Leo Cullen says Leinster rode the wave provided by their sea of blue at the Aviva Stadium - and they want to do the same in the Champions Cup final in Marseille.
The province sold 42,067 tickets in five days between their quarter-final and semi-final victories and Cullen, their head coach, would love a massive Leinster crowd for the final on French soil.
"Hopefully there’ll be a few planes on and we’ll have a sea of blue down in Marseilles because that would be amazing," said Cullen.
"Like, last week the support in Welford Road was incredible, the 4,000 people that made the trip over there.
“We won a final in Bilbao (in 2018, against Racing 92) and there was an amazing sea of blue that day.
"It is one of the most vivid memories I have, is that drive into that stadium literally into a sea of blue covering the tunnel.
“They’re the special moments that you get, I guess the honour of representing this team.
"We’ll have a group of players that will get to run out here next week and hopefully we’ll have a big turnout again and then we turn the page to Marseilles.
“We know we’ve a quarter-final the week after that in the URC so it’s an unbelievably exciting period of games, isn’t it?
“The group have been pretty well managed so we should be fresh and raring to go."
Cullen is optimistic that Tadhg Furlong (ankle), Rónan Kelleher (head) and James Ryan (shin) will come through for the final.
Before that, Leinster are back in action at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday against Munster in the final regular URC game of the season for both provinces.
"Back to the URC everybody," chuckled Cullen. "We want to put on a big performance here this week.
“There are different layers in the group.
"You have guys like Johnny (Sexton) who has experienced lots of positive memories and a few tricky ones along the way, as we all have, and then there is a younger group that is striving for success for the first time.
“This week we’ll have some players that are desperate to put their hand up, that’s what we want to see from them.
"So that’s the thing that’s probably occupying most of my thoughts at the moment, is getting ready for a Munster team that we know are very ambitious to be very successful as well.
"They’ve come out publicly and said their desperation for trophies and I guess investment they’ve put in, in terms of some World Cup winners into their squad as well.
“So that’s probably the thing that is actually taking up most of my head space at the minute because that’s the way our minds go, which is to the next challenge."
