| The Maori, who beat England in the final two years ago, will face the same backline that the Scots fielded against the Auld Enemy in their first victory of this year’s competition.
Speaking today from Edmonton, head coach Steve Bates said: “We’ve watched the New Zealand Maori play and we know a few of their players so we are aware of the scale of the challenge we face on Saturday.
“The lads have done themselves proud to get to the final. We have prepared well and we give it our best. We just have to make sure that we done get overawed by the experience because as we have seen so far in this tournament, anything can happen.”
Edinburgh Gunners Prop Alasdair Dickinson moves to tighthead to replace the injured Colin Noon while in the back division, Edinburgh Gunners Matt Dey centre teams up with the solid Glasgow Warriors centre Graeme Morrison.
Glasgow team-mate Rory Lamont also returns to the starting XV as he takes his place on the left wing moving Nikki Walker to the bench.
Scotland A team: 15 Calum MacRae (Border Reivers); 14 Simon Danielli (Border Reivers), 13 Graeme Morrison (Glasgow Warriors), 12 Matt Dey Edinburgh Gunners), 11 Rory Lamont (Glasgow Warriors); 10 Phil Godman (Edinburgh Gunners), 9 Rory Lawson (Edinburgh Gunners) CAPTAIN; 1 Allan Jacobsen (Edinburgh Gunners), 2 Fergus Thomson (Glasgow Warriors), 3 Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh Gunners); 4 Craig Hamilton (Glasgow Warriors), 5 Mark Rennie (Lyon); 6 Ross Beattie (Northampton Saints), 7 Alasdair Strokosch (Edinburgh Gunners), 8 David Callam (Edinburgh Gunners)
Substitutes from: Colin Noon (Biarritz), Tommy McGee (Border Reivers), Andy Hall (Newport-Gwent Dragons), Scott Gray (Border Reivers), Andrew Kelly (Edinburgh Gunners), Andy Miller (Border Reivers), Nick De Luca (Edinburgh Gunners), Nikki Walker (Border Reivers), Colin Gregor (Glasgow Warriors)
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