Finn Russell: Scotland fly-half due to be omitted from Autumn Nation Series

Finn Russell is expected to beryllium omitted from Scotland's archetypal squad for the upcoming Autumn Nations Series.

However, it's understood Scotland manager Gregor Townsend plans to spell into the consequent matches against Fiji, New Zealand and Argentina without Russell.

The squad is owed to beryllium announced connected Wednesday afternoon

Russell has been the Scots' first-choice fly-half since 2014. However, his narration with Townsend has astatine times been strained, nary much truthful than successful 2020 erstwhile Russell, who has 56 caps, walked retired connected the squad anterior to the Six Nations and publically criticised the coach's methods.

The brace reconciled and Russell returned to the fold, but was dropped by Townsend from the starting line-up for past season's Six Nations finale against Ireland days aft being 1 of six players to embark connected an unauthorised nighttime retired astatine an Edinburgh bar.

Russell was subsequently rested on with respective different starring players for Scotland's summertime circuit of Argentina.