Dublin v Laois - Ticketmaster - NOW!!!

Flukey

Need I say more?

VERYinterested

Here's a link, still availability:

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/18003EA9BCC75048?artistid=942941&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=229

Flukey

It said "Not on Sale" when I went in initially, but I tried anyway and got some. So don't be deterred!

Kinetic^

Thanks. Got 2 for the lower Hogan stand.:)

blackbelt

Cheers Flukey you are a legend.What stand will you be in?I got three Nally which means I can bring my girlfriend and my uncle or friend although I do have the Parnell Park ticket pass this means I may have a spare ticket for a genuine real fan here on Boards if they are stuck (at face value of course).

I have to read the rules on selling tickets on here first as it keeps changing but Nalced_Irl,Waylander,Rooster,Kaimera,Lemlin spring to mind if they want to go and are stuck.Although Kaimera would not blend in with the Hill/Nally wearing a Laois jersey as that is the stand/terrace my P.P pass entitles me to as far as I know.

I do not know what the story is and how easy/hard it will be to get a ticket as I am aware not many people know its on ticketmaster now.

Waylander

blackbelt wrote:

Cheers Flukey you are a legend.What stand will you be in?I got three Nally which means I can bring my girlfriend and my uncle or friend although I do have the Parnell Park ticket pass this means I may have a spare ticket for a genuine real fan here on Boards if they are stuck (at face value of course).

I have to read the rules on selling tickets on here first as it keeps changing but Nalced_Irl,Waylander,Rooster,Kaimera,Lemlin spring to mind if they want to go and are stuck.Although Kaimera would not blend in with the Hill/Nally wearing a Laois jersey as that is the stand/terrace my P.P pass entitles me to as far as I know.

I do not know what the story is and how easy/hard it will be to get a ticket as I am aware not many people know its on ticketmaster now.

Thanks BB, I appreciate the offer but alas I have to go to a stag that weekend and wont be able to make the match. Will be listening on the radio with another Dub on the drive back from Wesport. Every year I have to have firm words with one of my mates about planning weddings and stags for Dublin Sundays, yet every year there are more clashes.:(

blackbelt

Well Waylander,you can make up some BS story that you mysteriously came down with a case of extreme food-poisoning and flu symptoms that arose from a bbq in Sallynoggin on a dank wet Wednesday afternoon and that against doctors orders,you can't attend the wedding.:D

P.S You are welcome.

blackbelt

Sorry,the stag party....thats even better again

Mrs_Doyle

looks like the Standing tickets are gone already!!! :eek:

Kinetic^

Mrs_Doyle wrote:

looks like the Standing tickets are gone already!!! :eek:

Not sure if there were any up for sale tbh, I was on as soon as the OP posted it up and there was none then.

Mrs_Doyle

I think someone said they managed to get 3 Nally tickets earlier.

Ah I'm gonna give ticketmaster a miss this time around. I have my heart set on Nally or Hill tickets, so I'm gonna try my brothers club and failing that I'll ask everyone I can think of to try help me

Kinetic^

I'll probably get Hill tickets myself but it's good to have backup.

Flukey

Top of the Hogan is where I got mine. Ticketmaster sure have us spread around the place. But we're all at the same game. Waylander, you need to get yourself some new friends.

Lemlin

Would these still be available tomorrow?

kaimera

Will be working for the final. Haven't made a final in the last few years due to other commitments.

ironictoaster

I got some tickets today also, crap though..hogan upper tier, left side of the hill

Never being there, I'll doubt there be any craic there..my little cousin was raging as he wanted to go to the lower tier so he could run on the pitch when dublin win lol

Flukey

Lemlin, keep trying. Don't let the Not on Sale sign put you off.

Kaimera, you need to get your priorities straight. You are as bad as Waylander's mates, and Waylander for being their mate.:)

Creggy, if the ticket is in Croke Park, then that is all you want. There are very few bad seats in Croke Park and even then, any seat (or standing on the Hill) is better than not being there at all. From the Upper Hogan, you'll have a great view. You get a great perspective on the positioning of players and of the movements. You also get a great view of the Hill. This is a photo from the Upper Hogan that I took a few years ago, at a Cork v Wexford Hurling match:



Here is one I took from the Upper Hogan of Hill16 when Dublin played Tyrone in the famous drawn match in 2005.



Now, would you still say that something on the Upper Hogan is a crap seat?

As to getting on the pitch, there'll be plenty of time for you to get down with your cousin and out onto the pitch. We'll be there for a long time.

ironictoaster

Yeah I suppose your right, Ironically I was the last final between Laois and Dublin. I was behind the goal at devin area it was amazing seeing Quinn buring balls back of the net

It seems being there made the upper Hogan stand so daunting to be, but its seems good enough, thanks for showing the pics:)

blackbelt

I was in the higher higher upper tier in the Hogan near the Canal End when Dublin played Laois in the Leinster final in 2005.I was up so high up,I could see Donnycarney Church and Parnell Park...I sh!t you not.You certainly wouldn't want to be afraid of heights.

The best thing about the upper tiers is that you can see players making a run off the ball easier and the acoustics are good too.Anytime Laois scored a point you could hear the Laois fans cheering "Laois,Laois,Laois,Laois".I'd imagine you could soak it up better in the upper tiers.

Lemlin,if you are really stuck I might have a ticket for you but there might be a queue and you have to meet to meet the appropriate dress code.If you don't have a Dublin jersey,a navy blue shirt and tie and pair of slacks will get suffice.:p

Waylander

blackbelt wrote:

Lemlin,if you are really stuck I might have a ticket for you but there might be a queue and you have to meet to meet the appropriate dress code.If you don't have a Dublin jersey,a navy blue shirt and tie and pair of slacks will get suffice.:p

I'd nearly go to the match to take a picture of that:D

Flukey I really should have changed them years ago, theres only a couple left to drop now so no real point. Alas have booked and paid for the hotel already so kind of committed. Enjoy the match boys and up the Dubs!!

Flukey

Alas have booked and paid for the hotel already so kind of committed.

Ah, but weighed up against a Leinster Final with Dublin playing, is it really worth it? As they say, being there is priceless!

blackbelt

It could happen Waylander.:p

Its a schoolboy error to plan a stag party on the same weekend as a Dublin match,I mean what was your friend thinking?:D .....more importantly,was he thinking

What you could do is sneak out of Westport at 6:30 and get the earliest train you can while still p1ssed from the night before and then go to the match with a head start on the rest of us.:D .... your friends could wake up to a dubious text that you sleep walked it back to the train station even though it is outside Westport.

I think its now time the whole Dublin contingent from Boards going to this match should meet up before and after the match.Like myself,Nalced,Flukey,Rooster (wherever he's gone) and the rest of us Dubs.It is set to be a good weekend.My gf is coming over on the Thursday and my uncle is going too.If we win we'll be out until all hours.

Last year me and my uncle went on a pub crawl after beating Offaly.Went to Quinns,Fagans,Cat n Cage,Ivy House back to Cat n Cage and then on to the Skylon Hotel and then Kitty Kiernans for a very late one.

PS Flukey they are lovely pictures.Next time I am in the Hogan I will bring my camcorder.I wouldn't dream of bringing it to the Hill/Nally.

Aedh Baclamh

Try get some angles of Whelan doing what he does best. Thanks.

xx

Flukey

That goal he got against Armagh in 2002 was some shot. To have got a photo of that would have been something. That is what Whelan does best.

21 Years of Flukey's GAA photos.

How Croker has changed.

I particularly like the one with the Tyrone flag. A classic photo, with the flag central, the backdrop of the Davin Stand, and Mickey Harte and Peter Canavan on the sideline.

Pal

Flukey wrote:

. There are very few bad seats in Croke Park and even then, any seat (or standing on the Hill) is better than not being there at all.

Hard to agree with this comment.
The first 15-20 rows in the lower tier all the way around the ground are absolutely crap.
That makes an awful lot as opposed to very few.

blackbelt

"Hard to agree with this comment.
The first 15-20 rows in the lower tier all the way around the ground are absolutely crap.
That makes an awful lot as opposed to very few." (Pal)

I assume you said this due to those rows not being sheltered?Otherwise,they are some of the best seats in my opinion.You can hear the ball as its been kicked and a close up of players and management.

blackbelt

Ticketmaster are selling more tickets.Well at least it said "find tickets" beside the Dublin v Laois tab.

Get there ASAP.

Aedh Baclamh

Haha, himself saying that they're top seats to have in Croke Park? They're the worst seats I've ever had down there (sunny days/clear days). Spent most of the time watching it on the big screen as I could hardly see a thing. Didn't matter though because I could hear the wing backs kicking the ball!! What an experience!!

blackbelt

Well maybe you should invest in a pair of glasses seen as how you probably can't see past your own nose.Anytime I've been that far down I've been able to see everything no bother.Seeing the players swarm the man with the ball in front of you is good as far as the lower seats are concerned.

There are different parts of the stadium that are best for different aspects of the game.

Hill = atmosphere and buzz
Lower Hogan and Lower Cusack= close up of the action
Upper tiers=seeing runs off the ball and the acoustics
Davin=Mix of supporters sharing the banter

You get the point.

ironictoaster

blackbelt wrote:

Well maybe you should invest in a pair of glasses seen as how you probably can't see past your own nose.Anytime I've been that far down I've been able to see everything no bother.Seeing the players swarm the man with the ball in front of you is good as far as the lower seats are concerned.

There are different parts of the stadium that are best for different aspects of the game.

Hill = atmosphere and buzz
Lower Hogan and Lower Cusack= close up of the action
Upper tiers=seeing runs off the ball and the acoustics
Davin=Mix of supporters sharing the banter

You get the point.

Agreed

Flukey

There are different parts of the stadium that are best for different aspects of the game.

You forgot one that particularly applies this year:

Hill 16 and front of all Lower decks: Getting wet!

dazzler12

I got banned for touting

Nalced_irl

blackbelt wrote:

Well maybe you should invest in a pair of glasses seen as how you probably can't see past your own nose.Anytime I've been that far down I've been able to see everything no bother.Seeing the players swarm the man with the ball in front of you is good as far as the lower seats are concerned.

There are different parts of the stadium that are best for different aspects of the game.

Hill = atmosphere and buzz
Lower Hogan and Lower Cusack= close up of the action
Upper tiers=seeing runs off the ball and the acoustics
Davin=Mix of supporters sharing the banter

You get the point.

Cant disagree with anything there accept i dont like the new stand names. Its not the Davin, its the Canal end. I understand their reasons for changing the names but ill always see them as the original ones. Just like the ****** festival is really ********!!!


Edit: Ok, i think the stars words come down to the lawsuit thing as their both music festivals.

dunser

Hey Dazzler

I will take those tickets off ya ? Will give ya 40 each

machiavellianme

You could be banned for blatant touting. Especially since there isnt supposed to be any tickets for sale on the GAA forum at all. Read the Charter.

Flukey

It's still the "canal end" of the ground Nalced_irl. It's just the stand at that end is called the Davin Stand. Equally, the other end of the ground is often referred to as the "railway end", although course there is a railway at both.

cmoney

Flukey wrote:

Equally, the other end of the ground is often referred to as the "railway end"

and now Dineen/Hill16 to be pc about it

id prob take a seat anywhere to be honest except at the back corner of the lower canal end/davin stand.... can get an awful cold wind there alot of the time so i always wrap up well for that