sustaining a knee injury<\/a> in last season’s Women’s Six Nations, which ruled her out of the remainder of the tournament and the subsequent Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\nThe 22-year-old suffered the problem in Ireland’s defeat by England and had to undergo surgery, before starting rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
King’s inclusion in the Wolfhounds starting line-up is one of three changes from the side which began the 34-7 bonus-point win over Edinburgh in December.<\/p>\n
Fellow Irish players Linda Djougang and Stacey Flood both start after being introduced off the bench in the Wolfhounds’ opening game.<\/p>\n
The Clovers also make three alterations to their starting XV which took to the field for the 35-31 success over Gwalia Lightning, with Emily Foley being drafted in on the left wing and Siobhan McCarthy and Beth Buttimer coming into the front row.<\/p>\n
The sides took a win apiece from the two meetings between the teams in last year’s competition.<\/p>\n
The Wolfhounds won 33-7 in the first round of fixtures, with the Clovers triumphing 31-10 in their second encounter in the following round.<\/p>\n
Clovers: Aoife Corey; Beibhinn Parsons, Anna McGann, Niamh Murphy, Emily Foley; Caitriona Finn, Emily Lane; Siobhan McCarthy, Beth Buttimer, Sadhbh McGrath; Aoibhe Flynn, Jane Clohessy; Rosie Searle, Faith Oviawe, Jemima Adams Verling.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Emma Dunican, Orlaith Morrissey, Ella Burns, Aoibheann McGrath, Caoimhe Murphy, Grainne Moran, Meabh Deely, Lucia Linn.<\/p>\n
Wolfhounds: Stacey Flood; Robyn O’Connor, Aoife Dalton, Eve Higgins, Maggie Boylan; Dannah O’Brien, Aoibheann Reilly; Linda Djougang, India Daley, Sophie Barrett; Naoise Smyth, Kate Jordan; Claire Boles, Maeve Og O’Leary, Erin King.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Maebh Cleneghan, Cara McLean, Caoimhe Molloy, Fiona Tuite, Poppy Garvey, Moya Hill, Katie Whelan, Vicky Elmes Kinlan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland international Erin King will return from a lengthy period out through injury when she starts for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-386917","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\/386917","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=386917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}