Everitt said: \u201cWe\u2019re excited to get into matches after a lot of work on the training pitch. It has been a productive pre-season, and we\u2019re looking forward to seeing some of the work in action on Friday night. A lot of the younger guys have worked hard in the last few weeks and shown that they deserve a run-out for the senior side. There\u2019s a lot of potential, so we\u2019re looking forward to seeing what they can do in Belfast.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whitcombe and Litterick start at loosehead and tighthead respectively, alongside 21-year-old academy hooker Jerry Blyth-Lafferty.<\/strong> Young is joined in the second-row by academy youngster Christian Lindsay,<\/strong> with the 18-year-old set for his first senior involvement having come through the ranks at Loretto School.<\/p>\n In the back-row, Everitt opts to start with the youthful trio of Ollie Duncan<\/strong> (blindside flanker), Freddy Douglas<\/strong> (openside), and Tom Currie<\/strong> (number eight) having all featured together for Scotland under-20s.<\/p>\n Thompson is partnered at half-back by academy scrum-half Hector Patterson<\/strong>, 20, who starts after an impressive set of displays at the World Rugby U20 Championship earlier this summer. The midfield is made up of academy inside-centre Findlay Thomson,<\/strong> 21, and GB Sevens\u2019 Matt Davidson<\/strong> who starts at 13 and who has been trainimg with Edinburgh during the Sevens off-season.<\/p>\n In the back-three, Jack Brown<\/strong>, 20, starts at full-back, alongside wingers Lewis Wells<\/strong> and Ross McCann.<\/strong><\/p>\n Edinburgh team (to face Ulster at the Affidea Stadium on Friday, kick-off 7:35pm):\u00a0<\/strong>J Brown, L Wells, M Davidson, F Thomson, R McCann, R Thompson, Hector Patterson; J Whitcombe, J Blyth-Lafferty, R Litterick, C Lindsay, G Young, O Duncan, F Douglas, T Currie<\/p>\n Replacements:\u00a0<\/strong>M Jones, H Morris, A Williams, E McVie, S Skinner, L McConnell, H Watson, M Bradbury, C McAlpine, C Scott, R McKnight, C McCaig, M Satala<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everitt said: \u201cWe\u2019re excited to get into matches after a lot of work on the training pitch. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,85185,1102,4884,10232,712,5219,16,7913,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-415916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-divi","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-ross-thompson","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-sean-everitt","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-ulster","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115185966456835039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}