London Irish head coach Toby Booth has named two Scots in his squad to face Edinburgh Rugby in tomorrow's Heineken Cup opener at the Madejski Stadium (kick-off 1.30pm).
Scotland winger Joe Ansbro [pictured] and former Edinburgh Rugby scrum-half, Ross Samson, who both joined the Exiles this season, will start the match.
The latter faces a head to head with the 75-times capped Mike Blair.
The London Irish squad features three changes and a positional switch from the side that battled back to draw with Leicester Tigers last weekend.
James Buckland lines up in the front row alongside England internationalist, Alex Corbisiero, and Paulica Ion.
Nick Kennedy and Matt Garvey will form the second-row partnership with All Black, Bryn Evans, moving to the back row.
Booth said:"If you want to progress out of the group stages in this competition you have to win your home games, starting tomorrow.
"As I have said previously, all four teams in the group look to play an exciting brand of rugby so it should make for an entertaining spectacle.”
London Irish team to Edinburgh: 15. Tom Homer; 14.Joe Ansbro*; 13. Steven Shingler; 12.Shontayne Hape*; 11.Adam Thompstone; 10. Dan Bowden (Captain); 9. Ross Samson; 1.Alex Corbisiero*; 2. James Buckland; 3.Paulica Ion*; 4. Nick Kennedy*; 5. Matt Garvey; 6. Bryn Evans*; 7.Jamie Gibson; 8. Jebb Sinclair*
Replacements: 16. Brian Blaney; 17. Max Lahiff; 18.Faan Rautenbach*; 19. James Sandford; 20. Richard Thorpe; 21. Johnathan Spratt; 22. Adrian Jarvis; 23.Paul Hodgson*
* Denotes capped internationalist
