{"id":263375,"date":"2025-11-15T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263375\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:28:08","slug":"just-one-change-to-starting-xv-as-darcy-graham-earns-50th-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263375\/","title":{"rendered":"Just one change to starting XV as Darcy Graham earns 50th cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Van der Merwe takes the place of second-rower Marshall Sykes as Townsend switches to a 5-3 bench.<\/p>\n<p>Finn Russell has been passed fit to start after concerns over ankle and injuries sustained last weekend but the match comes again too soon for tight-head Zander Fagerson.<\/p>\n<p>That sees D\u2019arcy Rae get the nod again in the No.3 jersey, with Elliot Millar Mills supplying cover off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Darcy Graham will earn his 50th cap, with the Edinburgh flier and Kyle Steyn retaining the starting berths on the flanks.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland (v Argentina @ Murrayfield Stadium, on Sunday, kick-off 3.10pm GMT): B Kinghorn; D Graham, R Hutchinson, S Tuipulotu \u00a9, K Steyn; F Russell, B White; P Schoeman, E Ashman, D Rae, S Cummings, G Gilchrist, G Brown, R Darge, J Dempsey Replacements: G Turner, N McBeth, E Millar Mills, M Fagerson, J Bayliss, J Dobie, T Jordan, D van der Merwe<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Van der Merwe takes the place of second-rower Marshall Sykes as Townsend switches to a 5-3 bench. Finn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[14632,1242,54026,99338,102286,108873,108874,5903,200,101,56,54,55,108875],"class_list":{"0":"post-263375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-darcy-graham","10":"tag-divi","11":"tag-duhan-van-der-merwe","12":"tag-gregor-townsend","13":"tag-matt-fagerson","14":"tag-rory-darge","15":"tag-rugby","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom","21":"tag-zander-fagerson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}