Rory O'Connor

And George Hendy scored a try at the end.

And then last year, they got to La Rochelle, beat La Rochelle and lost to Bordeaux.

But both games, again, were away from home.

So there's a knock-on effect.

There's one less pool game at home every season because of the Champions Cup format.

So that's another one.

They didn't sell out the cast game at home this year either.

So they're struggling to attract capacity crowds to what is a very big club stadium in Thoman Park.

As I understand it, the vast majority of their fans, not vast, but the bulk of their season tickets come from Cork.

So there's a bit of a slog involved in going to Munster home games.

I'm not sure there's a huge amount of their bases in Limerick.

Yeah, I think some of the New Zealand and South African teams draw a lot of their support bases from the hinterland.

A commercial city.

Yeah, I think the Chiefs have two bases between Hamilton and Rotorua and things like that, but they're smaller population bases.

Just to give you an example, I do think Munster are fairly unique and it's been a challenge for Munster the entire way through

the professional era, a lot of their admin is based in Cork where they've opened a state-of-the-art centre of excellence only just a couple of months ago.

Ian Flanagan opened that.

I was talking to Cian about their position then and addressed the Conor Murray quotes at that time where he accused the organisation of penny-pinching, of making dud signings and having coaching churn.

We thought this issue would be settled when they opened up their...

based or high performance centre in Limerick most of the young promising players from Cork as far as I know all relocate to Limerick and join largely join Limerick clubs to play in the AAL which is a massive bone of contention at Cork Con and Dolphin I'm sure the majority of young players coming through are from Cork