SET COND COMING
THE LAST time we saw Huw Jones in a Scotland shirt was in Covid times, when stadiums were empty and atmospheres were non-existent. It was in Paris in 2021, a famous away victory marked by a lot of shouting on the pitch and the sound of one man clapping in the vast acreage of the Stade de France.
Jones came on as a substitute that night. Since then, not a look-in. There’s been nine Scotland Test matches, eight different Scotland centres and eight Scottish centre combinations. There’s been Chris Harris and Sam Johnson, Mark Bennett and Sione Tuipolutu. Matt Scott played against South Africa. Cam Redpath played against Wales. Adam Hastings filled in at 12 for a spell against Australia and Finn Russell did the same against Ireland. Jones has been a forgotten man throughout all of this. Exiled at Harlequins (but soon to be rejoining Glasgow), he has been so far out of the loop that he must have wondered if
