Four-fifths full Thomond Park for URC semi-final against Glasgow tells a sorry tale
It is first-up food for thought for those who would throw brickbats at individual Munster players following their unexpectedly lacklustre performance against Glasgow
Saturday's attendance of 20,052 for the Munster-Glasgow semi-final at Thomond Park was over five-and-a-half thousand short of capacity.
Leaving a four-fifths full ground for a game that in the Reds heyday would have had the dockets selling for small fortunes on the black market.
It is first-up food for thought for those who would throw brickbats at individual Munster players following their unexpectedly lacklustre performance against Glasgow.
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Because there is much to chew on in the idea that in an era when it is fashionable to bitch about Leinster benefitting from being able to draw on larger funding, some had let the southern side down even before the day of the game.
The 5,000-plus might also consider this, there was no Thomond Park cauldron to spook, to intimidate, to frighten Glasgow when the pressure was on.
By the way that ticket money taken as a standalone figure would allow Munster double their academy intake; or cover five Development Contracts for young players; it would even stretch to funding a first-rate international player's wages for a season.
Munster's battles aren't always on the pitch.
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