Scotland call on Swinson to replace Gray against Australia

Gray, along with Ross Ford, has been suspended for three weeks for the dangerous clear-out of a ruck during Scotland's final pool match against Samoa at the weekend.

Ford is replaced at hooker by Fraser Brown - though given that Scotland have appealed against the suspensions that may yet change. The result of the appeal will be known on Saturday.

There are two other changes to Vern Cotter's side: Peter Horne is in for Matt Scott at inside centre and Blair Cowan replaces Ryan Wilson at blind-side flanker.

"It's always nice to be part of the final eight of any qualifying competition, the guys are very excited about being here," said Cotter.

"We will go into this game with the belief that we can compete with and dominate a very strong Australian team, and move forward to the last four.

"They are a front-foot momentum team so defence will be key but also getting our hands on the ball and expressing ourselves as we like to."

15 Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors) – 37 caps; 9 tries, 2 pens, 51 points
14 Sean Maitland (London Irish) – 19 caps; 3 tries, 15 points
13 Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors) – 12 caps; 5 tries, 25 points
12 Peter Horne (Glasgow Warriors) – 14 caps; 1 try, 1 con, 1 pen, 10 points
11 Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors) – 21 caps; 10 tries, 50 points

10 Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors) – 14 caps; 2 tries, 3 cons, 1 pen, 19 points
9 Greig Laidlaw CAPTAIN (Gloucester) – 45 caps; 4 tries, 55 cons, 99 pens, 427 points

1 Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh Rugby) – 51 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
2 Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors) – 14 caps
3 Willem Nel (Edinburgh Rugby) – 7 caps; 1 try, 5 points
4 Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors) – 16 caps
5 Richie Gray (Castres) – 50 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
6 Blair Cowan (London Irish) – 14 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
7 John Hardie (unattached) – 4 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
8 David Denton (Edinburgh Rugby) – 31 caps

16 Kevin Bryce (Glasgow Warriors) – 3 caps
17 Gordon Reid (Glasgow Warriors) – 14 caps
18 Jon Welsh (Newcaslte Falcons) – 10 caps; 1 cap, 5 points
19 Alasdair Strokosch (Perpignan) – 47 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
20 Josh Strauss (Glasgow Warriors) – 4 caps
21 Henry Pyrgos (Glasgow Warriors) – 17 caps; 4 tries, 20 points
22 Richie Vernon (Glasgow Warriors) – 23 caps
23 Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors) – 100 caps, 14 tries, 70 points