Johann Muller will captain an Ulster side against Harlequins this weekend at The Stoop which shows nine changes to the starting line-up from the side which were defeated by Bath last weekend at Ravenhill as Ulster Coach Brian McLaughlin uses the pre-season matches to rotate his squad. <\/p>\n
Amongst the backs, only the centre partnership of Darren Cave and Ian Whitten remains unchanged following Ulster’s pre-season opener last Friday, with Queens’ David McIlwaine replacing Jamie Smith, who sustained an eye injury, at fullback, Craig Gilroy and Nevin Spence replacing McCrea and Seymour on the wings and O’Connor and Porter coming in at half-backs in place of Ian Humphreys and the injured Paul Marshall (shoulder).<\/p>\n
Up front, Bryan Young has been named in the starting line-up having recovered from a hip injury which caused his late withdrawal from the squad last week. Declan Fitzpatrick retains his front row position while Andi Kyriacou is in at hooker for Nigel Brady. Muller’s partner in the second row this week is Ryan Caldwell while the only change to the back three is the inclusion of TJ Anderson in place of Willie Faloon at openside.<\/p>\n
Ulster: 15 \u2013 David McIlwaine; 14 \u2013 Craig Gilroy; 13 \u2013 Darren Cave; 12 \u2013 Ian Whitten; 11 \u2013 Nevin Spence; 10 \u2013 Niall O\u2019Connor; 9 \u2013 Ian Porter; 1 \u2013 Bryan Young; 2 \u2013 Andi Kyriacou; 3 \u2013 Declan Fitzpatrick; 4 \u2013 Johann Muller (Captain); 5 \u2013 Ryan Caldwell; 6 \u2013 Pedrie Wannenburg; 7 \u2013 TJ Anderson; 7 \u2013 Robbie Diack<\/p>\n
Replacements: 16 \u2013 Nigel Brady; 17 \u2013 Paul Kyrayiannis; 18 \u2013 Adam Macklin; 19 \u2013 Tim Barker; 20 \u2013 Neil McComb; 21 \u2013 Michael Heaney; 22 \u2013 Ian Humphreys; 23 \u2013 Luke Marshall; 24 \u2013 Johnny Shiels; 25 \u2013 Mark McCrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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