After the heart break of a Champions Cup defeat to Leinster, attention turns to the league, as Ulster begin a run of three tricky games in a bid to secure second place in Conference B.
Dan McFarland has made five changes with Iain Henderson, Robert Baloucoune, Nick Timoney being omitted, while Darren Cave drops to the bench and Rory Best is injured.
Rob Herring replaces Best in the front row alongside Eric O’Sullivan and Marty Moore. Alan O’Connor captains the side and is partnered by Kieran Treadwell in the second row, who was superb at the weekend. There’s only one change to the back row with Sean Reidy recovering from injury and replacing Nick Timoney at blindside flanker. Jordi Murphy and Marcell Coetzee start at openside flanker and number eight respectively.
McFarland has made just two changes in the backline with Luke Marshall starting his first game of the season after making a try scoring comeback off the bench at the weekend. He starts at outside centre alongside Stuart McCloskey. Rob Lyttle is the only . . .
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