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‘We’ll take any support we can!’ – La Rochelle enjoying Cork welcome as key trio fit for Leinster https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/champions-cup/well-take-any-support-we-can-la-rochelle-enjoying-cork-welcome-as-key-trio-fit-for-leinster/a753202471.html Met Donnacha Ryan a few years ago - seem...

Looks like there are a small number of seats in previously sold out sections (returns maybe?) But overall... And not having the time or patience to count blue dots... I'd say there are only 2 or 3 thousand seats left. Sent from my LE2123 using Tapatalk Check again. Seems the whole north stand is ba...

Rog getting plenty of coverage in the media especially the Irish examiner. Leinster getting very little imo Its really weird ( irish examiner was formerly the cork examiner but still pathetic its like they want irish teams to fail), Off the ball the very same. Cork Con, an Irish club funded and par...

sunshiner1 wrote: ↑April 10th, 2024, 1:31 am I remember didn't they try this with Soccer years ago? Man Utd went off and played the South American teams and lost. I vaguely remember the whole thing been a disaster and the South American's cheating blatantly.

Yeah and it massively damaged the FA cup, the oldest club competition in the world.

Murray goes deep on Munster: FOR THE SECOND season in a row, Munster exited the Champions Cup at the Round of 16 stage. It’s certainly not what Graham Rowntree’s side aspire to. There’s no doubt a crippling injury list and the sickness that swept through their squad last week were big contributing ...

Osborne has been brilliant, and Danty has been off form, and struggling for fitness...But the idea of Osborne defending Danty makes me shudder. Danty is an incredibly strong carrier, who has caused serious damage to us in all previous games. I have absolutely no doubt that - as they have done with ...

There used to be, under the ERC, a situation where, if you moved the game to a larger ground the gate would be split 60-40 provided the away team didn't lose out. I don't know if that is still the case It’s 65:35 with an allowance for expenses. In 2018 the IRFU took a portion of our gate and it was...

by Flash Gordon The global tournament is a revenue play clearly and the south probably needs it now the saffers have thrown in their lot with us. From a fan appeal point of view it's hard to see how supporters will get more excited about us playing the Melbourne Rebels (who most Irish fans will nev...

Injuries really did for what could have been an incredible career - he looked like an amazing player at u20 levels, by some considerable distance the best young player in Ireland Don't know if you remember his performance for the Lein/ulster combo at the opening of the Aviva Dave. Still sticks out ...

Sexton deserved what he got, he was totally out of line. I agree completely re Johnny but to put Dickson in charge of a match between the same teams is very unfair on him. Any 50/50 decisions he makes will have one side moaning that he is favouring the other because of either antipathy towards Lein...

The global tournament is a revenue play clearly and the south probably needs it now the saffers have thrown in their lot with us. From a fan appeal point of view it's hard to see how supporters will get more excited about us playing the Melbourne Rebels (who most Irish fans will never have seen play...

Jesus that is some serious ticket sales. I was thinking they would struggle to open all the upper tiers given the short turnaround. Could be a real atmosphere. If the game does sell out anyone any idea what that means roughly in gate receipts as far as I remember the qtr final revenue is more signi...

cormac wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 3:44 pm Over 35,000 tickets sold now.

https://x.com/Murray_Kinsella/status/17 ... 4338779323

That's incredible! We might actually sell this game out!

cormac wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 2:38 pm Over 20,000 tickets sold already.

Looking at the ticket map it looks like a lot more than that have gone East and all of premium sold out already by the looks of it.

Has anyone told the nice people from "Ireland First" that bus loads of unvetted foreign males are en route to Fora Island? Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk Fota island Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk I'd actually quite like the master race to show up to greet Will Skelton to be hon...

I know people said it last year too, but this year the support has to be as loud as we can make it. There won't be the same sort of sh!t that comes with a European Final, every Leinster fan who wants to be there will be there. That's how you turn home advantage into something tangible - make noise....

A lo is made of blood and guts but at the end of the day they also had some top notch players when they were at their peak. Truth is there are very few top notch players in Munster now. Absolutely, their pack was world class and they had 9 Lions in the team and the imports (Howlett, Mafi and Tipoki...

The travel that La Rochelle have done in the last 10 days will have to weigh on them and I'd expect their fitness to falter in the final 30 mins. Target the guys most likely to play the full 80 and mess with the bench plan as much as possible. I know this group of players are a year older but their...

Quarter final week is here people! :green clap: Whatever your thoughts of our chances on Saturday you should be delighted to be here (a lot of teams didn’t make it this far). If you can’t enjoy it then what’s the point. Bring it on! It's great to be here but not sure I enjoy these games to be hones...

As you would expect from Munster, nothing was left on the pitch effort wise but unfortunately they just lack quality and depth and the years of the academy not producing a conveyor belt is coming home to roost for both them and Ireland (same is true of Ulster in my view). Blood and guts only gets y...