Gerry Thornley

And I think there is a big element of that too.

No, they're not.

They're not the most expensive tickets in the world.

And it makes you wonder, have the Leinster fan base, have they lost a little bit of belief?

I mean, we put down the relatively small attendance for the round of 16 of the quarterfinal.

Understandably, to a large degree, it's been over the Easter holidays.

First game being an Easter Sunday, family tea time.

Second game coming at six days' notice.

It was very hard to sell the tickets for those games, but they've had three weeks to sell the tickets for this match.

I've heard little or no promotion of it.

And it is an EPCR event more than a Leinster event.

But then again, since the start of this show, there was 42,000 plus or 46,000 plus at all the three previous semifinals, Diviva and 82,000 at Croke Park.

So it's a significant drop off.

And the exact same procedures happened then was a three week build up to all those games as well.

There was a huge novelty factor and yes, and that would never happen again.

They certainly wouldn't be able to sell.

I think the round of 16 and quarterfinals in the RDS would have been close to full capacity.

It would have been very good occasions.

We would have viewed those two days differently.

But the bottom line is for Champions Cup semi-final, I think something you said off air as well, that as well as Aviva fatigue, there's knockout fatigue.