Best and Bowe return for Friday night but perhaps of more interest is Gilroy being switched to full back and Payne ghosting to outside centre, at the expense of Cave, as Anscombe continues to rotate his squad.
In total there are 11 Ireland internationals in the starting XV in a side that sees seven personnel changes and three positional switches to the team that beat Connacht in the Sportsground last Saturday.
I don’t know if Anscombe hasn’t decided on what his starting XV is going to be or if he has decided to rotate a certain number of players each match in order to keep them fresh. Certainly, players like Porter, McIlwaine and Doyle have done little wrong to drop out all together, and I don’t think all the changes have been down to injury, so there seems to be a degree of “controlled experimentation” from the . . .
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