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<blockquote data-quote="Groundhog" data-source="post: 1051350" data-attributes="member: 50079"><p>That's fair! Yeah I'm sure you will get to know all about the teams in the URC and I'm happy to chat about some Munster history! </p><p></p><p>Yes so the Limerick-Cork thing is an odd one. It has actually been resolved now, the team trains together exclusively in our High Performance Centre in Limerick, but you're right it was the case during Rassie and Nienabers time! Munster is a weird case where it has two pretty large cities with Cork being the larger city but Limerick traditionally being the centre of power in rugby terms and our actual main stadium Thomond Park being in Limerick although we do also have a stadium in Cork. There was a very political situation whereby the powers that be in Cork were very against all of the training sessions taking place in Limerick. There's also the fact that travelling between Cork and Limerick takes a good while and a lot of young guys go to college in Cork so the travel element was a real problem but as I said it's been solved now!</p><p></p><p>On club guys training with Munster it's a reasonably common thing in Ireland we call up (sometimes temporarily) guys from the All Ireland League which is the level below provincial rugby when we're hit by injury. Not as professional as Curry Cup or anything, but a high standard we can draw from if needed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Groundhog, post: 1051350, member: 50079"] That's fair! Yeah I'm sure you will get to know all about the teams in the URC and I'm happy to chat about some Munster history! Yes so the Limerick-Cork thing is an odd one. It has actually been resolved now, the team trains together exclusively in our High Performance Centre in Limerick, but you're right it was the case during Rassie and Nienabers time! Munster is a weird case where it has two pretty large cities with Cork being the larger city but Limerick traditionally being the centre of power in rugby terms and our actual main stadium Thomond Park being in Limerick although we do also have a stadium in Cork. There was a very political situation whereby the powers that be in Cork were very against all of the training sessions taking place in Limerick. There's also the fact that travelling between Cork and Limerick takes a good while and a lot of young guys go to college in Cork so the travel element was a real problem but as I said it's been solved now! On club guys training with Munster it's a reasonably common thing in Ireland we call up (sometimes temporarily) guys from the All Ireland League which is the level below provincial rugby when we're hit by injury. Not as professional as Curry Cup or anything, but a high standard we can draw from if needed. [/QUOTE]
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