Great to see all the empty seats in the Aviva!!

with O'Leary in the grave.

& if the rugby-set are potless, it don't bode well for
the FAI's chances of paying off the 74m they owe...

Theyre changing the name to "The IMF Stadium" by Q2 next year

Be less at the next match watching this irish team..

Jesus i have never seen a smaller crowd for an international match, what was the prize of a ticket? Could be nearly as many next week for the FAI cup final.

100eur plus is what I heard on the dispatches.

laughable to go & see that shower of bottlers.

the days of 100 euro are well over...50 euro the most anyone could pay for a sporting event be it a 6 nations match or all ireland final...

steering , over on my thread you said evens was a great price ffs , now the 're a shower of bottlers no pleasing some people is there ... ?

they were evens in the corresponding fixture last year W/R in near-identical circumstances; and actually turned-up.

hence the reason for the phrase "bottlers".

they wouldn't pass water today...

Fantastic to see empty seats

i thought the rugger was the new gaa??

O'Gara and Stringer made it look respectable!! Two great players!!!

First time Ronan O'Gara has been associated with the word respectable.

I mean they made the scoreline look respectable! Don't know what your're talking about thegalwayman.

Ronan O'Gara is an ape. That's what I'm talking about.

The phrase takes one to know one comes to mind

looks like its mayo v galway ..... c'mon mayo

80,000 tickets sold at E80:00 in 40 minutes for a rock band at  Slane Castle...yep sure the Celtic Tiger is deaded

Most of those 80,000 were probably the same students acting like t*ats in Dublin as well

Oi! Diamond behave thats the future of Ireland you are talking about.

Where did you get that info Anaglogs, The Sun! Anyway that concert is a once off in Slane, unlike an Ireland Rugby match. They have played South Africa 7 times in the last ten years, plus its live on free to air TV, you'd be mad to pay those prices.

Here is a conspiracy theory for you. How come there was no official attendance figure for last night. Can't find it on IRFU site, BBC, RTE. THey're embarrassed and didn't call it out.

Second hand info but a few bodies shy of 35000.

Just read it in the Sunday Times. Appears only ones with it. 35517. 68% full or 32% empty. Depends which way you look at it.

I presume there will be plenty of tickets available for the All Black match?

Wow funny how people were slagging saying 50,000 was too low a capacity

It seems all the johnny come lately egg ball fans who jumped on the Munster/Leinster/OIRELAND bandwagon have gone back in their shells

The most important aspect in nearly every sport are the supporters. But the supporters need to make a stand when there is a need to and this does not happen enough.

The prices for this match and next few games are an absolute disgrace and a slap in the face to the supporters, without whom, there could be no professionalism in rugby.

Supporters need to stand up for themselves and if they did they would be in a very strong position. I would like to see a united stand by supporters and a total boycot of irelands next few games.

The players need to take a good look at themselves too. They need to remember that they serve the supporters and not the other way around.

I think 35K at the game was a pretty strong statement.

I think they'll be shat on in the papers tomorrow.

It seems all the johnny come lately egg ball fans who jumped on the Munster/Leinster/OIRELAND bandwagon have gone back in their shells


Yeah Leinster v Munster attracted 50,000+ for a Magners league game only 4 weeks ago the tickets were fairly priced and it was by far the best sporting event I've seen in the Aviva so far.

Its a serious error by the IRFU on the ticketing issue no sport could get people to pay  €340 for tickets to just 4 games one of which includes Samoa.