[strike]I saw from the branch FB feed earlier that the only tickets left are the hospitality tent tickets. They may not have all the extra stands up, but a sell out is a sell out.[/strike]

I am wrong as all befuckery

I can't fucking wait.

rossie wrote: I was at the Aironi game swifty and that was a fiddle on the attendance figure if ever there was one.

I thought all Rabo attendances for all clubs were fiddles i.e. season tickets included regardless of actual attendance?

Eric said in his press conference today that there's been more than 8,000 tickets shifted already

I was at the Aironi game swifty and that was a fiddle on the attendance figure if ever there was one. not only did they add in the non attending season ticket holders but also the previously unclaimed freebies that st holders were entitled to for that one.

The real attendance was around 4000 but not above it.

Agree with you totally borders, charging the same for behind goal as clan or main terrace is rediculous and insulting to patrons attending and that applies to all fixtures.From what i have seen attendances are down slightly from last year as it is and we dont have the bumper draw of Toulouse to fall back on this year. I cant make it saturday but a college rd ticket in poor weather conditions wouldnt appeal to me if im honest.

On the game we will have to have a rock solid scrum and lineout backed up with Dan Parks top kicking game in all departments. If we bring these components to the table we can win this game. Quins, while a top side, are very beatable. What we cant do is get involved in free flowing rugby with them. This one is a forwards game with good field position the priority and top defence again.

Borders no.2 wrote: Lets face it barring a miracle there won't be much to bring them to the Zebre game in the final pool game.

last year aironi was 5th highest attendence which included pro12 and heineken.
ahead of them were toulouse, munster, leinster, quins.
aironi was higher than ulster and our 3rd heineken cup team.

I've said it before, tickets for behind the posts for these games should be €5 cheaper. If its raining and the wind is blowing straight down the pitch you have absolutely zero cover. Look at the first few games, how many have been standing there? €30 in your pocket and watching at home or in the pub looks very attractive if you're 50/50 about going.

€30 is probably justified for this type of game but think they could have put a HC package together for something like €70. Lets face it barring a miracle there won't be much to bring them to the Zebre game in the final pool game.

salmson wrote:

swift4prez wrote: 2) toulon 8000 (april 2010)

There were only 7000 people at this game, this was the stated capacity of the ground at the time and the attendence given on the erc website. So the target is the Munster attendence of 7022, as you say this is still a huge ask though.

yes sorry, stupid me took the figures from rte website rather than erc, thinking back i should of remembered

swift4prez wrote: 2) toulon 8000 (april 2010)

There were only 7000 people at this game, this was the stated capacity of the ground at the time and the attendence given on the erc website. So the target is the Munster attendence of 7022, as you say this is still a huge ask though.

i seen on the connacht website that alex saul is saying, this will be connacht second biggest attendence, behind toulouse.
frankly i cant see this happening. at the moment, the clan and the enclossed area upstairs is sold out and the main terrace is filling up.
little over 5,800 was at the leinster game with only a man and his dog behind the posts.

we need to start selling fast if we want to over take, 6000, heineken cup games is count by whoever walks in the gate with a ticket, rather then pro12 which is count as how many tickets are sold.

as it stands
1) toulouse 9120 (november 2011)
2) munster 7022 (march 2012)
3) toulon 7000 (april 2010)
4) leinster 6582 (january 2012)
5) leinster 5813 (september 2012)

sea_point wrote:
Fact is we were deserved winners and should have won by more, we should have won over there too but for a lack of self-belief.

this

Creedence wrote: www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/14/har...en-cup?newsfeed=true

Quins's overriding priority, though, is to avenge last season's Galway mugging. O'Shea acknowledges that "the date Jan 20th is etched in our memory" and Botica already detects a sense of steely purpose in the dressing-room. "I'm sure the boys are going to be up for it, having lost to them last year and being kicked out of the tournament." On this evidence, Connacht should batten down the batches.

Our guys are going to really have to be up for this.

Well do you know what, Quins seems to think it was an aberration that they were "mugged".

Fact is we were deserved winners and should have won by more, we should have won over there too but for a lack of self-belief.

if I was Eric I'd be sticking up every interview from the last couple of weeks that mentions Quins coming to "avenge" theIR loss and plaster them all over the changing rooms and gym this week...

Well, at least the boys and girls in the Met Service are holding their end up...

"Current indications suggest that Saturday will bring further heavy showers and that a spell of persistent rain will move northwards over the country through Saturday night and Sunday."

www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/14/har...en-cup?newsfeed=true

Quins's overriding priority, though, is to avenge last season's Galway mugging. O'Shea acknowledges that "the date Jan 20th is etched in our memory" and Botica already detects a sense of steely purpose in the dressing-room. "I'm sure the boys are going to be up for it, having lost to them last year and being kicked out of the tournament." On this evidence, Connacht should batten down the batches.

Our guys are going to really have to be up for this.

LIST OF ALL TIME GREAT MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS

1. Eric Elwood
2. Braveheart
3. Wasrednowgreen

Well said, sir!

Well that's good news. They were still good without him yesterday. Scary good. He wasn't really missed to be honest, yer man Botica was savage.