Scotsman (Sport): Rob Howley benches Welsh training camp absentees

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ROB Howley has delivered a blunt message to Wales’ expanding foreign legion of star players about their international prospects. Wales’ interim head coach has made a major call by leaving British and Irish Lions Test scrum-half Mike Phillips on the bench for Saturday’s autumn Test series opener against Argentina in Cardiff. Bayonne No 9 Phillips is among five members of the Wales autumn Test squad currently plying their trade in French or English club rugby.




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