All Ireland Hurling Tickets

brigadear

Anybody know official date for tickets going on sale for the final.

tiny-tyno

Tickets for an All Ireland never go on sale, you will have to apply for a ticket through your Local GAA Club, to which is almost inpossible to get unless you are a member, player, comittee member etc.. if you know anyone up the country who is involved in GAA, all counties get issued a few tickets for the game, so that would be ur best bet unless you have any connections:D

Mossy Monk

brigadear wrote: »

Anybody know official date for tickets going on sale for the final.

eimearos

you can get them early next week on tickmaster but be quick and keep an eye out each day.

Mossy Monk

Ticketmaster? LOL

Sully

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Ticketmaster? LOL

Knowing nothing about how tickets are allocated between clubs at semis and finals - could you please expand on your point about not being able to get them for those of us who just don't grasp why it wont be possible? Excuse me if my intelligence doesn't reach the standard it should.

Thanks.

Mossy Monk

I do apologise Sully. All Ireland final tickets have always been distributed from the clubs and corporate types. Perhaps you should check your own style of replying before criticising others.

BlaasForRafa

Mossy Monk wrote: »

I do apologise Sully. All Ireland final tickets have always been distributed from the clubs and corporate types. Perhaps you should check your own style of replying before criticising others.

To quote the great funaki.... "INDEEEEEEEEED!"

decies

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Ticketmaster? LOL

Well a mate rang ticketmaster and they said they would be on sale there ,no day yet.

Mossy Monk

If that is the case then it has changed.

Sully

Mossy Monk wrote: »

I do apologise Sully. All Ireland final tickets have always been distributed from the clubs and corporate types. Perhaps you should check your own style of replying before criticising others.

Perhaps instead of just laughing at someone you actually tell then why they cant do it. Otherwise, don't bother posting at all if your going to just laugh at the bloody question asked.

tiny-tyno

Yes I have just found out myself, that this year the whole system of distributing tickets have change. For years it was down to clubs, but now everyone has a fair chance to get a ticket.:D

Mossy Monk

Sully wrote: »

Perhaps instead of just laughing at someone you actually tell then why they cant do it. Otherwise, don't bother posting at all if your going to just laugh at the bloody question asked.

I think you should take it to bloody PM if you have a bloody problem.

Sully

Mossy Monk wrote: »

I think you should take it to bloody PM if you have a bloody problem.

Sure thing bud.

Anyway folks, lets swing this back on topic.

I overhead some people talking about the final and they were saying that it wont be easy getting tickets that there allocated to all the clubs - exactly like Mossy Monk has told us.

Hopefully Ticketmaster will have a few on sale, and people wont find it to hard to get a ticket for what hopefully will be a fantastic match!

KevIRL

Tickets will of course be hard to come by.

- Every club in the country will get tickets
- Every player that played in the championship will get tickets
- There are a number of corporate tickets already designated
- The clubs from Waterford and Kilkenny will get something like 12,500 per county
- The county boards from Waterford and Kilkenny get an allocation
- Galway and Kilkenny also get an allocation as they are in the Minor final
- The players from the competing counties get an allocation

I doubt Ticketmaster will have tickets for sale, if they do it will be a very small amount.

People that go to every game, year in, year out should get priority and be able to get tickets for the final they have been waiting so long for. Of course this isnt always the case and you will have a whole load people jumping on the bandwagon now that we are in the final.

JohnC.

Having looked at Ticketmaster, it seems they do actually sell GAA tickets now. Hurling final tickets are not up yet of course. Just football semi-final tickets right now.

ChapOfDRyans

i really doubt ticketmaster will have them but could be wrong,I even doubt welsh park will have anything only terrace
Our club will get about 200 tickets from the county board were the money is paid for before hand so if you are not involved in a club or know somebody your going to find it very hard.

Each player is allocated 10 tickets your given 4 and have to pay for 6 something like that

KevIRL

Kahless wrote: »

Having looked at Ticketmaster, it seems they do actually sell GAA tickets now. Hurling final tickets are not up yet of course. Just football semi-final tickets right now.

Ticketmaster have been selling GAA tickets for some time now. All Ireland final tickets are a different story however, due to the amount of tickets that go to clubs up and down the country.

Like I said before, I'll be extremely surprised if tickets for the final do go on sale on Ticketmaster. Even if they do, it will only be a handful

Sully

Fair play for all the info lads - makes things a little clearer now

eimearos

as i have stated, Ticketmaster are definately selling the All Ireland Final tickets. My mam's cousin was on the waterford committee, so i think i do have my sources

Sully

eimearos wrote: »

as i have stated, Ticketmaster are definately selling the All Ireland Final tickets. My mam's cousin was on the waterford committee, so i think i do have my sources

Any idea of numbers available via TicketMaster?

eimearos

when i find out for def, i will post it up, come on the deise....

Aquos76

I cant see how somebody on the Waterford committee(assuming its the county board) would know how many tickets are going to be available.

Assuming they do become available on ticketmaster, they will be snapped up within seconds. For the past number of years, many work collegues from Kilkenny have had a nightmare trying to get all Ireland tickets, and they are dreading the battle that they will have this year. I think peoples only hope is to try clubs down in Cork. They have a huge amount of clubs down there and all does clubs will receive some sort of allocation. So if you have any friend or relations down there, start begging now:D

JLemmon

Emailed Ticketmaster this morning, reply below.

Dear Customer,

We are not certain that we will have an allocation of tickets for this event. It depends on the GAA.

We do not know what date the tickets will go on sale if we receive an allocation.

Please keep checking the website for updates.

Yours faithfully,


Customer Services Department
Ticketmaster Ireland
P.O. Box 4695

Sully

Thats probably a no so Since a lot of people here say the GAA wont, and TicketMaster dont know.

ChapOfDRyans

Was talking to people on the county board and they said that ticketmaster definatly wont be getting them and more then likely welsh park wont be selling them either all goin to the clubs.

Kilkenny got 18000 and waterford got 12000 so it seems anyway

Daysha

An extra 6,000 just for the minor match is a bit OTT in all fairness.

sam34

think it depends on the number of clubs in the county, maybe kk have more?

ChapOfDRyans

deise59 wrote: »

An extra 6,000 just for the minor match is a bit OTT in all fairness.

Not really seen as every club that has a minor team gets tickets the the allocation to players,managers,team officals and the board

Cabaal

its an awful shame that tickets for these events seem to be restricted so much, have heard several people in work looking for them and god knows there offering alot to get there hands on them.

From what I understand it often seems to be the same old people going each year to these type of events as they just happen to be able to get there hands on them

tonc76

The best way to have a chance of getting tickets is to be a member of a club although you'll probably be looking at being in a draw

A lot of corporate tickets will be available if you know the right people to ask:pac:

You could try looking outside the county too or try get tickets for the football final and swap

daftdave

Cabaal wrote: »

its an awful shame that tickets for these events seem to be restricted so much, have heard several people in work looking for them and god knows there offering alot to get there hands on them.

From what I understand it often seems to be the same old people going each year to these type of events as they just happen to be able to get there hands on them

the thing that bugs me most is sunny day people that have never been to a game in their life attending the final with a never before worn replica top on, while us others who have attended almost all other games this year cant get a ticket.

Aquos76

daftdave wrote: »

the thing that bugs me most is sunny day people that have never been to a game in their life attending the final with a never before worn replica top on, while us others who have attended almost all other games this year cant get a ticket.

Thats just the way it is I'm afraid. Things will be no different this year to previous years, its just this year Waterford supporters are looking for tickets instead of Cork fans.

As long as I can remember, there has always been a shortage of tickets for the final and every year die hard fans miss out. The main reason for this is that sponsors always take their allocation of tickets for the final and the choose to give them to whom ever they choose, hurling fans or not. The fact of the matter is the the All Ireland hurling and football finals are a must see event for all GAA supporters regardlees to who competes in both finals.

JLemmon

Yeah and the really sad thing is seeing all the empty spaces in the stands when the corporate heads don't even turn up.

truman_m

Why should any of us bother to look for tickets for the all Ireland hurling Final (sounds crazy to me as I wright this but its true).
As a Waterford Fan I have been to hundreds of matches over my life time, but when I felt we could make a final last year in 2007 I went looking for a ticket and I covered a lot of clubs in Cork and Kerry. The outcome was no normal Fan will get to go to this game. The GAA does not operate to help out the die hard fans from any county.
The truth is if the GAA wanted to reward ordinary fans they would have introduced a fair system years ago. So the people who stood out in all those wet league encounters would now benefit for the loyalty they showed to their respective counties.
The GAA can easily sell all its Ireland final day tickets so instead of allowing real fans to watch their counties they instead opt to go down the more lucrative corporate road and leave the fans high and dry.
After the realisation of this last year I decided along with my usual match going friends to boycott Waterford matches this year and It showed as many of us never turned up this year to watch the matches. Instead I watched all the games from the comfort of Downey's bar in Dungarvan where we never have to feel disappointed ever again.
This I hope will encourage patrons from other counties to do the same and hopefully one day the GAA may be forced to appreciate the ordinary wet weather fan. Don't get me wrong I still volunteer at my local club and drive the young lads to matches and so forth but when it comes to senior matches I'd rather boycott games until the system becomes more fair.
What does everyone else think?

Mossy Monk

A true supporter wont boycott matches because the search for a ticket came up empty.

tonc76

^Truman m

I think you may never see a senior Waterford game again if you wait.

In fairness the corporate boxes and premium seats were sold on 10 year leaseholds to part finance the building of the stadium. There will be ticket allocations to the main sponsors Etihad etc as well as the sponsors that advertise around the pitch side. Add to this Glanbia who have both finalists sponsored and there are a lot of tickets gone already. I'm not in any way defending the GAA here and I agree that some sort of loyalty scheme would be a great idea to let the genuine fans get tickets. However for an association that collects cash at the stiles for most games up to the summer this is not going to happen anytime soon.

Mossy Monk

tonc76 wrote: »

I agree that some sort of loyalty scheme would be a great idea to let the genuine fans get tickets. However for an association that collects cash at the stiles for most games up to the summer this is not going to happen anytime soon.

I think something like the Parnell Pass in Dublin is required in every county of the country.

sam34

truman you are cutting off your nose to spite your face.
im lucky enough to be from kerry, and we make it to a lot of all ireland finals. i have no club connections, but am an ardent county supporter. i can honestly say that in all my years trekking to croke park, neither i, nor any of my extended family, nor any of my friends, have been left without a ticket on all ireland final day. granted, we mightnt have gotten them til 2pm on the day itself, and they mightnt have been great tickets, but we got them. if you dont have a ticket i always think its worth travelling up anyway and doing the rounds of quinns/hill 16 etc, there will always be tickets going.

eimearos

woohoo i am getting corporate tickets for the final

Mossy Monk

Nice one.

showry

I think that anyone who hasn't been all year should stay well clear of the final to avoid the risk of bibing them.
Watch it in the pub or at home and leave HQ to those who have brought the luck all summer.

JohnC.

I hear the kind of thing that's being said in many posts all the time. But they should have as much right as anyone to see their county play in the final. Smacks of sour grapes. God forbid someone going to a game like this may become a new regular supporter too. Sounds a bit elitist that "true fans" want to keep the general public out. And not a million miles from what they like to complain the corporate types do to them.

KevIRL

Kahless wrote: »

I hear the kind of thing that's being said in many posts all the time. But they should have as much right as anyone to see their county play in the final. Smacks of sour grapes. God forbid someone going to a game like this may become a new regular supporter too. Sounds a bit elitist that "true fans" want to keep the general public out. And not a million miles from what they like to complain the corporate types do to them.

Nonsense.

I would welcome new attendees along to the final, but not at the expense of people who have spent time and money travelling and supporting the team all year. Never giving up believing they can make the breakthrough. Why should people going to a game for the very first time deserve to get a ticket ahead of someone going to all the games?

There are club games and a new season coming up for anyone who wants to start attending games. They will be welcomed with open arms, its not elitist.

showry

Kahless wrote: »

I hear the kind of thing that's being said in many posts all the time. But they should have as much right as anyone to see their county play in the final. Smacks of sour grapes. God forbid someone going to a game like this may become a new regular supporter too. Sounds a bit elitist that "true fans" want to keep the general public out. And not a million miles from what they like to complain the corporate types do to them.

I hadn't intended to be elitist, I don't attend GAA games at all (I follow the blues for my sins). I'm probably just superstitious but if I hadn't been to a game all year, went to the final and they lost I'd be blaming myself.

That said, I do think that people who have been attending league games and early rounds all year should definitely get priority and that's not elitist, it's just fair.

Lucy Locket

KevIRL wrote: »

Nonsense.

I would welcome new attendees along to the final, but not at the expense of people who have spent time and money travelling and supporting the team all year. Never giving up believing they can make the breakthrough. Why should people going to a game for the very first time deserve to get a ticket ahead of someone going to all the games?

There are club games and a new season coming up for anyone who wants to start attending games. They will be welcomed with open arms, its not elitist.

I'm out every January to watch Waterford play in leagues like the Waterford Crystal Cup, and I follow them all year round, this year I missed one match because my beloved Westlife were on on the same day and the one I missed was the one they lost against Clare...grrrrr.....

Oh and Newcomers are MORE than welcome to come out in January in the miserable rain to learn about them and enjoy the game

Anyhow...I have my order in with club for tickets, but told not guaranteed ...so me just has fingers crossed and feelers out with anyone and everyone for tickets!!

ChapOfDRyans

In the whole year i missed 1 game and that was the wexford one as i was on holidays


Getting tickets is all about who you know,either friends with the secretary of your club or county board or family working in croke park.I get premium tickets of a rep who supplies the job and some off the club i usually give the premium ones away

tramore501

WATERFORD 2-22 KILKENNY 1-24!CUM ON DA DEISE!

eimearos

at least i have my corporate tickets, tis great, my heart will be up in my throat on sunday.

Baby4

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brettmirl

Baby4 wrote: »

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Every county says that, every year they are in the final...

Just be glad you have a ticket!