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Attendances -vs- Tickets sold at Dublin-Derry

  • 13-08-2007 8:40am
    #1
    vandermeyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭


    Heard the announcer say on Saturday that there were 80300 at the match which is roughly 2000 less than was at the Meath replay....yet the match was billed as a sell out...

    Strange that so many people would pay for tickets and then not use them.


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  • #2
    Flukey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    There are always empty seats at "sell-outs". Lots of people can't come and people end up with spares and corporate and premium seats, which are assigned autmatically, don't get used. So there are lots of factors that reduce the attendance figure.


  • #3
    GalwayDub2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭GalwayDub2


    I presume some counties of the 3 matches that were played didnt return unused ones.

    Bit of a shame seen as so many people were crying out for tickets.


  • #4
    Trampas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,987 ✭✭✭Trampas


    As it is said many times.

    If you head down to the pubs on the day you will always get a ticket and most the time for face value as somebody mate can't make it so they sell his ticket to a proper fan for face value unlike touts.

    I haven't got a ticket uptil Thursday but could have had a half a dozen offered to me by Saturday morning.

    Its always the same


  • #5
    Flukey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    There were loads of tickets for face value and below available around Croke Park on both Saturday and Sunday.


  • #6
    Nalced_irl
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    As i said, i was offered at least 20 at the Hill 16 pub for face value by different people.


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  • #7
    gerire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭gerire


    I was delighted walking along summerhill before the game and seeing the touts stuck with loads of tickets I hope they lost their collective b0llixes;


    Yes granted I'd have rather see the tickets go to some sort of a supporter than get wasted


  • #8
    popebenny16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,461 ✭✭✭popebenny16


    I think that being a Saturday match if the returns had come through on the Wednesday and Thursday it could have resulted in more going. As it was they came back on the afternoon before the match and I'm sure that plenty of people who had been told by the GAA over the last two weeks that the match was a sell out made alternative arrangements that they couldn't get out of.

    This is of course the problem with GAA ticketing. Because of the prior allocations to competing counties they are automatically counted as "sold" from day one when they are nothing of the sort. This is why you usually get returns on the Thursday.


  • #9
    Nalced_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭Nalced_irl


    There should be a better system really. Something like an online thing where you can get a membership number and log into the GAA site to order. Maybe that there would be a preference system in place also where PP pass holders get a day or 2 where they can only order tickets,just them. Then a day or 2 where pass holders and club members can order and finally general availability. That way you wouldnt get tickets pointlessly going to a county only to be returned again and if pass holders and club members get in ahead, there would be less availability for touts to jump on ticketmaster and order a load to sell on. Maybe also on the days leading up to sales there could be something where you can input a ticket number or something from previous games ticket stubs which would give you a preference also as you can prove you are a regular.


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