Overview
- Munster travel to The Rec on Saturday to launch their Investec Champions Cup campaign after their first URC defeat of the season to the Stormers.
- Head coach Clayton McMillan announces five changes from last week’s lineup for the trip to Bath.
- Out-half Jack Crowley is sidelined by an ankle injury sustained against the Stormers and is expected to miss one to two weeks.
- Former Clermont prop Michael Ala’alatoa is set to make his Munster debut off the bench.
- Dan Kelly makes his first Champions Cup appearance for the province as Michael Milne starts, with Lee Barron, Edwin Edogbo and Ruadhán Quinn in line for competition debuts.