Lap of Honour??

Dodgykeeper

I am one of the Lunster fans that we have heard so much about in the last week, and while I applaud Leinster for a fine victory today and wish them well in Edinburgh I think that their Lap of Honour today smacked of Minnowism, win silverware and you are entitled to a lap of honour, lose a final and do a lap to applaud the fans, win a semi and get up the tunel and focus on the job in hand not showboating!

Am I wrong?

anonymous_joe

/facepalm

Podge_irl

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

Am I wrong?

Yes.

funky penguin

WooooooooOOooooooo!!!!!

Go Leinster!

Hippo

Again, yes.

puntosporting

Ihear you bit of a Roy Keane feel to your post:P
But from another angle a world record attendance,massive underdogs,playing the best club rugby team in europe etc etc it was worth a lap or two i reckon comming from a Limerick man!

randomer

I was thinking the same at the game. But one positive was was that Brian O'Driscoll came out and called the players off the pitch.

Free Speech

just celebrate a great leinster victory.
Unlike most (pretend) leinster rugby fans (beating Munster is all that matters), can we now presume that we are on the brink of european glory.
Today was just a qualifing game on the way to european supremacy(for hopefully 5 years -ish).
We are surely better than Leicester/Cardiff.
Go Leinster

Dub.

How could you support anyone against your own province? I don't get it.

anonymous_joe

Free Speech wrote: »

just celebrate a great leinster victory.
Unlike most (pretend) leinster rugby fans (beating Munster is all that matters), can we now presume that we are on the brink of european glory.
Today was just a qualifing game on the way to european supremacy(for hopefully 5 years -ish).
We are surely better than Leicester/Cardiff.
Go Leinster

Won't ever write either of those two off.

Trouser_Press

We're in the minority here Dodgykeeper, but I completely agree with you. All it said to me was that today was the team's final, they think their job is done. A real statement of intent would have been a quick wave of thanks to the crowd, and then for them to depart the scene. Lest some of you forget.....today was a semi-final.

funky penguin

indeed, especially Cardiff.

I was at the ML match in the RDS and man was it close! Tom Shanklin is a monster!

leinsterman

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

Am I wrong?

Wrong ... well that would be an understatement!

anonymous_joe

Trouser_Press wrote: »

We're in the minority here Dodgykeeper, but I completely agree with you. All it said to me was that today was the team's final, they think their job is done. A real statement of intent would have been a quick wave of thanks to the crowd, and then for them to depart the scene. Lest some of you forget.....today was a semi-final.

They just played their hearts out, and I think they needed to recognise the magnifecence of this achievement. It was a huge game for them, and sometimes it's worth celebrating what you've done and building from there. ^^

funky penguin wrote: »

indeed, especially Cardiff.

I was at the ML match in the RDS and man was it close! Tom Shanklin is a monster!

Aye, Cardiff are mad. We scraped a result God knows how in the RDS.

They've the second most (joint with the Ospreys) players in the Lions.

Podge_irl

I was actually at the Cardiff game (one of the few games I got to this year with my geographical difficulties) and they made it tough. I'd still rather face them then Leicester though, experience counts for a lot at this stage and Leicester are as experienced as it gets in the HEC.

ironingbored

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

I am one of the Lunster fans that we have heard so much about in the last week, and while I applaud Leinster for a fine victory today and wish them well in Edinburgh I think that their Lap of Honour today smacked of Minnowism, win silverware and you are entitled to a lap of honour, lose a final and do a lap to applaud the fans, win a semi and get up the tunel and focus on the job in hand not showboating!

Am I wrong?

Yes, you are. The Leinster fans (of which i am one) were brilliant today and wanted to show their appreciation to the team for the effort they put in. I think the team felt that's what the fans wanted.

iDontReallyCare

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

m I wrong?

Yep

yogidc26

Am I wrong?


Sorry to say but yes

Cateym

Bit premature alright but you can kind of understand how the players got carried away with themselves. It was a big day for them.

smog

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

I am one of the Lunster fans that we have heard so much about in the last week, and while I applaud Leinster for a fine victory today and wish them well in Edinburgh I think that their Lap of Honour today smacked of Minnowism, win silverware and you are entitled to a lap of honour, lose a final and do a lap to applaud the fans, win a semi and get up the tunel and focus on the job in hand not showboating!

Am I wrong?

Leintser do this often enough at the RDS when they feel the Fans have made an effort above and beyond ... that may be a freezing wet night or a match of 82k that we were all screaming our heads off .

If you were a Leinster supporter you would have posted this thread about 4-5 times already this season.

NickNolte

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

Am I wrong?

Yes. What you've said isn't just wrong, it's a bit silly. The players didn't do a lap, thinking "Oh goodie, goodie! We won de wugby match. Lets wun awound the pitch to celebwate". They did a lap of the pitch, clapping and showing appreciation for the incredible Leinster support yesterday which made a hell of a lot of noise and showed up in greater numbers than expected (certainly than the media and their detractors had estimated).

Munster/Lunster fans don't get to make these subtle little jibes at Leinster players or their fans anymore after the yesterdays performance and show up of support. That is all.

crisco10

smog wrote: »

Leintser do this often enough at the RDS when they feel the Fans have made an effort above and beyond ... that may be a freezing wet night or a match of 82k that we were all screaming our heads off .

If you were a Leinster supporter you would have posted this thread about 4-5 times already this season.

Thats pretty much it really. Leinster have come out to applaud the fans a lot of times already this year. In fact pretty much every home game at this stage. They even did against Glasgow when RDS was only 2/3 full!

danthefan

Leinster were showing their appreciation to the fans. That's it.

chupacabra

Yeah, how dare they try to savour as much of the occasion they can being probably the last ever time they will be able to play in our national stadium for their provinces. They deserved their lap of honour for putting in the performance of the Heineken cup this year. Get off your high horse.

Dodgykeeper

I was not aware that they did it at the RDS and if this is the case and showing appreciation for the fans is the norm then I apoligise, good luck in the final, enjoy Edinburgh ;)


I have been in Croke Park many times for Soccer Rugby Football and Hurling and I have to say it never looked or sounded as good as it did yesterday fair play to all the Fans who made the effort !

zAbbo

You should come along to the RDS sometime, it's probably a bit easier to get to than Thomond Park

chicoben

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

I am one of the Lunster fans that we have heard so much about in the last week, and while I applaud Leinster for a fine victory today and wish them well in Edinburgh I think that their Lap of Honour today smacked of Minnowism, win silverware and you are entitled to a lap of honour, lose a final and do a lap to applaud the fans, win a semi and get up the tunel and focus on the job in hand not showboating!

Am I wrong?

Yeah you're wrong. I think every team should give a lap of honour to show their appreciation of support. In fact sometimes I'd be a little pissed off if the team I went to see in a serious game didn't show their appreciation. I'd like to think that because it was such a big game, and it was the last home (well technically away) game of the heineken cup for the season that they were thanking all the fans that probably can't afford to go to Edinburgh but went to every other game.

Sundy

If i remember rightly munster did a lap in 2006.

molloyjh

It wasn't the team doing a lap of honour, it was the team coming out applauding and thanking the fans. For years Leinster fans have been known for being a little less than vocal. Now we're starting to really get behind the lads and they showing their appreciation for it. Sure didn't the supporters win Aprils player of the month!?

smog

molloyjh wrote: »

Sure didn't the supporters win Aprils player of the month!?

ha i had actually forgoten that due to a few beverages .. i was in stiches when they announced that in the RDS

Crash

Especially cus the support was ****e that day (well not ****e, the fans were actually pretty vocal against glasgow, there just weren't enough of us )

[Jackass]

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

I am one of the Lunster fans that we have heard so much about in the last week, and while I applaud Leinster for a fine victory today and wish them well in Edinburgh I think that their Lap of Honour today smacked of Minnowism, win silverware and you are entitled to a lap of honour, lose a final and do a lap to applaud the fans, win a semi and get up the tunel and focus on the job in hand not showboating!

Am I wrong?

Leinster do it after every away European game and in big games in general and even in defeat.

It's not so much a lap of honour but showing appreciation to the fans.

On this occasion we were "technically" away, but I can tell you for a fact the first cracks began to appear when Munster ran out into a stadium they expected to be fortified and found themselves no where near what they thought.

30 second later, a lost re-claim at the kick off and Contepomi smashing through O'Gara and the crowd gets behind Leinster and Munster knew they were in a game...and the stage unfolded...

The crowd played a big part in that and I'm gratefull that the team always show their appreciation to our efforts, just as we do to theirs.