Rugby World Cup 2019: Scotland make 14 changes for Russia
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Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has created 14 adjustments for Wednesdays World Cup assembly with Russia.
Winger Darcy Graham is the only participant retained final week, from the starting XV that conquered Samoa 34-0.
Experienced flanker John Barclay contributes to lead the side having been dropped to Ireland following the unsatisfactory launch loss.
Essential players have been rested for a possible winner-takes-all assembly Pool A leaders Japan on Sunday.
Scotland require a bonus-point win over Russia to go four points.
Full-back Blair Kinghorn, center Pete Horne, lock after coming off the bench against Samoa, although the younger Horne brother starts hooker George Turner along with Ben Toolis will make their first appearances in Japan.
He links up with star fly-half Finn Russell among those, with Glasgow Warriors team-mate Adam Hastings.
Fraser Brown, a substitute hooker from the first two games, is preferred in the rear row, together with Ryan and Barclay Wilson.
First and foremost we have chosen a team we think is capable of defeating an increasingly remarkable and combative Russia facet, that want to complete their Pool campaign on a top, said Townsend.
Any successful World Cup campaign is constructed on a team effort and also those gamers who did not get the chance to begin against Samoa helped provide that team with an excellent week of prep.
Now its their chance to get trapped in to our next major game.
Russia, ranked 20th in the entire world, are with no point in Japan following three beats.
Scotland: Kinghorn; Seymour, Taylor Horne, Graham; G Horne, Hastings; Reid, Turner Cummings Barclay Wilson.
Replacements: McInally Nel, Gilchrist, Bradbury, Ritchie, Pyrgos, Harris.
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