Scotland call for Thom Evans

November 24, 2009

Scotland call for Thom Evans

Posted by Editor on November 24, 2009 04:05 PM | 5 comments | Print | E-mail author

Thom Evans will start for Scotland on Saturday

Glasgow's Thom Evans has been named in the Scotland team to face Argentina at Murrayfield on Saturday.

Thom's inclusion is one of three changes to the starting line-up that battled to a 9-8 win over Australia.

Thom comes in on the left wing in place of Simon Danielli with Alex Grove shuffling along to inside centre with Graeme Morrison dropping out. Ben Cairns comes in at outside centre.

John Barclay earns a well-deserved rest after Saturday's heroics with Alan MacDonald winning his first cap.

Chris Cusiter has recovered from a head knock and continues as skipper.

Scotland

15 Rory Lamont (Toulon)

14 Sean Lamont (Scarlets)
13 Ben Cairns (Edinburgh)
12 Alex Grove (Worcester Warriors)
11 Thom Evans (Glasgow Warriors)

10 Phil Godman (Edinburgh)
9 Chris Cusiter (Glasgow Warriors) CAPTAIN

1 Allan Jacobsen (Edinburgh)
2 Ross Ford (Edinburgh)
3 Moray Low (Glasgow Warriors)
4 Nathan Hines (Leinster)
5 Alastair Kellock (Glasgow Warriors)
6 Alasdair Strokosch (Gloucester)
7 Alan MacDonald (Edinburgh) *
8 Johnnie Beattie (Glasgow Warriors)

Substitutes

16 Dougie Hall (Glasgow Warriors)
17 Kyle Traynor (Edinburgh)
18 Jason White (Clermont Auvergne)
19 Richie Vernon (Glasgow Warriors)
20 Rory Lawson (Gloucester)
21 Chris Paterson (Edinburgh)
22 Nick De Luca (Edinburgh)

*= New cap

Posted by ballinj on November 24, 2009 09:10 PM | Reply to this comment

Feel it is a bit harsh on Barclay, who had an outstanding game on Saturday, especially given that there are others in the pack who didn't have the best games or at least were not as noticeable as Barclay.

The other two changes are not that surprising though I thought De Luca might of won a starting berth wih Cairns on the bench

Posted by Alan on November 24, 2009 10:42 PM | Reply to this comment

I could name several players I would rather see in there .. and others who put their hand up on Friday at the A team game (Thom didn't get the ball in the borders but AR knows what he can do).. but isn't it great that we trust the coach? Great to see that he has given Thom a run .. go run Thom ...Remind him what you can do!!

Posted by liviwarrior on November 24, 2009 11:34 PM | Reply to this comment

I agree - he may deserve a well earned rest but i bet he would rather be out there on Saturday puting himself on the line, regardless how sore or tired he is. Thought he had one of his best games in a Scotland shirt - could at least have had him on the bench.

Posted by Osama bin Hidin on November 25, 2009 08:46 AM | Reply to this comment

Must confess to being non-plussed at Barclay's omission. He was excellent against Australia. That said, we need to trust our coach. He's trying to develop players to build genuine strength-in-depth for the national side and the best way to do that is to blood players in "less important" games. No disrespect to the Argies, but I believe the Autumn tests are about experimenting ahead of the 6N which is, after all, the main focus for Scotland.

This looks like a really strong team. I'm excited at the attacking potential of having Evans back. We didn't even try to attack the Aussies last week - probably wisely. As Robbo said, winning is all that matters and we won. Hopefully though we'll get to see a bit more of our attack potential this Saturday. GOOD LUCK!!!!

Posted by russ on November 25, 2009 10:28 AM | Reply to this comment

bit of rotation - after all they are friendlies!!!!!