More than 26,000 witnessed the European Cup quarter-final demolition of Toulouse. It means that not for the first time, Munster stand alone in the semi-finals of the European Cup - for Ireland and the RaboDirect PRO12.
They ought to be used to it by now. Sunday April 27 in Marseilles will be the fifth time that the former double champions have reached the penultimate stage as the last team standing from the Celtic League.
Now that they have reached one semi-final, their concern now is to secure another by ensuring they stay where they are in the RaboDirect PRO12 and finish in the top two.
A home semi-final next month will be crucial if they are to earn the right of hosting the Grand Final and bringing the curtain down on the season before another full house. They have not managed that since beating Leinster in the 2011 final.
To ensure staying in the top two, Munster will have to hold off the challenge of an Ulster side whom they will expect to be all the more dangerous for their wounded exit from Europe at Ravenhill last Saturday night.
As Ulster dust themselves down for Friday night's visit of Connacht to Belfast, Munster prepare for a challenging home match of their own 24 hours later, against the Glasgow Warriors.
Three successive home wins, the last a five-pointer against Treviso at Scotstoun last Friday night, has catapulted Gregor Townsend's team into the play-off zone - four points clear of the Ospreys with a game in hand.
If the leading quartet finish the regular season as they currently stand, then the Warriors will be back at the RDS where they ran Leinster mighty close in last year's semi-final.
They make the journey to Limerick in the midst of their best run since the start of the season and with their Fijian wing-cum-scrum half Niko Matawalu back in the match-winning groove.
After 13 straight home wins this season, Munster will demand nothing less than a 14th. Paul O'Connell, fresh from his first European try in five years, will not be short of any motivational material.
He will not have forgotten how the Warriors rattled up 51 points when Munster went to Glasgow towards the end of last season, a thumping defeat which resulted in the former champions being run out of the play-offs.
Matawalu had no shortage of help from his friends that night - Sean Maitland, Ruaridh Jackson, Stuart Hogg, Mark Bennett and Johnny Barclay all following him across the Munster line.
Nobody will be in greater need of a reassuring home win than Ulster and not simply because of the heart-breaking nature of their European quarter-final against Saracens.
If Johann Muller is to end his distinguished career on a winning note, his team need to win their last four remaining matches in the RaboDirect PRO12, starting against Connacht this week.
It is a fact that since the introduction of the play-offs four years ago, every home semi-final has been won by the home team - Leinster four times, Ospreys twice, Munster and Ulster once. Home advantage, a fitting reward for finishing in the top two, cannot be over-emphasised.
The results over the last four seasons tell the same story:
2010- Leinster (1st) beat Munster (4th) 16-6 (Dublin); Ospreys (2nd) beat Warriors (3rd) 20-3 (Swansea).
2011- Munster (1st) beat Ospreys (4th) 18-11 (Limerick); Leinster (2nd) beat Ulster (3rd) 18-3 (Dublin).
2012-Leinster (1st) beat Warriors (4th) 19-15 (Dublin); Ospreys (2nd) beat Munster (3rd) 45-10 (Swansea).
2013-Ulster (1st) beat Scarlets (4th) 28-17 (Belfast); Leinster (2nd) beat Warriors (3rd) 17-15 (Dublin).
While Muller has admitted that last week's heroic near-miss with 14 men for all but the first four minutes will 'haunt us for the rest of our lives,' he will demand that Ulster respond in winning fashion.
Bonus points at this stage of the season become ever more crucial. In the final analysis they will determine whether Ulster's Springbok captain finds himself in a play-off on familiar territory at Ravenhill or having to take his chance at somewhere like Thomond Park.
Catching Munster and finishing in the top two leaves Ulster precious little room for error after their costly trip to Cardiff where the Blues staged a powerful rearguard action on a night when Gareth Davies outkicked Paddy Jackson 7-6 on penalties.
Leinster, their dream of an unprecedented European Cup hat-trick in four seasons shattered in the Mediterranean sunshine at Toulon, aim to extend the longest current winning run in the RaboDirect PRO12 when they return to Swansea on Friday night.
They have won eight on the spin since losing in Edinburgh over Christmas and their previous visit to Ospreylia this season, in the European Cup last October, resulted in a convincing 19-9 win.
The Ospreys, still unsure whether Wales prop Adam Jones will re-sign for next season and resigned to losing Ryan Jones to Bristol, must win if they are to have any hope of regaining a title they have won twice in the last four seasons.
No question though as to the team of the moment - Munster. The severity of Toulouse's beating at Thomond Park says everything about their opponents' ravenous appetite for the big occasion.
The most decorated of all French clubs had waited since the inception of the tournament in 1995 to sample the Limerick experience. They won't be wanting to rush back for another.
The worst Toulouse beating in Europe since they lost by 60 points to Wasps in London almost 20 years earlier left Guy Noves with nothing but admiration for his Irish superiors.
"We can only congratulate Munster because they played wonderfully," the Toulouse head coach said. "We lost to a great team. I was also impressed by the support behind the team.
"They say you get the public support you deserve and Munster have the public they deserve. They are really great fans."
And soon the Red Army will be heading en masse for the semi-final against Toulon at Marseilles where reconstruction work on the stadium for the Euro 2016 football championship has restricted capacity to 41,000.
The RaboDirect Pro 12 run-in to the play-offs:
Leinster (Played 18, Pts 68) - Ospreys (a), Treviso (h), Ulster (a), Edinburgh (h).
Munster (Played 18, Pts 63) - Warriors (h), Connacht (a), Edinburgh (a), Ulster (h).
Ulster (Played 18, Pts 60) - Connacht (h), Warriors (a), Leinster (h), Munster (a).
Glasgow Warriors (Played 17, Pts 56) - Munster (a), Ulster (h), Edinburgh (h), Treviso (a), Zebre (h).
Ospreys (Played 18, Pts 52) - Leinster (h), Dragons (a), Zebre (a), Connacht (h).
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