I’ll stand up and fight for Munster but I can’t guarantee a knockout

The key complicating factor in the ticket equation is the group to which I belong: the Munster exile living in Dublin. We’re taking many of the tickets allocated to Leinster fans for the simple reason that this is where it’s easier for us to get our hands on them. There are nowhere near as many Leinster-born people living in Munster to take the Munster tickets

RED shirts will outnumber blue in Croke Park tomorrow, despite the best efforts of Leinster to stop the sale of tickets from its share of the allocation for the Heineken Cup semi-final to Munster supporters.

Leinster was upset three years ago to see the game at Lansdowne Road turned effectively into a home game for the southern province. It doesn’t want to see the same happening again. It’ll be hard to stop for all sorts of reasons, including the most basic of all: the laws of supply and demand.