Sunday Mirror - RUGBY WORLD CUP 2003: RIP-OFF

IRELAND coach Eddie O’Sullivan has launched an astonishing attack on World Cup organisers last night, claiming inflated ticket prices are forcing neutral supporters to watch matches at home.

O’Sullivan was hoping that most of the floating fans in Australia would get behind Ireland in the knockout stages of the competition, but expensive ticket prices have put a halt to that.

n The cheapest ticket for the quarter-final stage of the competition is EUR60, but these tickets were sold out months ago, leaving only EUR120 and EUR220 tickets on sale in the days leading up to the games.

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The same tickets in the same stadium cost only EUR45 and EUR70 the week before and O’Sullivan believes it is a shame that his side won’t get the full support that their efforts deserve.

He admitted: “Australians would generally support Ireland and I think there’s a great connection between the two countries.

“We’ll have our usual good support, but the stadium won’t be full unfortunately because tickets are fairly expensive for neutrals.

“I was hoping we would get a lot of Australians along to support Ireland because I know we’d be the second team among a lot of the locals.

“But I think the ticket prices are steep for that to happen. Our own great support will be there I know but it could have been a lot more.”