Munster will be without Jack Crowley for their Champions Cup opener against Bath as the out-half has been ruled out with a leg injury.<\/p>\n
Crowley picked up the injury in his side’s United Rugby Championship defeat against the Stormers last weekend and is set to be out for “one to two weeks”.<\/p>\n
Head coach Clayton McMillan has made five changes from the side that started the 27-21 loss at Thomand Park, which was their first defeat of the season.<\/p>\n
Fromer Leinster prop Michael Ala’alatoa is set for his Munster debut off the bench after joining until the end of the season from Clermont Auvergne.<\/p>\n
JJ Hanrahan comes in to replace Crowley and he partners Craig Casey in the half-backs with fellow summer arrival Dan Kelly coming into the backline.<\/p>\n
Jean Kleyn returns from international duty with South Africa to start in the pack with Michael Milne and John Hodnett.<\/p>\n
Shane Daly, Diarmuid Kilgallen and Thaakir Abrahams start in an unchanged back three with Kelly and Tom Farrell in midfield.<\/p>\n
Captain Tadhg Beirne, Hodnett and Gavin Coombes are in the back row.<\/p>\n
Munster: Shane Daly; Diarmuid Kilgallen, Tom Farrell, Dan Kelly, Thaakir Abrahams; JJ Hanrahan, Craig Casey; Michael Milne, Diarmuid Barron, John Ryan; Jean Kleyn, Tom Ahern; Tadhg Beirne (C), John Hodnett, Gavin Coombes.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Lee Barron, Jeremy Loughman, Michael Ala’alatoa, Edwin Edogbo, Ruadhan Quinn, Ethan Coughlan, Alex Nankivell, Alex Kendellen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster will be without Jack Crowley for their Champions Cup opener against Bath as the out-half has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-329377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}