{"id":289556,"date":"2025-11-29T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289556\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:47:08","slug":"scotland-age-grade-international-handed-prem-debut-by-northampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289556\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland age-grade international handed PREM debut by Northampton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a handful of games in the Cup, Scotland<\/a> U20 international Amena Caqusau<\/a> will make his PREM Rugby debut in Northampton\u2019s clash against Bristol<\/a> at Ashton Gate on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Caqusau will be hoping to make as spectacular an impact as recently capped Italian international, Edoardo Todaro<\/a>, who has been a revelation in his first season as a first-team Saints player.<\/p>\n

Todaro lines up on the other wing, with the back three completed by captain George Furbank<\/a>, following the inclusion of Fin Smith at fly-half. Smith\u2019s half-back partner for club and country, Alex Mitchell<\/a>, has been rested, with Archie McParland<\/a> handed the number nine jersey.<\/p>\n

Fraser Dingwall\u2019s absence through injury allows Toby Thame<\/a> an opportunity in the centres, alongside Tom Litchfield.<\/p>\n

Upfront, Emmanuel Iyogun<\/a> and Trevor Davison<\/a> make their first appearances in Black, Green and Gold in a month as they start in the front row at Ashton Gate, with Craig Wright<\/a> staying on at hooker for Northampton<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

Ed Prowse and JJ Van Der Mescht form Saints\u2019 engine room partnership in Bristol, while Josh Kemeny<\/a> is joined by Sam Graham<\/a> and Callum Chick<\/a> in the back row \u2013 with the latter ranking second in the league for post-contact metres (87) and fifth for carries (58) after five rounds.<\/p>\n

There is also room for more returning faces on Saints\u2019 bench, with Scotland international Rory Hutchinson<\/a> and flanker Tom Pearson<\/a> set to enter the action on Saturday.<\/p>\n

NORTHAMPTON:<\/p>\n

15 George Furbank<\/a> (c)
14 Edoardo Todaro
13 Tom Litchfield
12 Toby Thame
11 Amena Caqusau \u2013 Gallagher PREM debut
10 Fin Smith
9 Archie McParland
1 Emmanuel Iyogun
2 Craig Wright
3 Trevor Davison
4 Ed Prowse
5 JJ Van Der Mescht
6 Josh Kemeny
7 Sam Graham
8 Callum Chick<\/p>\n

Replacements:
16 Robbie Smith
17 Tom West
18 Cleopas Kundiona
19 Archie Benson
20 Tom Pearson
21 Tom James
22 Rory Hutchinson
23 James Pater<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a handful of games in the Cup, Scotland U20 international Amena Caqusau will make his PREM Rugby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-289556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289556","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=289556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}