Connacht coach Michael Bradley has made wholesale changes to his starting line-up ahead of tomorrow night's Challenge Cup meeting with Montpellier.

Bradley has performed major surgery in the wake of last weekend's Celtic League defeat at Munster and drafted in an entirely new half-back pairing in Conor O'Loughlin and David Slemen. Elsewhere in the backs division, Ted Robinson and Gavin Williams are also included.

The front-row also has a new look with Brett Wilkinson and Adrian Flavin starting while comes into the back row.

Mindful that defeats against Bath and Harlequins have put his side behind the eight ball in terms of progressing in this competition, Bradley is aware that nothing short of victory will be good enough at the Sportsground.

"We are still very much in this competition but we cannot afford any slip-ups," said Bradley. "We need to get results on Friday and next week and then see how we are fixed for the games against Bath and Harlequins after Christmas."

Connacht(v Montpellier): Daniel Riordan; Keith Matthews, Paul Warwick, Gavin Williams, Ted Robinson; David Slemen, Conor O'Loughlin; Brett Wilkinson, Adrian Flavin, Stephen Knoop; David Gannon, Andrew Farley(C); Michael Swift, Ray Ofisa, John Muldoon. Replacements: John Fogarty, Brett Sturgess, Brendan O'Connor, Colm Rigney, Chris Keane, Mark McHugh, John Hearty.