Development XV - December 2024

[Cameo]

Edinburgh A v Glasgow A game at the Hive on Saturday. Would expect to see quite a lot of these players appear.

[Cameo]

Incidentally, just watched highlights of the NPC final from New Zealand. It's a wonder we can compete with them, England, France, and South Africa at all. So many opportunities for young, and not so young, players to play at a good level! And that's on top of the far greater number of available spots at the very top pro level.

[BaldiePete]

These are the teams for the A team match. Edinburgh have fourteen academy players in their squad, three from the National Talent Pathway and two students.

Edinburgh Rugby ‘A’ team to face Glasgow Warriors ‘A’ at Hive Stadium
Saturday 25 October (kick-off 3pm)
15. Henry Widdowson
14. Malelili Satala
13. Nairn Moncrieff
12. Henry Kesterton
11. Rory McHaffie
10. Ross Wolfenden
9. Adam McKenzie (NTP/Watsonians)
1. Mikey Jones
2. Jerry Blyth-Lafferty
3. Ollie Blyth-Lafferty
4. Euan McVie
5. Christian Lindsay
6. Tom Dodd CAPTAIN
7. Freddy Douglas
8. Tom Currie
Replacements
16. Jack Utterson
17. Ben White
18. Jamie Stewart
19. Mac Rutherford
20. Harry Jackaman (NTP/Watsonians)
21. Freddie Nickalls (The University of Edinburgh)
22. Callum Jessop (NTP/ Heriot’s)
23. Luca Mathieson (Newcastle University)


Glasgow Warriors: F Watson; C van Wyk, K Johnston, K Yule, B Salmon; J Shearer, A Fraser, P Schickerling, R Burke, J Oguntibeju, D Cockburn, M Duncan, A Miller ©. Replacements: J Roberts, O McKenna, F Richardson, J Morris, B Jackson, D Weir, J Ventisei, A Bryden.

[Cameo]

Edinburgh won 35-26. Bit surprising given Glasgow looked to have a fair bit more pro experience in their ranks. Not sure how accurate the lineups were though given the report I saw said Seb Stephen scored a try.

[Cameo]

An Emerging Scotland team played an hour long behind closed doors game against a fairly strong sounding Tonga team on Monday.

Included a fair few of these players.

I suppose that is a good thing. Better than nothing at least, but doesn't seem to be any more coherent a set of fixtures this year than last.

[BaldiePete]

The score was 19-12 to Tonga. This was the Emerging Scotland team.

15. Jack Brown 14. Fergus Watson 13. Geordie Gwynn 12. Kerr Yule 11. Lewis Wells 10. Cammy Scott 9. Ben Afshar 1. Mikey Jones 2. Harri Morris 3. Ollie Blyth-Lafferty 4. Euan McVie 5. Jare Oguntibeju 6. Liam McConnell 7. Freddy Douglas 8. Tom Currie

Replacements: 16. Jerry Blyth-Lafferty 17. Jake Shearer 18. Cole Lamberton 19. Christian Lindsay 20. Ryan Burke 21. Conor McAlpine 22. Matthew Urwin 23. Johny Ventisei 24. Oliver McKenna 25. Seb Stephen 26. Jamie Stewart 27. Josh Taylor 28. Maccenzie Duncan 29. Jonny Morris 30. Jack Oliver 31. Malelli Satala 32. Fin Thomson

[BaldiePete]

Scotland are playing an A team game against Italy on the day before the 6N match in February. They’ll be coached by Nigel Carolan assisted by Scott Forrest and Steve Lawrie.

About time, we need to give fringe players more experience of international rugby. Let’s have more of these.

https://scottishrugby.org/news-and-feat ... -february/

[septic 9]

Scotland are playing an A team game against Italy on the day before the 6N match in February. They’ll be coached by Nigel Carolan assisted by Scott Forrest and Steve Lawrie.

About time, we need to give fringe players more experience of international rugby. Let’s have more of these.

https://scottishrugby.org/news-and-feat ... -february/

same night as Scotland U20 play Italy U20. Its great to get these games but I have to wonder about this. Apart from wanting to follow both (watch them if possible - if I was going out this time I'd be wanting to see both as well as the big boys- there will be some big decisions to be made.
The A game is for experience, the U20s for the 6N - which takes priority for player selection? There may be others but I think OBL will be eligible for both. Of course that may be irrelevant if he is on the bench for Rome

[Cameo]

Scotland are playing an A team game against Italy on the day before the 6N match in February. They’ll be coached by Nigel Carolan assisted by Scott Forrest and Steve Lawrie.

About time, we need to give fringe players more experience of international rugby. Let’s have more of these.

https://scottishrugby.org/news-and-feat ... -february/

same night as Scotland U20 play Italy U20. Its great to get these games but I have to wonder about this. Apart from wanting to follow both (watch them if possible - if I was going out this time I'd be wanting to see both as well as the big boys- there will be some big decisions to be made.
The A game is for experience, the U20s for the 6N - which takes priority for player selection? There may be others but I think OBL will be eligible for both. Of course that may be irrelevant if he is on the bench for Rome

Is OBL the only one who would be in serious contention for both? May depend on how he goes over the next few games, plus how keen they are to give Jamie Stewart game time.