Meet The All Black Named After William Wallace

Autumn Nations Series: Scotland v New Zealand

Where: Scottish Gas Murrayfield, Edinburgh When: Saturday 8 November Time: 15:10 GMT

Coverage: Listen unrecorded connected BBC Radio Scotland & BBC Sounds, positive travel unrecorded connected nan BBC Sport website & app

New Zealand backmost statement Wallace Sititi needs small acquisition connected Scotland. After all, he is named aft 1 of nan country's awesome humanities figures, William Wallace.

The thought came from his father, nan erstwhile Samoa world Lemalu 'Semo' Sititi, who was playing successful Scotland for nan Border Reivers erstwhile his boy was calved successful 2002.

Wallace, 1 of Scotland's best-known humanities figures, led nan Scots to triumph against an English service of King Edward I astatine nan Battle of Stirling Bridge successful September 1297, arsenic portion of a struggle for independence.

"At nan clip erstwhile I was expected to beryllium born, we were based present successful Scotland," explained Sititi Jnr, who will commencement against Scotland successful Saturday's Autumn Nations Series gathering connected nan blindside flank.

"A fewer weeks earlier that, my mum's dada fell sick, truthful she flew backmost to Samoa to look aft him and ended up having maine there, while my dada was stuck here.

"He named maine aft William Wallace because he loved nan movie Braveheart. My parents thought William was a spot excessively communal arsenic a first name, truthful ended up pinch Wallace."

The All Blacks travel to Murrayfield looking to sphere a 120-year-old unbeaten grounds against Scotland, and nan juncture will beryllium other typical for Sititi.

"It's a beardown relationship for myself and my family," he said. "It's been a typical emotion being backmost present and experiencing it.

"I deliberation 2 aliases 3 weeks aft my birth, my mum flew backmost here, truthful I spent nan early years of my life here. Don't retrieve excessively much, truthful successful a consciousness this is my first clip successful Scotland.

"It's been a typical week starring into a large game, and yeah, conscionable excited. My first clip against nan Scottish arsenic well."

In a lucifer featuring a number of intriguing subplots, nan conflict of nan 10s – Finn Russell v Beauden Barrett – is possibly nan astir fascinating.

The All Blacks fable has seen and done it each arsenic a World Cup-winner and a two-times World Player of nan Year, but has a patient respect for his other number.

"I really respect Finn, ever have," said Barrett, who will play his 143rd Test connected Saturday.

"I conscionable emotion nan measurement he plays pinch freedom, almost for illustration he's not worried astir anything. I conjecture that's astir apt why you spot nan brilliance, it's for illustration he's sewage thing to suffer and he conscionable plays pinch zero care.

"That's really I play my champion footy too, having that anticipation aliases that emotion of state and evidently he epitomises that."