Heineken Cup - Munster v Leinster

**De Town** · 10/04/2006, 5:50 PM

Looks like I will be getting a ticket to the Semi final

**Aldini98** · 11/04/2006, 3:38 PM

Yeah me too !!!!

**pete** · 20/04/2006, 2:53 PM

Just heard got a stand ticket.

Any predictions? Leinster obvious favourites which will suit Munster.

**Soper** · 20/04/2006, 3:10 PM

I think, and I hope, Munster will win.Of course Donkeypony and co. will be dangerous, but I think Munster will know exactly how to combat this.I wouldn't be surprised if it was a low scoring match, with a few of the Munster forwards touching down for a try or two through pinning back leinster, and slowing down the game, y'know, not giving the leinster backs any space at all.

**Soko** · 20/04/2006, 4:22 PM

"There's only one ball and if you don't have it you can't win"

Come try get the ball off us ladyboys

**TheJamaicanP.M.** · 20/04/2006, 10:36 PM

If Munster win, they'll win ugly. As a Leinster man, I hope we come through. However, I don't think anyone could begrudge Munster a win. Men like Paul O'Connell deserve to play in European Cup finals.

**Dodge** · 21/04/2006, 12:10 AM

I begrudge them. Come on Leinster

**joeSoap** · 21/04/2006, 9:26 AM

Don't brace ye'reselves for a classic anybody. I'd say this is gonna be as dour an encounter as you'll get. I reckon a wee punt on no trys to be scored at usually around 20/1 would be a wise bet( probably be a wide open feast now

).

Leinsters pack, although they fared pretty well in Toulouse, will find this a totally new, and very dfficult experience. Try telling any of that Munster pack, or half-backs that Lansdowne Road isn't a home ground for them. Rog and Stringer too. Don't expect the ball to go beyond 10 for most Munster possession.

Munsters experience of these situations, together with the TRUE current legend of Irish Rugby, Paul O'Connell, will bully their way into the final on a scoreline of 18-12..........I hope !!

**centre mid** · 21/04/2006, 10:08 AM

If your having a bet on this game - hold off until sunday morning weather may play a significant part in this game, a nice bright sunny day would be right up Leinsters street

**TheJamaicanP.M.** · 23/04/2006, 5:34 PM

Fair play to Munster. They were by far the better team - more experienced and hungrier. Once again, Paul O'Connell demonstrated why he is the greatest sportsman on this island.

**lim abroad** · 24/04/2006, 12:00 AM

hopefully this year will be our year now,y'know third time lucky and all that

**drinkfeckarse** · 24/04/2006, 8:47 AM

Have an outside chance of getting a couple of tickets for the final, a company we deal with has a few seats at the Millenium and one of our guys has told me he'll see what he can do as he's got them off them in the past and was at the last one against Leicester.

Would feel a bit of a fraud considering I've never been to a Munster game but hey, it's not as if I'll turn it down!

**shakermaker1982** · 24/04/2006, 11:23 AM

well done to all the fans who created a fantastic atmosphere.......if only it was like that all the time for the football. Munster's pack were frightening yesterday, POC and the back 3 would have frightened the French big time.

**joeSoap** · 24/04/2006, 12:18 PM

From the very first whistle to the last, it was sheer one sided destruction. Contepomi went to pieces and as a result so too did Leinster. Their first touch was a knock-on from O'Kelly, and it just got worse from then on. Hickie was their only semblance of an attacking threat but because Contepomi was so bad, he rarely got to see the ball.

I know Paul O'Connell got the official man of the match, and its hard to question that. I personally would have given it to O'Gara. He was under a lot of pressure simply because Contepomi showed him up the last time they met. Yesterday he was sublime. Almost everything he did turned to gold and the exuberant celebration of the try showed just how much it meant to him.

It was a day that I will never forget. Good old fashioned rugby, attitude and determination won on the day. I only pity the thousands of genuine Munster fans who didn't get tickets. That is a shame. I had to endure a 40 something lady from Foxrock who never was at a game in her life, and spent the entire game comenting to her friend on other spectators appearances, hairstyles and make up. This is in between times she wasn't on her mobile.

Roll on Cardiff.

**pete** · 24/04/2006, 12:23 PM

Leinster need to change their mascot as that Lion has no courage!

Munster mascot did great halftime show with those Heineken Cup balls.

**drinkfeckarse** · 24/04/2006, 2:19 PM

O' Connell was class alright but we've come to expect that now everytime he goes on the park which is a mark of how far he's come in the last few years.

Have to say I almost felt sorry for Contepomi, it's very rare to see a player self-destruct like that and he's a better player than what he showed yesterday.