Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

Ireland have lost so infrequently that there should be no issues if Farrell selects the same side for the Scotland game. Picking as close to an unchanged team as possible with the view to redeeming themselves after a loss is a tried and tested motivator.

Scotland make two changes for Six Nations finale against Ireland

March 14 2024 01:31 PM

Glasgow centre Stafford McDowall will make his second appearance for Scotland when he starts Saturday’s Guinness Six Nations match away to Ireland.

The 26-year-old, who made his debut against Italy in a World Cup warm-up match last summer, takes the place of Cam Redpath as one of two changes to the starting XV from the team that kicked off last weekend’s damaging defeat to Italy in Rome.

The other alteration sees first-choice scrum-half Ben White return in place of George Horne after being rested for the trip to Rome.

Horne and Redpath both drop to the bench, where they are joined by veteran prop Rory Sutherland, who was a late addition to the Six Nations squad in the week leading up to the Italy game.

Scotland: B Kinghorn, K Steyn, H Jones, S McDowall, D van der Merwe, F Russell, B White, P Schoeman, G Turner, Z Fagerson, G Gilchrist, S Cummings, A Christie, R Darge, J Dempsey.

Replacements: E Ashman, R Sutherland, E Millar-Mills, S Skinner, M Fagerson, G Horne, C Redpath, K Rowe.

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Eh, nooooo. Jack Crowley has single handedly fixed the broken Irish coaches and praise be that he has!

They don’t go to games outside of Dublin. All of them being born and raised in Dublin means they have a natural and unashamed Leinster bias. They don’t even try to hide it, the scoundrels.

Nope don't think so

5 3 bench

Oh I’m not at all worried about crappy takes. There’s no shortage of them here at the moment it would seem. I’ll just blend right in.

Sad to see an Ireland side with zero Ulster representation. But outside a few players, there's hardly anyone from up north that deserves a place currently.