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Munster’s team has been named to Sunday’s Round 4 Guinness PRO14 game against Dragons at Rodney Parade (2pm – live on TG4, eir Sport, Premier Sports and S4C).
There are seven changes to the team that recorded the win against Cardiff Blues at Thomond Park on Monday night.
Fresh off his Guinness PRO14 debut, Academy mainstay Josh Wycherley makes his first start this time, as he and Keynan Knox, making their first appearance of the campaign, take down both sides of hooker Kevin O’Byrne.
Jean Kleyn joins captain Billy Holland in the engine room, while in the back row Chris Cloete takes his place on the open side with last week’s try scorers Jack O’Donoghue and Gavin Coombes retaining their places.
Scrum half Craig Casey, who is starting his fourth straight game, is paired with JJ Hanrahan in the back half this week.
Rory Scannell makes the positional switch to outside center, and in doing so releases jersey number 12 for Damian de Allende to enter.
The final change to the back three sees Matt Gallagher start as a winger with Calvin Nash and Darren Sweetnam on the wings.
In the replacements, Thomas Ahern and Jake Flannery from the Academy are included with Ahern in line to make his Munster debut if he is featured.
Find out everything you need to know before the game here.
Munster: Matt Gallagher; Calvin Nash, Rory Scannell, Damian de Allende, Darren Sweetnam; JJ Hanrahan, Craig Casey; Josh Wycherley, Kevin O’Byrne, Keynan Knox; Jean Kleyn, Billy Holland (C); Jack O’Donoghue, Chris Cloete, Gavin Coombes.
Replacements: Diarmuid Barron, James Cronin, Stephen Archer, Thomas Ahern, Tommy O’Donnell, Nick McCarthy, Jake Flannery, Jack O’Sullivan.
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Hear what Forwards coach Graham Rowntree and Darren Sweetnam had to say this week in preparation for Sunday’s game.
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