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Scotland's South African powerhouses are back in action this weekend
By PA
Scotland internationals Pierre Schoeman and Duhan van der Merwe will turn out for Edinburgh for the first time this season when they take on Leinster in Dublin on Saturday.
Prop WP Nel and scrum-half Charlie Shiel also come in, the latter replacing Ben Vellacott who missed out for personal reasons.
Tom Dodd comes in at blindside flanker for Viliame Mata, who has a shoulder injury.
Head coach Sean Everitt is looking to build on two wins in his first two matches in charge.
“Leinster are a quality side and a team we have a lot of respect for from one to 23,” he said.
“We do however travel to Dublin with a lot of confidence after two hard-fought wins to start the season, and we can take a lot of positives from the resilience we’ve shown in closing out both victories.
“We’re delighted to welcome back both Pierre and Duhan to the squad. They are quality players with a lot of experience at the very top. They’ve trained really hard this week and are both excited to represent the club once again this weekend.”
Edinburgh team:
B Kinghorn; W Goosen, M Bennett, M Currie, D van der Merwe; B Healy, C Shiel; P Schoeman, D Cherry, W Nel, G Young, G Gilchrist©, T Dodd, H Watson, L Crosbie.
Substitutes: E Ashman, B Venter, J Sebastian, M Sykes, C Boyle, H Patterson, J Lang, C Dean.
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Borthwick definitely deserves credit for the performance against Wales. He's been justly criticised for taking so long to get a performance out of them but it definitely feels like he was the architect of that win. He picked a very strangely balanced 23 and it played out perfectly. Fingers crossed Borthwick will take the shackles off now. If we went after Ireland with that level of determination and self belief it may have been a different result. That's not to say we would have been able to play in the same manner but it felt like the first time since last year's Ireland that the players were singing off the same hymn sheet. There was a shared purpose and everyone played their part to near perfection. Again, it was a poor Wales so can't get ahead of ourselves but I hope Borthwick will turn a corner.
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