Factfile on Scotland ahead of the Six Nations which starts this weekend: SCOTLAND Population: 5.43 million Capital: Edinburgh Coach: Gregor Townsend (SCO/since May 2017) Number of registered players: 49,265 World Rugby ranking: 9 (January 29, 2020) Six Nations past record (since 2000): Winners - N/A Wooden spoon (4) - 2004, 2007, 2012, 2015 Fixtures (all times GMT): Feb 1: Ireland v Scotland, Dublin (1645) Feb 8: Scotland v England, Edinburgh (1645) Feb 22: Italy v Scotland, Rome (1415) Mar 8: Scotland v France, Edinburgh (1500) Mar 14: Wales v Scotland, Cardiff (1415) Squad Backs: Darcy Graham (Edinburgh), Chris Harris (Gloucester/ENG), Adam Hastings (Glasgow), Stuart Hogg (captain, Exeter/ENG), George Horne (Glasgow), Rory Hutchinson (Northampton/ENG), Sam Johnson (Glasgow), Huw Jones (Glasgow), Blair Kinghorn (Edinburgh), Sean Maitland (Saracens/ENG), Byron McGuigan (Sale/ENG), Ali Price (Glasgow), Henry Pyrgos (Edinburgh), Duncan Weir (Worcester/ENG), Matt Scott (Edinburgh), Kyle Steyn (Glasgow), Ratu Tagive (Glasgow) Forwards: Simon Berghan (Edinburgh), Jamie Bhatti (Edinburgh), Magnus Bradbury (Edinburgh), Fraser Brown (Glasgow), Alex Craig (Gloucester/ENG), Luke Crosbie (Edinburgh), Scott Cummings (Glasgow), Allan Dell (London Irish/ENG), Cornell du Preez (Worcester/ENG), Zander Fagerson (Glasgow), Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh), Tom Gordon (Glasgow), Jonny Gray (Glasgow), Nick Haining (Edinburgh), Stuart McInally (Edinburgh), Willem Nel (Edinburgh), Jamie Ritchie (Edinburgh), Rory Sutherland (Edinburgh), Ben Toolis (Edinburgh), George Turner (Glasgow), Hamish Watson (Edinburgh) Player to watch: Stuart Hogg. The Exeter full-back will need to be at his very best in the absence, at least initially, of Finn Russell, one of the stand-out fly-halves in world rugby but who was stood down after a drinking-related bust-up with coach Townsend Aim for the tournament: "If we can defend well for 80 minutes, we know we'll be in games. We haven't done that over the last two years consistently enough. We can't afford to have 10-15 minutes where we take our foot off the pedal and let teams run away with it" -- hooker Fraser Brown lp/dj