Scotland and Canada train together

Scotland head coach Andy Robinson was pleased with the joint training session his team held with Canada as the days count down to their World Cup opener against Romania next Saturday.

Scotland are currently based in Sanctuary Cove on Australia's Gold Coast and travelled to Southport School, one of the most prodigious of rugby nurseries in Queensland, for the training session with the Canadians.

The session saw both teams go through their own warm-ups and then join together for some live scrums, live lineouts and the back divisions running through moves in attack and their defence structures.

Robinson said: "I'm really pleased with the way training has gone today. Live scrums and live lineouts went well for both teams and there was some good shape in attack and defence."

The training session provided an opportunity to catch up with some familiar faces with Glasgow Warriors wing DTH Van der Merwe and former Edinburgh flyhalf Ander Monro in Canadian ranks.

Monro sat out the session with a leg injury but does not believe it will hamper him come the World Cup campaign where Canada are in a pool with France, New Zealand, Japan and Tonga.

He commented: "We have got three teams really close in the rankings: us, Japan and Tonga.  These are the two games we will be targeting strongly and if we can cause an upset, maybe against the French, we'll be giving it everything we've got."