‘I’m still a student of this role’ – Ben White learning on the job in Toulon and how it can benefit Scotland’s Six Nations

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‘I’m still a student of this role’ – Ben White learning on the job in Toulon and how it can benefit Scotland’s Six Nations

2026/01/21 Report

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Ben White is clear-eyed about where his game is right now — and just as clear that he is nowhere near finished learning. The Scotland scrum-half insists he is “still a student of the role,” but his education in the south of France is reshaping how he sees rugby, and could prove decisive for Scotland’s Six Nations ambitions.

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Now plying his trade with RC Toulon, White has discovered that the French conception of the scrum-half is radically different from what he knew in England.

“In France, the nine is the dictator, the general, the forward leader,” White explains.

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