Rhys Ruddock will captain a young 31-man touring side as the Vodacom United Rugby Championship leaders – 10 points clear at the top with three games left – bid to secure a home playoff spot.
Only front-row forwards Ronan Kelleher and Andrew Porter, who were both injured during the Six Nations, featured againstAhead of clashes with the Sharks and Stormers, who are sixth and fifth in the URC, respectively, Cullen said: “Some guys will need a bit of game time over there and the big thing is the work that has gone into this, it’s a much wider group.
“As we know, if you want to stay alive in the two competitions you need a good chunk of guys, and Caelan [Doris] and some of the guys were taking it easy in camp during the Six Nations. “We had some guys with their shoulders to the wheel back in base camp trying to push us up the mountain and carrying the load for all these guys.
“Huge credit goes into that group because they’ve done a fantastic job to get us into the situation that we have that bit of a lead, so it’s important to reward some of those guys with some more games as well.Ed Byrne, Peter Dooley, Michael Milne, Andrew Porter, Ronan Kelleher, John McKee, James Tracy, Vakh Abdaladze, Michael Ala’alatoa, Thomas Clarkson, Brian Deeny, Jack Dunne, Josh Murphy, Martin Moloney, Rhys Ruddock, Sean O’Brien, Scott Penny, Max Deegan, Alex Soroka.
Which will mean the SA sides will be out to prove a point. Expect the forwards to lift the physicality. 👍🍺
I still back us either way. A, B, C, D team I don’t care.
Cmon, be better. That's not what they're doing at all, they think they have enough of a lead at the top and are resting the lead players for the Heineken cup finals and knockouts of the URC. Shitty journalism.
No surprise at all! As always saving the ‘star’ names for European game v Leicester!
They’re saving their best players for the playoffs, win or lose they would have been smashed in SA!
very disrespectful from leinster 😡👎
Leinster’s second team is no where near as good as it used to be. Can see two losses away now which is running into dangerous territory given the table.
In fairness to them, their b squad is more that a match for slot of A, squad s.
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