Physical test for Scarlets at Thomond Park

With a solid victory over Newport Gwent Dragons last Sunday the Scarlets will be looking to build on the momentum as they take on fourth placed Munster who are currently only a single point ahead in the competition table.

Head Coach Wayne Pivac has made four changes to the starting XV from last weekend's derby clash. Aled Davies replaces the injured Gareth Davies whilst Phil John, Kirby Myhill and Rhodri Jones replace last weekend's front row of Rob Evans, Emyr Phillips and Samson Lee who all move to the replacements bench.

Scarlets Head Coach Wayne Pivac said: "We're improving bit by bit and the pieces of the puzzle are falling into place. At this time of year we want to be making good improvements.

"Getting four points from last weekend's game was what we needed to get, it would have been nice to get five but we'll take the four.

"If we look at Munster from the loss at home against Edinburgh to where they are now - they've made improvements all the way through. The energy levels and physicality they brought to the Leinster game over 80 minutes was impressive.

"They'll test us defensively and there's no doubt it'll be a physical encounter."

Scarlets team to take on Munster, Friday 10th October kick-off 7.35pm;
15 Liam Williams, 14 Harry Robinson, 13 Gareth Owen, 12 Scott Williams ©, 11 Kristian Phillips, 10 Rhys Priestland, 9 Aled Davies, 1 Phil John, 2 Kirby Myhill, 3 Rhodri Jones, 4 Jake Ball, 5 Johan Snyman, 6 Aaron Shingler, 7 John Barclay, 8 Rory Pitman

Replacements: Emyr Phillips, Rob Evans, Samson Lee, George Earle, James Davies, Rhodri Williams, Steven Shingler, Michael Tagicakibau

Players unavailable; Gareth Davies (knee), Rob McCusker (shoulder), Kyle Evans (fractured hand), Chris Hala'ufia (on loan), Connor Lloyd (knee), Frazier Climo (ankle), Jacobie Adriaanse (knee), Lewis Rawlins (shoulder), Ken Owens (neck), Regan King (hamstring), Ben Leung (knee)