankings.

But the Scots are not astatine afloat spot fixed the Test falls extracurricular the authoritative planetary model and the likes of Stuart Hogg, Adam Hastings, Chris Harris and Josh Bayliss are unavailable.

Lock Scott Cummings (broken toe) is besides sidelined portion classy Racing 92 five-eighth Finn Russell was not picked successful a highly arguable move.

Townsend was successful Melbourne to ticker Australia's heartbreaking 39-37 nonaccomplishment to the All Blacks past month.

"Although they've not won arsenic galore games arsenic they'd person liked, they've shown their prime capable times implicit the summertime to beryllium affirmative astir their bluish hemisphere tour," Townsend said.

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"(Last year) it was a precise choky game, they played good and had travel disconnected the backmost of beating South Africa conscionable earlier they played us.

"They besides bushed South Africa this summer, truthful they're a prime team.

"We cognize Dave Rennie truly good and he's ever had an attacking philosophy. It volition beryllium a large trial for us."

SCOTLAND (15-1): Ollie Smith, Darcy Graham, Mark Bennett, Sione Tuipulotu, Duhan van der Merwe, Blair Kinghorn, Ali Price, Pierre Schoeman, Dave Cherry, Zander Fagerson, Sam Skinner, Grant Gilchrist, Jamie Ritchie (c), Hamish Watson, Matt Fagerson

Reserves: George Turner, Jamie Bhatti, WP Nel, Glen Young, Jack Dempsey, George Horne, Ross Thompson, Damien Hoyland

WALLABIES (15-1): Tom Banks, Andrew Kellaway, Len Ikitau, Hunter Paisami, Tom Wright, Bernard Foley, Tate McDermott, Rob Valetini, Michael Hooper, Jed Holloway, Cadeyrn Neville, Nick Frost, Allan Alaalatoa, David Porecki, James Slipper (c)

Reserves: Folau Fainga'a, Matt Gibbon, Taniela Tupou, Ned Hanigan, Pete Samu, Nic White, Noah Lolesio, Jock Campbell

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