Covid-hit Munster have named five debutants in their side to face Wasps in Sunday's Champions Cup opener - and 12 in total could make their senior bow in Coventry.
There are eight members of Munster's academy included in the matchday 23 due to the unavailability of players who are quarantining at home and in Cape Town following the recent curtailed trip to South Africa.
Academy quartet Patrick Campbell - who starts at full-back - hooker Scott Buckley, centre Eoin O'Connor, back row Daniel Okeke and prop James French all feature from the start.
Ireland loosehead Dave Kilcoyne will have to marshall French and Buckley in the front row.
The Reds are boosted by the return of John Hodnett, who makes his first start in 13 months - and his debut in the competition - having missed the majority of last season with an achilles injury.
Even among the more senior contingent, there are first starts of the season for Conor Murray, Damian de Allende and Chris Farrell, who makes his 50th Munster appearance after returning from an abdomen injury.
De Allende and Farrell team up in the centres with Murray and Joey Carbery in the half-backs.
Tadhg Beirne starts alongside O’Connor in the second row as captain Peter O’Mahony, Hodnett and Okeke complete the side.
Roman Salanoa is among the replacements having recovered from a knee injury with seven players in line to make their Munster debuts off the bench.
Summer addition Declan Moore and academy quartet Mark Donnelly, Ethan Coughlan, Tony Butler and Jonathan Wren are all included.
Also named are Cork Constitution’s John Forde, a product of PBC and member of the Provincial Talent Squad, and Young Munster’s Conor Moloney, a member of the National Talent Squad.
Moloney came up through the ranks at Ennis RFC in the same team as Coughlan and Butler with the trio lining out for the Ennis RFC U18s as recently as last year.
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