{"id":655593,"date":"2026-05-07T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655593\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:40:08","slug":"womens-six-nations-scotland-make-seven-changes-for-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655593\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Six Nations: Scotland make seven changes for France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blind-side flanker Holland Bogan and outside centre Rachel Phillips make their first Scotland starts as head coach Sione Fukofuka makes seven changes for Saturday&#8217;s Six Nations meeting with France in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leah Bartlett, Elis Martin, Louise McMillan, Becky Boyd and Rhona Lloyd return to the XV following a disappointing 41-14 loss to Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland opened with a narrow win in Wales and were crushed at home by defending champions England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Rachel Malcolm was injured shortly before kick-off in Parma, with fly-half Helen Nelson leading the side again in her absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bartlett and Martin join the front row at loose-head prop and hooker, with lock McMillan winning her 60th cap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Number eight Boyd makes her first start of this campaign, while winger Lloyd is back following concussion protocols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Uncapped hooker Aicha Sutcliffe is among the replacements, along with Rhea Clarke, both featuring in their first matchday 23 of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">France have enjoyed comfortable victories over Italy, Wales and Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blind-side flanker Holland Bogan and outside centre Rachel Phillips make their first Scotland starts as head coach Sione&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-655593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}