Joe Roberts – who played for Scotland during the recent U20s Six Nations – will co-captain the national under-19s team in a friendly against England this weekend. Image: © Craig Watson –
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FERGUS PRINGLE has named his Scotland Under-19s team – sprinkled with some Under-20s players needing game-time ahead of the World Rugby U20 Championship in Italy at the end of June – for a friendly against England at Percy Park RFC in North Shields tomorrow [Saturday] afternoon.
Stand-off Ross Wolfenden continues as co-captain following the defeat to Italy Under-19 at the Greenyards in early April, with hooker Joe Roberts taking over from prop Ben White as the other co-captain.
“These U19 fixtures are about building experience for our best young players and benchmarking ourselves against international opposition,” said head coach Pringle.
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“We want to go down to Newcastle and put in a performance that we can be proud of against very tough opposition that will really test us in key areas of the game.
“The group have worked hard this week and there are signs of real progress and they’ll be determined to show that in our performance individually and collectively.”
Scotland U19 team to play England U19 at the Percy Park RFC, North Shields tomorrow (kick off 2pm):
15. Harry Provan (Glasgow Warriors)
14. Nairn Moncrieff (Edinburgh Rugby)
13. Angus Hunter (Heriot’s RFC)
12. Alex Bryden (Glasgow Warriors)
11. Jamie Thomson (University of St Andrews)
10. Ross Wolfenden – Co-captain (Edinburgh Rugby)
9. Ben Curtis (GHA RFC)
1. Will Pearce (Cardiff Metropolitan University/Bristol Bears
2. Joe Roberts – Co-captain (Glasgow Warriors)
3. Jamie Stewart (Edinburgh Rugby)
4. Aidan Orr (Marr RFC)
5. Dan Halkon (Glasgow Warriors)
6. Archie McMichael (Glasgow Warriors)
7. Rory Purvis (Glasgow Warriors)
8. Logan Gray (Stirling County)
Replacements:
16. Jack Utterson (Kelso RFC)
17. Jake Shearer (Glasgow Warriors)
18. Ryan Whitefield (Biggar RFC)
19. Anthony McCormack (Hull RUFC/Bishop Burton University)
20. Finn Ronnie (Strathallan School)
21. Hamish MacArthur (Edinburgh Rugby)
22. Freddie Drake-Lee(Swansea University)
23. Archie Barbour (Kelso RFC)
24. Mac Rutherford (Edinburgh Rugby)
25. Seth Roberts (Stamford School/Northampton Saints)
26. Ben Firth (Kirkham School/Sale Sharks)
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