Hadden opts for seven changes against Pumas

Head coach Frank Hadden has made seven changes to the side which started against Argentina in the team’s last Test ahead of Saturday’s Murrayfield meeting with New Zealand.

In the pack, he has gone for experience, with Jason White, Simon Taylor and Nathan Hines — all capped more than 50 times for their country — being recalled after missing Scotland’s summer trip to South America.

None of the trio have had the kind of build-up they would have wanted — White has only played a handful of games for Sale Sharks so far this season; Taylor, who has been picked at number eight, has been deployed mainly in the second row for Stade Francais; and Hines has only recently returned from a 30-day suspension in France for stamping.