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00:00Hello, it's Graeme Bean from The Scotsman, just back from Orium, where Gregor Townsend

00:06has named his team for the first of the Ottoman internationals against the USA.

00:11The match takes place at Murrayfield this Saturday. Townsend has selected a team of home-based

00:17players for this one because it falls outside the international window, so no access to

00:22its English and French-based players. So there's eight Glasgow players in the team, seven

00:27from Edinburgh, and the good news for Scotland is that Darcy Graeme and Doohan van de Merle

00:33both passed fit and will start on the wings. And for Doohan, it's a landmark occasion, it'll

00:40be his 50th Scotland cap, five years after his debut against Georgia, Scotland's record

00:46tri-scorer. And the other big news is there'll be potentially two new caps on Saturday. Liam

00:54McConnell starts the match, the young Edinburgh flanker, and Harry Morris, his teammate, is

01:00on the bench. He's a hooker, not played much rugby for Edinburgh this season, apart from

01:06pre-season games, but highly regarded by Gregor Townsend and should get his chance off the

01:13bench at some point on Saturday against the US. Other news for the team is that Jack Dempsey's

01:20back, it'll be his first Scotland match since the Six Nations. He got injured against Wales

01:24in the penultimate fixture in the Six Nations, a hamstring injury which ruled him out for the

01:30best part of six months. He then suffered a groin injury trying to make his comeback, but

01:34he's now fit again, has played for Glasgow and will start at number eight for Scotland on

01:39Saturday. The captain is Stafford McDowell. He'll partner Ollie Smith in the centre. Sione Tupilotu

01:50is setting this one out, but he will come in for the New Zealand game next weekend and captain

01:54Scotland for that one. Stafford McDowell will be assisted by two of his Glasgow Warriors teammates,

02:00Jamie Dobie and Scott Cummings, who have both been named as vice captains.

02:05And so the game kicks off at 5.40 on Saturday. The first of four games Scotland will play this

02:11autumn. So it's America first, then New Zealand, then Argentina and then Tonga. You can follow

02:18it all at the Scotsman website.

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