the first ever player interviewed by The Offside Line back in September 2016<\/a> as he rose to prominence scoring tries for fun for Melrose in the Premiership. He played every minute of Scotland U20s\u2019 2017 Junior World Cup campaign in Georgia as his side reached a highest ever fifth place finish, and went on to represent Scotland and TeamGB at sevens, before joining Edinburgh full-time on a two-year contract last summer.<\/p>\n\u201cI think every time Liam [Wells] has played in the URC or the EPCR he\u2019s done exceptionally well,\u201d said Everitt. \u201cUnfortunately, the injuries have got the better of him over the last 12 months, but it was an easy switch for him to come straight in for Duhan.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s comfortable on the left wing. I think the last game that he played on the left wing it was against Scarlets and he was really good, so it\u2019s a great opportunity for him to put his hand up. He\u2019s a massive player. A big, well-built, strong man, and he adds speed to that as well. He\u2019s good at high-ball regain and he\u2019s shown that in the pre-season warm-up games. So, I\u2019m very happy to give him a start.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think if you look at Ross McCann and how well he played when he came on last week \u2026 for me it\u2019s a good opportunity for Ross.\u201d<\/p>\n
The only other change to the starting XV is in the second-row where Marshall Sykes<\/strong> returns from a rest week to partner Grant Gilchrist<\/strong>, with Sam Skinner<\/strong> dropping out of the squad altogether, while Callum Hunter-Hill<\/strong> comes on to the bench as boiler-house cover meaning he is set for his first\u00a0 involvement since rejoining the club during the summer.<\/p>\nLuke Crosbie<\/strong> also joins the replacements after recovering from a hamstring issue, taking the place of Freddy Douglas, <\/strong>and Boan Venter <\/strong>switches in as loose-head cover meaning James Whitcombe<\/strong> misses out.<\/p>\nEveritt has stuck with the same half-backs \u2013 Cammy Scott<\/strong> and Shiel \u2013 as last week, which recognises the attacking fluidity they managed to generate. \u201cI think everyone deserves to have two starts and that\u2019s part of my policy unless things don\u2019t go the way I thought they would,\u201d said the coach. \u201cI thought Cammy and Charlie did really well on Friday night and managed the game well. Unfortunately Cammy had to leave the field, but he\u2019s passed his HIA two and three and we\u2019ll look to continue with that combination,\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe guys are upbeat for this game,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019ve had success over Cardiff the last two years ago when we\u2019ve gone down there. They\u2019re a team that kicks a lot and they\u2019ve got reward for it. They\u2019ve had a fantastic start to the season. So there\u2019s going to be a challenge for us, but one that we certainly are up for.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Edinburgh (v Cardiff @ Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday, 7.45pm kick-off BST \u2013 live on Premier Sports):<\/strong> W Goosen; R McCann, P O\u2019Conor, J Lang, L Wells; C Scott, C Shiel; P Schoeman, E Ashman, D Rae, M Sykes, G Gilchrist, L McConnell, D Richardson, M Bradbury \u00a9. Replacements:<\/strong> P Harrison, B Venter, P Hill, C Hunter-Hill, L Crosbie, B Vellacott, R Thompson, M Davidson.<\/p>\n Unavailable:<\/strong> Darcy Graham (knee), Duhan van der Merwe (heel), Ben Muncaster (ankle), Harry Paterson (concussion), Charlie McCaig (knee), Rhys Litterick (achilles), Matt Currie (head), Rob Carmichael (wrist), Connor Boyle (knee), Mosese Tuipulotu (knee).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDarcy aggravated an old injury and he\u2019s also available for November,\u201d continued Everitt.\u00a0 \u201cWe don\u2019t want to risk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,85185,1102,10753,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-525785","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-edinburgh-rugby","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115431738326465303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525785","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=525785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}