Kidney left with plenty to ponder

DECLAN KIDNEY is again faced with the one dilemma he admits makes his job as Munster coach more than a little difficult.

He has more or less a full deck from which to choose his starting XV and reserve bench for Sunday’s (3pm Irish team) all important Heineken Cup tie against Clermont Auvergne at the Parc des Sports Marchel-Michelin.

With Paul O’Connell, Alan Quinlan and Tomas O’Leary all back in action after long term injuries and Doug Howlett also challenging for a place, Kidney faces a massive task in putting out the kind of side best suited to keeping alive their hopes of remaining leaders of Pool 5 going into the following Saturday’s visit of Wasps to Thomond Park.