Ulster team to face Montpellier

Ulster team to face Montpellier
Pienaar starts against Montpellier
Ulster scrumhalf, Ruan Pienaar, will make his first start of the season for Ulster in tomorrow’s Heineken Cup Pool 5 game against Montpellier at Stade Yves du Manoir (kick off 15:40 GMT).

Pienaar’s inclusion is one of two personnel changes to the side that beat Leicester Tigers at Ravenhill last Friday night.

Man-of-the-match from the Tigers game, Roger Wilson, moves from blindside flanker to Number 8 as Nick Williams misses the game with a calf injury. Robbie Diack is promoted from the bench to start at 6.

All Black prop, John Afoa, is named as a substitute and is in line to make his first appearance of the season for Ulster having recovered from the calf injury that has kept him out since the summer.

The game is live on Sky Sports Interactive.

Ulster XV and replacements to face Montpellier, Heineken Cup, Stade Yves du Manoir, Saturday 19th October (kick off 16:40); (15-9): J Payne, A Trimble, D Cave, L Marshall, T Bowe, P Jackson, R Pienaar; (1-8): T Court, R Best, D Fitzpatrick, J Muller (Captain), D Tuohy, R Diack, C Henry, R Wilson; Replacements (16-23): R Herring, C Black, J Afoa, L Stevenson, I Henderson, P Marshall, S Olding, M Allen.