Gerry Thornley

Leinster are victims of their own success.

They do brilliantly to get all these home knockout ties.

It's part of the ambition at the start of every season to get as many home knockout ties as possible.

It boosts their bank account.

It's a boost for the RFU.

It's a boost for the Aviva Stadium and so forth.

But it's probably become almost taken as read that they're always going to get all these knockout matches and supporters become a little bit blasé about them.

And yeah, like if they were suddenly not to get a home knockout tie for a couple of years, you'd see them flock, I'd see the crowds flocking back again a couple of years time.

Like you said about Munster, if Munster were having to get a home quarterfinal again, or home knockout tie, which they haven't had in three or four years, it would be interesting to see what the response would be in Thornham Park.

Yeah, maybe.

But then again, it's not on terrestrial television, so not everybody has Premier Sports.

I know people get access to it or go to pubs, whatever.

You're right.

I mean, I think the RDS is a more intimate home ground.

The supporters are literally closer to the players.

And

as you put it there, like 33 euros 30.

Like, we're lucky we get the cheap seats, you know, we get the freebies.

And I'm just thinking to myself there, would I bring my son or my two boys to a Leinster match and pay 100 quid for three tickets to sit up at the high in the corner?

Yeah, sport has to be careful how it sells its products, all right, for sure, and how it pitches its pricing because of what it's competing against when you can sit at home and watch it on TV.