Scotland plan national revolution

Williams wants to see Scottish players playing at home

Scotland coach Matt Williams wants a massive overhaul of the country's club game to ensure the international side is made up only of home-based players.

"Our aim is to have every player that goes to the next World Cup [in 2007] playing in the pro teams in Scotland," said the new head coach.

"Scottish players must be playing in Scotland to play for their country.

"It will benefit the players and benefit the pro teams to perform better on the international stage."

Williams added that he "hoped" to force Scotland's pro teams to field just two overseas players as of next season.

"Ideally, there will be no overseas players in our professional teams," he said.

Williams made his first squad announcement on Monday since taking over from Ian McGeechan after the World Cup.

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But the surprise inclusion of 14 uncapped players was eclipsed by his radical plans.

Williams has warned players they will not be selected for future teams if they continue to ply their trade in a different country, while Edinburgh, Glasgow and The Borders will have to rely on home talent.

"We are going to implement a policy over the next few years that we are calling Fortress Scotland," said the Australian coach.

"Our policy of sending our players to England to save costs is counter-productive and it will lead to the end of Scottish rugby being competitive on the international stage.

"We have to control our own players. At the World Cup, France, Australia, New Zealand and England had no players playing outside their borders."

The next 18 months are going to be very hard Matt Williams Scotland coach

Williams has already switched his side's training headquarters to Stirling from Murrayfield for the training camp from 21-23 December.

He wants to make the national stadium "special" again and that only players playing for their country get to use the changing rooms there.

"I can't guarantee that we will win in our following matches because the next 18 months are going to be very hard," Williams continued.

"We have to align our resources with our goals and our ambition is to win the Six Nations and to compete very strongly on the international stage and to further our endeavours at the World Cup.

"We don't have a lot of money but we don't have to spend money. We have to use our resources better.

"We are moving into a closer relationship with the Scottish Institute of Sport and we hope in the not too distant future that the national team will be aligned with the great resources that are at Stirling.

"The other benefit of that is Murrayfield becomes special and players will only come into the dressing room when they are playing for their country."