MUNSTER team manager Shaun Payne is looking to the future, starting at Musgrave Park tonight (7pm) when the reigning Magners League champions take on London Irish.

Andy Kyriacou and Dan Tuohy will both make their first starts for Ulster in Friday’s pre-season friendly with Newcastle Falcons at Ravenhill.

Ulster's Operations Director David Humphreys commended Ulster's young players when they fell to a 17-10 defeat to a Bayonne selection in front of a 10,000 crowd in France on Saturday.

Kieron Dawson will assume the captaincy as one of four changes to the Ulster side to play Munster in the Magner's League at Thomond Park on Saturday evening.

Flanker Thomas Anderson has been ruled out of the Ulster squad to tackle Munster in the Magners League on Saturday at Thomond Park (kick-off 7.30pm).