During the 2022 Six Nations Championship, Bennet was called up to the international squad and made his international return as a replacement in the loss to France at BT Murrayfield. Bennett was nominated for "Breakthrough Player of the Year" by World Rugby after the tournament. He scored two tries in the team's opening match victory over Japan. He also had a potentially decisive try against Wales controversially disallowed, after team-mate Sam Hidalgo-Clyne was judged to have knocked-on when fouled near the try line.Īfter recovering from an injury which ruled him out of the run-in to Glasgow Warriors' 2014–15 Pro12 title triumph, Bennett was selected in Scotland's 31-man squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
He was reselected in Scotland's squad for the 2014 Autumn Internationals, making his debut in Scotland's 41–31 victory over Argentina on 8 November 2014.Īfter establishing himself in the squad, Bennett played in all five of Scotland's matches in the 2015 Six Nations Championship, notching tries against Italy and England. īennett was named in Vern Cotter's first ever squad for Scotland's 2014 summer tour, but failed to play in any of the four games. International career īennett has represented Scotland at Under 18 level four times and played 21 times at under-20 level including appearances at the 2011, 20 IRB Junior World Championships. On 14 February 2017, Edinburgh Rugby announced that they had signed him on a three-year deal and that he would begin playing for them from the summer. A serious knee injury disrupted his season, and he returned to Glasgow in 2012 to join the Warriors on loan with the move being made permanent in 2013. He also made his senior debut for Glasgow in 2011 and secured a move to French side ASM Clermont Auvergne. Rugby union career Amateur career īennett started his career playing for Cumnock before moving to Ayr RFC and winning the Scottish Premiership in 2011. Glasgow: Hogg (Russell 71) Maitland, Bennett, Horne, Seymour (Van der Merwe 40mins) Weir, Pyrgos (Matawalu 62) Reid (Yanuyanutawa 64), MacArthur (Hall 55), Murray (De Klerk 69), Nakarawa (Swinson 55), Gray, Harley, Fusaro (Holmes 59), Ashe.īath: Henson (Agulla 43) Rokoduguni, Joseph, Eastmond (Devoto 35), Watson Ford, Young (Stringer 50) Auterac (James 49), Batty, (Webber 49) Thomas (Wilson 50), Hooper (capt), Attwood, Day, Mercer (Ellis 62), Sisi (Ewels 55).Mark Stewart Bennett (born 3 February 1993) is a Scottish rugby union footballer who plays as a centre for Edinburgh Rugby in the United Rugby Championship. Glasgow: Tries – Bennett 2, Maitland, Seymour, Matawalu Pens – Weir 2 Cons – Weir 3.īath: Tries – Joseph Pen – Ford Con – Ford. With Bath’s first-choice front row on after the break the visitors stemmed the tide, but could not pierce the Glasgow defence and the hosts finished strongly with tries from Niko Matawalu and Bennett. However, Ford paid tribute to the Warriors for springing back from a 10-7 deficit after 12 minutes – Jonathan Joseph having pounced in an error to grab Bath’s solitary try – and repelling a concerted period of Bath pressure to respond with tries from Mark Bennett, Sean Maitland and Tommy Seymour. His Bath counterpart Mike Ford agreed that the raucous near-7,000 crowd had a surprisingly negative effect on his side, but the loss of his first-choice back row to injury and suspension was a greater factor as Glasgow dominated the breakdown and the set-piece.
We have got a very good away record and that’s something we pride ourselves on as well.” The players really respond well to playing here. In front of this crowd you really see the players playing at a tempo. “I don’t know if we got the home game because we are top seeds in the pool,” Townsend said, “but this was a contrast to playing Toulon and Northampton away from home.
Crucially, according to Townsend, they opened this term brighter partly because of a home start. The Warriors are building impressively under Townsend, now one of the top two teams in the Guinness Pro12, but have remained embedded in the European pool stages. Apart from their moment in a quarter-final play-off in 1997-98, which ended in an eminently forgettable 90-point humiliation at Leicester, Edinburgh are the only Scottish team to have reached the knockout stages proper, in 20. Glasgow recorded their biggest win in Europe for eight years with a five-try, 37–10 defeat of Bath that underlined how Gregor Townsend’s side have advanced.
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