Rory O'Connor

They lost the Sharks away.

And then last year they went on that run to La Rochelle.

They got Hampton away as well.

Yes.

No, no, Northampton away was the... Yeah, Rousey was in charge that day.

They were all sick that day.

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.