CELTIC LEAGUE TEAM NEWS

Celtic League Round 8 Friday Team News

Friday 4 November
ULSTER v OSPREYS
At Ravenhill, 7.10 pm live on Setanta (Ireland) & BBC Wales.
Referee: Iain Heard (SRU). Touch Judges: George Clancy (IRFU), Paul Haycock (IRFU)

ULSTER
15 Bryn Cunningham; 14 James Topping; 13 Kevin Maggs; 12 Paul Steinmetz; 11 Andrew Maxwell; 10 Paddy Wallace; 9  Isaac Boss; 1 Justin Fitzpatrick; 2 Nigel Brady ; 3 Bryan Young; 4 Justin Harrison (Captain); 5 Ryan Caldwell; 6 Campbell Feather; 7 Neil McMillan; 8 Roger Wilson
Replacements: 16 Declan Fitzpatrick; 17 Rod Moore; 18 Henry Head; 19 Stephen Ferris; 20 Reece Spee; 21 Adam Larkin; 22 Jonny Bell

OSPREYS
The Ospreys team will be selected from the following squad of 22:
Backs (10): Adrian Cashmore, Johnny Vaughton, Richard Mustoe, Andrew Bishop, Leigh Davies, Aled Brew, Matthew Jones, Shaun Connor, Richard Rees, Jason Spice Forwards (12): Cai Griffiths, Paul James, Richard Hibbard,  Barry Williams (Captain), Andrew Millward,  Ian Evans, Andrew Newman, Lyndon Bateman, Richard Pugh, Lee Beach, Steve Tandy, James Bater.

Friday 4 November
GLASGOW WARRIORS v CONNACHT
At Hughenden, 7.30 pm. Referee: Tim Hayes, (WRU).
Touch Judges: Malcolm Changleng (SRU), Alan Forrest (SRU)

WARRIORS
15 Graydon Staniforth, 14 Hefin O’Hare, 13 Graeme Morrison, 12 Scott Barrow, 11 Colin Shaw, 10 Colin Gregor*, 9 Graeme Beveridge CAPTAIN, 1 Kevin Tkachuk, 2 Scott Lawson* , 3 Lee Harrison, 4 Tim Barker, 5 Dan Turner, 6 Paul Dearlove, 7 John Barclay*, 8 John Beattie*,
Substitutes:16 Fergus Thomson*, 17 Stuart Corsar, 18 Gregor Hayter, 19 Steve Swindall, 20 Sam Pinder, 21 Andrew Henderson, 22 Eddie McLaughlin
* = Member of Scottish Institute of Sport

CONNACHT
15 Matt Mostyn, 14 Ted Robinson, 13 Darren Yapp 12 Keith Matthews, 11 Conor McPhillips, 10 Paul Warwick, 9 Chris Keane; 1 Ray Hogan, 2 John Fogarty, 3 Stephen Knoop, 4 Christian Short, 5 Andrew Farley (c), 6 John Muldoon, 7 Brendan O’Connor, 8 Colm Rigney.
Replacement: 16 Joe Merrigan, 17 Dan McFarland, 18 David Gannon, 19 Michael Swift, 20 Conor O’Loughlin, 21 David Slemen, 22 Daniel Riordan.

Friday 4 November
CARDIFF BLUES v MUNSTER
At the Arms Park, 7.30 pm. Referee: Peter Allan (SRU).
Touch Judges: David R Davies (WRU), Howard Hopkins (WRU)

BLUES
 15. Roger Warren, 14. Rhys Williams, 13. Jamie Robinson, 12. Marc Stcherbina, 11. Craig Morgan, 10. Lee Thomas, 9. Ryan Powell, 8. Andy Powell, 7. Maama Molitika, 6. Kort Schubert, 5. James Goode, 4. Deiniol Jones, 3. Ben Evans, 2. Gareth Williams, 1. Martin Jones, 
Replacements: 16. Nathan Llewelyn, 17. Duayne Goodfield, 18. Craig Quinnell, 19. Mark Lewis, 20. Wayne Evans, 21. Tristan Davies, 22. Dean Dewdney

MUNSTER
15 TBC, 14 John Kelly, 13, Gary Connolly, 12 TBC, 11 Anthon Pitout, 10 TBC, 9 Tomas O’Leary, 1 Frank Roche, 2 Jerry Flannery, 3 Federico Pucciariello, 4 Trevor Hogan, 5 Mick O’Driscoll, 6 John O’Sullivan, 7 David Wallace, 8 Stephen Keogh (capt).
Replacements from: Tony Buckley, Eugene McGovern, Denis Fogarty, Shane O’Connor, Johnny O’Connor, Frank Cogan, Mike Prendergast, Paul Burke, Jeremy Manning, Trevor Halstead, Barry Murphy, Shaun Payne, Mossie Lawlor