DESTRUCTIVE flanker Mamuka Gorgodze will seek to emulate Romania’s forwards when his Georgia team take on Scotland tomorrow morning.

Four years ago Georgia came desperately close to beating Ireland and, having seen the Scots taken to the cleaners by Romania’s pack in their Pool B opener on Saturday, they are ready to unload another forward onslaught.

Fast and powerful, the versatile Gorgodze, nicknamed “Gorgodzilla” and voted the French league’s overseas player of last season, starts at openside in the Invercargill game, with Dimitri Basilaia at number eight.

Thirteen of the starting line-up play in France and an indication of the improving quality in Georgian rugby is that prop David Kubriashvili, good enough to keep All Black Carl Hayman on the bench at Toulon and the first Georgian to play for the Barbarians, can only make the replacements.

With only a few days to recover from an opening match that stretched them physically and mentally, Scotland have made 11 changes to their starting team.