MUNSTER WERE SCHEDULED to name their squad today for the Magners League clash with Ulster on Friday night at Ravenhill but have delayed the announcement until tomorrow, according to a statement on the team’s website in the past hour.

The Reds have an astonishing 21 players unavailable for the interprovincial clash.

• Ten squad members are injured
• Two are suspended
• Nine will not be released by Declan Kidney and his Ireland management team. They include locks Donncha O’Callaghan, Mick O’Driscoll and Donnacha Ryan as well as David Wallace and Keith Earls.

John Hayes, Peter Stringer, Johne Murphy all trained this morning with Munster after their release from Ireland camp.

The Thomond Park outfit are currently four points ahead of the Scarlets at the top of the Magners League table. However, the province’s record in Belfast is poor in recent times with Munster’s sole success at Ravenhill coming in 2007.

Munster number eight James Coughlan believes the Reds must do ‘the simple things’ if they are to win in Belfast, according to the Limerick Leader this morning.

Coughlan, who scored a try in Munster’s rout of Benetton Treviso at Thomond Park said:

Ravenhill is always a difficult place to go. The last time we won up there was about three years ago. Anyone who goes up there finds it hard. Again I think it comes back to our set-piece, our line-out, our scrum, doing the simple things right. If we can win the small battles as it were, then hopefully we are good enough on the night to get a result.

We had a good result against Treviso. It is always hard, especially after the emotions of the previous week (v Toulon), a massive game for us, one we had to win. We needed to roll up our sleeves and dig in.