Friday's PRO12 teams: Ospreys host Edinburgh
Friday 19 February 2016 23:25, UK
A look ahead to the three Guinness PRO12 games on Friday night, including defending champions Glasgow v Munster live on Sky Sports.
Treviso v Dragons (6.10pm)
Newport Gwent Dragons skipper Thomas Rhys Thomas makes a return from injury to start against Benetton Treviso in Italy.
The 33-year-old hooker is one of six changes that have been made to last weekend's team that lost to Connacht at Rodney Parade.
Full-back Carl Meyer returns to the side after recovering from injury and is joined in the back three by winger Hallam Amos who has been released from Wales' camp.
Fly-half Jason Tovey has been rested after suffering a back injury last weekend and is replaced by Angus O'Brien who partners Sarel Pretorius in the half-backs.
Two changes are made to the front row as Boris Stankovich and Thomas join tighthead prop Brok Harris for the clash.
There is one change in the second row as Cory Hill gets the nod alongside Rynard Landman.
Treviso: 15 Jayden Hayward, 14 Ludovico Nitoglia, 13 Luca Morisi, 12 Alberto Sgarbi (c), 11 Angelo Esposito, 10 Sam Christie, 9 Alberto Lucchese; 1 Cherif Traorè, 2 Luca Bigi, 3 Simone Ferrari, 4 Filo Paulo, 5 Tom Palmer, 6 Andrea De Marchi, 7 Marco Lazzaroni, 8 Dean Budd.
Replacements: 16 Filippo Filippetto, 17 Matteo Zanusso, 18 Manu Salesi, 19 Jeff Montauriol, 20 Marco Barbini, 21 Robert Barbieri, 22 Chris Smylie, 23 Tommaso Iannone.
Dragons: 15 Carl Meyer, 14 Ashton Hewitt, 13 Adam Hughes, 12 Adam Warren, 11 Hallam Amos, 10 Angus O'Brien, 9 Sarel Pretorius; 1 Boris Stankovich, 2 Thomas Rhys Thomas (c), 3 Brok Harris, 4 Cory Hill, 5 Rynard Landman, 6 Ben White, 7 Nic Cudd, 8 Nick Crosswell.
Replacements: 16 Rhys Buckley, 17 Hugh Gustafson, 18 Shaun Knight, 19 Matthew Screech, 20 Lewis Evans, 21 Charlie Davies, 22 Geraint Rhys Jones, 23 Ross Wardle.
Ospreys v Edinburgh (7.05pm)
Edinburgh have made four changes to the side that lost 22-21 to the Scarlets last weekend.
Two players in the backline have been promoted from the bench to start against seventh-place Ospreys, with Sean Kennedy slotting in at scrum-half in place of Nathan Fowles and Dougie Fife moving onto the right wing where he takes over from Damien Hoyland.
There are two changes to the starting pack as Allan Dell moves into the loosehead prop berth for Rory Sutherland who is with the Scotland national team, while Jamie Ritchie takes up the No 6 jersey in place of Mike Coman who is ruled out with a calf injury.
Ospreys meanwhile come into the clash after beating Munster at Irish Independent Park on Sunday. While head coach Steve Tandy was pleased with the result, he warned his team to keep their feet on the ground.
"We know that if we don't back up the Munster result with a similar performance and outcome then all our efforts in Cork will be wasted," said Tandy.
"We're going up against an experienced, big and physical team who have the second best defence in the league, so it's not going to be easy."
Ospreys: 15 Dan Evans, 14 Jeff Hassler, 13 JJ Engelbrecht, 12 Owen Watkin, 11 Ben John, 10 Sam Davies, 9 Brendon Leonard (c); 1 Nicky Smith, 2 Sam Parry, 3 Ma'afu Fia, 4 James King, 5 Rory Thornton, 6 Dan Lydiate, 7 Sam Underhill, 8 Dan Baker.
Replacements: 16 Scott Otten, 17 Gareth Thomas, 18 Aaron Jarvis, 19 Rynier Bernardo, 20 Olly Cracknell, 21 Tom Habberfield, 22 Josh Matavesi, 23 Eli Walker.
Edinburgh: 15 Greig Tonks, 14 Dougie Fife, 13 Michael Allen, 12 Sam Beard, 11 Tom Brown, 10 Phil Burleigh, 9 Sean Kennedy; 1 Allan Dell, 2 Neil Cochrane (c), 3 John Andress, 4 Anton Bresler, 5 Ben Toolis, 6 Jamie Ritchie, 7 Hamish Watson, 8 Cornell Du Preez.
Replacements: 16 George Turner, 17 Grant Sheills, 18 Simon Berghan, 19 Grant Gilchrist, 20 Magnus Bradbury, 21 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, 22 Chris Dean, 23 Blair Kinghorn.
Glasgow v Munster (7.35pm on Sky Sports 5)
Glasgow Warriors: 15 Peter Murchie, 14 Taqele Naiyaravoro, 13 Glenn Bryce, 12 Peter Horne, 11 Sean Lamont, 10 Duncan Weir, 9 Ali Price; 1 Gordon Reid, 2 James Malcolm, 3 Sila Puafisi, 4 Tim Swinson, 5 Leone Nakarawa, 6 Rob Harley, 7 Chris Fusaro, 8 Josh Strauss (c).
Replacements: 16 Cammy Fenton, 17 Jerry Yanuyanutawa, 18 Zander Fagerson, 19 Greg Peterson, 20 Simone Favaro, 21 Grayson Hart, 22 Fraser Lyle, 23 Rory Hughes.
Munster: 15 Andrew Conway, 14 Darren Sweetnam, 13 David Johnston, 12 Rory Scannell, 11 Ronan O'Mahony; 10 Ian Keatley, 9 Tomás O'Leary; 1 Dave Kilcoyne, 2 Niall Scannell, 3 John Ryan, 4 Donnacha Ryan, 5 Billy Holland (c), 6 Jack O'Donoghue, 7 Tommy O'Donnell, 8 Robin Copeland.
Replacements: 16 Mike Sherry, 17 James Cronin, 18 Mario Sagario, 19 Dave Foley, 20 Conor Oliver, 21 Duncan Williams, 22 Johnny Holland, 23 Cian Bohane.
