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Munster Tickets update.

  • 09-03-2006 9:44am
    #1
    PowerHouseDan
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    Munster fans in for ticket windfall

    09/03/2006

    By Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent
    THE reluctance of French rugby fans to travel to away games has brought Munster fans a ticket windfall for the April 1 Heineken European Cup semi-final at Lansdowne Road.

    French side Perpignan have been given a 25% allocation which amounts to about 12,000 tickets.

    However, it is anticipated that only 3,000 French supporters will travel to Dublin, and the club is offloading its surplus of more than 9,000 tickets to Munster fans.

    What is described as a "mutually beneficial network" has been established between Munster fans and their French counterparts to transfer tickets at undisclosed prices.

    The French side, on the face of it, will use up its full allocation. But in effect, they will sell off most of their tickets to Munster fans at a nice profit.

    Just hours after tickets went on sale last Monday, ticket touts began auctioning them on internet sites. Bids for two north terrace tickets with a face value of €25 each had spiralled to €178 by yesterday.

    Bids for the tickets began just after noon on Monday when the tickets were advertised on eBay. The initial bid was £40 (€59) and 13 bids later, it had risen to €178.
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    The seller, who claims to be based in Cork, said on the site: "Tickets are on hand and will be posted by reg post when funds are cleared."

    The two tickets up for auction are believed to have originated from the Munster allocation.

    The seller has set the closing date for the on-line auction for March 16.

    A total of 4,500 tickets out of a capacity of 49,000 were allocated for Munster fans not affiliated to clubs or the Munster Supporters Club through vendor Ticketmaster.

    Approximately 1,000 tickets were sold at Empire Music on O'Connell Street, Limerick, with a further 1,000 sold in Cork. The remainder were available online and via Ticketmaster's call centre.

    Tickets sold out in just over an hour with fans desperate to see the eagerly anticipated clash in Dublin on April 1.

    Munster clubs initially received 30% of the ticket allocation but if Perpignan do not use their full allocation, these tickets will go to Munster.


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