The Wallabies will face Scotland in the second match of Australia’s 2016 Spring Tour, with kick-off scheduled for 1:30am on Sunday 13 November (AEDT).
Wallabies live scores, blog
When: 1:30am Saturday 13 November (AEDT)
Where: Murrayfield
TV: BeIN Sports 3, live
Betting: Scotland $4.10, Australia $1.24Scotland
15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Alex Dunbar, 11 Tim Visser, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Greig Laidlaw (c), 8 Ryan Wilson, 7 Hamish Watson, 6 John Barclay, 5 Jonny Gray, 4 Richie Gray, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 Ross Ford, 1 Allan Dell.Replacements: 16 Fraser Brown, 17 Gordon Reid, 18 Moray Low, 19 Grant Gilchrist, 20 John Hardie, 21 Ali Price, 22 Pete Horne, 23 Rory Hughes.
Australia
15 Israel Folau, 14 Dane Haylett-Petty, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Reece Hodge, 11 Henry Speight, 10 Bernard Foley, 9 Will Genia, 8 Lopeti Timani, 7 Michael Hooper, 6 David Pocock, 5 Adam Coleman, 4 Rory Arnold, 3 Sekope Kepu, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Scott Sio.Replacements: 16 Tolu Latu, 17 Tom Robertson, 18 Allan Alaalatoa, 19 Rob Simmons, 20 Will Skelton, 21 Dean Mumm, 22 Nick Phipps, 23 Quade Cooper.
The Wallabies have only one change to their starting side ahead of the match against Scotland and that is the return of Will Genia, who missed last week due to his commitments with French side Stade Francais.
Nick Phipps was moved to the bench to accomodate Genia’s return, with Michael Cheika saying that Phipps had impressed but not done enough to displace Genia.
“Genia, I thought he’s been one of our best all season,” said Cheika.
“I just feel that this is a good game for him to play, come back in and get straight into it and then Nick [Phipps] will finish the game. I think Nick’s standard has definitely gone up from what I saw earlier in the year and now there’s a real competition going on there.”
The match will see the Aussies look to make it two wins from as many starts in their Spring Tour, after defeating Wales by a comfortable margin last week.
After this week’s match, they have Tests against France, Ireland and England to come.
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