The leinster council were selling tickets today

handsomebastard

Just in case anyone didnt no, they are taking orders for bookings and you can pay by credit card, i would have posted earlier but this site is blocked in work.Most of the tickets they are selling are for canal and hogan stands.Im a happy bunny anyway, was worried sick i wouldnt get tickets especially with it not being on tv.

Nalced_irl

I really dont understand this tho. People wonder where the non-club members get their tickets? Clubs havent ordered them yet but some joe soap (not meaning you btw ) can call up the council and get them already. Quite a joke if you ask me. Clubs should get enough to meet their demand where possible and only then should they be released to the public.




Rant over!

handsomebastard

Just because you play for a club doesnt mean you have a god given right to get a ticket.Up as far as last year i was lucky enough to be a steward at croker and never used to have to get tickets i used to be laughing at the scramble for tickets, but its only now i see how hard it is, you usually have to have connections to get tickets either by knowing someone within a club or just by pure luck on ticketmaster, its just crazy at this stage.I think its about time that they bring in some sort of loyalty scheme like there is in england, only then will you see most of the real fans get tickets while most of the gob****es you see on the hill would be left in the pubs where they belong.Most of the dublin supporters that go to games wouldnt even consider travelling to a game outside of the capital, this is where a loyalty scheme could come into play,fans that travel to away games as well as go to the league games at parnell park and have been going to the games all their lives at croker like myself should get first preference.

thirdmantackle

pay membership of a club. problem solved

you don't have to be a playing member

Flukey

Paying your membership is all very well, but there are far more members than tickets!:(

Pighead

Where exactly are the Leinster Council Offices situated in Dublin?

handsomebastard

They are in parnell park as far as i no,just ring their main office in portlaoise u will be on hold for a while or might not get through for a good twenty mins but u will eventually.

popebenny16

Leinster Council office is in Portlaoise not Dublin. By all accounts the L.C Tickets are gone according to what I just read on reservior dubs.

I suppose the rationale is that this is a Leinster Council Game which is why they are tickets for sale. I recall that I could get Hill Tickets form the L.C. by credit card over the phone but that was 2002 or thereabouts. I think that most L.C tickets are family ones, you cant tget the family tickets through ticketmaster or the clubs or the PP scheme.

Speaking of which, the PP scheme is the only "loyalty" based method of getting a ticket, as club membership will not guarantee a ticket but the PP scheme does. However, it appears that membership is closed to new applicants - current possessors of the Pass were told this year that there was a waiting list so that if you didnt renew you'd lose your pass to someone on the list. I doubt very much that anyone in the scheme would leave given the advanatage it gives you ticket wise unless there were compelling reasons for it.

This year tickets are scarse very early on, which was expected given the opposition and we can expect Sunday week to be another sell out and hopefully everyone will turn up. Conversely the semi finals should be easier to get a ticket for and maybe even the final, no matter who wins sunday week.

Trampas

Ticketmaster had tickets for sale earlier. Not sure if they still do

Nalced_irl

handsomebastard wrote:

Just because you play for a club doesnt mean you have a god given right to get a ticket.

Did i say it did? Pure logic. If your a member of a club, you should get preference over someone who may never have been at a game in their lives.

handsomebastard wrote:

only then will you see most of the real fans get tickets while most of the gob****es you see on the hill would be left in the pubs where they belong.Most of the dublin supporters that go to games wouldnt even consider travelling to a game outside of the capital, this is where a loyalty scheme could come into play,fans that travel to away games as well as go to the league games at parnell park and have been going to the games all their lives at croker like myself should get first preference.

Oh my, you guys really like turning absolutley every thread into this dont you? Firstly, most of the gobsh**es you see on the hill are genuine supporters. Ill also bring back my point that everything Blackbelt said about GG gets said about the Hill also. Cheers for proving it. Secondly Dublin fans do travel. Not every person you see in CP on the 17th will be at the next away league game but as far as im aware we dont have any other 83,000 capacity stadiums so thats probably a good thing. Finally, try making a valid point that doesnt involve the usual crap about Dublin supporters. If this is your only point, keep it in a relevant thread and stop trying to turn every thread into the same anti-dublin muck.

andrewie

Trampas wrote:

Ticketmaster had tickets for sale earlier. Not sure if they still do

Tickets went on sale at 9.30 and when I got on at 9.32 by the time I clicked to buy the two of the last four they were gone.

Nalced_irl

Jesus, thats some quick selling! I wouldnt imagine they had a huge amount all the same.

blackbelt

This anti-Dublin thing and anti-Hill 16 occupants is a joke.The people that come here to bash us "typical Dublin supporters" or "ye great Dublin supporters" are people who prove that we must be doing something right.I don't know if they are jealous of Dublins success or their fans.

It doesn't matter to me if its 31 against 1,I enjoy lapping it up.To me its part of the banter.There are some comments that overstep the mark.To brand everybody in the Hill as scumbags due to a minority is more disgraceful.

The worst behaviour I've seen in the last 12 months (apart from the scumbag minority in the Hill) were the Cork hurling supporters on AI final day.Parnell Street was a bottle haven when they left for CP.They were extremely noisy and all I have to say is thank God I was heading in the opposite direction.I will not brand all Cork supporters scumbags though,far from it,I think they have great supporters.They were more behaved than their Kerry counterparts in Hill 16 last August.

The only non anti-Dublin people I know from outside Dublin are from Mayo,Kilkenny,Wicklow and Limerick.Mayo having the most genuine,passionate and friendliest supporters.The Offaly supporters in the Leinster final were also a joy to talk to and have a laugh.They were very sportsmanlike and wished us well before they left the Hogan Stand to beat the traffic.:D

blackbelt

"Tickets went on sale at 9.30 and when I got on at 9.32 by the time I clicked to buy the two of the last four they were gone."

Yeah I did the same and could not manage it.At 9:32 I couldn't even see what tickets there were.I have my ticket for the game but I was trying to get my de-generate friends and family members tickets.I'll pull something out of the hat.

handsomebastard

Nalced_irl!! Being a dub myself i didnt come on here to slag off dublin or its supporters, we get enough of that off the culchies already, its the same on every other gaa forum or messageboard, the us against them mentality!.You only had to go hoganstand messageboard last year after the dublin mayo game and the crap that was being wrote by eejits from every other county that were only delighted to see us lose.
When i said people in clubs dont have a god given right to get tickets i wasnt having a dig at you, in fact i agree with you to a certain extent.I also totally agree with you about the travelling dublin support, i was in portlaoise for the longford game a few years back and the atmosphere before hand was brilliant, all the pubs packed to the rafters with dubs supporters singing, this is the way it should be it was the same in thurles a few years before that, i dont no where some peoples logic is coming from saying the dubs support doesnt travel!

cmoney

theres never really a major scramble for tickets just yet... not untill the later stages.

i think ppl just dont know where to look. like they (the gaa) claimed the 1st dub meath game was a sell out on the tuesday before the game but parnell park were still selling tickets on friday evening anyway.

i would say my other suggestions but dont want ppl stealing my ideas resulting in me not getting tickets

blackbelt

i would say my other suggestions but dont want ppl stealing my ideas resulting in me not getting tickets


OOOOOOHHH,I think I know......SSSSSHHHHHH

handsomebastard

Go on tell us your big secret then?:D u tosser

Flukey

I was part of the mad scramble at 9:30am and after a few goes, I managed to get tickets!:D

If your a member of a club, you should get preference over someone who may never have been at a game in their lives.

Even then, there are a lot more dedicated members than tickets available. Come the latter stages of the championship, the demand even amongst what you could call "legitimate" fans, far outweighs supply. As a kid I remember thinking that if you were a member of a club, that you would get tickets for the All-Ireland Final. There were 20,000 less places in Croke Park then, though less interest than now, but tickets for big matches were always like gold dust, or whatever other phrase you want to use! You not only have to be a member of a club, but a pretty senior one to guarantee a ticket for a final, or know someone that is!!! I hope everyone gets sorted for Sunday week, or whatever other matches you may be going to soon!

Nalced_irl

Thats my point tho. When demand even in GAA clubs outwieghs ticket availability then surely the preference should go to club members. I mean, members are the people who inject cash into the clubs year after year and infairness, they should be given every opertunity to get tickets. My concern anyway isnt so much random people getting tickets and going to the game i suppose, more what i saw on Sunday, which was a huge amount more than usual of dodgy looking blokes in anoraks askin me if i want to buy a ticket. Obvious where they get them from.

wb

I go to a lot of away games (have been for years) and struggle to get a ticket because I'm not in a club. In fact, most people in clubs are playing on Sunday's, so can't go to the non big games.

Around ten years ago, they brought in a loyalty scheme where you got a special page on the programme stamped at the turnstile on the way in to the away game. The idea was that those with a full or nearly full book of stamps would have access to tickets before they went on general sale. It lasted for around 2 games before they scrapped it for some reason unknown to me, and the guy behind the turnstile in Donegal!

K-9

I suppose until at every championship match, each county board sends out individual invitations to each and every suporter who's been at a League/McKenna Cup/O'Byrne Cup, though I know there's far more at the McKenna Cup
Ulster football you know :rolleyes:

Only joking.

But it just shows that it is difficult to monitor unless you set up a text message service when you buy a league/ McK/O'B ticket and text staright after your county wins a chanpionship match/or after a qualifier draw/straight after the championship draw. Or maybe the clubs should do it, but they already overworked and underpaid sorting the allocations/memberships/payments etc.

Is there really a fair system?

wb

The GAA should nick a load of them tesco scanners.

Then, at the away games, we could scan our clubcard and get championship tickets sent out in the post!

Nalced_irl

I dont have a clubcard tho. Could we not do it with Superquinn?

Breezer

Nalced_irl wrote:

I dont have a clubcard tho. Could we not do it with Superquinn?

Lol I do think we need some kind of loyalty system though. I tried the Leinster Council all day yesterday, it was engaged every time. Got through today only to be informed that they were sold out since Tuesday. I didn't think they'd be on sale that early, otherwise I would've been on to them! I'll know for again I guess.

Just praying now that some tickets come back to Ticketmaster after the clubs get their share although I doubt there'll be many At least it's on TV

Nalced_irl

You could give the leinster council a try closer to the date. I have heard of people calling up a few days before the game and getting tickets. Maybe people who ordered but cancelled/never paid ect so worth a try if all else fails.

Breezer

If that works you are my hero I'll try

ooter

i'm a PP Pass holder so i get a Tkt for every game in the Championship,no worries there.but i'm also a Liverpool supporter for my sins.they have a very good loyalty scheme.you buy a fancard for £2.95(about 5 Euro) and every game you buy a Ticket for is recorded on it.when a really big game comes up loyalty is brought in to question.for example,last season Lpool got to the CL Final.anyone who attended 7 CL games(out of a total of 12) home or away were guaranteed a Ticket.they then balloted the remaining Tickets among all the fans who attended 6 CL games.i was one of these people and was lucky enough to get a Ticket.if this system had not been in place there's no way i would've got a Ticket.
i don't know how much it would cost to bring in this technology but i think it would be a good idea for the GAA to introduce it.
this season so far Dublin (for example) have played 4 O Byrne Cup Games,7 League Games and 1 Championship game.if they were to beat Meath next Week and go on to the All Ireland Final (wishfull thinking:D ) that would be 6 Championship games played (provided there were no more draws)
that's a total of 17 games.the amount of people that would've been at 9 of those games (just over half the total number of games) would be very little in my opinion.if the GAA were to set aside a small number of Tickets to look after these people it would put an end to the whole "genuine fan not getting looked after when it comes to the big game" debate.
out of the 11 games Dublin played prior to the Championship i was at 7. (missed DCU,Tyrone and Limerick and Donegal away) i can honestly say if i wasn't a PP Pass holder i would've struggled to get a Ticket for last Sunday's game because i'm not a member of a Club.if a loyalty system was brought in there's be no way a situation like that could arise.
i'd love to hear People's views on this

Breezer

I think it'd be a fantastic idea. I've considered joining a club to get tickets a few times but unfortunately my local club is useless for this - from talking to my friend who is a member it seems they only get a very small number of tickets which are given to first team playing members. Due to my having two left feet, neither of which I'm particularly gifted with, I'd never manage this no matter how much work I put in

So I'm left with either the Parnell Park scheme (which admittedly I keep meaning to investigate but haven't yet, I hear there's a long waiting list though) or joining the rat race for public sale tickets while simultaneously begging my friend who plays for Na Fianna to stick his neck out for me (which I don't like doing too often and won't be doing this time round).

So yes, a loyalty scheme would be very nice, thank you very much. But haven't they discussed this several times and rejected it every time?