Ulster v Ospreys Live: Live updates, kick-off time, team news and TV channel

Injury-hit Ospreys head to Belfast this evening with a makeshift team as they take on Ulster at Ravenhill.

Toby Booth has 40% of his squad unavailable for the away fixture in Belfast - the usual absentee figure being around 22%.

Most of the players are injured with a couple of Wales internationals having their workload managed after a six-day turnaround.

As such, the Ospreys are fielding players out of position with hooker Lewis Lloyd named at flanker. Six lock options are absent with second-rows Lewis Jones and Will Greatbanks making first Ospreys starts.

Rhys Thomas and Dan Gemine, who has just turned 19, are named on the bench for potential debuts as they step up from the Super Rygbi Cymru (SRC) from Aberavon and Swansea respectively.

No. 8 Morgan Morris will captain the side, with Wales scrum-half Kieran Hardy making his first start following his summer move from Scarlets.

Wing Keelan Giles appears for the first time this season after recovering from the injury that stopped him touring with Wales this summer.

Kick-off is at 7.35pm, with the match being broadcast on Premier Sports 1.

Ulster: Mike Lowry; Werner Kok, Ben Carson, Stuart McCloskey, Jacob Stockdale; Aidan Morgan, John Cooney; Eric O’Sullivan, James McCormick, Tom O’Toole, Alan O’Connor (capt), Harry Sheridan, Cormac Izuchukwu, Marcus Rea, David McCann.

Replacements: Tadgh McElroy, Callum Reid, Scott Wilson, Kieran Treadwell and Matty Rea, Nathan Doak, James Humphreys, Jude Postlethwaite.

Ospreys: Jack Walsh; Dan Kasende, Evardi Boshoff, Owen Williams, Keelan Giles; Dan Edwards, Kieran Hardy; Gareth Thomas, Sam Parry, Ben Warren, Will Greatbanks, Lewis Jones, Lewis Lloyd, Justin Tipuric, Morgan Morris (capt).

Replacements: Ethan Lewis, Garyn Phillips, Math