Two Bath Rugby players are in Scotland’s squad for the 2026 Guinness Six Nations, two more are in Wales’ squad for the prestigious competition, and another member of the Blue, Black & White crew has been named in the Scotland A training squad ahead of a match with an Italy XV.
Bath Rugby’s Louie Hennessey, here with head coach Johann van Graan at a club press conference, has been named in Wales’ squad for the 2026 Guinness Six Nations | Image © Bath Rugby
The 89-cap fly-half Finn Russell and 14-cap back row Josh Bayliss are in Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend’s 40-man squad for the Six Nations, which will take place in February and March. This will be Russell’s 12th Six Nations campaign.
Bath centre Louie Hennessey is a member of the Wales squad picked by head coach Steve Tandy. Hennessey, who has yet to be capped by his country, is joined in the principality’s group by clubmate Archie Griffin, who has 11 Wales caps to his name.
Scotland’s Six Nations squad:
Forwards: Ewan Ashman (Edinburgh Rugby), Josh Bayliss (Bath), Magnus Bradbury (Edinburgh Rugby), Gregor Brown (Glasgow Warriors), Dave Cherry (Vannes), Scott Cummings (Glasgow Warriors), Alex Craig (Glasgow Warriors), Rory Darge (Glasgow Warriors), Jack Dempsey (Glasgow Warriors), Freddy Douglas (Edinburgh Rugby), Matt Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors), Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors), Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh Rugby), Jonny Gray (Union Bordeaux Bègles), Nathan McBeth (Glasgow Warriors), Liam McConnell (Edinburgh Rugby), Elliot Millar Mills (Northampton Saints), D’Arcy Rae (Edinburgh Rugby), Jamie Ritchie (Perpignan), Pierre Schoeman (Edinburgh Rugby), Rory Sutherland (Glasgow Warriors), George Turner (Harlequins), Max Williamson (Glasgow Warriors).
Backs: Fergus Burke (Saracens), Jamie Dobie (Glasgow Warriors), Darcy Graham (Edinburgh Rugby), Adam Hastings (Glasgow Warriors), George Horne (Glasgow Warriors), Rory Hutchinson (Northampton Saints), Huw Jones (Glasgow Warriors), Tom Jordan (Bristol Bears), Blair Kinghorn (Toulouse), Stafford McDowall (Glasgow Warriors), Finn Russell (Bath), Kyle Rowe (Glasgow Warriors), Ollie Smith (Glasgow Warriors), Kyle Steyn (Glasgow Warriors), Sione Tuipulotu (Glasgow Warriors), Duhan van der Merwe (Edinburgh Rugby), Ben White (Toulon).
Wales’ Six Nations squad:
Forwards: Keiron Assiratti (Cardiff Rugby), Adam Beard (Montpellier), Liam Belcher (Cardiff Rugby), James Botham (Cardiff Rugby), Rhys Carre (Saracens), Ben Carter (Dragons), Olly Cracknell (Leicester Tigers), Harri Deaves (Ospreys), Ryan Elias (Scarlets), Tomas Francis (Provence Rugby), Archie Griffin (Bath), Dafydd Jenkins (Exeter Chiefs), Dewi Lake (Ospreys), Alex Mann (Cardiff Rugby), Josh Macleod (Scarlets), Taine Plumtree (Scarlets), Nicky Smith (Leicester Tigers), Gareth Thomas (Ospreys), Freddie Thomas (Gloucester Rugby), Aaron Wainwright (Dragons).
Backs: Josh Adams (Cardiff Rugby), Sam Costelow (Scarlets), Dan Edwards (Ospreys), Jarrod Evans (Harlequins), Mason Grady (Cardiff Rugby), Kieran Hardy (Ospreys), Gabriel Hamer-Webb (Leicester Tigers), Joe Hawkins (Scarlets), Louie Hennessey (Bath), Eddie James (Scarlets), Ellis Mee (Scarlets), Reuben Morgan-Williams (Ospreys), Blair Murray (Scarlets), Louis Rees-Zammit (Bristol Bears), Tom Rogers (Scarlets), Ben Thomas (Cardiff Rugby), Owen Watkin (Ospreys), Tomos Williams (Gloucester Rugby).
Bath centre Cameron Redpath is in the Scotland A party as they gear up for the clash with an Italy XV at Stadio Centro D’Italia, Manlio Scopigno, on Friday 6 February. Redpath has 15 caps for the full Scotland side.
Meanwhile, Bath’s under-18s outscored their Newcastle Red Bulls opponents by four tries to one as they maintained their unbeaten record in the Gallagher PREM’s Next Gen academy league.
The table-topping Blue, Black & White were 26-7 away winners on Saturday 17th January, giving them their fifth win from six outings.
The result at Kingston Park came despite Newcastle having 59% of the possession and 66% of the territory and gaining 520 metres in attack, the visitors gaining 326 metres.
Bath starting XV: 1 Theo Lewis-Zdybel, 2 Malachi Randolph, 3 Ned Cartwright, 4 Ben Allen, 5 Pippo Hurrell, 6 Alex Yeasbley, 7 Harry Hellier, 8 Georgia Faosiliva, 9 Ollie Lewis, 10 Max Hooper, 11 Ryan Carr, 12 Declan Treacey, 13 Aston Barrington-Hibbert, 14 Tom Meredith, 15 Cynyr MacRae.
Bath replacements: 16 Logan Jarvie, 17 Jack Williams, 18 Sid Moore, 19 Henry Ball, 20 Charlie Greenhough, 21 Oscar Harrison, 22 Cade Comer, 23 Rhuari Hill.
The Blue, Black & White youngsters will play their Round 7 match against Leicester Tigers’ under-18s at Allington Fields, Chippenham, on Saturday 31st January.
