Record Breaking Crowd For Leinster

Leinster 27 - 20 Munster Lansdowne Road   Att: 27,252 Referee: Simon McDowell Friday 6th October 2006, 19:30

Leinster broke the Magners League attendance record with a whooping 27,252-strong crowd.

Brian O'Driscoll scores try for Leinster

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Tries from Brian O’Driscoll, Shane Horgan and Jamie Heaslip helped Leinster defeat Munster in front of this record breaking crowd. Both sides played with a passion tonight but Leinster had the edge displaying some great defense and fast attacking skills. It didn’t come easy for them and when they lost a player to the sin bin had to dig deep to hold off Munster’s attack. The game had its drama as a right hook was thrown by Felipe Contepomi connecting with the Muster lock, Donncha O’Callaghan. Leinster were lucky to escape a red card, which could have seen the game finish differently. Munster managed to secure a bonus point thanks to a close range penalty from Marcus Horan.

Leinster V Munster   P D C T Pos Player Player Pos T C D P   FB Girvan Dempsey 15 Jeremy Manning FB 1 W Shane Horgan 14 Ian Dowling W 2 C Brian O'Driscoll 13 John Kelly C C Gordon D'Arcy 12 Trevor Halstead C W Denis Hickie 11 Tomas O'Leary W 1 2 FH Felipe Contepomi 10 Ronan O'Gara FH 2 2 SH Guy Easterby 9 Peter Stringer SH P Ronan McCormack 1 Marcus Horan P 1 H Brian Blaney 2 Frank Sheahan H P Will Green 3 Federico Pucciariello P L Trevor Hogan 4 Donncha O'Callaghan L L Malcolm O'Kelly 5 Paul O'Connell L FL Cameron Jowitt 6 Alan Quinlan FL FL Keith Gleeson 7 David Wallace FL 1 1 8 Jamie Heaslip 8 Anthony Foley 8 Replacements r Reggie Corrigan 16 Andy Kyriacou - r Harry Vermaas 17 Tim Ryan r r Owen Finegan 18 Mick O'Driscoll r r Stephen Keogh 19 Denis Leamy r - Matthew D'Arcy 20 Tim McGann r - Christian Warner 21 Brian O'Meara - r Luke Fitzgerald 22 Barry Murphy r Penalty Tries 0 0

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