Munster on Saturday

[Schumi]

If you mean representative teams as in they only have players from Munster or Leinster, they're not. They're effectively run as professional clubs but there's a limit of 2 foreign (non-EU, I assume) players.

[pete]

Originally posted by Schumi
If you mean representative teams as in they only have players from Munster or Leinster, they're not. They're effectively run as professional clubs but there's a limit of 2 foreign (non-EU, I assume) players.

Think thats more or less correct. O'Meara possibly still plays for Cork Con & Leinster so thats rules out the them being representative sides. Neither team contain players with provincial passports only & neither sides only has players from clubs within their province. Limit on foreign players is probably imposed by the IRFU cos they play the wages & would have less options for the national team if loads of foreigner in the squads.

Munster draw their players & support across the province but Leinster pretty much only draw both from a few areas of south dublin. They still probably closer to franchise teams than anything else.