Munster and Leicester Sides Announced

The sudden injury of Anthony Horgan and the continuing doubt over Paul O’Connell and Rob Henderson meant Munster were unable to finalise their starting line up at the lunchtime…

The sudden injury of Anthony Horgan and the continuing doubt over Paul O’Connell and Rob Henderson meant Munster were unable to finalise their starting line up at the lunchtime press conference in Cardiff today.

Leicester have however named the side which will start against Munster with Austin Healey at No10 partnered by Jamie Hamilton although there is a suggestion that Leicester manager Dean Richards will infact use Healey at scrum half and Andy Goode in the pivotal No10 position.

The teams are as follows:
Munster:
1 Peter Clohessy
2 Frankie Sheehan
3 John Hayes
4 Mick Galwey
5 Paul O Connell or Mick O’Driscoll
6 Alan Quinlan
7 David Wallace
8 Anthony Foley
9 Peter Stringer
10 Ronan O’Gara
11 Not announced
12 Jason Holland
15 Dominic Crotty

The remainder of the backs are from the following: Rob Kelly John Henderson Mike Mullins Jeremy Staunton

Leicester:
1 Graham Rowntree
2 Dorian West
3 Darren Garforth
4 Martin Johnson
5 Ben Kay
6 Lewis Moody
7 Neil Back
8 Martin Corry
9 Jamie Hamilton
10 Austin Healey
11 Freddie Tuilagi
12 Rob Kafer
13 Oliver Smith
14 Geordan Murphy
15 Tim Stimspon

Replacements
Richie Cockrel