The Munster Rugby Thread 2019/20

[Meridian]

Look forward to the trophy going to every club throughout Munster, would be nice to take it to Leinster clubs to remind them what a trophy looks like!!

 

[rebel bike]

Why would you bother with a home coming for a trophy that looks like a fencing post driver gone wrong?

 

[Handy Run]

Why would you bother with a home coming for a trophy that looks like a fencing post driver gone wrong?

Especially when there's so much more to do in Limerick

 

[longbigandjuicy]

And here we go, Cork getting its usual Munster Rugby treatment:

Munster Rugby URC Champions Homecoming

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Munster has very little to do with Cork these days.

 

[SoundMan]

Munster has very little to do with Cork these days.

That alas has much to do with why it took 12 long years to secure a trophy imho

Munster Rugby shot itself in the foot by effectively turning its back on Cork, much the bigger population, in a professional era run by sponsorship. Band-wagoners during successful periods aside, the better heeled in Cork tend to be more into Rugby than GAA in Cork, and it's generally the reverse in Limerick. So you're more likely to have more sponsorship from the bigger population with the bigger interest in Cork if you really had to pick on city for Munster rugby to the detriment of the other.

Retrograde step centering it all in Limerick imho.

 

[Handy Run]

That alas has much to do with why it took 12 long years to secure a trophy imho

Munster Rugby shot itself in the foot by effectively turning its back on Cork, much the bigger population, in a professional era run by sponsorship. Band-wagoners during successful periods aside, the better heeled in Cork tend to be more into Rugby than GAA in Cork, and it's generally the reverse in Limerick. So you're more likely to have more sponsorship from the bigger population with the bigger interest in Cork if you really had to pick on city for Munster rugby to the detriment of the other.

Retrograde step centering it all in Limerick imho.

Wouldn't be half an issue if the road between the two wasn't a death trap

 

[RebelBOK]

Anything Munster has to do with Cork these days is little more than token gesture at this stage. A few games in Musgrave against poor opposition every season does little towards attracting new generations of supporters around here.
(What is even the point of the Munster office at Musgrave btw? I doubt there is any reason it is situated there other than to be seen to have a visible presence.)
Deciding to move the training facilities to Limerick instead of Cork went a long way to creating that disconnect aswell.

Anyway it is what it is.
Hopefully they will hold some big European games and some interpros in PuC going forward.
That's the best we can wish for in terms of Munsters presence in Cork.

 

[SoundMan]

Wouldn't be half an issue if the road between the two wasn't a death trap

Certainly doesn't help.

I could see the need to modernise Thomond Park but they made a pigs ear of it getting rid of all the old Thomond Park atmosphere to have an iconic stadium shaped like a rugby ball instead of keeping it plain and simple like the upgrade Ravenhill has. Stands on 4 sides but they're on top of the pitch and can generate bigger atmosphere with a smaller crowd.

There wasn't a need to bring everything up to Limerick, they could even have had a centre-of-excellence set up in the likes of Mallow and a relatively easy commute for those from Cork and Limerick and on the railway line too.

 

[bluesball]

Leave them off Limerick is now a HURLING city

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Fingers in the ears Soundy

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