{"id":728871,"date":"2026-01-29T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/728871\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:51:11","slug":"united-rugby-championship-tom-wood-set-to-make-munster-debut-against-glasgow-warriors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/728871\/","title":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship: Tom Wood set to make Munster debut against Glasgow Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ireland Under-20s fly-half Tom Wood is set for his senior debut when Munster travel to Glasgow in the United Rugby Championship on Friday night (19:45 GMT).<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 19-year-old, who is the son of former Ireland captain Keith Wood, has been named on the bench with Jack Crowley among the Ireland internationals missing to prepare for the Six Nations and JJ Hanrahan injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hanrahan had been set to start Munster&#8217;s win over the Dragons last week but pulled out late, with Tony Butler instead starting at Musgrave Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Butler has kept the 10 jersey for the trip to Scotstown and will again form the half-back pairing with Ethan Coughlan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Munster head coach Clayton McMillan has made four changes to the side that beat Dragons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centre Alex Nankivell will miss three to four weeks with a foot injury, meaning Diarmuid Kilgallen comes on to the wing with Shane Daly switching to midfield. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Props Josh Wycherley and Oli Jager take the places of Jeremy Loughman and Michael Alaalatoa respectively, while lock Evan O&#8217;Connell replaces South African World Cup winner Jean Kleyn in the second row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Munster go into the game fifth in the URC, five points behind league leaders Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland Under-20s fly-half Tom Wood is set for his senior debut when Munster travel to Glasgow in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-728871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115979189211460458","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}