Jared Payne has recovered from injury and will start at
outside centre for Ulster in their Guinness PRO12 match. Ulster have had to
make some major surgery after their defeat to Zebre last week making 10 changes
Our fearless leader Rory Best returns to the side at hooker,
with Wiehahn Herbst returning at tight-head.
Franco van der Merwe
continues in the second row, while in the back row Robbie Diack returns at
blind side, Chris Henry comes in at open side and Roger Wilson switches from
blind-side to Number 8.
ULSTER TEAM V EDINBURGH
Forwards, Rob
Herring, Andrew Warwick, Bronson Ross, Lewis Stevenson and Nick Williams are
named on the bench, as are backs Michael Heaney, Stuart Olding and Darren Cave.
15. Louis Ludik 14. Andrew Trimble 13. Jared Payne 12.
Stuart McCIoskey 11. Tommy Bowe 10. Paddy Jackson 9. Paul Marshall 1. Ruaidhri
Murphy 2. Rory Best (Captain) 3. Wiehahn Herbst 4. Alan O’Connor 5. Franco van
der Merwe 6. Robbie Diack 7. Chris Henry 8. Roger Wilson Replacements 16. Rob
Herring 17. Andrew Warwick 18. Bronson Ross 19. Lewis Stevenson 20. Nick
Williams 21. Michael Heaney 22. Stuart Olding 23. Darren Cave
http://www.ulsterrugby.com/Home.aspx
http://www.ulsterrugby.com/Home.aspx
A big help for Edinburgh today is a return from
injury of club captain Mike Coman who will lead the side out in competition for
the first time this season. A gamble that they are making is bringing in academy
graduate Rory Sutherland. Grant Gilchrist and Roddy Grant move from the bench
to start at lock and open side respectively
EDINBURGH TEAM V ULSTER
Friday 3 October, Kingspan Stadium,
Ravenhill, kick-off 7.35pm
15 Greig Tonks, 14 Jack Cuthbert, 13 Sam Beard, 12 Andries
Strauss, 11 Tim Visser 10 Phil Burleigh 9 Sean Kennedy 1 Rory Sutherland 2 Ross Ford 3 John Andress
4 Anton Bresler 5 Grant Gilchrist 6 Mike Coman (captain) 7 Roddy Grant 8
Cornell Du Preez Substitute 16 James Hilterbrand 17 Allan Dell 18 Willem Nell
19 Ollie Atkins 20 Tomas Leonardi 21 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne 22 Tom Heathcote 23 Nick
McLennan
This is a match that Ulster should be able to win but if
they go into it with any sense of fear after what happened to them against
Zebre. I personally think that they will lose it. A bonus point will be tough
to get but not impossible. I think that this will be close but Ulster to win by
less than 7.
http://www.edinburghrugby.org/
http://www.edinburghrugby.org/
CONNACHT V CARDIFF


I feel that this could be a very interesting match between a team on form who traditionally play poorly and a team who are doling ok in the league as this match is in Connacht that this match will be very close and can go either way from time to time. I think that Connacht might have enough here to just win the match but not by much. If Connacht is going to do well at the end of the season this is a match that they have to win.
http://www.edinburghrugby.org/
http://www.cardiffblues.com/home.php
ZEBRE V OSPREYS


Osprey’s look like the best team in the league at the moment and to that point this should be an easy bonus point win for them. But they have to look at the Ulster match last week and know that this will not be as simple as they first thought. I feel that Osprey’s will win this match get the bonus point but it will take until the last 10 minutes to get it and Zebre will have learned how to set out their stall. If it likes the first half v Ulster Osprey’s have no hope.
http://www.zebrerugby.eu/
http://www.ospreysrugby.com/Home/Page


The match of the week without a doubt and this is not like most derbies as these 2 teams are traditionally the 2 best teams in the league. With each team having players that can change a match like Paul O Connell and Donncha O'Callaghan being regulars for Munster and for Leinster Gordon Darcy and Luke Fitzgerald being in the Ireland team on a regular basis you know that this could be anybody’s but I feel that Sean O Brians injury will give a narrow win to Munster
http://www.leinsterrugby.ie/
http://www.munsterrugby.ie/home.php
TREVISO V GLASGOW


Honestly you cannot see there being anything except a comfortable win for Glasgow as they seem to be improving and learning from every game. One thing that may make things tricky is the fact that they are going to Treviso. With players like Chris Cusiter and Gordon Reed this will be a very import type of match for them to get the bonus point from.
http://www.benettonrugby.it/homepage.aspx
http://www.glasgowwarriors.org/
SCARLET'S V DRAGONS


This all welsh derby is a match that could go either way and both teams could get a bonus point in this match. I feel that the fact that this is a derby will make it interesting but also the fact that the Scarlet’s are so attacking could make this a very different type of derby. With players like Gareth Davis and Darren Daniel and the poins they score you know that the Scarlet's will have an attacking threat
http://www.scarlets.co.uk/
http://www.newportgwentdragons.com/
http://www.newportgwentdragons.com/
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