Jackson Ready to Seize Big Chance As Lineen Hands Him Euro Debut

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RUARIDH Jackson will tomorrow bid to live up to his coach's belief that he is a big-name player when he makes his Heineken Cup debut for Glasgow in the bubbling Premiership hotbed of Bath.

The 20-year-old has flitted in and out of the Glasgow team, used mainly as a replacement to cover full-back and stand-off, and performing mainly in the former. But, with Glasgow's Heineken Cup quarter-final hopes already flattened, and Mark McMillan sidelined until the new year after a knee operation so pulling Colin Gregor into scrum-half, Sean Lineen has opted to rest Dan Parks, and deemed Jackson ready for his next lesson in pro rugby.

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Jackson Ready to Seize Big Chance As Lineen Hands Him Euro Debut

Lineen said: "I've known Ruaridh for a while. I spotted him in a school sevens tournament at Murrayfield a few years ago and was...

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