Scotland team to play Fiji

Reaction to Scotland team to play Fiji in first match in Autumn Nations Series

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00:00Hello it's Graeme Bean from the Scotsman at the Oriel National Sports Centre in

00:05Edinburgh where Gregor Townsend has today named his team to play Fiji in the

00:10first of Scotland's four Autumn Internationals. It's a strong team even

00:14though it's drawn in a tally from players from Edinburgh and Glasgow he's

00:17not able to pick players from French or English clubs for this match and as

00:22Glasgow supply the bulk of the players there's nine in the starting 15 as

00:26opposed to six from Edinburgh and there's 15 Glasgow players in total in

00:30the matchday 23. The captain is Sione Tupelotu and there's one on cap

00:36player in the 23 and that's Tom Jordan who's on the bench he's expected to come

00:40on for Adam Hastings at some point in the second half. We'll be speaking to Sione

00:45Tupelotu tomorrow and so stay tuned for more.