Wow. Wow.......wow. I can't remember when I have ever felt so proud to be a Munsterman and the last time I enjoyed a game of Rugby so much. For Thomond Park's grand opening, there could have been no greater opponents: the mighty All Blacks. Fanfare and spectacle in the build up to kick off: dancing girls(clothed given the cold night bless them), fireworks and the helicopter that the Air-Corps leases to Munster for transporting Tony Buckley hovered over the middle of the pitch and a few soldiers jumped down on zip lines to deliver the ball.
The build up climaxed with the four kiwis wearing red performing the haka before their fellow country men. While it did not instill fear in the All Blacks, Doug Howlett, Lifemi Mafi, Rua Tipoki and Jeremy Manning's display inspired the unfamiliar faces brought in to replace those in Dublin with the Ireland squad.
80 minutes of Rugby never passed so quickly. So much energy, passion and drama. The new 26,000 seat Thomond rumbled with the cheers of the red army and the rest of Munster rumbled at home with envy at those in the red cauldron.
18-16 to the visitors who described it in their national press as the match of the tour. I love New Zealand for their modesty despite their other worldly abilities, a world apart from England and the smug swagger of Australia and those terrible losers the Frogs.
A re-match is uncertain in the near future but we can always hope. Our attention turns to the crucial match on Saturday against those marauding pirates Argentina. Dr Contempomi, the tosser, is thankfully out this leaves a small question over their set piece kicking but as we now know, thats not all they have to bring to rugby.
Lets hope the memories of '78 and now '08 will inspire even the Leinster players wearing green on Saturday and that we show the world and the smug south americans what Irish rugby is really like.
80 minutes of Rugby never passed so quickly. So much energy, passion and drama. The new 26,000 seat Thomond rumbled with the cheers of the red army and the rest of Munster rumbled at home with envy at those in the red cauldron.
18-16 to the visitors who described it in their national press as the match of the tour. I love New Zealand for their modesty despite their other worldly abilities, a world apart from England and the smug swagger of Australia and those terrible losers the Frogs.
A re-match is uncertain in the near future but we can always hope. Our attention turns to the crucial match on Saturday against those marauding pirates Argentina. Dr Contempomi, the tosser, is thankfully out this leaves a small question over their set piece kicking but as we now know, thats not all they have to bring to rugby.
Lets hope the memories of '78 and now '08 will inspire even the Leinster players wearing green on Saturday and that we show the world and the smug south americans what Irish rugby is really like.
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