URC: Leinster v Munster, Croke Park, Saturday, 5.15pm – Live on TG4 and Premier Sports 1
The pageantry in the stands, the noise, the shades of blue and red will provide a colourful and vibrant backdrop, but ultimately, when the occasion is stripped to its sporting essence, it’s a game of rugby. Eighty minutes of derring-do, derring-don’t or derring-didn’t. Ticket sales have exceeded 50,000.
Supporters have been free to distract themselves in the build-up with endless debate, from the merits of the respective outhalves, Sam Prendergast and Jack Crowley, to ever widening ripples of conflicting opinion that straddle matters further afield, like the composition of Andy Farrell’s Ireland squad for the November Test series. The disgruntled find and take umbrage where possible.
Leinster head coach Leo Cullen, during a freewheeling chat across a variety of topics, spoke about the need to reprise the connection and energy that the team lapped up from the stands w
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