SCOTLAND head coach Rob Moffat has named a familiar XV for the Under-20's opening tie in the IRB TOSHIBA Junior World Championship against Samoa at the Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Japan, this morning.
With Paul Loudon ruled out of the tour, Alex Dunbar makes his first start for Scotland Under-20s, while Loudon's squad replacement, Tom Brown, comes onto the bench. Aside from the back-three shuffle, the starting XV remains largely unchanged from the side that regularly took to the field during in Six Nations.

"We've settled in well, we've had six sessions so we feel ready," said Moffat, whose squad are in Pool B, alongside England, Samoa and Japan. "All 26 players were fit for this game and that's a real positive. I think it is important, given that we haven't played together since the Six Nations, that we have this consistency."

SCOTLAND U-20s (v Samoa U-20s today, kick-off 9am BST): Peter Horne (Glasgow Warriors); Grant Anderson (Ayr), Ashleah McCulloch (Aberdeen Grammar), Robbie Johnston (Leeds University and Leeds Carnegie), Alex Dunbar (Selkirk); Andrew White (Glasgow Hawks), Henry Pyrgos (Wimbourne); Gavin Cameron (Stirling County), Fraser Brown (Watsonians, capt), David Morton (Bridgwater and Albion), Nick Campbell (Glasgow Hawks), Richie Gray (Glasgow Warriors), Struan Dewar (Heriot's), Stuart McInally (Watsonians), Chris Fusaro (Heriot's). Subs: : Finlay Gilles (Heriot's), Douglas Orr (Haddington), Robert Harley (West of Scotland), Ryan Wilson (London Scottish), Peter Jericevich (Glasgow Hawks), Robbie McGowan (Stirling County), Tom Brown (Edinburgh Accies).

This article was originally posted on 5-Jun-2009, 07:17 by Hugh Barrow.
Last updated by Hugh Barrow on 5-Jun-2009, 07:17.