Asked how Van der Merwe was progressing, defence coach Tandy said on Monday: “Duhan’s been in training today, he’s been good, he’s done everything today.” Back-rower Luke Crosbie and ...

Steve Tandy indicated that Scotland’s record try-scorer Duhan van der Merwe will be fit and available for selection for Saturday’s Guinness Six Nations opener at home to Italy. The South Africa-born ...

Stafford McDowall, Duhan van der Merwe, Jonny Gray, Dave Cherry all start for Scotland in Six Nations; Scotland begin their campaign at home against Italy on Saturday February 1 (2.15pm kick-off); Gre ...

After a half in which Scotland had been comfortably second best – the hosts trailed Ireland 17-0 with half-time approaching – they pulled a rabbit out the hat thanks to Duhan van der Merwe, the ...

Townsend remains optimistic that Van der Merwe will be fit ... into the squad and he’ll be training today [Tuesday],” confirmed Townsend. “It’s to cover Duhan this week who has a couple ...

Scotland’s record try scorer Duhan van der Merwe is back in full training in a boost ahead of the country’s opening Six Nations Championship clash against Italy at Murrayfield on Saturday. Van der ...

Duhan van der Merwe is set to play a major part for Scotland ... so we brought him into the senior academy and he’s been training as a full professional with us for the last seven months.

After a half in which Scotland had been comfortably second-best – the hosts trailed Ireland 17-0 with half-time approaching – they pulled a rabbit out of the hat thanks to Duhan van der Merwe ...

EDINBURGH, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Scotland’s record try scorer Duhan van der Merwe is back in full training in a boost ahead of the country’s opening Six Nations Championship clash against Italy ...

Scotland wing Van der Merwe has a number of records in his ... we still thought we would be okay but then with Duhan not training today, maybe not training tomorrow (Wednesday) we’d fail to ...