Tommy Martin: Why TMS (that’s Too Much Sport) viewing numbers are tumbling

Too Much Rugby is a smaller scale version of Too Much Football, which reaches new levels of bloated madness with next year’s FIFA Club World Cup

Gavin Coombes of Munster on his way to scoring his side's fifth try during the Champions Cup Round 1 match against Stade Francais at Thomond Park in Limerick. Picture: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Watching the artist formerly known as the Heineken Cup these days makes you feel a bit like Vito Corleone when poor Sonny ran foul of the Barzini clan and met a bloody end.

Munster European games at Thomond Park in the dark of December used to be the best thing going in club rugby. Some English or French outfit would rock up and give the men in red their best shot. The stands would be heaving and the steam rising from the scrums.