Scotland A look to emulate senior side at IRB event

Lineen's squad were in a Bucharest restaurant on Saturday night watching on television as a Dan Parks-inspired Scotland side beat the Pumas 24-16 in the first of their two Tests.

Having reviewed their own performance against Georgia in the opening game of the IRB Nations Cup in the Romanian capital, which they lost 22-21, the A team are using the senior side's win as motivation for their game with Namibia tomorrow night.

Lineen told www.sru.org: "Everyone's delighted with the senior team's brilliant victory in Argentina and that should inspire us against what is another World Cup outfit in Namibia.

"The way the Scotland team played was outstanding. They moved the ball well and they defended outstandingly well and that's something we're looking to aspire to with the way we're trying to play."

Looking ahead to the second of three internationals at the IRB Nations Cup, Lineen is expecting yet another intense encounter as Namibia are at full strength.

"They play an attacking brand of rugby so it'll be a good game – there's no doubt about that," he said. "They've got an incredibly quick back three, they've got a nine who is a quality player (Eugene Jantjies] – he helps them tick – and up front they've got some hardy men."

Scotland have made 13 changes, including five positional, to the starting XV fielded against Georgia. In the backs, only Jack Cuthbert and Mark Robertson remain.

Colin Shaw and Rob Dewey are unavailable due to injury so John Houston moves to the wing from inside centre, where he is replaced by Bryan Rennie. Ben Cairns plays at outside centre.

The half-backs are rotated to give Mark McMillan and David Blair their first starts of the competition.

The forward pack is reshuffled to hand Andrew Kelly and David Young starting berths in the front row. Bruce Douglas moves from loose to tighthead.

In the back row, flanker Chris Fusaro, who scored off the bench last week, starts across from Ally Hogg, with Roddy Grant at No 8.