{"id":342542,"date":"2026-03-12T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342542\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:43:09","slug":"six-nations-2026-ireland-to-name-team-after-scotland-make-three-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342542\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Ireland to name team after Scotland make three changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who did Scotland name?published at 13:49 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:49 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Ireland v Scotland (14:10 GMT)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Finn Russell celebrates\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26d35f11-6d50-48ca-b548-019275f15959.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Max Williamson and Grant Gilchrist form a new-look second row, and Zander Fagerson is back in the starting XV, as Scotland chase the victory away to Ireland that could lead to a first Six Nations title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Locks Gregor Brown and Scott Cummings, who started in the wins over England and France, are ruled out through injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gilchrist will win his 88th cap, becoming Scotland&#8217;s all-time record appearance maker for a second row. Williamson is given a second chance after his early removal in the comeback victory in Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having come off the bench at the halfway stage against France, Zander Fagerson reclaims his place from D&#8217;Arcy Rae.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winger Kyle Steyn, who has scored three tries in the tournament, is fit after going off with a gashed leg last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are changes on the bench as back-row Magnus Bradbury, lock Alex Craig and winger\/full-back Kyle Rowe make the matchday 23 for this first time in this campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who did Scotland name?published at 13:49 GMT 13:49 GMT Ireland v Scotland (14:10 GMT) Image source, Getty Images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-342542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}