Its back now to the regular season and with 5 games to go and with only 4 points between 5th and second anything can still happen in this league I just hope for Ulster to have a home semi final as it should help them if they go into the final.
FRIDAY
ULSTER V CARDIFF BLUES 19.45
Fly-half Jackson and centre Olding had been out since
sustaining elbow injuries in January's defeat by Toulon in the European
Champions Cup.
Hooker Matthew Rees returns as captain in one of three
changes to the Blues side which beat Connacht.
Harlequins-bound prop Adam Jones, also returns to the front
row.
Lucas Amorosino starts on the wing in place of Argentine
international team-mate Joaquin Tuculet, who is out with a hand injury.
Manoa Vosawai returns among the replacements as does Wales
prop Scott Andrews.
Ulster: L Ludik; C Gilroy, D Cave (capt), S Olding, M Allen;
P Jackson, R Pienaar; C Black, R Herring, W Herbst, D Tuohy, F Van der Merwe, I
Henderson, C Ross, N Williams.
Replacements: J Andrew, A Warwick, B Ross, R Diack, P
Marshall, I Humphreys, R Scholes.
Cardiff Blues: R Patchell, A Cuthbert, C Allen, G Evans, L
Amorosino, G Anscombe, L Williams; S Hobbs, M Rees (captain), A Jones, J
Hoeata, L Reed, J Turnbull, E Jenkins, J Navidi
Replacements: K Dacey, T Filise, S Andrews, M Cook, M
Vosawai, T Knoyle, G Davies, T Isaacs
MY PREDICTION
I am hoping to be at that game. I wish to see Ulster win but
think that this game will be close. A good win here could set Ulster up for the
play offs.
LEINSTER V GLASGOW
19.35
Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour, Mark Bennett, Finn Russell,
Fraser Brown, Tim Swinson and Rob Harley all begin the game for Gregor
Townsend's side.
Fellow internationals Jonny Gray and Adam Ashe are on the
bench in Dublin.
Hogg returns at full-back for the Warriors, while Seymour
comes in on the right wing and Canada international DTH van der Merwe continues
on the opposite side.
Peter Horne and Bennett form the centre partnership, while
Russell comes in at stand-off and Niko Matawalu keeps his place at scrum-half.
The Leinster side shows seven changes with a string of
internationals returning to the fold after the Six Nations.
Ian Madigan, Eoin Reddan, Marty Moore and Jordi Murphy all
start, while Sean Cronin, Cian Healy and Luke Fitzgerald are named among the
replacements just six days on from playing winning roles in Ireland's
title-clinching 40-10 triumph over Scotland.
Glasgow: Hogg, Seymour, Bennett, Horne, van der Merwe,
Russell, Matawalu; Allan, Brown, Fagerson, Swinson, Kellock (capt), Harley,
Fusaro, Strauss.
Replacements: MacArthur, Yanuyanutawa, Cusack, Gray, Ashe,
Pyrgos, Braid, Vernon.
Leinster: Kirchner, McFadden, Te'o, Madigan, Kearney,
Gopperth, Reddan; Bent, Strauss, Moore, Denton, McCarthy, Murphy, Jennings
(capt), Conan.
Replacements: Cronin, Healy, Furlong, Marshall, Ryan, Boss,
D'Arcy, Fitzgerald.
MY PREDICTION
I would have to give this match to Leinster because of their
European Cup match next week being in that mind-set will make them a better
team and if they are not in that mind-set I cannot see anything except failure
next week
SATURDAY
LLANELLI SCARLETS V EDINBURGH
14.40
MY PREDICTION 
MUNSTER V CONNACHT
17.15
MY PREDICTION
This is an All-Ireland match and with the improvement of Connacht
this season you cannot be certain on who will win but I will give it to Munster
by less than 7
OSPREYS V ZEBRE 19.15
MY PREDICTION
BENETTON TREVISO V
NEWPORT GWENT DRAGONS 19.30
MY PREDICTION
This could be an interesting match and a match where Treviso
should be able to see a win and for this reason I feel that it will be close. I
think that this might be a surprise Italian win as the heat will not help the
Dragons
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