Biarritz v Glasgow: Teams

Glasgow have included the majority of their Scotland stars in their starting XV for Sunday's Heineken Cup Pool Two clash at Biarritz.

Head coach Sean Lineen has made eight changes for the trip to the south of France from the side which defeated Newport Gwent Dragons last week.

All but two players named for the starting line-up feature in the squad announced by Scotland boss Andy Robinson to train in St Andrews ahead of the RBS 6 Nations fixtures against France and Wales next month.

"The players enjoy going over to France," said Lineen. "We ran Biarritz close at Firhill and now have the opportunity to make amends.

"Training has been going well this week. Biarritz are an incredibly hard team to beat. They have some quality players so we need to make sure our discipline is good and we deal with their kicking game."

Changes

Lineen has made four of his eight changes in the pack, with Dougie Hall, Moray Low, Alastair Kellock and John Barclay selected for what will be their last club outing before the Six Nations.

They take over from Fergus Thomson, Ed Kalman, Dan Turner and Calum Forrester respectively.

Kelly Brown switches to blindside flanker due to the return of Barclay, while in the backs, Graeme Morrison returns at centre to partner Max Evans.

Rob Dewey consequently moves out to right wing, replacing DTH van der Merwe, who is sidelined with a calf injury. Scotland captain Chris Cusiter and Dan Parks have been selected ahead of Colin Gregor and Ruaridh Jackson.

Meanwhile, Biarritz have left England international Ayoola Erinle and rugby league import Karmichael Hunt on the bench.

Instead Arnaud Mignardi and Laurent Tranier will start in the centres with Damien Traille ruled out through injury.

Dimitir Yachvili and Fabien Barcella are sidelined but France internationals Imanol Harinordoquy and Jérôme Thion start in the home side's pack.

Biarritz: 15 Paul Couet-Lannes, 14 Takudzwa Ngwenya, 13 Arnaud Mignardi, 12 Laurent Tranier, 11 Ilikena Bolakoro, 10 Valentin Courrent, 9 Yann Lesgourgues, 8 Imanol Harinordoquy, 7 Trevor Hall, 6 Magnus Lund, 5 Pelu Taele, 4 Jérôme Thion, 3 Mosese Moala, 2 Benoit August, 1 Eduard Coetzee.
Replacements:16 Romain Terrain, 17 Rémy Hugues, 18 Campbell Johnstone, 19 Manuel Carizza, 20 Fabien Alexandre, 21 Karmichael Hunt, 22 Ayoola Erinle, 23 Iain Balshaw.

Glasgow: 15 Bernardo Stortoni, 14 Rob Dewey, 13 Max Evans, 12 Graeme Morrison, 11 Thom Evans, 10 Dan Parks, 9 Chris Cusiter, 8 Johnnie Beattie, 7 John Barclay, 6 Kelly Brown, 5 Alastair Kellock (capt), 4 Richie Gray, 3 Moray Low, 2 Dougie Hall, 1 Jon Welsh.
Replacements: TBC