TWO international backs, Craig Chalmers and Tony Stanger, return to

the South XV for the McEwan's 70/- district championship final against

Glasgow at Melrose on Saturday (2.30).

Both caps missed the 37-13 win over North and Midlands at Riverside

Park on Saturday. The Melrose stand-off was in South Africa playing for

a World XV last weekend whereas the Hawick wing had a hamstring injury.

To accommodate them Graham Shiel switches from stand-off to inside

centre, Gary Parker moves over from the right wing to the left, and the

Gala pair, Brian Swan and Chris Dalgleish, drop out. It is indicative of

South's strength in depth that they can omit the 19-year-old Dalgleish,

who scored two tries on his district debut on Saturday. South team:

M Dods (Gala); A G Stanger (Hawick), S A Nichol (Selkirk), A G Shiel,

G A Parker; C M Chalmers, B W Redpath (all Melrose); G R Isaac (Gala), J

A Hay (Hawick), H A Hunter (Gala), R R Brown (captain), G W Weir (both

Melrose), D J Turnbull (Hawick), C D Hogg (Melrose), J P Amos (Gala).

Replacements -- D W Hunter (Selkirk), G H Oliver, B L Renwick (both

Hawick), K W Barrie (Jed-Forest).

Another capped back, Andy Nicol, resumes as the North and Midlands

scrum half for the district championship's third-place play-off against

Edinburgh, the first leg of the Greenyards' double-bill on Saturday

(12.30). The Dundee High captain replaces Stirling County's Andrew

Imrie.

North and Midlands have three other changes with the introduction of

Bruce Doney and Martin Waite and the recall of Jim Mathieson. Doney, the

Gordonian centre, replaces Nicol's Dundee colleague, Paul Rouse, who is

injured, but the two pack changes are unenforced. Waite, Dundee High's

former Scotland under-19 cap, displaces David Mitchell, the Edinburgh

Academical flanker, and Mathieson, Watsonians' No.8, deposes Brian Bell,

the Highland lock. North-Midlands XV:

S A D Burns (Edinburgh Acads), captain; G Stirling (Stewart's Melville

FP), B Doney (Gordonians), R J S Shepherd, J F Swanson (both Edinburgh

Acads); B R Easson (Boroughmuir), A D Nicol; J J Manson (both Dundee HS

FP), M W Scott (Edinburgh Acads), D W Herrington, S J Campbell (both

Dundee HS FP), J G Mathieson (Watsonians), D J McIvor, R I Wainwright

(both Edinburgh Acads), M Waite (Dundee HS FP). Replacements -- P W B

Flockhart (Stewart's Melville FP), A D Imrie, G N Flockhart (both

Stirling County), R Cairney (Dundee HS FP).

* GORDON Bulloch, Scottish Schools' hooker in two internationals last

season, moves up in age-group rugby to play for Glasgow in the under-21

district championship match against South at Mansfield Park tomorrow

evening (7.0).

His Hutchesons'/Aloysian colleague, Simon Sheridan, who will captain

the Glasgow team from the open-side flank, will be playing in his third

season of under-21 district rugby. So will Chris Dunsire, the Stirling

County lock, and James Adams, the Kilmarnock wing. Teams:

South Under-21 -- S Lang (Kelso); C A Joiner, R N C Brown, I S

Leighton (all Melrose), C S Dalgleish (Gala); S McCrae (Hawick), I T

Fairley (Kelso); M G Browne, S J Scott, captain (both Melrose), K B

Scott (Hawick), A Campbell (Jed-Forest), I Elliot, J Parkes (both

Hawick), D T Weir, M A Ballantyne (both Gala). Replacements -- C

Richards, D H A Scott, (Jed-Forest), K W Reid (Hawick), J Ramage, R

Hogarth, K Hendry (all Kelso).

Glasgow Under-21 -- A C B Greenshields (Clarkston); S Magorian (Ayr),

R D Kennedy (Stirling County), S Little (GHK), J W R Adams (Kilmarnock);

D Robertson (Clarkston), A A Kerr (GHK); A R Graham (Glasgow Acads), G C

Bulloch (Hutchesons'/Aloysians), B Steven (Kilmarnock), C M Dunsire

(Stirling County), S G McKechnie (West of Scotland), S Hutton (GHK), A J

Kerr (Ayr), J S Sheridan (Hutchesons'/Aloysians), captain. Replacements

-- M McGrandles (Stirling County), A P Healy (Hutchesons'/Aloysians), D

D G Dunlop (Stewartry), G C Perrett (West of Scotland), R D Eccles

(Glasgow Acads), M Waddell (Clydebank).

* SEVEN Musselburgh players will appear on their home ground at

Stoneyhill for East Lothian against Edinburgh's under-21 team tomorrow

night (7.0). Team:

N Lockhart (Musselburgh); C McGeary (Haddington), W Weatherhead

(Musselburgh), C Smith (Preston Lodge), P Thomson (North Berwick); C

Livingstone (captain), F R McMillan (both Musselburgh); N Bisset, G

McKelvey (both Haddington), B Telfer, A D MacColl (bo th Musselburgh), G

McRaild (Haddington), C J Pow (Musselburgh), S McNeil (Ross High), G

Dickson (Haddington). Replacements -- J McPhee, S Murray, G Stewart (all

Preston Lodge), B Grant, B Monks (both Musselburgh), M Anderson (North

Berwick).