Les Kiss: ‘Thomond Park is a special place to play, we have to embrace that side of it’

While Munster, who will have one eye on the big Saracens test the following week, are likely to be without six of their front-line players, Ulster’s director of rugby Les Kiss is more or less able to stack his side for Saturday’s must-win PRO12 clash at Thomond Park.

Although Ireland’s Jared Payne is sidelined, and they are without long-term injuries Tommy Bowe and Marcell Coetzee, flanker Chris Henry is back in action after missing last week’s disappointing share of the spoils with Cardiff, a result which saw Ulster slip to fifth place.

Kiss said he’s hoping Payne will return for the away clash with Ospreys in two weeks time.