GLASGOW XV

GLASGOW'S XV for the match against Leicester, the English club champions, at Welford Road tomorrow shows seven changes from the team beaten 57-13 by Edinburgh in the Inter-city match at Murrayfield on Hogmanay.

Two international backs from Stirling County, Kenny Logan and Ian Jardine, are unavailable because of Scotland's preparations for the match against Ireland a week on Saturday. Fergus Wallace, the Boroughmuir and Scotland A forward, who is Glasgow's first-choice captain, is an injury absentee.

Three other Stirling players, Angus Turner, John Gibson, and Brian Robertson, return to the Glasgow team, as does Derek Stark, Boroughmuir's international wing. Gibson and Robertson missed the Inter-city as they were on holiday, whereas Stark is back for Glasgow after an absence of nearly six years, during which time he had four games for Edinburgh and played a like number of internationals in 1993. It will be only Stark's second game since his return to rugby after six weeks out because of a wrist injury.

Turner and Stark replace Torquil Mathewson and Logan on the wings, Alan Bulloch is in for Jardine at centre, Fraser Stott for Cameron Little at scrum half, David McVey for Wallace as blind-side wing forward, Gibson and Robertson for Stuart McGregor and Gordon Doran at prop. The 18-year-old Bulloch joins his elder brother, Gordon, in the team.

Robertson will be playing his forty-ninth game for Glasgow. Only three players have previously played more games for the District- Ian McLauchlan and his fellow international prop, Sandy Carmichael, as well as Richie Dixon, now Scotland's coach. The Glasgow's XV for Leicester is:

G Breckenridge (GHK); A Turner (Stirling County), A Bulloch (West of Scotland), A Garry (Watsonians), D Stark (Boroughmuir); C MacGregor (Glasgow Academicals), F Stott (West of Scotland); J Gibson (Stirling County), G Bulloch (West of Scotland), B Robertson (Stirling County), M Norval (Stirling County), G Perrett (West of Scotland), D McVey (Ayr), G Mackay (Stirling County), I Sinclair (Watsonians).

Replacements - C Sangster (Stirling County), C Little (GHK), J Shaw (West of Scotland), S Begley (Glasgow Academicals), S McGregor (West of Scotland), C Docherty (GHK).