Friday feeling for Munster as Halstead, Kelly return

MUNSTER play the first of their two remaining games, before the Heineken Cup clash with Llanelli Scarlets, on Friday night when Cardiff Blues fetch up at Musgrave Park.

Friday’s game is only the second time Munster have been in action since losing to Leicester in the middle of January. On top of that, Kidney will not see his side in action again until three weeks later when they run out against Ulster in Ravenhill a week before the trip to Stradey Park.

So the inclusion in the squad for Friday night of Trevor Halstead, John Kelly and John O’Sullivan is welcome news. Halstead has been out of action since the game against Dragons in early January with a calf injury. He had been named in the extended squad for the trip to Netherdale a fortnight ago but in the end it was felt that game might have come a little too early for the former Springbok.