Leinster Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread.

vienne86

justsomebloke wrote: »

the money was taken out of my account last friday, so it may be an idea to get in contact with ticketmaster if the money hasn't been taken from your account yet

I just took your advice and rang them. I was told that the charge was made yesterday, so it is just making its way through the banking system.

irishbucsfan

Jesus Christ. This is just going to exacerbate the bandwagon. Poor old washman.

Badabing

chris85 wrote: »

August 11th but great news for many supporters out that direction.

http://www.leinsterrugby.ie/newsroom/9935.php

Sorry typo Being from Tallaght i cant wait.

vienne86

chris85 wrote: »

August 11th but great news for many supporters out that direction.

http://www.leinsterrugby.ie/newsroom/9935.php

I went to the match between the Wolfhounds and the Jaguars there a few years ago. Really enjoyed it. I thought it was a great venue.

chris85

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Jesus Christ. This is just going to exacerbate the bandwagon. Poor old washman.

Poor washman, wont be happy over this at all. A thread should be given just to him and the other select elite who frequented to Brook back in the day. Can call it "Non-bandwagen Leinster Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread **"

Yes two stars are there on purpose :D

Badabing wrote: »

Sorry typo Being from Tallaght i cant wait.

Will be good for many supporters out there.

ormond lad

Good to see leinster moving to play games elsewhere. Hopefully they now look to moving an A game in the British and Irish cup game to a club ground in somewhere like carlow, tullamore, etc similar to what munster have done with holding A games in places like clonmel, nenagh, waterford, tralee.
Spread the game throughout the province

Zico

ormond lad wrote: »

Good to see leinster moving to play games elsewhere. Hopefully they now look to moving an A game in the British and Irish cup game to a club ground in somewhere like carlow, tullamore, etc similar to what munster have done with holding A games in places like clonmel, nenagh, waterford, tralee.
Spread the game throughout the province

I'd be more excited by this.

CIARAN_BOYLE

ormond lad wrote: »

Good to see leinster moving to play games elsewhere. Hopefully they now look to moving an A game in the British and Irish cup game to a club ground in somewhere like carlow, tullamore, etc similar to what munster have done with holding A games in places like clonmel, nenagh, waterford, tralee.
Spread the game throughout the province

I doubt we will see this. B&I cups are covered by the season ticket and ST holders are promised it will be in Donnybrook or the RDS.

I like the idea of this friendly in Tallaght.

armchaircoach

Ok so B&I matches as well as regular matches are pretty much tied to the 3 D4 stadiums.

But is there any reason, seeing the size of the squad and acadamy, and seeing as lots of these players can go weeks in between matches, why Leinster don't already have a series of friendlies over the course of the season.

The first team players obviously will not have to play in them, but they could be usefull for guys around the fringes, and could be held in stadia all around the province

CIARAN_BOYLE

armchaircoach wrote: »

Ok so B&I matches as well as regular matches are pretty much tied to the 3 D4 stadiums.

But is there any reason, seeing the size of the squad and acadamy, and seeing as lots of these players can go weeks in between matches, why Leinster don't already have a series of friendlies over the course of the season.

The first team players obviously will not have to play in them, but they could be usefull for guys around the fringes, and could be held in stadia all around the province

I'd like to see that. More A games against the other provinces might be the place to start but the AIL would be really upset since players wouldn't be available as much. Don't get me wrong I would like to see it but I have doubts.

ormond lad

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

I doubt we will see this. B&I cups are covered by the season ticket and ST holders are promised it will be in Donnybrook or the RDS.

I like the idea of this friendly in Tallaght.

I knew that it more than likely will never really happen, its just a shame that games cant be played out of dublin. Playing A games in tullamore etc would be much better pr, chance to showcase rugby in less popular areas than playing games in donnybrook, rds.

Its just silly keeping the games in donnybrook/rds IMO when the game should be brought to as many people in the province as possible. If not British and Irish Cup games then other A games like friendlys against Munster A/Ulster Ravens etc
The provincial A teams usually play each other at least once during the season so it would be perfect

Zico

Tallaght is a step in the right direction hopefully it will be a success and lead to more adventurous venues. Playing games outside of Dublin might ruffle a few GAA feathers though.:)

irishbucsfan

Zico wrote: »

Tallaght is a step in the right direction hopefully it will be a success and lead to more adventurous venues. Playing games outside of Dublin might ruffle a few GAA feathers though.:)

Just wearing blue has ruffled GAA feathers. So it's unavoidable.

.ak

I think we'll see more friendly games next season. In many ways it's an advantage to get certain players match fit, and they could be played anywhere in the province. Remember Thorn's first game? No reason why we couldn't replace a few of them next season with sub-academy players and other players looking to get a bit match fit.

justsomebloke

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

I doubt we will see this. B&I cups are covered by the season ticket and ST holders are promised it will be in Donnybrook or the RDS.

source? I know they guarantee access to all the A games, but I don't think they ever mentioned where they will take place

CIARAN_BOYLE

justsomebloke wrote: »

source? I know they guarantee access to all the A games, but I don't think they ever mentioned where they will take place

I could be wrong, I don't have a season ticket but someone told me it was guaranteed.

armchaircoach

.ak wrote: »

I think we'll see more friendly games next season. In many ways it's an advantage to get certain players match fit, and they could be played anywhere in the province. Remember Thorn's first game? No reason why we couldn't replace a few of them next season with sub-academy players and other players looking to get a bit match fit.

In fairness thorn's first game didn't exactly take place a million miles from donneybrook. What we're aiming at here is a few games in areas where we wouldn't traditionally have played them

justsomebloke

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

I could be wrong, I don't have a season ticket but someone told me it was guaranteed.

Ye I don't think they guarantee that they will take place there, however in truth from a financial point of view I can't see them being played anywhere else. Given that most of your expected crowd will be getting in free there wouldn't be enough paying spectators to help pay for ground rental to make it a worth while exercise

.ak

armchaircoach wrote: »

In fairness thorn's first game didn't exactly take place a million miles from donneybrook. What we're aiming at here is a few games in areas where we wouldn't traditionally have played them

Yeah I agree, what I was trying to get at is the idea of mid-season friendlies is obviously do-able. It would be good to use them as a way to bring the brand out to other counties/areas/stadiums.

.ak

Getting a tad worried about tickets for the final now. I don't see them being offered as frequently as previous finals, and the list on LF is huge (I'm 40th or something..)

Also, does anyone know what the upper stands are like in Twickers? I'm bringing the old dear, and she hasn't the best eye sight...

captivo

I'm getting a bit worried about the ticket situation too. There doesn't seem to be many tickets floating around. I'm hoping that tickets will start to come available once popele have received them from the lottery and sort out which tickets to keep and which to sell. Fingers crossed

copacetic

captivo wrote: »

I'm getting a bit worried about the ticket situation too. There doesn't seem to be many tickets floating around. I'm hoping that tickets will start to come available once popele have received them from the lottery and sort out which tickets to keep and which to sell. Fingers crossed

Ye will be grand, like a lot of people with spares I'm in the above boat, looks like we have 2 spares but can't sell them yet as don't know where they are and don't have them in hand.

.ak

copacetic wrote: »

Ye will be grand, like a lot of people with spares I'm in the above boat, looks like we have 2 spares but can't sell them yet as don't know where they are and don't have them in hand.

True. Which is why I was hoping the lottery peeps were getting their tickets this week, as next week leaves it a tad close!

copacetic

.ak wrote: »

True. Which is why I was hoping the lottery peeps were getting their tickets this week, as next week leaves it a tad close!

Tweet today from Leinster with a pic of the piles of tickets they are sorting through in the office, said email re collection or posting will be sent later today.


leinsterrugby (@leinsterrugby)
10/05/2012 09:42
Still working through a mountain of tickets for #HeinekenCupFinal Email re collection/ post due later today #bepatient pic.twitter.com/HyKSZlLz

.ak

copacetic wrote: »

Tweet today from Leinster with a pic of the piles of tickets they are sorting through in the office, said email re collection or posting will be sent later today.

Nice one.

.ak

Anyone got any ubercool spy imagine enhancement equipment to see where the ticket allocation is on the viewable tickets? :cool:

Thanos

So assuming they start posting this evening or tomorrow morning (unless they are waiting until are ready to send in one go) first people should get them Monday morning............

Wow that is cutting it fine, some will take longer to arrive and what if you are unlucky to not get them in the post, gives you little or no time sort it out, especially if you are flying out on Friday morning

I will be worried until I have my ticket in my hand.......

[Jackass]

I'm promised two tickets which I'm picking up before the Glasgow game this weekend, but until they are actually in my hand, I can't rest easy!! :eek:

irishbucsfan

Leinster could have pulled a nice one by saying tickets can be picked up, but only at the Glasgow game. Might encourage more to attend