GREGOR
Townsend has announced his first Scotland match-day squad for a home
Scotland international, the clash with Samoa, at Murrayfield on
Saturday.
The
team, in 1-15 order for the starting XV, and 16-23 order for the
replacements is:
Darry
Marfo (Edinburgh) – first cap
Stuart
McInally (Edinburgh) - 9 caps
WP
Nel (Edinburgh) - 18 caps
Ben
Toolis (Edinburgh) - 4 caps
Jonny
Gray (Glasgow Warriors) - 35 caps
John
Barclay (Scarlets – Captain) - 63 caps
Hamish
Watson (Edinburgh) - 12 caps
Ryan
Wilson
(Glasgow Warriors
– vice-captain) - 30 caps
Ali
Price (Glasgow Warriors) - 8 caps
Finn
Russell
(Glasgow Warriors) - 29 caps
Lee
Jones (Glasgow Warriors) - 5 caps
Alex
Dunbar
(Glasgow Warriors) - 26 caps
Huw
Jones (Glasgow Warriors) - 8 caps
Tommy
Seymour
(Glasgow Warriors) - 36 caps
Stuart
Hogg (Glasgow Warriors – vice-captain) - 53 caps
Replacements:
George
Turner (Glasgow Warriors) uncapped
Jamie
Bhatti (Glasgow Warriors) uncapped
Zander
Fagerson
(Glasgow Warriors) - 12 caps
Tim
Swinson (Glasgow Warriors) - 32 caps
Cornell
Du Preez (Edinburgh) - 2 caps
Henry
Pyrgos (Glasgow Warriors) - 24 caps
Peter
Horn
(Glasgow Warriors) - 25 caps
Chris
Harris (Newcastle Falcons) uncapped
So,
while loose-head prop Darryl Marfo is the only one of the ten
uncapped players in the extended Scotland squad who will be capped
from the outset on Saturday, three other players – back-up
loose-head Jamie Bhatti and his Glasgow Warriors clubmate George
Turner, and Newcastle Falcons threequarter Chris Harris will all be
hoping to be thrown into the international arena during the game.
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