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Boston Globe
14 hours ago
- General
- Boston Globe
Five years after COVID closed schools, Mass. parents still worry about pandemic effects on kids
Here's a breakdown of the findings: Closing the digital divide About 68 percent of low-income parents report not having enough devices at home to support work and their children's education, a greater disparity than in 2020, when it was 80 percent. Among Latino families, the figure was 74 percent this year. Advertisement Jennie Williamson, state director for Ed Trust in Massachusetts, said this divide directly undermines student success and broader educational experiences, especially when it comes to students with disabilities or 'Access to devices and technology is not a luxury. It's a necessity,' Williamson said. Leonel Lainez, 55, from Brockton, has two children in college and a son in the eighth grade. Lainez, who works in construction, said his three children share one device and access poor internet service. Lainez said his son uses a device at school but is unable to bring it home, and the family can't stretch their budget to buy another one. 'He isn't up to speed with his peers, he needs a device,' Lainez said in Spanish. Advertisement Academic losses While the majority of parents agree educators are doing their best, more than 40 percent of parents expressed concern over their children's academic progress, up from 36 percent in 2022. Daniel Sosa, 33, from Revere, said his fourth grade son is falling behind in reading and math. 'I just feel like the classes are too full, so there's not enough attention to each student or the way the teacher teaches,' Sosa said. Sosa, who owns his own men's clothing business in downtown Boston, said when he briefly entered his son into an afterschool math program before school let out for the summer, his performance improved substantially, echoing a need for specialized instruction. Post-secondary expectations A majority of Black, Latino, and low-income parents have little expectation their children will earn a college degree, while their more affluent and white peers do. About 39 percent of Black parents and 31 percent of Latino parents expect their child to get a degree. Of families surveyed who earn less than $50,000, only 17 percent said they expect to complete college. By contrast, 62 percent of parents who earn over $100,000 said they expect their children to earn degrees. Williamson, the Ed Trust state director, said parents are reevaluating the cost-benefit of college, especially considering ballooning student debt and 'We find this gap to be really alarming, especially in a state like Massachusetts that has invested so heavily in making higher education more accessible and affordable,' Williamson said. John King, 33, from Boston, has a child entering the third grade at Saint Theresa of Avila School. He said he opted for his child to go to private Catholic school instead of Boston Public Schools to better prepare him for higher education, due to his own high school experience, where he felt he lacked college readiness and financial literacy education. Advertisement 'College might be a real optional thing for people. I start seeing a lot of people with degrees that don't have jobs. That's a lot of debt,' King said. Sosa said sending his kid to college is the family's priority. 'My parents, they didn't even finish school coming from a third world country, so now going forward, we have to do better than our parents,' Sosa said. Safety, fairness, and discrimination Of those surveyed, parents of color were more likely to report their children have experienced school-based bullying, violence, or racism. About 39 percent of Asian parents, 37 percent of Latino parents, and 30 percent of Black parents, also said their child received unfair treatment at school. King said multiple times he has needed to raise concerns to administrators for his son, who is one of the few Black students at school. He once raised concerns that school work his son was given promoted negative associations with the color black. 'You have to be a big advocate on those things, if not [educators] just assume everything is great,' King said. Lainez said his son has witnessed violence and drugs in his middle school. There's 'constant bullying for being Hispanic,' he said. Mental health concerns While concerns over their children's mental health and well-being improved from its peak during the height of the pandemic, 45 percent of parents Advertisement Christina Alquinta, 53, from Lynn, has a sophomore daughter who has ADHD and receives accommodations through a 504 plan. Alquinta said her daughter has benefited from her specialized program and will graduate high school with an associate's degree. Because of the support her daughter received through the specialized plan, Alquinta feels confident in her daughter's mental health. But three-quarters of parents whose children have individualized education plans do have greater concerns about student mental health. 'Families are still worried about their children's academic progress and emotional wellbeing, and many of the challenges that were exposed during the pandemic still persist today,' Williamson said. Maria Probert can be reached at
Time of India
15 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Fresh exits at Krutrim as company ramps up work on AI models and semicon chips
ETtech Live Events Three senior executives heading engineering and AI product execution at Krutrim have left the company, even as Ola 's artificial intelligence arm continues to accelerate development work on AI semiconductors , Krutrim model 3, and data Williamson, senior director; engineering head Dinesh Mittal, and Sharath Adavanne, director of applied AI, departed in the last couple of months, said people familiar with the has also laid off more than a dozen staff in linguist teams across multiple languages earlier this week, the people a person privy to the development said the employees were hired for a specific project, which has since been completed. The person said nearly 600 people are currently employed in Krutrim's linguistics team, which focuses on AI model evaluation, curation of linguistic data, and prompting, as per the company's job description for these had earlier reported that over 20 executives at leadership roles left the firm in the past year. Krutrim also faced backlash over the alleged suicide of an employee with claims of toxic work culture.A Krutrim spokesperson said in a statement that the company consists of a world-class team, and any workforce churn at the company is in line with industry standards and practices. The spokesperson added that the work on Krutrim Model 3, data centre and advanced AI chips Bodhi 1 and 2, is on track, progressing as per the company's business roadmap and schedule.A Navendu, head of business, Krutrim, told ET recently that the company is working on a multibillion parameter model and will see more use cases for the same, unlike Krutrim 2, which is a smaller model with 12 billion has also learnt that the company is in talks with global players for manufacturing its Bodhi chips, which are currently in the testing week, the company launched consumer AI agent platform, Kruti, which can book cabs, deliver food and pay bills, currently within Ola's ecosystem. It is also in talks with multiple services across healthcare and shopping use cases. Sunit S, SVP - design, said Krutrim is also pursuing partnership with ONDC, which offers services such as metro tickets and recharges.
New York Post
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Kevin Williamson reacts to 'Scream 7' turmoil, cast shakeups
He'll be right back. Kevin Williamson, screenwriter for the first 'Scream' movie, is returning to direct the upcoming 'Scream 7,' premiering on February 27, 2026. 'Oh, it's been awesome [to return]. I've always been on the fringes of the last few 'Scream' movies, as sort of the granddaddy of the franchise,' he exclusively told The Post. Advertisement 8 Neve Campbell in 'Scream 4.' ©Dimension Films/Courtesy Everett Collection 8 Kevin Williamson, on set of 'Scream 5' in 2022. ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Williamson, 60, who also created the classic teen drama 'Dawson's Creek,' wrote the first 'Scream' screenplay that launched the hit slasher franchise in 1996, as well as the screenplay for 'Scream 2' in 1997 and 'Scream 4' in 2011. Advertisement He was a producer on all of the 'Scream' films. In the upcoming 2026 movie, he's in the director's chair. 'They've been very kind to me and very welcoming,' he told The Post while promoting his new Netflix show, 'The Waterfront.' 8 Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy and Neve Campbell in 'Scream.' ©Dimension Films/Courtesy Everett Collection 'And then they allowed me to direct this one. And we had a blast,' Williamson added. 'It was so nice to work with Courteney Cox and Sidney and tell a new story. So, I hope people like it.' Advertisement The franchise follows Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), who was a high school teen in the first movie. By the seventh installment, she'll be a mother with a teen daughter (Isabel May). In the first movie, Sidney is terrorized by Ghostface, a killer with a black cloak and white scream mask who ends up being two people: her boyfriend, Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and his obnoxious friend, Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard). 8 Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kennedy and Matthew Lillard in 'Scream.' ©Dimension Films/Courtesy Everett Collection 8 Matthew Lillard and Rose McGowan in 'Scream.' ©Dimension Films/Courtesy Everett Collection Advertisement David Arquette co-starred as the hapless sheriff, Dewey Riley, while Cox played investigative journalist Gale Weathers. Lillard is returning for 'Scream 7' despite Stu getting killed off at the end of the first movie. Subsequent Ghostface killers have been different people in each film. When asked what he can share about Lillard's role in 'Scream 7,' Williamson quipped, 'Nothing. Not one word.' 8 Courteney Cox and David Arquette in 'Scream.' Courtesy Everett Collection 'But I will say, I love Matthew,' he continued. 'And it was such a pleasure to call him up. They let me be the one to call and ask them back to the franchise. And that was a really nice phone call.' 'Scream 7' has had behind-the-scenes upheaval, as Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera were originally slated to star in the flick before they exited the project and the movie got retooled. The first version of the horror film began to fall apart in 2023 when original directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin left the franchise to direct Barrera in a Universal movie titled 'Abigail.' 8 Jasmin Savoy Brown, Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera attend the Global Premiere of Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group's 'Scream VI' at AMC Lincoln Square on March 6, 2023 in New York, New York. Getty Images for Paramount Pictures Advertisement Later that year, Barrera, 34, was fired for expressing support for Palestine amid the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza. Sources reportedly told Deadline that Barrera was let go from the production due to 'her Instagram stories which have been perceived as anti-Semitic.' It was initially reported that Ortega left the franchise due to 'pay and scheduling issues,' but in April, the 'Wednesday' star told The Cut, 'The Melissa stuff was happening…If 'Scream 7' wasn't going to be with that team of directors and those people I fell in love with, then it didn't seem like the right move for me in my career at the time.' 8 Kevin Williamson attends the 'The Vampire Diaries' panel during Comic-Con International 2016 at San Diego Convention Center on July 23, 2016 in San Diego, California. Getty Images Advertisement Williamson, meanwhile, said he is 'on the fringes' of the situation. 'Watching that all go down, and I'm not even sure what happened. I can't really speak to it, because I wasn't a part of it,' he told the Post. 'The thing about 'Scream' is it can live in any form. And you can return to a character like Sidney and Gale and tell that story, and then the next one can be about someone else,' he noted. 'I really like the idea that 'Scream' has evolved into a franchise that can expand in those ways.'
Time Magazine
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
The True Story Behind Netflix's Coastal Family Drama The Waterfront
The dock was quiet with the kind of stillness that settles just before dawn. Fishing boats bobbed in the tide, hulls worn and sun-bleached, their nets folded like sleeping limbs. For Kevin Williamson, it wasn't just a familiar sight, it was a decades-old memory. This was the world he knew as a child growing up in the small town of Oriental, N.C., a place where everyone was seemingly related to everyone, where seafood came straight off the boat, and where the tides governed life as much as the church bells or school calendar. 'I was the small-town weirdo,' Williamson tells TIME. 'I was the kid who didn't belong and couldn't wait to get out. Then I got out, and all I wanted to do was write about it.' With The Waterfront, his new eight-episode Netflix drama starring Holt McCallany, Maria Bello, Melissa Benoist, and Jake Weary and debuting June 19, Williamson has done just that. The show tells the story of the Buckleys, a once-proud fishing family in fictional Havenport, N.C., now fractured by buried secrets, addiction, and the threat of financial collapse. It's a slow-burn Southern gothic tale rich with betrayal and moral ambiguity, but beneath the genre trappings lies a deeper current of meaning. This is, in many ways, the story Williamson has been circling his entire career, as he broke out as the writer of such horror mainstays as Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer and the creator of TV megahits including Dawson's Creek and The Vampire Diaries. 'I always told my dad I was going to write the story,' Williamson recalls. 'He said, 'Wait until I'm dead.'' And so he did. A family history rewritten The roots of The Waterfront stretch back decades to Williamson's own childhood. Born in New Bern, around 30 miles from Oriental, he grew up in a family shaped by the tides. His father Wade was a fisherman; his mother Faye worked at a hotel. 'I come from a family of fishermen—not just my dad, but the entire family,' he says. ' Everyone I knew was a fisherman.' But by the '80s, that way of life was vanishing. Overfished waters, tightening environmental regulations, and broader economic shifts devastated the industry. As the fish began to disappear, so did people's livelihoods, and in some cases, desperation filled the void. For Williamson's family, that desperation manifested in the decision his father made to use his fishing boat to run drugs, a crime which would catch up with him: 'He was arrested for conspiracy to traffic marijuana—20,000 pounds.' Though Wade ultimately served less than a year behind bars, the impact was deeply felt in the larger community. 'They didn't just arrest my dad,' he recalls. 'They arrested a whole bunch of people. It was part of a cartel. They were the low men in the operation.' The trauma eventually seeped its way into Williamson's writing. On Dawson's Creek, Joey Potter's (Katie Holmes) father serves time for a similar offense. 'That was the beginning of me fictionalizing it, but I always knew I'd come back to it,' he says. That unflinching, long-deferred return arrives in The Waterfront. But the road to telling that story began with a restless boy in a quiet town, one who found escape not on the water, but in the light of screens both big and small, captivated by Steven Spielberg's work and the classic soap opera Guiding Light. After high school, Williamson enrolled at East Carolina University, where he studied theater, graduating in 1987 and landing in Los Angeles by the early '90s. His breakthrough came thanks to a bout of late-night paranoia. After watching a 20/20 episode about Danny Rolling—the 'Gainesville Ripper' who murdered five college students in Florida—Williamson found himself home alone, unsettled and on the phone with a friend. The experience eventually sparked the script for Scream, which married razor-wire tension with meta self-awareness. Released in 1996, Scream didn't just succeed, it helped revive the slasher subgenre. With its whip-smart satire and adolescent vulnerability, the movie catapulted Williamson into the Hollywood spotlight. He followed quickly with Scream 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Faculty, infusing each with more than scares. These were stories about fear as metaphor: adolescence, alienation, the fragile armor of identity. Then came Dawson's Creek, a teen drama set in the small fictional town of Capeside, Mass., whose emotional frankness and hyper-verbal teen characters helped define a generation. The series was famed for its romantic entanglements and earnest dialogue, as well as launching the careers of actors like Michelle Williams and Joshua Jackson, but beneath it all was a writer mining personal history for deeper truths. In the years that followed, Williamson explored the truth in darkness. He co-created The Vampire Diaries, a gothic teen soap pulsing with desire and loss, The Following, a psychological thriller about a serial killer and his cult, and Tell Me a Story, which reimagined classic fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel as twisted modern parables. Even when his work veered into fantasy, it never lost its grounding in emotional reality. Williamson's stories are defined by a familiar undercurrent: the bittersweet pang of longing, the weight of secrets, the intergenerational ghosts we carry. When it came time to create The Waterfront, Williamson didn't have to look too far. The fictional town of Havenport shares DNA with Oriental, and production took place nearby in Southport—the same town where he shot much of I Know What You Did Last Summer nearly 30 years earlier. 'I absolutely love North Carolina. Through and through, I'm a Carolina boy,' he says. 'Southport looks very much like how I grew up.' To capture that authenticity, the production team even visited Oriental to rent real fishing boats to use as stunt boats. 'It's a seafood fresh-off-the-boat type of town,' he says. 'That's where I got the idea for the Buckley fish house. It's common in little port towns: restaurants attached to fish houses.' That personal connection found its way to the cast. The Waterfront is a sprawling family saga anchored by characters who feel flawed and lived-in. Family patriarch Harlan Buckley (McCallany) is a hardened man recovering from two heart attacks who's pulled back into the family's struggling fishing business; Belle (Bello), his wife and the fishery's unofficial operator in his absence, is the pragmatic backbone of the family, keeping the business (and its secrets) intact with a steely resolve. Bree (Benoist) is the bruised and bristling daughter, struggling with sobriety and aching for redemption. 'Holt [as Harlan] has the exact same straight John Wayne persona [as my dad],' Williamson says. 'That sense of humor, where he can just throw out a line, and it's funny.' Bree is another reflection of Williamson's psyche. 'That addictive part of me, that's where I wrote from,' he adds. 'I took her to the extreme, but it's personal.' Then there's Cane (Weary), the son who stayed behind, who never chased a bigger life. 'Cane is who I would've been if I'd stayed in Oriental,' Williamson says. 'There were times I thought I might, but my parents pushed me out. They didn't see a future in fishing.' Each of the Buckleys strive for something elusive: approval, redemption, control, freedom. ('They want to love and be loved,' he says.) This emotional dynamic plays out in particular in the push-and-pull dynamic between mother and daughter. '[Bree] always felt like the outcast,' Williamson says. 'The show asks, did she feel that way because it was true, or did she create it?' Even the structure of the show reflects its themes. 'I tried to do a 60/40 ratio of family drama to crime drama, but any time you do a mathematical equation for storytelling, it goes out the window,' he says. Instead, he focused on the characters' journeys. 'I put my characters on a board: Where do they start, where do they end up, and how do I twist them through it?' The ties that bind With The Waterfront, Williamson is writing about the soil, the salt, and the silence of home. While the Netflix drama centers on hubris and crime, it's also about consequence. The Buckleys may bury secrets or protect one another, but they're not caricatures. 'We're not 'either or' in life. We're always 'and,'' Williamson says. 'We're good and bad.' That duality grounds the show's jarring bursts of violence. 'I love the dark,' he admits. 'It's my happy place. There's a whole horror side of me, so I think it's safe to say if you're going to watch a show that I'm part of, someone's going to get killed eventually.' But the brutality isn't purely for shock value. 'Sometimes we're knocked on our ass by life, and I wanted the show to reflect that,' he continues. The atmosphere intentionally heightens the sense of unease. Each episode opens with an eight-second title sequence showing the camera partly submerged in seawater, bobbing beneath dark clouds. It's disorienting and ominous, evoking the sensation of drowning or barely staying afloat. 'We went through so many different versions of the title sequence, but the idea was always there: treading water, drowning, danger rising,' he says. ' Who's going to survive? Where's the life raft coming from?' Williamson sees The Waterfront 's debut season as just the beginning. 'I would love very much a chance to write Season 2, because I feel like I'm just getting started with this story and this family,' he explains. Until then, the series stands as a meditation on loyalty, legacy, and the weight of unfinished business. 'I hope people connect to the messiness of family life,' Williamson explains. 'Regardless of what these characters do—whether they're fishing or getting their hands messy with a little crime and a little blood—I hope viewers connect with the idea of family. Each [character] is trying to be the best version of themselves. They just don't know how to get there.'
Scotsman
2 days ago
- Sport
- Scotsman
Scottish Rugby chief wants Gregor Townsend to remain head coach beyond 2026 Six Nations
Desire for 'continuity' extends to Edinburgh and Glasgow coaches Sign up to our Rugby Union newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Gregor Townsend has been given a vote of confidence by Scottish Rugby chief Alex Williamson who intends to begin contract talks with the national coach during next month's tour to New Zealand and Fiji. Williamson also wants Franco Smith and Sean Everitt to remain in charge of Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh respectively, stressing the need for 'continuity' as the sport undergoes an overhaul of its pathway system in Scotland. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'We really like the three guys we've got and we'd really like to keep them,' said Williamson, who succeeded Mark Dodson as chief executive and has been in post for around five months. Scottish Rugby chief executive Alex Williamson. | SNS Group / SRU Townsend has been Scotland's head coach for eight years and led them to a fourth place finish in this season's Six Nations, winning two and losing three games, for the second year in a row. His contract expires in April and Williamson indicated he would like Townsend to remain beyond that. 'I'm touring with Scotland and I'm going to have plenty of time with Gregor, and his manager is in New Zealand as well so that's all helpful,' said Williamson. 'And we're talking to Franco and Sean as well.' Scotland have failed to qualify from the pool stage of two Rugby World Cups under Townsend, albeit after a very difficult draw in 2023. If he were to sign a new contract he would almost certainly take charge for the 2027 tournament. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Williamson believes Townsend is the right man to 'produce our best outcomes going forward' and thinks he will benefit from the revamp currently underway in Scottish rugby which is being led by David Nucifora, the performance director credited with helping transform Ireland's fortunes. Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend's contract expires in April 2026. | SNS Group Explaining his thinking, Williamson said Scotland had played some 'exceptional rugby' over the past year and had been unlucky to lose to South Africa, England and France. 'So there's two parts,' said Williamson. 'One: I think that the change we're making now, he will be a beneficiary immediately of that clarity with his senior team. Two: I think that we'd all accept that there were a number of games last season whether it be South Africa, England or France, where Scotland were one very small twist away from some great outcomes off the back of some exceptional rugby. 'And also the feedback from the players through the review that Gregor does was very good. I genuinely believe that he has the potential to produce our best outcomes going forward so that's why we're excited to have Gregor in the team. And we also really think that Franco and Sean will continue to develop the quality of our player groups through the clubs.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Smith's and Everitt's contracts run until the end of the 2025-26 season. Smith, who led Glasgow to the United Rugby Championship in 2024, has been linked with other jobs, most notably Leicester Tigers and Wales, and has indicated a desire to return to international rugby. He is former head coach of Italy and assistant coach of South Africa, and appeared to cast doubt on his Glasgow future earlier this month when he said he would 'sit down and reflect a little bit'. Franco Smith, head coach of Glasgow Warriors. | SNS Group Smith, who has also been touted in some quarters for the Scotland job, was speaking in the immediate aftermath of Glasgow's loss to Leinster in the semi-finals of the URC. He pointedly referred to 'budget restraints' and the loss of influential overseas players, such as Henco Venter and Sebastian Cancelliere. 'Our squad's been reduced,' an emotional Smith said. 'We've lost some of the foreigners. I'll be as honest as possible: that's going to put a lot of pressure on every aspect of our environment.' Scottish Rugby is in the throes of revamping its pathway system in an attempt to improve the supply of players into the national set-up. Nucifora was appointed last August on a two-year deal and the search has already begun for a new performance director to continue the Australian's work when he steps down in 2026. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Stressing again his desire to retain the services of Townsend, Smith and Everitt, Williamson would not be drawn on a timescale. 'I haven't got into that, I'm just opening up conversations and saying we want continuity,' he said. 'I need to have those conversations with guys, I just haven't got into any detail.' Scottish Rugby chief executive Alex Williamson, centre, with Edinburgh Rugby coach Sean Everitt, right. | SNS Group / SRU Pressed if he wanted them to stay beyond their current contracts, Williamson added: 'Yeah …. when we identify a new performance director we would really like to have continuity in the coaching already nailed down so that the first thing they're doing is not hiring new coaches.' Williamson sees Nucifora's pathway revamp as an overarching project, the benefits of which will be felt not at the next men's and women's Rugby World Cups but at the tournament beyond that. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'We're doing this once and we're doing it with a view to '29 and '33 [World Cups] for the women and '31 and '35 for the men,' he said. 'That's a non-negotiable from my point of view. It's the most important thing we'll do. 'I've reviewed those plans hundreds of times to make sure that I'm comfortable that plan is solid. From that, the next thought process is we know that David [Nucifora] is going in a relatively short time frame from now, some time towards the end of next year, so the key hire is going to be a performance director who is willing to stick to the plan. We cannot afford to bring a performance director in who's then going to basically say 'I don't really like that plan we'll do another one'. We can't do that. 'We have to stick steadfast to that, so my preoccupation in many respects is making sure that we're absolutely aligned on sticking to the plan because I think it will make a massive difference in the long term. 'Off the back of that [we] absolutely want continuity with the coaches. So we really like the three guys we've got and we'd really like to keep them. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Performance director David Nucifora has been hired by Scottish Rugby for two years. | SNS Group / SRU 'So when we're talking about Franco we absolutely want him in. In fact I fully respect his emotional frustrations. You kind of want your coaches to be loaded and charged and emotional and frustrated, particularly in moments like those, but I don't actually think there is a huge gap between what Franco wants and what we're talking about. 'The challenge is probably that the structures aren't bedded in and as a consequence we've not really had the opportunity to test and stress test the thinking. We all believe that there is a place for foreign players, they just have to be the right ones in the right moments.' Smith noted earlier that in the season the budgets weren't down but had remained the same while the value of players had gone up but Williamson remains confident the pro teams can remain competitive, helped by the new pathway plan which should produce more young Scottish players. 'What we're trying to do is we're trying to intensify the investment in a slightly smaller group of players who propel more quickly and there is a question absolutely as to whether that has a short-term impact on performance but, when you really look at the the number of high quality young players that are sitting in and around both those squads, I think that we should feel confident that whilst they may need some sort of blooding in to first team rugby, we've got a ton of quality. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad
