Gloucester could recall England centre Mike Tindall for Saturday’s Heineken Cup quarter-final against Munster.
The 2003 World Cup winner has been sidelined since suffering a bruised liver in England’s opening Six Nations defeat by Wales in early February.
Meanwhile, Munster coach Declan Kidney has named a full-strength 27-man squad for the game at Kingsholm.
Rua Tipoki, who has been a fitness concern because of a back injury, took a full part in training on Tuesday.
Speaking on Wednesday about Tindall’s possible involvement, coach Dean Ryan told BBC Radio Gloucestershire: “”He’s back training with us and it’s the first week he’s been back in terms of being around the side.
“It would be lovely to think he could be an option, but it’s a bit early in the week to say whether that’s possible or not.
“He has trained fully on Monday, Tuesday and today and if he reacts OK over the next day or so, he’s a possible.”
Munster are aiming to regain the trophy they won two seasons ago.
The winners of Saturday’s game will be away in the semi-finals against either Saracens - at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena - or the Ospreys - at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.
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Gloucester: (tbc)
Munster: (from) John Hayes, Marcus Horan, Tony Buckley, Federico Pucciariello, Jerry Flannery, Frank Sheahan, Paul O’Connell, Donncha O’Callaghan, Donnacha Ryan, M O’Driscoll, Alan Quinlan, David Wallace, Denis Leamy, Anthony Foley, Niall Ronan, Shaun Payne, Denis Hurley, Doug Howlett, Kieran Lewis, Rua Tipoki, Lifeimi Mafi, Brian Carney, Ian Dowling, Paul Warwick, Ronan O’Gara, Tomas O’Leary, Peter Stringer.


