Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

PuC is a non starter though, isnt it?

Pitch wont be fit for a game

they were asking for 300,000 a few years ago apparently, so 500,000 now isnt out of the question i suppose

id imagine any round of 16 and most likely QF games will be in TP. then again, i always thought cork would have a decent share of games and look how thats turned out

if its just for URC id say one or two game agreement is the way they should go, novelty factor will wear off after a while most likely and numbers will slip a bit

That’s great. Need to have the local radio stations get behind this and hype it up a bit. Hopefully Bank of Ireland will start promoting this properly as well as they did in the 2000’s - they need to do more than have a name on a jersey.

Your first and second paragraphs contradict each other.

If "money will make the decision when it comes down to it", then IRFU are not going to want to pay rent to the GAA when they have a perfectly good stadium of their own. That's the reality. The cost of renting a GAA stadium for one game would pay the salary of a world-class NIQ signing for a year.

The Rugby World Cup is a totally different scenario and of no relevance here.

Tickets for €25 and a bus return for €10, it's a bit of hassle having to go to Dublin but it's after working out cheaper than a quarter final ticket price in Thomond

its because its a perfectly acceptable question. cork is the largest urban area in the province and has a strong rugby following/history. kerry, waterford, tipp and clare dont have these to the same extent, although id like to see underage/A/womens games be moved around these areas a bit to increase exposure

all games in IIP were sold out in 2019 (last proper season for a few years). the irish U20s games tend to be sold out most times too. so 'the lucky to fill the ground' part is untrue.

its been explained already that the munster branch dont see use of PuC bringing them into further debt

'id much prefer the day out in dublin' - fine, but what about the fans based in cork that would like to attend a meaningful game on their doorstep for once? european games havent been in cork since dec 2002 (ridiculous) but at least for a long time half of the celtic/magners/whatever league games were in musgrave, with a big interpro being one of them. now there are 2/3 league games a season at most against very weak opposition and maybe a pre-season game to bring the numbers up. its completely fair for people to be pissed off at the lack of games and a european semi/ leinster urc game in PuC every so often would help make up for it.

'its like buying a house, paying a hefty mortgage every month on it, and then renting another house at huge cost to hold a party' - no, its like your partner demanding you buy a house in the smaller city that they are from, making your family up sticks and move there with you, then getting pissed off that you suggest visiting your home for christmas or a holiday every so often

i get that munster has always been a strange situation in that the 'traditional home' of rugby isn't in the largest city and to be honest, nobody is asking for all the games to be moved to cork, not even for half of them even. but a more important game, rather than just run outs against cannon fodder, or the possibility of an actual home european semi shouldnt be too much to ask.

completely agree and i think part of the planning conditions were that i were to be allowed reasonable use by other sports. how enforceable that would be when it comes down to it is a different matter

What is the fixation with the location of this match, we knew 5 days ago it was going to be in the Aviva, like it or not. 5 days on and people are still going on about it. It's in the Aviva, between ticket prices and buses Munster are going out of their way to help people to get there. Yet still some people aren't happy.

Time to focus on the two games between now and then first and then the actual game. I've followed Munster to South Africa, and all over Europe (including Dragons and Zebre). No the Aviva isn't Thomond but we can still turn it red!

it makes it better in that a large proportion of fans wouldnt have to travel 3(ish) hours to support a team that they already have to regularly travel 1.5/2hrs to support at 'home'.

how did it not make sense to have european games in cork after 2002? good few years between then and the redevelopment of TP

30 million euro of public money went to PuC, it should be available for all sports, simple as. Same way every other stadium that gets public money should be multi-use.