Bowe on the try trail against future teammates

TOMMY BOWE today faces 10 Welshmen who’ll become team-mates next season at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea.

Ospreys, a regional amalgamation of two historic Welsh clubs, Neath and Swansea, have designs on European domination and new signing Bowe will be a major player in their pursuit of northern hemisphere supremacy.

Monaghan’s best known rugby export will be missed at Ravenhill. The haemorrhaging of indigenous talent from Ulster to cash-rich clubs across the water in the coming season – Roger Wilson and Neil Best move to Northampton — could impact upon Matt Williams’ rebuilding programme.