Updated at 15.15
LEINSTER YESTERDAY ANNOUNCED that additional tickets for Saturday’s Guinness Pro14 semi-final against Munster had become available after returns from the away allocation.
Munster, who will travel to the RDS in Dublin for the semi-final, returned 1,000 tickets.
The away team for the semi-finals receives an allocation of 25% of all tickets, meaning Munster would have had in the region of 4,750 – given that the capacity at the RDS has been temporarily expanded to close to 19,000 for this inter-provincial clash.
However, the southern province sent back 1,000 of those tickets and Leinster confirmed additional availability to their supporters yesterday. The vast majority of those tickets have since been snapped up online.
A spokesperson for Munster told The42 that many of the province’s supporters had bought tickets for the clash with Leinster in the general sale on Ticketmaster, rather than from the province’s official allocation.
With Munster offering their allocation to priority fans, including season-tickets holders, first and then through a lottery system, the spokesperson said that some of their supporters opted not to wait and instead purchased them online.
The news of Munster not taking up their full official allocation comes after an attendance of 10,205 for the Pro14 semi-final qualifier victory over Edinburgh at Thomond Park on May 5.
That game did come hot on the heels of Munster’s away Champions Cup semi-final against Racing 92 in Bordeaux, when an impressive Munster crowd of more than 10,000 travelled to support Johann van Graan’s side.
Meanwhile, EPCR yesterday confirmed ticket prices for the 2019 Champions Cup final and Challenge Cup final at the 52,000-capacity St. James’ Park in Newcastle.
Prices start at £120 for premium category and range down to £20 for category 6 for the Champions Cup decider, while tickets for the Challenge Cup final range from £45 down to £15.
The Challenge Cup final takes place on Friday 10 May, with the Champions Cup final the following day. Tickets are on sale online now.
EPCR also confirmed that the pool draw for next season’s European competitions will take place on Wednesday 20 June in Lausanne.
- This article was updated at 1.45pm to include the information from a Munster spokesperson.
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Full confidence in the team to perform very well for the rest of the tournament!
@Jasper Conroy: Really???
2007 comparisons are lazy. We hammered Scotland in our first match. People seem to have completely forgotten that.
11 points from a possible 15 after 3 games. Not a bad return at all. Time to get behind the team and stop the moaning. #COYBIG
Some load of negative tosspots in the media. Same goons who downplayed the grand slams, dismissed wins over NZ/SA and cheered for Racing over Leinster are now delighted. It’s like they are in competition to be the new Tom Humphries.
The social media campaigns from the sponsors are grating, but they always are no matter the sport or team.
It never ceases to amaze me how the commentators/pundits swing, we beat a poor Scotland and we are set for a quater final against SA no account taken of Japan who should be tier one nation and who accounted for SA in 2015, who are also hosting. We then put 35 points on Russia get the bonus point and Eddie is not satisfied, the same Eddie who presided over the debacle of 2007 in FRANCE. Give this squad a break and get behind then nothing is to be gained from negativity. Bestie and the Boys Abú
Just 22 points and one try conceded in 3 games is a very healthy stat .
@Limón Madrugada:
“Just 22 points and one try conceded in 3 games”
And we scored 11 tries to 1 conceded :: if we stated that before the WC we would have been happy :: but in that, there was 1 loss !!!!!!
Yeah the negativity is getting to me also. Can we do a bit of analysis on the positives? Also aside from Samoa game we probably won’t go into another game as favourites no matter how far we go in the tournament and that is just fine by me. That’s where the Irish pysche is more comfortable and more dangerous. I hope we play well against Samoa and get the result needed to put pressure on Japan and then we put the fear of God into our opponents in the quarters!
@Brian O’Driscoll: have to agree, finally watched the Russia game. There was a lot of good variation in attack which ended with a poor handling error or a Russian infringement (often not penalised – for Henderson’s knock on over the line, it was actually good Russian D but the 7 knocked on in the preceding ruck). The evidence is there that Ireland are about to kick on. Everyone would take a loss in the group if it meant peaking at QF stage and you can see Ireland are starting to ramp it up.
Hugh Cahill’s and Donal Lenihan’s rugby commentary is also very poor and schizophrenic. The keyboard warriors and Ed O Sullivan’s of this world will be the biggest fans when we put Samoa to the sword by at least 30 points. COYBIG
@Brian O’Driscoll:
@Brian O’Driscoll: have to agree. I finally watched the Russia game and the evidence is there that they are beginning to vary their attacking play which often ended with an error or Russian infringement. They played good ball. Russia was not the game to correct the Japan loss. What good would it be to go out and put 70 on Russia. It’s better they tried to evolve the game. No one wants 4 pool wins if it means a QF loss. I can see Ireland ramping up their game plan ahead of a QF showdown and surprised others who are professionals in the game don’t see it.
People like Ed O Sullivan and the keyboard warriors who think the Russian game was the game to correct the woes of the Japan loss are fools. The time to do it is at the QF.
We’ll put 30 on Samoa.
I’m sick to the back teeth of all the negativity. The final straw for me was Sean Farrell on the42′s rugby podcast yesterday moaning that Ireland’s first try against Russia was an old Joe Schmidt strike move. Some people will always find something negative to say.
Completely down to the players themselves, their mind set, body language, which to date hasn’t been great.
They’ve done it before so they can up it again.
Ah Martin you should know more than anyone that negativity does nothing for any teak.
Team that is