Dewey’s willing to play anywhere

ROB DEWEY maintains inside centre is his best position but is ready to rise to the challenge of playing anywhere Scotland coach Frank Hadden asks him.

The 23-year-old will start at outside centre on Saturday when Ireland visit Murrayfield for the first of Scotland’s two World Cup warm-up matches.

His position might be considered the hardest to defend, and the challenge facing Dewey has not been made any easier by the fact he is set to go head-to-head with Brian O’Driscoll, arguably the best outside centre in world rugby at the moment, who will be playing his first game since aggravating a hamstring injury against Italy on March 17.

Dewey, who will move from troubled Edinburgh to Ulster next season, said: “It is a new thing for me but hopefully I can step up to the plate.

“We’ve been training really well and I’m looking forward to it.

“We’ve been doing quite a bit of work on defensive alignment, so now it is a case of putting that preparation into practice.

“I played outside centre against France at the end of the last Six Nations, and I felt quite happy with my defence that day, but obviously it is going to be a new chal-lenge this weekend against Ireland.

“Frank has given me a few words of advice.

He wants me to follow guys into the heavy traffic and look for offloads and things like that.”