Ulster coach, Mark Anscombe, has made seven personnel to the team that lost to Newport Gwent Dragons last week for tomorrow's clash with Glasgow Warriors at Ravenhill (kick off 19:05).

Dragons 15 Ulster 8

Ulster coach, Mark Ancombe, has named Paddy Jackson at outhalf for their first RaboDirect PRO12 game of the season against Newport Gwent Dragons tomorrow night.

Ulster 21 Leinster 19

Munster head coach Rob Penney will expect his squad take a step further along the road to readiness for the season ahead when they face Bristol at Musgrave Park tonight (7pm).

MUNSTER coach Tony McGahan bids to end a run of five defeats on Welsh soil when his side face Cardiff Blues in the Magners League at Cardiff City Stadium on Friday night (TG4, 7.05pm).

IRELAND flanker Stephen Ferris has not been named in a 31-man Ulster squad for their Magners League trip to the Scarlets tomorrow night.

ANDREW TRIMBLE has not been released by Ireland for Ulster’s Magners League trip to face the Ospreys at Swansea tomorrow (5.10 pm).

LEINSTER coach Joe Schmidt can name three senior Irish internationals in the team to face Aironi at the RDS tonight despite having 13 players away on Six Nations duty and another two out injured.

FINALLY their wait is over. On Saturday, before a small crowd in a remote village in northern Italy, Ulster claimed a place in the Heineken Cup knockout stages for the first time in 12 years with a 43-6 win over Aironi.

ULSTER skipper Rory Best is in contention for Saturday’s win or bust Heineken Cup clash against Aironi in Viadana.

GLASGOW Warriors players have been read the riot act by head coach Sean Lineen ahead of their trip to Cork to play Munster on Saturday.

ULSTER coach Brian McLaughlin has targeted victory in their three remaining Heineken Cup pool games as the province bid to make the last eight in Europe.

ULSTER Rugby chiefs are confident Saturday’s Heineken Cup tie with Bath at Ravenhill will go ahead as planned.

DARREN CAVE makes a welcome return to Magners League action for Ulster when they travel to face Treviso tomorrow night.

CLINT NEWLAND makes his debut for Leinster tonight against the Dragons at the RDS (7.05pm), when the New Zealand Maori prop lines up in a front row which includes Heinke van der Merwe and Richardt Strauss.

IF bravery wins games, then this was surely a shining example of such. Munster centre Ivan Dineen’s persistence was rewarded in some style, as the young debutant’s injury-time try clinched Munster’s Magners League victory over Ulster at Ravenhill last night.

Ulster coach Brian McLaughlin has made seven changes to his side to play Munster in the Magner’s League at Ravenhill on Friday.

ULSTER will be without all five of their international squad members for Friday night’s Magners League interpro with in-form Munster at Ravenhill.

Full-back David McIlwaine will make his Heineken Cup debut for Ulster against Biarritz Olympique in France on Sunday.

ULSTER got their Heineken Cup campaign off to the perfect start with a five-pointer against Aironi at Ravenhill last night.

Blackrock College will be able to call on the strike power of their Ireland U20s Andrew Conway and Brendan Macken in Division 1A against a Dolphin disrupted without their regular number eight James Coughlan, who has been called up by Munster.

SPRINGBOK tight-head BJ Botha could be tossed into the fray quicker than anticipated when an unbeaten Ulster face Edinburgh at Ravenhill on Friday night (8.05pm).

ULSTER coach Brian McLaughlin put down his team’s success in Italy on Saturday night to sheer doggedness.

NIALL O’CONNOR booted Ulster to victory as they downed the Ospreys in a tense Magners League opener at Ravenhill last night.

MUNSTER will crank up their preparations for the new season with the introduction of several senior players for the friendly with Gloucester at Musgrave Park tomorrow (7pm).

IRELAND duo Stephen Ferris and Rory Best will have their first taste of action in over four months in Ulster’s pre-season friendly against English Premiership side Leeds at Ravenhill tomorrow night (7.30pm).

PREVIEW: AIB League Division Three Final

League leaders St Mary's College will look to take their excellent form into the AIB Senior Cup third round on the road to Garryowen this weekend.

The match of the day in tomorrow's AIB Senior Cup takes place at Donnybrook where the tenants Bective Rangers and Old Wesley will do battle.

The weekend's AIB League teams.

ONE for the rugby fans and history buffs in Dooradoyle this afternoon when Clonakilty and Garryowen clash in the AIB Cup semi-final (2.30pm).