Australia head coach Dave Rennie says he had concerns about Jack Dempsey’s physicality before the former Wallaby back-row headed north to join Glasgow Warriors last summer.
Dempsey, who was capped 14 times by Australia between June 2017 and October 2019, is set to make his Scotland debut against the country of his birth off the bench in tomorrow’s Autumn Test Series opener.
The switch in allegiance has been facilitated by World Rugby’s controversial new international eligibility rule, which allows capped players to throw their lot in with another which they have “a close and credible link via birth-right” to, so long as they complete a three-year cooling-off period.
