Red Bull role 'noise Townsend could do without'

Scotland caput coach Gregor Townsend's caller domiciled pinch Red Bull is an unwelcome distraction heading into a important play for nan nationalist team, according to erstwhile Scotland Sevens skipper Colin Gregor.

Townsend will walk 30 days a twelvemonth moving connected Red Bull's world rugby strategy successful a non-executive position. Newcastle are nan only rugby nine successful their portfolio.

Having spent 8 years pinch Scotland, Townsend precocious signed a caller woody that will return him done nan 2027 Rugby World Cup successful Australia, a move that was met pinch a mixed consequence from Scotland fans.

"It's much sound that I deliberation Gregor and Scottish Rugby could astir apt do without," Gregor told nan BBC's Scotland Rugby Podcast.

"Gregor's almost connected a seesaw - he's successful favour, he's retired of favour.

"It's not for illustration he has 100% of nan Scottish rugby organization backing him. There is still that cognition that he has flattered to deceive erstwhile it comes to nan large games, erstwhile it comes to World Cups, erstwhile it comes to getting to nan business extremity of Six Nations."

Scotland return connected nan United States, New Zealand, Argentina and Tonga astatine Murrayfield successful nan Autumn Nations Series, pinch nan first fixture against nan Americans successful a small complete 3 weeks.

Colin Gregor believes nan timing of nan announcement of Townsend's dual domiciled is problematic.

"I'm intrigued arsenic to really it came about," said nan erstwhile Glasgow Warriors half-back.

"Did Gregor spell to Scottish Rugby and say, 'I've been approached astir this'? Did Red Bull spell to Scottish Rugby, and past from a Scottish Rugby perspective, if they said no, what are they losing really?

"Potentially this wealthiness of knowledge and expertise from precocious performance, but they've conscionable overhauled their full capacity section to bring that into Scottish Rugby. So really travel they request to entree much of that?

"You conscionable deliberation really you're losing immoderate of nan attraction of your caput coach and only a period aliases truthful earlier it's autumn internationals and into Six Nations, nan engaged play for Scotland's caput coach.

"It's nan full mode successful which it's travel about, it's conscionable a struggle to benignant of understand it."