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“I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet to be honest. He called me this morning – about an hour ago – and I just haven’t stopped shaking since. It’s an incredible honour. I’m really excited.”<\/p>\n
White admitted that it “was tough” to watch the original Lions squad be announced as he missed out on selection.<\/p>\n
“But it was an experience that I can put in the locker,” he said. “I just knew I had to just do what I could and try to play well for my club, Toulon.<\/p>\n
“I was really excited to be on tour with Scotland, and to play for Scotland’s amazing, and I was focused on that. <\/p>\n
“I guess that someone’s looking out for me upstairs. It’s falling on my feet.”<\/p>\n
White “straight away” phoned his parents to deliver the news.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think they could quite believe it,” he said. “They were obviously just incredibly proud. It was a great phone call to have.<\/p>\n
“It’s something you dream of but you never really think you’ll do.”<\/p>\n
White brings Scotland’s Lions representation in the 38-strong squad back up to eight after forward Zander Fagerson was forced to withdraw through injury.<\/p>\n
“Obviously there’s there’s a fair few Scottish boys in the squad and it’ll be great to see those boys as well as also meeting the players that I don’t know too well,” he said.<\/p>\n
Two minutes after Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend passed on his congratulations, White was told he was booked on a noon flight to Australia.<\/p>\n
Townsend now has to prepare for Saturday’s meeting with the Maori All Blacks without his 25-times capped first-choice scrum-half.<\/p>\n
“It was an honour to be called up to play for Scotland and to be here in New Zealand was amazing and I was really looking forward to three big test matches,” White added. <\/p>\n
“But the squad that we have here is amazing and I know that they’ll they’re going to go well against the Maori at the weekend. It’s going to be a great game for us and I think we’ve trained really well, so it’ll be exciting to see how we go and I’ll be watching for sure.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 25-year-old Warr will now have the chance to add to his two Scotland caps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n