JOHN HODNETT WILL debut in the back row for Munster during Friday night’s visit of the Southern Kings to Musgrave Park.
A product of Clonakilty RFC and an U20 Grand Slam winner with Ireland last year, the Rosscarbery man has featured regularly for UCC in Division 1A of the AIL this season.
Hodnett, who turned 21 last month, starts at openside and is joined in the back row by number eight Arno Botha and blindside Jack O’Donoghue, the latter of whom was among 13 Ireland squad players made available to their provinces by Andy Farrell this week.
Chris Farrell also returns from international duty in midfield where he’ll line out outside Dan Goggin, while up-and-comers Calvin Nash and Shane Daly start wide.
James Cronin, Niall Scannell and John Ryan complete an all-international front row while Billy Holland captains the side on what will be his 226th appearance for his native province.
Academy players Keynan Knox and Ben Healy are included on the bench.
Munster
Mike Haley
Calvin Nash
Chris Farrell
Dan Goggin
Shane Daly
JJ Hanrahan
Neil Cronin
James Cronin
Niall Scannell
John Ryan
Fineen Wycherley
Billy Holland (C)
Jack O’Donoghue
John Hodnett
Arno Botha
Replacements:
Kevin O’Byrne
Jeremy Loughman
Keynan Knox
Gavin Coombes
Chris Cloete
Nick McCarthy
Ben Healy
Rory Scannell
come on the mun.
no coverage of the leinster club hurling final???
What the hell is the journals problem yesterday they predicted a 10+ pt loss for Kilcormac/Killoughey in the Leinster final and today they don’t evan cover it only the dub match. Topical bullshit
By the way K/K won another prediction they got wrong
They also predicted an easy Ballymun win..but if you look at the article,the first few posts are biased against Ballymun. The author almost tries to state Ballymun were lucky to be there.
Your dead right Paddy!!
They make history by winning there first county title & then go on to win the Leinster final!
What a super game!!
Hurling at its finest!
Not even an article!