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Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Scotland Announce Team To Prevent Wooden Spoon Ignominy

by Dugald Skene

Andy Robinson has today announced his team to take on the Italians in Rome on Saturday and there is one change to the line-up from the team that took on the Irish.

Nick de Luca returns to the fold at centre after pulling up in the warm up last week with a hamstring strain.  Following the injury to Lee Jones (concussion), Max Evans moves out to the wing.

Nick de Luca returns to starting XV

Laidlaw and Blair are again preferred as the starting half back combination whilst Cusiter and Jackson are on the bench.

The pack remains the same, with Geoff Cross keeping his berth at tighthead and Euan Murray is again on the bench.

Elsewhere on the bench, it's a first call up for Jack Cuthbert as the contingency for the backs.

Scotland:

15. S Hogg, 14. M Evans, 13. N de Luca, 12. G Morrison, 11. S Lamont, 10. G Laidlaw, 9. M Blair, 1. A Jacobsen, 2. R Ford (c), 3. G Cross, 4. R Gray, 5. J Hamilton, 6. J Barclay, 7. R Rennie, 8. D Denton

Bench: 16. S Lawson, 17. E Murray, 18. A Kellock, 19. R Vernon, 20. C Cusiter, 21. R Jackson, 22. J Cuthbert

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