Pountney to miss Scotland tour
June 2, 2002

Scotland skipper Budge Pountney will miss this summer's tour of North America ater picking up a sternum joint injury while playing for his club in the 32-24 Zurich Premiership play-off defeat by Bristol.

Pountney will now need four weeks to recover from the injury which means he will miss the six-game tour, which includes tests against Canada and USA later this month.

Newcastle Falcons lock Stuart Grimes, who led the side for the first time in the Murrayfield defeat by the Barbarians will now take over the captain's armband.

But Scotland will not draft in an additional player to the tour in the absence of Pountney.


But Pountney remained philosophical about missing out on the trip to North America.

Pountney said: "I'm very sore at the moment. It would have been nice to have gone on the tour but my body just fell apart in the last few weeks and it took a final blow yesterday.

"It is just one of those things. It is a four-week injury but a three-week tour. There was no way I could travel.

"My wife had to put my T-shirt on for me this morning. It is incredibly sore - right on my breastbone."

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