Leinster v Toulouse HC SF Sat 14th May 3:00pm

[Serb]

One of his hands is okay. Sure that'd be enough

Might be hard to play with his hand in a boot though.

Maybe we can get Doris to wear boots on his hands so all those knock ons can be classed as kicks?

[The Doc]

That Munster bell-end barrister is having a go at IRFU for promoting the sale of tickets that IRFU benefit from.

Don't think the IRFU benefit (unless both semi finalists get a share). But the team benefit by having a large crowd



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[D4surfer]

That Munster bell-end barrister is having a go at IRFU for promoting the sale of tickets that IRFU benefit from.

Don't think the IRFU benefit (unless both semi finalists get a share). But the team benefit by having a large crowd



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Do the IRFU not benefit as the stadium owners?

[wixfjord]

One of his hands is okay. Sure that'd be enough

Might be hard to play with his hand in a boot though.

Maybe we can get Doris to wear boots on his hands so all those knock ons can be classed as kicks?

[LeRouxIsPHat]

SOB had similar handling issues early in his career, hopefully he has some advice for Doris on how to sort it.

[blockhead]

That Munster bell-end barrister is having a go at IRFU for promoting the sale of tickets that IRFU benefit from.

Don't think the IRFU benefit (unless both semi finalists get a share). But the team benefit by having a large crowd



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Do the IRFU not benefit as the stadium owners?

I think, now I could be wrong, but Leinster need to clear 30,000 tickets before they start making money when they play in the Aviva. So that's basically the rent for the stadium for the day. Imagine they would charge the EPRC the same, still likely to be their biggest payday of the semis, EPRC that is.

[The Doc]

That Munster bell-end barrister is having a go at IRFU for promoting the sale of tickets that IRFU benefit from.

Don't think the IRFU benefit (unless both semi finalists get a share). But the team benefit by having a large crowd



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Do the IRFU not benefit as the stadium owners?

They get the stadium fee but not the ticket sales afaik

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[blockhead]

That Munster bell-end barrister is having a go at IRFU for promoting the sale of tickets that IRFU benefit from.

And where will most of that IRFU money go?
Propping up oul munster.
TBF though Munster wont be selling any tickets this weekend.

[the spoofer]

That Munster bell-end barrister is having a go at IRFU for promoting the sale of tickets that IRFU benefit from.

Don't think the IRFU benefit (unless both semi finalists get a share). But the team benefit by having a large crowd



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M O'Buachalla tweeted that it's in their interest.

[the spoofer]

Interesting that there are 30K tickets sold for the URC game v Munster. That's some achievement for a dead rubber for us. I know 10K of those are season tickets but still.

[Dave Cahill]

Semi finals and finals are run by the EPCR (of which the IRFU is part owner) and they take the gate receipts. Getting to this stage of the competition earns extra prize money for the teams Union.

Quarter finals are run by the home team, the IRFU has traditionally allowed the particpating teams keep their share of those receipts - under the ERC these were spilit 50-50 with the away side unless the home team agreed to move the match to a stadium with greater capacity in which case they could keep 60% of the gate receipts (with the proviso that the other team would still get at least what they would have gotten had the game not been moved) - I don't know if this is still the case. When we played Cardiff in the quarters a couple of years ago under the ERC there was a possiblity that Cardiff would have been the home side with one round of pool games remaining and there was talk that they would move the game to the Aviva as the Cardiff City Stadium and the Milstad would have been unavailable on Quarter final weekend - as it happens we finished the higher seed

[LeinsterLeader]

So how can we make the semi's about Munster........?

Ah this is funny though

[LeRouxIsPHat]

So how can we make the semi's about Munster........?

Ah this is funny though

I was just thinking similar, our semi final will help fund more South Africans for them!

[the spoofer]

Semi finals and finals are run by the EPCR (of which the IRFU is part owner) and they take the gate receipts. Getting to this stage of the competition earns extra prize money for the teams Union.

Quarter finals are run by the home team, the IRFU has traditionally allowed the particpating teams keep their share of those receipts - under the ERC these were spilit 50-50 with the away side unless the home team agreed to move the match to a stadium with greater capacity in which case they could keep 60% of the gate receipts (with the proviso that the other team would still get at least what they would have gotten had the game not been moved) - I don't know if this is still the case. When we played Cardiff in the quarters a couple of years ago under the ERC there was a possiblity that Cardiff would have been the home side with one round of pool games remaining and there was talk that they would move the game to the Aviva as the Cardiff City Stadium and the Milstad would have been unavailable on Quarter final weekend - as it happens we finished the higher seed

Thanks Dave. That clarifies matters.

[the spoofer]

Also good to see Will Connors in the training photos even if he wasn't training.

[paddyor]

That Munster bell-end barrister is having a go at IRFU for promoting the sale of tickets that IRFU benefit from.

Not doing enough to support Munster......*cough Thomond*

[TMC]

Karl Dickson will referee Leinster v Toulouse in Saturday’s Heineken Champions Cup semi-final.

At least playing a French team we were guaranteed to be saved more of M Raynal. Find him a hugely frustrating referee.
Think its a waste of Luke Pearce's talents having him run the line in the other semi final.

[curates_egg]

SOB had similar handling issues early in his career, hopefully he has some advice for Doris on how to sort it.

A pretty obvious starting point would be understanding his own offloading ability and attempting them within that boundary. In every game, he tries at least one that’s never even remotely on.

[OTT]

25k tickets sold.

[wixfjord]

I'm not saying I'm a conspiracy theorist, but every photo of Hugo Keenan in training today is carefully selected to not show his left hand.

Coincidence?