Munster get some final cheer

MUNSTER may hold a little advantage ahead of next month’s Celtic League Final against Neath, thanks in no small part to Welsh Rugby officialdom.

Neath’s squad of teenage cheerleaders have been told to keep off the pitch at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium for the Celtic League showdown on February 1.

And now it is feared that Neath RFC, who call themselves the “Welsh All Blacks”, could struggle to perform without their Black Angel cheerleaders when they face Alan Gaffney’s side, the teenagers’ leader Jackie Morris said yesterday.

Morris said the Welsh Rugby Union told her on behalf of the 72,500-capacity Cardiff stadium, home of the Welsh rugby union team, that the girls would have to stay on the sidelines.

“They said they won’t be able to dance because they may damage the pitch,” Morris said on Tuesday.

“If it can’t withhold 15 young girls, dancing on it for 10 minutes, what is going to happen when 30 burly rugby players are playing on it for 80 minutes?” she added.

The stadium’s demands conflicted with the tartan-clad Angels’ usual routine where they dance to the Will Smith hit “Men in Black” before matches and strut their stuff again at half-time.

Morris said that the fans loved the girls and even Munster had said they wanted them to perform at the final.