Dave Cahill wrote:suisse wrote:I never understood the sniggering at Munster attendances here.
I wouldn't have thought it was all that difficult. If you claim to be the brave and faithful by the grace of God best fans in the world and you build a white elephant as a tribute to this belief, then when you have to get banners made to cover entirely empty terraces, you're going to get laughed at.
Leinster's entire off-field operation has been second rate for a couple of years alright, but thats a different thing to pointing out southern hubris. We never claimed to be anything we aren't.
That's exactly it. The framing of supporters as "liginds" was bullshit, like all teams in Ireland there are a bandwagon jumpers down in Limerick. The press also bought all the hype which made it even worse and as you say there was a lot of nonsense around the ground - it was built too big and they refused to sell the naming rights because the ground was too sacred and ligindry. Now as you say it's a white elephant bailed out by the IRFU - yet when Zebo and Ryan chose to go abroad that's the IRFU's fault......and Jamie Heaslip's obviously.........

By the way, 2017 we were the best supported team in the Champions Cup and the second best in the Pro12 slightly behind Ulster. As people are saying, we are not fulfilling our potential and you have to ask questions of the branch on that but at the same time we have a really solid base upon which to build!