WRIGHT - WALES A KNOWN QUANTITY


Scotland Under-19 head coach Peter Wright has named his team to take on Wales in the second pool game of the IRB U19 World Championship in Dubai.

On the heavy defeat to Australia two days ago, Wright said: “The boys are hurting. Their confidence was rocked big time because they have never experience a game with such intensity before.

“We are just trying to get the smiles back on their faces and we have to remember that we have played Wales already this year so they are a known quantity to us.”

Stirling County’s Stuart McGee flies out today to replace Stewart’s Melville winger David McCall who will return home for treatment on a damaged hamstring. McCall’s place is handed to fellow Stewart’s Melville colleague Colin Goudie.

In the centre, Richard Mill moves from the wing and replaces the injured Jack Cuthbert whilst Hawick centre Graham Hogg gets a starting berth in place of Andrew Easson who has a damaged shoulder. Alex Grove is promoted from the bench to slot in at No 11.

Meanwhile, Jamie Hunter swaps with Murray Bringhurst for the No 9 shirt.

In the pack, Ayr prop Gordon Reid replaces Alan Dymock who drops to the bench.

Richard Vernon moves from lock to the back row to replace Ross MacDonald who moves to the bench. Daniel Levison is handed the No 4 shirt to fill the gap left by Vernon.

The final change sees Ellon number 8 Willie Lipp swap with David Lambert for the game which will be televised live on Sky Sports 2.

The Scotland U19 team will visit the Al Nasr Sports Club, Basketball Stadium tomorrow night to watch the world famous Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.

Scotland U19 team to play Wales at the Dubai Exiles rugby club in the IRB U19 World Championship on Sunday 9 April (kick-off 8pm local time, 5pm BST)

15 Ross Curle (Hillhead/Jordanhill)

14 Colin Goudie (Stewart’s Melville FP)
13 Richard Mill (Stirling County and Central Scotland Institute of Sport)
12 Graham Hogg (Hawick and East of Scotland Institute of Sport)
11 Alex Grove (Rugby School)

10 Cameron Ferguson (Dundee HSFP) CAPTAIN
9 Jamie Hunter (Hillhead/Jordanhill and West of Scotland Institute of Sport)

1 Gordon Reid (Ayr and West of Scotland Institute of Sport)
2 Frazer Wilford (Sheffield Hallam University and Rotherham Titans)
3 Ross McCallum (Ardrossan Academicals and West of Scotland Institute of Sport)
4 Richard Vernon (Stewart’s Melville FP and Tayside & Fife Institute of Sport)
5 Steven Turnbull (Stirling County and Central Scotland Institute of Sport)
6 Daniel Levison (Dundee HSFP)
8 Willie Lipp (Ellon)
7 Roddy Grant (Gala)


Substitutes from: Murray Bringhurst (Watsonians and East of Scotland Institute of Sport), Alan Dymock (Dundee HSFP and Tayside & Fife Institute of Sport), Ross MacDonald (Glasgow Hawks), Dave Lambert (Loughborough University), Nick Hart (Watsonians), Patrick MacArthur (West of Scotland), Graeme MacGilchrist (Watsonians), Callum Anderson (Peebles and East of Scotland Institute of Sport)

Unavailable due to injury: David McCall (Edinburgh Gunners, Stewart’s Melville FP and East of Scotland Institute of Sport) - hamstring, Andrew Easson (Edinburgh Gunners, Stewart’s Melville FP and East of Scotland Institute of Sport) - shoulder, Jack Cuthbert (Bath) – shoulder

This article was posted on 7-Apr-2006, 14:00 by Hugh Barrow.