Women’s Six Nations: Tierney looking to blood newcomers in opener

Tom Tierney has named a side to face Scotland on Friday at the Broadway Stadium in Glasgow with a hint of inexperience about it outside of the starting XV.

This Women’s Six Nations starter gives a chance for head coach Tierney to give a first cap to Ailsa Hughes of Railway Union at scrum half.

Three of the players in the replacements, all front-row forwards, are uncapped — Jennie Finlay, Ilse Van Staden, and Ciara O’Connor — while another substitute, Eimear Considine, has also to make a first appearance.