A 20-man squad were in training camp on Saturday and Sunday at Wigan St Judes RLFC under coach Nathan Graham as they build towards Saturday's game against the Wolfhounds at St Marys RFC in the Treaty City in Munster, kick off 2.30pm.

Scotland were without the unavailable Al Stewart and Andy McPhail but they will both join the squad on Friday evening. Kevin Lang and Fraser Stirling both trained at Wigan and will re-join the squad for the friendly with France at Glasgow on Saturday 17 June.

Graham has been forced into making eight changes to the squad that beat Ireland in the last game of last season's tournament in August 2005: the newcomers are the uncapped Army hooker Rob Smart, St Albans centre Dene Miller, Edinburgh forward John Cox and Student duo Ritchy Hawkyard and Dave Birchall, plus previously capped Niall MacDonald and Tom Wild.

SCOTLAND A SQUAD to play Ireland in Limerick on Saturday 3 June:

1 Andy Brown (Fife Lions)
2 Dougie Thompson (Scotland Students)
3 Dene Miller (St Albans Centurions)
4 Andy Todd (Edinburgh Eagles)
5 Mark Webster (Liverpool Buccaneers)
6 Ian Gilmour (Leicester Phoenix)
7 Ritchy Hawkyard (Scotland Students)
8 Ash Carroll (Edinburgh Eagles)
9 Niall MacDonald (Edinburgh Eagles)
10 James Mackay (Carlisle Centurions)
11 Scott MacGillivray (Fife Lions)
12 John Cox (Edinburgh Eagles)
13 John Macdonald (Edinburgh Eagles)
14 Dave Birchall (Scotland Students)
15 Nick Surtees (St Albans Centurions)
16 Mike Benson (Edinburgh Eagles)
17 Al Stewart (Liverpool Bucaneers)
18 Tom Wild (Edinburgh Eagles)
19 Andy McPhail (Glasgow Bulls--Glasgow Hawks)
20 Rob Smart (Army)

This article was originally posted on 1-Jun-2006, 20:04 by Hugh Barrow.
Last updated by Hugh Barrow on 1-Jun-2006, 20:45.