Scotland Team For Wales Clash

Following a turbulent few days for Scottish Rugby, starting with the Calcutta Cup loss to England at Murrayfield and seeing the announcement yesterday of Dan Parks' retirement, Andy Robinson has announced the team he sees can get the Scots back on track and to winning ways.

Laidlaw gets his first start by filling the vacant 10 spot left by Parks and partners Chris Cusiter at scrum half in the pivotal roles.

The full team:

15. R Lamont
14. Jones
13. De Luca
12. S Lamont
11. Evans
10. Laidlaw
9. Cusiter
1. Jacobsen
2. Ford (c)
3. Cross
4. Gray
5. Hamilton
6. Strokosch
7. Rennie
8. Denton

Bench: S Lawson, Kalman, Kellock, Barclay, Blair, Weir & Hogg

Glasgow's Sturat Hogg earns a place on the bench and

could get his debut for Scotland

I suspect there isn't as much change here to what many predicted.  Many thought (myself included) that Nick de Luca may have been dropped, but he holds on to his centre spot with Sean Lamont.

Ross Rennie and David Denton keep there places in the back row after very good performances against the English and Saturday's debutant Lee Jones holds on to his place on the right wing.

The big changes are on the bench where superb performances for Duncan Weir, Ed Kalman and Stuart Hogg in last weeks 35-0 victory over the Saxons for Scotland A have earnt them potential debuts against Wales.

With both Lamonts and Evans able to play in the centre or on the wing, there is plenty of scope for re-jigging the team by introducing Stuart Hogg who can play centre or full-back.