Roux and Marshall to make home debuts against Dragons
Quinn Roux
Second row Quinn Roux and academy back-row forward Ben Marshall will make their home debuts for Leinster after been named in Joe Schmidt’s starting XV for Saturday evening's RaboDirect PRO12 encounter with the Dragons in the RDS (6.15pm).
Former Stormers lock Roux partners skipper Leo Cullen behind the front three while former St. Andrew's College man Marshall comes into the back-row in place of Dominic Ryan who was forced off with an ankle injury in the round 1 defeat to Scarlets.
Schmidt has made four other changes from the side that lost heavily in Wales. Jack McGrath and Sean Cronin come into the front row for Heinke van der Merwe and Richardt Strauss.
Skipper Cullen takes the place of Damian Browne who drops out of the matchday squad, Devin Toner is named among the replacements.
The only change in the backline is the inclusion of John Cooney who steps in at scrum half after it was confirmed that Isaac Boss will be out of action until November with an elbow ligament injury.
Leinster (v Dragons): I Nacewa; A Conway, B Macken, N Reid, F Carr; I Madiagn, J Cooney; J McGrath, S Cronin, J Hagan; L Cullen (C), Q Roux; B Marshall, S Jennings, L Auva’a.
Replacements: T Sexton, H van der Merwe, M Moore, D Toner, J Murphy, L McGrath, C O’Shea, D Hudson.
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