Wales head to Hive Stadium, Edinburgh on Friday evening as they look to make it a hat-trick of wins in this year’s U20 Six Nations for the first time since 2017.
Head coach, Richard Whiffin has made four personnel changes to his starting XV that put aside Ireland 20-12 at Rodney Parade last timeout. Tom Bowen switches from wing to fullback and after making his debut for Dragons RFC in the United Rugby Championship, Harri Ford gets his first start of the Championship replacing Harri Wilde.
Elijah Evans makes his return to the starting XV as he replaces Osian Roberts at outside centre. Dragons RFC’s, Harry Rees-Weldon returns on the wing. After missing the Ireland encounter due to injury Gloucester Rugby’s, Deian Gwynne replaces to Dan Gemine at blindside.
Speaking ahead of the fixture, head coach Whiffin said: “We really feel we’re starting to build some depth in the squad and the way we feel the game might go will suit certain players in different positions.
“We want to be able to test the squad as we’re looking for a good performance obviously on Friday night but we’re also prepping for a world cup at the back end of the year so we need to know a little bit about our squad.
“We’re taking Scotland seriously as it is going to be a very tough challenge up there – we know any away game in the championship is going to be tough. Scotland will be desperate to get a win in their last home game of the Six Nations.
“They have a couple of key individuals who give them go forward so we will need get on top of them so we collectively can put our own game plan into action,” added Whiffin.
Wales U20 v Scotland U20, Hive Stadium Fri 7 March, 7.15pm
Starting XV:
15 Tom Bowen (Cardiff Rugby)
14 Harry Rees-Weldon (Dragons)
13 Elijah Evans (Cardiff Rugby)
12 Steff Emanuel (Cardiff Rugby)
11 Aidan Boshoff (Bristol Bears)
10 Harri Ford (Dragons)
9 Logan Franklin (Dragons);
1 Ioan Emanuel (Bath Rugby)
2 Harry Thomas (Scarlets)
3 Sam Scott (Bristol Bears)
4 Kenzie Jenkins (Bristol Bears)
5 Tom Cottle (RGC)
6 Deian Gwynne (Gloucester)
7 Harry Beddall (Leicester Tigers) (c)
8 Evan Minto (Dragons)
Replacements:
16 Evan Wood (Cardiff Met)
17 Louie Trevett (Bristol Bears)
18 Owain James (Dragons)
19 Luke Evans (Exeter Chiefs)
20 Caio James (Gloucester)
21 Sion Davies (Cardiff Rugby)
22 Harri Wilde (Cardiff Rugby)
23 Elis Price (Scarlets)
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