Southern province host Edinburgh at Musgrave Park on Friday
Munster must quiet the noise against Edinburgh in quest for URC home quarter-finalWinger Diarmuid Kilgallen, injured in that win over Scarlets, is replaced by Shay McCarthy, while the other winger Shane Daly and tighthead Oli Jager were injured during Ireland A’s game against England A last weekend. Calvin Nash comes in on the wing, while John Ryan starts at tighthead. Jack O’Donoghue’s absence forces a changed back five up front.
And there are five changes up front. Niall Scannell swaps the hooker position with Diarmuid Barron while Evan O’Connell comes in to the secondrow as Tom Ahern switches to O’Donoghue’s position at blindside. John Hodnett comes in for Alex Kendellen and Brian Gleeson takes over from Gavin Coombes at number eight.Munster defence coach Denis Leamy said it’s important they continue to build momentum heading into the business end of the season.
“We had a tough challenge against Scarlets a couple of weeks ago at home and we put in a really good performance on the night. We didn’t get it all our own way. We made a few mistakes in the first half, but just the amount of energy and the amount we work in the first half, it eventually told in the second half when we got the scores that came off the back of the Scarlets fatiguing a little bit for the amount of tackles they had to make.
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