Gerry Thornley

They're bringing Charles Ollivant and Thomas Albernaz and Baptiste Serran.

Lots of good job, Baptiste Gross.

Loads of good players.

They're three-time former winners.

It's a semi-final of a Champions Cup.

And it's going to be the lowest home attendance Leinster have ever had at a Champions Cup semi-final.

I think there was 42,000 plus for Toulouse in 2022.

There was 46,800 plus for Toulouse in 2023.

I know Toulon aren't Toulouse, but they're not that far away.

There was incredibly 82,300 for Northampton in the Crow Park two seasons ago.

And there was 42,000 plus for Northampton last year.

And I wonder, is some of this still the hangover from that semi-final defeat to Northampton?

I don't think the Leinster have ever quite fully recovered from that day or the fan base has fully recovered from that day.

Plus, there's a lot of Aviva fatigue, I would suggest.

You were saying off-air, the quicker they move back to the RDS, the better.

I think there's an Aviva fatigue for the players, the coaches, for the journalists, for the supporters.

There's only so many times you can go to the Aviva in a season and not get a little bored going there.

And it will be great when they have the RDS running.

And it was brilliant being in the Dexcom Stadium and just being somewhere else.

It seems like I spent the whole season at the Aviva Stadium.