Ulster set for Champions Cup meeting with Leinster

Rob Herring and Stuart McCloskey are set to come back into the Ulster fold for Saturday's meeting with Leinster in the Champions Cup at the Aviva Stadium (5:30).

Captain Alan O'Connor, Tom O'Toole and Rory Sutherland are also back. There is only a place on the bench for Tom Stewart, last week's three-try hero.

Leicester Tigers or Edinburgh await the winners of the match in the quarter-finals of the tournament the following week.

Ulster: (Lowry, Baloucoune, Hume, McCloskey, Stockdale, Burns, Doak; Sutherland, Herring, O'Toole, O'Connor, Treadwell, McCann, Timoney, Vermeulen.

Replacements: Stewart, O'Sullivan, Toomaga-Allen, Sheridan, Rea, Cooney, Moore, Moxham.

Leinster: Keenan, Larmour, O'Brien, Henshaw, Lowe, Byrne, Gibson-Park; Porter, Sheehan, Furlong, Molony, Ryan, Baird, van der Flier, Conan.

Replacements: McKee, Healy, Ala'alatoa, Jenkins, Penny, McGrath, Byrne, Frawley.