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Lower Hogan. Don't tell the GAA but it was one of my most enjoyable days in that stadium! Its what Irish sport is all about. Thats why I hope this leinster/Munster rivalry thing that seems to be building up doesn't get out of hand. I know it was always there but there are alot of people going to these games now that know nothing about rugby and there is a real sense of spite creeping in.

By the way, one forgotten person in all this is the late great Karl Mullen. I bet he never thought the day would come when 82,000 Irish men and women filled Croke Park to watch an inter-provincial!! Fitting tribute to him
 
DavyJones said:
gracious in victory, eh? A true fan.

Just back from the game and we were well and truely beaten, both Leinster props had a cracking game, Rocky was awesome and O Driscoll read everything. Leinster full back did a great job. No complaints from me, we were beaten by the better team on the day.

I did find it a bit strange that the Leinster crowd was singing Ole ole ole and Come on you boys in blue, both football chants. I also found the Cheerio chants, as Munster supporters left the ground, was in bad taste. a real football element creeping into the game.

Saying that I had great craic last night with Leinster fans and wish them all the best in the final.
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This is hilarious- I got baited quite a few times on the way to the ground by Munster fans asking if any other Leinster fans were going to show up today. A couple of munster fans got thrown out by stewards in the lower cusack for shouting during Dr Phils first kick.

Any fan that leaves a match a full 10 minutes early is not a real fan - anything can happen in 10 mins look at the last 10 mins in the other semi final.

"Come on you boys in Blue" has been sung at Leinster schools games since before I was young one

Any views on all the Munster fans going onto the Leinster rugby forums offering to sell them their tickets for the final?
 
Luckycharm said:
This is hilarious- I got baited quite a few times on the way to the ground by Munster fans asking if any other Leinster fans were going to show up today. A couple of munster fans got thrown out by stewards in the lower cusack for shouting during Dr Phils first kick.

Any fan that leaves a match a full 10 minutes early is not a real fan - anything can happen in 10 mins look at the last 10 mins in the other semi final.

"Come on you boys in Blue" has been sung at Leinster schools games since before I was young one

Any views on all the Munster fans going onto the Leinster rugby forums offering to sell them their tickets for the final?
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Since when is shouting during a penalty kick, an ejection offence?
 
Luckycharm said:
"Come on you boys in Blue" has been sung at Leinster schools games since before I was young one

Any views on all the Munster fans going onto the Leinster rugby forums offering to sell them their tickets for the final?
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Haven't been to many Leinster school games.

No problem with Munster fans selling their tickets to Leinster fans or any other fan for that matter.
 
Luckycharm said:
This is hilarious- I got baited quite a few times on the way to the ground by Munster fans asking if any other Leinster fans were going to show up today. A couple of munster fans got thrown out by stewards in the lower cusack for shouting during Dr Phils first kick.
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To be fair, there were very few Leinster jerseys around before the game. Good on the stewards for throwing those out. Also. I watched the game on skyplus last night and during the minute's silence there were a few shouts, all from Munster fans. Disgraceful.

Luckycharm said:
Any fan that leaves a match a full 10 minutes early is not a real fan - anything can happen in 10 mins look at the last 10 mins in the other semi final.
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I agree, it was very disheartening to see it. We stayed, we've had too many good days out of Munster to leave early. We chatted with the Leinster fans around us and clapped the team. Then went to the pub.



Luckycharm said:
Any views on all the Munster fans going onto the Leinster rugby forums offering to sell them their tickets for the final?
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To be fair, this recession was going to make it difficult for those fans to go anyway, presumably most were going out of loyalty and probably with a 'we'll worry about paying for it later' attitude. We'll still be going and supporting Leinster (albeit in our Munster jerseys!!), but it can't make sense for everyone, it doesn't make sense for us either but what the hell, we'll worry about paying for it later. :)
 
baldyman27 said:
To be fair, there were very few Leinster jerseys around before the game. Good on the stewards for throwing those out. Also. I watched the game on skyplus last night and during the minute's silence there were a few shouts, all from Munster fans. Disgraceful.



I agree, it was very disheartening to see it. We stayed, we've had too many good days out of Munster to leave early. We chatted with the Leinster fans around us and clapped the team. Then went to the pub.





To be fair, this recession was going to make it difficult for those fans to go anyway, presumably most were going out of loyalty and probably with a 'we'll worry about paying for it later' attitude. We'll still be going and supporting Leinster (albeit in our Munster jerseys!!), but it can't make sense for everyone, it doesn't make sense for us either but what the hell, we'll worry about paying for it later. :)
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Fair play baldy man - I had a typo there article in the Indo about Munster fans selling on Leicster fans websites their tickets. The lads were thrown out because after their booing it looked it might turn quickly nasty as they did not like to be sshed so stewards reacted quickly.
Most of Munster fans are up early as they have a distance to travel etc while alot of Leisnter fans would have just gone straight to the game and been out afterwards.

Please baldy man any chance you can just wear an irish jersey in Edinburgh you lucky git.
 
Getting thrown out for shouting during a match, no wonder rugby is considered elitist.
I will probably watch the final, don't care who wins really, if Leinster do fair play to them and all that, but in most sports you have one team that matters to you and the rest is kind of meaningless. We are getting too hyped up about respect now, rationality goes out of the window with sport, but there is an underlying feeling of bitterness against munster players in some parts and the fact that so many of them made the lions squad seems to have upset a few. Pity really as they have proved themselves consistently and have the medals to show for it.
 
Luckycharm said:
Please baldy man any chance you can just wear an irish jersey in Edinburgh you lucky git.
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Nope!

MrMan said:
Getting thrown out for shouting during a match, no wonder rugby is considered elitist.
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At the Sale game in Thomond, there was a small group of 6 or 7 Sale fans up behind us in the West stand who were heckling a bit for O' Gara's first kick. They were rounded on by the crowd and 2 stewards came up to them and stood in front of them for the remainder of the game, pretty much ruining the game for them. The noise in Croker was terrific, but silence should have been observed for the kickers.The majority of the crowd wanted this, throwing them out may have been a bit harsh but might have been the only option in such a big crowd.
 
Luckycharm said:
Please baldy man any chance you can just wear an irish jersey in Edinburgh you lucky git.
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You will see a load of other jersey's on HC day. I will wear red and probably wave a Leinster flag, that or sell my ticket on ebay...(I jest)
 
MrMan said:
Getting thrown out for shouting during a match, no wonder rugby is considered elitist.
I will probably watch the final, don't care who wins really, if Leinster do fair play to them and all that, but in most sports you have one team that matters to you and the rest is kind of meaningless. We are getting too hyped up about respect now, rationality goes out of the window with sport, but there is an underlying feeling of bitterness against munster players in some parts and the fact that so many of them made the lions squad seems to have upset a few. Pity really as they have proved themselves consistently and have the medals to show for it.
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Mr Man every post of yours on this subject really does make me wonder if you have played the game or been following the game very long.
Who is bitter about Munster players making the Lions- in general it is Ireland first then your province- you get picked on how you do in big games International rugby is of Higher standard then HEC rugby. The only munster player I thought was lucky was Quinlan as he looked way out of his depth when he played the All Blacks in Nov but to be fair had been playing well in recent times.
The rest of them deserved it and all of this "has their Medals to prove it rubbish" is what irks other supporters- I guess Dowling/MOD are very unlucky not to have made the lions- as they "Have their medals"

Plus isn't great to finally discussing rugby on AAM :D
 
MrMan said:
I will probably watch the final, don't care who wins really,
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Given that Munster are an Irish team and I am Irish I would have cheered for them, just like the vast majority of Munster fans will now cheer for Leinster. To do otherwise seems small minded and petty.

On the more general point of spiteful feeling creeping into what was always a healthy rivalry I agree with the points made by Sunny above. There’s been a lot of utter hyperbole spouted about Munster and their fans over the last few years (as well as more balanced praise for what is a great team with a great bunch of fans). I hope the same doesn’t start about Leinster as, even if they win the Heineken Cup, they will still have less to shout about then Munster.
 
Purple said:
Given that Munster are an Irish team and I am Irish I would have cheered for them, just like the vast majority of Munster fans will now cheer for Leinster. To do otherwise seems small minded and petty.

On the more general point of spiteful feeling creeping into what was always a healthy rivalry I agree with the points made by Sunny above. There’s been a lot of utter hyperbole spouted about Munster and their fans over the last few years (as well as more balanced praise for what is a great team with a great bunch of fans). I hope the same doesn’t start about Leinster as, even if they will the Heineken Cup, they will still have less to shout about then Munster.
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Good man Purple Ireland first then my province then if they are out whichever Irish province is still in (generally munster bar 1999) :p
 
I think most Leinster fans cheered for Munster when they won their two Heineken Cups. I know I did, and I was delighted they won on both occasions. I was lucky enough to have a ticket for the 2006 final and I cheered every bit as loudly as the Munster fans.

I think that a lot of Munster fans will support Leinster in the final, even if most of them will insist on wearing their Munster jerseys while doing so. This won't make their support any less welcome and I have a feeling that their support will be needed.

If it's true that some Munster fans are offering to sell their tickets to Leicester, then I think that's a sad reflection on those fans. If they don't want to go (and I can understand why they might not want to incur the expense when their team isn't playing), then they should offer the tickets to fans of the other Irish team.

If there are any Munster fans out there with tickets to unload, I'll be delighted to recieve a PM from them!

Homer
 
Luckycharm said:
Mr Man every post of yours on this subject really does make me wonder if you have played the game or been following the game very long.
Who is bitter about Munster players making the Lions- in general it is Ireland first then your province- you get picked on how you do in big games International rugby is of Higher standard then HEC rugby. The only munster player I thought was lucky was Quinlan as he looked way out of his depth when he played the All Blacks in Nov but to be fair had been playing well in recent times.
The rest of them deserved it and all of this "has their Medals to prove it rubbish" is what irks other supporters- I guess Dowling/MOD are very unlucky not to have made the lions- as they "Have their medals"

Plus isn't great to finally discussing rugby on AAM :D
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Yes I have played the game and yes I follow it but what has that really got to do with anything. I don't believe in the 'they're not rugby people' nonsense, it's totally outdated and one of the reasons that Munster has garnered extra support is because it has started to peel away the layers of snobbery that were once (and still are) within the game.
Like I said the munster players have the medals, you can point to the HC but also the triple crowns and grand slam, I was merely pointing out their calibre not have a pop at leinster players.
 
Purple said:
Given that Munster are an Irish team and I am Irish I would have cheered for them, just like the vast majority of Munster fans will now cheer for Leinster. To do otherwise seems small minded and petty.

On the more general point of spiteful feeling creeping into what was always a healthy rivalry I agree with the points made by Sunny above. There’s been a lot of utter hyperbole spouted about Munster and their fans over the last few years (as well as more balanced praise for what is a great team with a great bunch of fans). I hope the same doesn’t start about Leinster as, even if they win the Heineken Cup, they will still have less to shout about then Munster.
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I don't support any rugby team outside of Ireland or Munster. I won't be cheering on Leicester and will be happy for the irish boys that win the HC if they do. In sport that I played, if I was ever knocked out of a cup I would genuinely wish our victors well and hope they go all the way, but I wouldn't be cheering them on.
It would be spiteful to wish that they didn't win the HC, to not have any great inclination towards a final after my team were knocked out is natural and honest.
 
Very quick question, might be OTT. But is there a problem with the mobile phone networks down in the South and South West? Just since saturday afternoon I've not heard back from most of my mates down that way. No response to calls or texts.

Not sure what could have happened there, seems to be every network affected, but everywhere else is ok.
 
Latrade said:
Very quick question, might be OTT. But is there a problem with the mobile phone networks down in the South and South West? Just since saturday afternoon I've not heard back from most of my mates down that way. No response to calls or texts.

Not sure what could have happened there, seems to be every network affected, but everywhere else is ok.
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Phones might have been robbed in Dublin!
 
Yup, everything kosher in the Kingdom.:) Are you sure you've got friends ..... anywhere. I mean, you were acting the mega yahoo on Saturday night. You have tried turning it on ? You have, haven't you? :D Oh Jeez, another Leinster fan suffering from burnout. No need to worry, the problem will have solved itself this time next year :p
 
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