Munster coach Tony McGahan has selected his strongest possible side for Saturday's crucial Magners League clash with Ospreys at Thomond Park Stadium (6.30pm).

Leinster 20 Ospreys 16

AS sports fans, the Irish can be as myopic as the best of them but spare a thought for the Ospreys side which will pitch up at the RDS for their Magners League tie with Leinster tonight.

Tommy Bowe will not play for The Ospreys against Leinster in the Magner’s League at The RDS on Friday night.

Ireland’s Tommy Bowe is one of a host of stars lining out for The Ospreys against Ulster in the Magner's League at Ravenhill on Tuesday (kick off: 7.30pm).

MICHAEL BRADLEY will hope his Connacht side can continue their successful European Amlin Challenge Cup form when they return to Magners League action against the Ospreys at Liberty Stadium tomorrow.

Wales scrum-half Mike Phillips will not start for The Ospreys against Connacht in the Magners League on Sunday at Liberty Stadium.

Ospreys 45 Viadana 19

PLAYERS of the calibre and reputation of Adam Jones, Ian Gough, Ryan Jones, Shane Williams, Mike Phillips and Lee Byrne are among a long list of notable absentees from the Ospreys team to face Munster in the Magners League at Swansea’s Liberty Stadium this evening.

Ireland's Tommy Bowe will line out at centre for The Ospreys against Munster in the The Ospreys in the Magners League tomorrow at the Liberty Stadium.

TIMING is everything. And Leinster coach Michael Cheika hopes to get it right by re-introducing some of his international stars for the Magners League clash with Edinburgh at Murrayfield tonight.

ISA NACEWA expects a huge backlash from Magners League front-runners The Ospreys at Liberty Stadium this evening (7.05pm).

Nathan Hines and Eoin Reddan will make their first starts for the province in Friday's game in Swansea (KO: 7.05pm).

WHEN sights were set on the highest peak, the substitute Magners League title might be construed as scant consolation after relinquishing a European crown; except somebody forgot to tell the loyal fans of Munster, close to 20,000 of them at Thomond Park last night.

Munster 36 Ospreys 10

THE Ospreys closed in on a barren 2008-09 season with a victory intheir final home Magners League match of the season.

Ospreys 34 Glasgow 23

DENIS LEAMY is back for Munster, while Irish international colleague Tommy Bowe has the tough task of replacing the injured Lee Byrne at full-back for the Ospreys in tomorrow’s Heineken Cup quarter-final clash at Thomond Park (1pm).

Wales full-back Lee Byrne failed a fitness test on his ankle and is out of The Ospreys team to face Munster in the Heineken Cup on Sunday at Thomond Park.

Coach Sean Holley will give full-back Lee Byrne every chance to make match day after including him in the Ospreys' squad to prepare for Sunday’s Heineken Cup quarter-final against Munster at Thomond Park.

Ulster 13 Ospreys 16

Heineken Cup quarter-finalists The Ospreys have surrendered their challenge for the Magner's League by selecting an under-strength side to play Ulster at Ravenhill on Friday.

THE Magners League came down to a two-horse race as defending champions Leinster overtook Munster with a gutsy second-half display against the Ospreys.

Ospreys 8 Leinster 13

Ospreys 22 Connacht 10

Connacht must be boosted by the absence of James Hook from a severely depleted Ospreys side for their Magners League tussle at The Liberty Stadium on on Sunday (2.15pm).

Cardiff Blues 12 Ospreys 16

Cardiff 12 Ospreys 16

Treviso 16 Ospreys 36

Ospreys 68 Treviso 8

Ospreys 15 Perpignan 9

Leicester 12 Ospreys 6

Ospreys 16 Dragons 3

THOSE entrusted with finding a successor to Eddie O’Sullivan saw another demonstration of Declan Kidney’s man-management credentials when he masterminded an unlikely victory over a star-laden Ospreys side on Saturday.

RONAN O’GARA is being wrapped in cotton wool for tomorrow week’s Heineken Cup semi-final against Saracens and misses tonight’s Magners League clash with Ospreys at Musgrave Park.

Bourgoin 21 Ospreys 28

Leinster 26 Ospreys 15

Ulster 8-16 Ospreys

Ulster 8 Ospreys 16

ANOTHER long, hard night at the office for Ulster and another defeat.

Ospreys 48 Ulster 17

ULSTER’S Andrew Trimble links up again with Kiwi Paul Steinmetz for tonight’s Heineken Cup trip to the Liberty Stadium as caretaker coach Steve Williams makes two changes and a positional switch to face the big-spending Ospreys.

LEINSTER return to Magners League duty against the Ospreys on Friday, having received mixed news concerning the injury worries picked up during Sunday’s Heineken Cup defeat in Toulouse.