Herbst Starts

By MG
January 19 2024

All the pressure is on Ulster as Quins look to celebrate qualification for the last 16 on the Investec Champions Cup in front of a sell-out Stoop (Saturday 13.00 TNT Sports).

Ulster need a win to maintain their fourth place as the  teams go into the game after vastly different results last week. Quins winning 54-15 in Cardiff while Ulster hosted Toulouse going down 24-28.

Quins are playing fair to the compettion by making only a couple of changes. Joe Marler, Irme Herbst and Chandler Cunningham-South all start up front with the backs unchanged.

In a very tough pool  it goes down to the wire . If Ulster don't get any points then the winner of Racing 92 v Cardiff would take fourth place. They have  selected all 6 of their Irish internationals in the shape of  Tom O'Toole, Tom Stewart, Iain Henderson, Nick Timoney, Jacob Stockdale and Stuart McCloskey.

Quins: 1. Joe Marler 2. Jack Walker 3. Will Collier 4. Irne Herbst 5. George Hammond 6. Chandler Cunningham-South  7. Will Evans 8. Alex Dombrandt (Capt) 9.. Danny Care 10. Marcus Smith 11. Cameron Anderson 12. Andre Esterhuizen 13. Oscar Beard 14. Nick David 15. Tyrone Green.

Bench:16. Sam Riley 17. Fin Baxter 18. Dillon Lewis 19. Joe Launchbury 20. Archie White 21. Will Porter 22. Lennox Anyanwu 23. Will Joseph.