MAGNERS LEAGUE: CONNACHT HAVE made one change for their final Magners League game of the season, against Glasgow Warriors at Firhill Arena tonight (7.45), writes Johnny Watterson.
Hooker Adrian Flavin will start, with Seán Cronin, one of five Connacht players this week called into the Ireland senior squad for the summer tour to Canada and the United States, reverting to the replacements.
Academy player Conor Higgins, a promising 20-year old prop from Shannonbridge in Offaly, is included among the replacements. The side is once again captained by John Muldoon.
Glasgow are without their injured Scotland centre Max Evans and Hefin O’Hare steps in there, while Evans’ younger brother Thom has pulled out after suffering a calf injury at training.
He is replaced by Scottish 7s international Colin Shaw. The side is captained by Alastair Kellock.
GLASGOW: B Stortoni; L Fa'atau, H O'Hare, G Morrison, C Shaw; R Jackson, C Gregor; K Tkachuk, F Thomson, M Low, R Gray, A Kellock (capt), J Eddie, K Brown, C Forrester. Replacements: P McArthur, J Welsh, D Turner, S Swindall, M McMillan, P Horne, C Forrester.
CONNACHT: T Nathan; F Carr, G Duffy, K Matthews, L Bibo; I Keatley, F Murphy; B Wilkinson, A Flavin, R Loughney; M Swift, A Farley; A Browne, R Ofisa, J Muldoon (capt). Replacements: S Cronin, C Higgins, D Gannon, C Rigney, C O'Loughlin, A Dunne, M Deane.
Referee:N Owens (Wales).
Verdict:Connacht win.
