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Scotland's South African powerhouses are back in action this weekend
By PA
Scotland internationals Pierre Schoeman and Duhan van der Merwe will turn out for Edinburgh for the first time this season when they take on Leinster in Dublin on Saturday.
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Prop WP Nel and scrum-half Charlie Shiel also come in, the latter replacing Ben Vellacott who missed out for personal reasons.
Tom Dodd comes in at blindside flanker for Viliame Mata, who has a shoulder injury.
Head coach Sean Everitt is looking to build on two wins in his first two matches in charge.
“Leinster are a quality side and a team we have a lot of respect for from one to 23,” he said.
“We do however travel to Dublin with a lot of confidence after two hard-fought wins to start the season, and we can take a lot of positives from the resilience we’ve shown in closing out both victories.
“We’re delighted to welcome back both Pierre and Duhan to the squad. They are quality players with a lot of experience at the very top. They’ve trained really hard this week and are both excited to represent the club once again this weekend.”
Edinburgh team:
B Kinghorn; W Goosen, M Bennett, M Currie, D van der Merwe; B Healy, C Shiel; P Schoeman, D Cherry, W Nel, G Young, G Gilchrist©, T Dodd, H Watson, L Crosbie.
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Substitutes: E Ashman, B Venter, J Sebastian, M Sykes, C Boyle, H Patterson, J Lang, C Dean.
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The weather was dreadful but the playing surface was great so there is no real excuse for such another poor standard of play from both sides. Dragons just the better team. But, what a shocking decision by the TMO not to award the Fifita try. This pretty much sums up Welsh rugby with poor teams and poor officials. The WRU have a lot of work to do and it needs to be done quickly to avoid rugby being lost to our future generations.
Go to commentsNo chance of Borthwick selecting any young talent. He announced his selection policy from the outset with naming a poor OF as Captain, retaining an equally poor Youngs and Vunipola brothers when there were many better EQP in the Premiership. SB revival of Leicester was based on SA muscle and a terrific Welsh flanker he has generally ignored young English talent.
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