Munster have made one change to their starting team for Saturday’s United Rugby Championship quarter-final with the Bulls in Pretoria.<\/p>\n
Alex Nankivell comes in at centre to replace Dan Kelly, who drops to the bench.<\/p>\n
Ireland fly-half Jack Crowley remains sidelined with a leg injury that head coach Clayton McMillan described as “obscure”.<\/p>\n
JJ Hanrahan continues to deputise in the 10 jersey and he will partner captain Craig Casey.<\/p>\n
On the bench, lock Fineen Wycherley is set to make his 150th Munster appearance as he returns from injury.<\/p>\n
Munster are also without a number of other key players such as Ireland internationals Tadhg Beirne, Edwin Edogbo, Tom Farrell and Calvin Nash.<\/p>\n
McMillan’s side defeated the Lions on the final day of the URC regular season to secure a play-off place and knock Ulster out of the top eight.<\/p>\n
The Bulls finished fourth in the table behind Glasgow Warriors, Leinster and the Stormers.<\/p>\n
The sides met at the end of March in Pretoria, with the Bulls winning 34-31 in a thrilling nine-try encounter. <\/p>\n
Munster: Haley; Smith, Nankivell, O’Brien, Daly; Hanrahan, Casey (c); Loughman, Scannell, Ala’alatoa; Ahern, O’Connell; O’Donoghue, Hodnett, Gleeson<\/p>\n
Replacements: Barron, J Wycherley, Bartley, F Wycherley, Coombes, O’Donovan, Kelly, Kendellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster have made one change to their starting team for Saturday’s United Rugby Championship quarter-final with the Bulls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-611559","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\/611559","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=611559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}