All Ireland Tickets

patmac

Just heard on the local radio this morning that Roscommon are only receiving 3000 tickets for the final to be distributed amongst the clubs, 2000 less than the semi final despite only 3 teams compared to 6 for that game. Effing disgrace IMO Anyone know who are getting the other 79,000, now we know how the dub fans felt.

lukin

I presume this is for the football final you are talking about?
The official allocation is always small. Cork only got 11,000 for last year's hurling final.
Roscommon are playing in the minor game, not the senior so their allocation was bound to be much smaller than that.
I agree it's very little but I'd say it was that much last year for whatever teams were playing.

charba

okay so thats 22,000 for the two counties in the senior final and 6,000 for the minor final.

where do the rest of them go?

I can't get to a local club in Mayo to get tickets and really want to go. And would love to know where to get a ticket!!

DUB

Every county gets an allocation for the final. I thought this constant whinging about tickets would stop with our exit on Sunday!

hawker

See below

Flukey

This one comes up every year. As the list says, there are all sorts of groups that are entitled to tickets. A lot of those tickets do filter down to the people that really want them anyway. Dublin's official allocation for last Sunday was well exceeded by the amount of Dublin fans there. Equally the same was the case for Mayo. Come the All-Ireland Final, the same will be the case too. There will be a lot more than 3000 people cheering for Roscommon and a lot of those fans won't have got their tickets in Roscommon. As we speak, there will be heavy swaps going on for Kilkenny's allocation for Football tickets in exchange for other counties allocation for Hurling tickets.

UnitedIrishman

I know that our clubs 3 hurling tickets are being swapped straight away for football ones.

It's a bit infuriating to think that clubs in New York and London will get almost the same amount as clubs in Kerry and Mayo and Ros. That's the way it goes. Eventually by the week of the game there'll be a few tickets around. Just get onto relations in any other county and hope.

Flukey

It has been debated here and on other GAA boards, and in pubs and clubs and anywhere else you can think of, for years, but there is no perfect distribution system. The only system that any individual is happy with is the one where they get a ticket.

solskjaer20

The best one is back in the day as a youngster getting in without a ticket

solskjaer20

Does every hurling-only club in Kilkenny (and every other county) get three tickets for the football final?

And do football-only clubs get three tickets for the hurling final?

Flukey

All clubs, regardless of what their main game is, get tickets. A club may be for one or the other, but the people there are GAA people, so they will be interested in both. It is not as if nobody in Kilkenny watches the football final or wants to go to it.

solskjaer20

I'm not complaining by the way, I'm just asking.

whassupp2

My county is in the All Ireland minor final. I've been at all their championship matches this year. Thats 4. I really dont think I'll manage to get a ticket. What really infuriates me is the amount of undeserving "supporters" that get tickets.

Flukey

A lot of undeserving supporters do get tickets, that's true, but even if none did, the amount of deserving supporters well exceeds the capacity of Croke Park.

speck

How the worm turns......

patmac wrote:

Just heard on the local radio this morning that Roscommon are only receiving 3000 tickets for the final to be distributed amongst the clubs, 2000 less than the semi final despite only 3 teams compared to 6 for that game. Effing disgrace IMO Anyone know who are getting the other 79,000, now we know how the dub fans felt.

As you said now you know how us Dubs felt last week..and like a lot of us all you can do is beg, borrow or steal (obviously not the latter ) offer bribes :rolleyes: trades ( I personally was offering my mother in law last week to anyone with a ticket. Unfortunately didn't come to that as I got no takers and my club came across with them in the end ):)

Good luck with trying to get some

Flukey

Hey Speck, wouldn't the normal thing to do be to threaten to give your mother-in-law to people if they didn't give you a ticket?