There’s no denying that the Munster Under 20s team were well beaten this evening, but there were some encouraging individual performances. This Munster supporter was in amongst many Leinster fans, one of which took great comfort in calling the red-shirts “Biffos”. I pointed out that the “o” was for Offaly, which was in which province?
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While the mainstream media argues over the number of Munster fans in the Millennium Stadium (with reports ranging from 55 thousand to 70 thousand!), one thing is for sure and that’s that it was a stadium of red, with Munster fans well out-numbering Biarritz fans, as widely predicted.
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Rugby’s Heineken Cup 2006 semi-finalists, Leinster, seemed to have got it all right on the day, as they took on the Toulouse on their doorstep; a challenge all teams would agree was a tough one. Here’s my account of how this Munster rugby newbie got on!
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In a poor performance in even poorer weather conditions, the Banner went down to an on-form Tipperary team on Sunday, in the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. Having started out the day stuck in traffic for 45 minutes in Ennis, I should have felt an unease about the day, but I didn’t. I knew it was going to be a tough game to claim, despite many Clare fans thinking it would be easy, and many Tipp fans writing it off. The 2 games Tipp had against Limerick certainly brought them up to Munster Championship class and, thus, completely outclassed Clare at every position on the field.
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I think I can safely say that neither Clare or Kilkenny were expecting Clare to put up such a performance yesterday in the NHL match. Clare, who only had a mediocre performance display during the course of the league, went down badly to Galway, in their first truely tough match (although many Laois supporters will quite rightly point out that Clare were luck to win their earlier game).
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