Three Connacht players who featured in the Emerging Ireland tour have returned to the matchday squad for tomorrow’s BKT URC clash with Scarlets at The Sportsground (k/o 7.35pm).
Cian Prendergast is named in the starting XV while Dylan Tierney-Martin and Cathal Forde are among the replacements.
In total there are six changes from last week’s side, with Denis Buckley, Leva Fifita, Conor Oliver, Kieran Marmion and Tiernan O’Halloran also coming into the starting lineup.
Buckley partners Dave Heffernan and Finlay Bealham in the front row while Niall Murray continues in the second row alongside Fifita. Paul Boyle completes the back row with Prendergast and Oliver.
Jack Carty captains the side from out-half with Marmion alongside him, while the centre partnership of David Hawkshaw and Byron Ralston is unchanged. Wingers Mack Hansen and John Porch are also retained.
CONNACHT RUGBY MATCHDAY SQUAD VS SCARLETS
Friday 21st October 2022, 19:35 @ The Sportsground
Number/Name/Caps
- Tiernan O’Halloran (207)
- John Porch (64)
- Byron Ralston (5)
- David Hawkshaw (5)
- Mack Hansen (18)
- Jack Carty (182) (C)
- Kieran Marmion (213)
- Denis Buckley (213)
- Dave Heffernan (170)
- Finlay Bealham (178)
- Niall Murray (39)
- Leva Fifita (17)
- Cian Prendergast (32)
- Conor Oliver (45)
- Paul Boyle (77)
- Dylan Tierney-Martin (8)
- Jordan Duggan (28)
- Jack Aungier (36)
- Oisín Dowling (29)
- Jarrad Butler (98)
- Colm Reilly (12)
- Cathal Forde (2)
- Alex Wootton (35)
