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Penney sticks to Munster's winning formula

Rob Penney makes just one change from the side which beat Gloucester in Kingsholm.

Updated 14.40

STEPHEN ARCHER’S RETURN to the front row is the only change for Munster’s final Pool 6 game against Edinburgh.

Rob Penney’s side have already clinched a place in the quarter-finals but home advantage looks to be agonisingly out of their reach unless results elsewhere go their way.

Archer replaces BJ Botha in a side which is otherwise unchanged from the 20-7 win in Gloucester last weekend.

Botha is named among the replacements, as is Paddy Butler who is included in a Heineken Cup squad for the first time since injuring his thumb in October.

Butler’s return sees CJ Stander drop to the British & Irish Cup team to face Stirling County where he starts in the back row.

Edinburgh travel to Thomond Park on Sunday chasing the win that would give them a place in the Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-finals. Head coach Alan Solomons has named an unchanged 23 from their win against Perpignan last weekend.

Munster: Felix Jones; Keith Earls, Casey Laulala, James Downey, Johne Murphy; Ian Keatley, Conor Murray; Dave Kilcoyne, Damien Varley, Stephen Archer; Dave Foley, Paul O’Connell; Peter O’Mahony (c), Tommy O’Donnell, James Coughlan.

Replacements: Duncan Casey, James Cronin, BJ Botha, Donncha O’Callaghan, Paddy Butler, Duncan Williams, JJ Hanrahan, Simon Zebo.

Edinburgh: Jack Cuthbert; Dougie Fife, Nick De Luca, Ben Atiga, Tom Brown; Greig Tonks, Greig Laidlaw (capt); Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford, Willem Nel; Grant Gilchrist, Izak van der Westhuizen; Cornell Du Preez, Roddy Grant, David Denton.

Replacements: Aleki Lutui, Wicus Blaauw, Geoff Cross, Ollie Atkins, Tomas Leonardi, Grayson Hart, Carl Bezuidenhout, Joaquin Dominguez.

– Originally published 13.30

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