Ulster hooker Rob Herring and wing Zac Ward have both been recalled for the province’s United Rugby Championship game against Cardiff at the Affidea Stadium.<\/p>\n
Herring, who was amongst the replacements for the late 27-22 defeat by Scarlets last weekend, joins Scott Wilson and Angus Bell in the front row.<\/p>\n
The second row remains unchanged, with captain Iain Henderson joined by Charlie Irvine.<\/p>\n
In the back row, Marcus Rea makes his first start of the season while scrum-half Conor McKee comes into the team.<\/p>\n
Ward returns to the backline alongside Ethan McIlroy, who makes his first start of the season at full-back after recovering from a knee injury.<\/p>\n
Ben Carson will make his first URC start of the campaign at inside centre, while Richie Murphy opts for a 5:3 split among the replacements.<\/p>\n
Bryan O’Connor, Lorcan McLoughlin and Ben Moxham are all in line for their first appearances of the season off the bench. <\/p>\n
Jacob Stockdale, Nathan Doak, Stuart McCloskey, Rob Baloucoune, Tom O’Toole, Jude Postlethwaite, Tom Stewart, Cormac Izuchukwu and Nick Timoney are all away on Ireland duty.<\/p>\n
Ulster: McIlroy; Kok, Hume, Carson, Ward; Murphy, McKee; Bell, Herring, Wilson; Henderson (capt), Irvine; Dalton, Rea, McCann.<\/p>\n
Replacements: McCormack, Crean, O’Connor, Sheridan, McLoughlin, Shanahan, Flannery, Moxham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster hooker Rob Herring and wing Zac Ward have both been recalled for the province’s United Rugby Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-398886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}