Hope the IRFU took heed of the budget

rugbynut

I don't want to get political on the Rugby forum but the IRFU need to get real with the ticket prices. I'm showing my age now, but there was a time I never missed an interprovincial match. The lads on the stiles used leave the kids in for free. Not any more. To go to a match and take the kids now costs an arm and a leg. Bottom line is its not affordable any more. Come on IRFU stop making it elitist. Drop your God damn prices!

barnesd

rugbynut wrote: »

I don't want to get political on the Rugby forum but the IRFU need to get real with the ticket prices. I'm showing my age now, but there was a time I never missed an interprovincial match. The lads on the stiles used leave the kids in for free. Not any more. To go to a match and take the kids now costs an arm and a leg. Bottom line is its not affordable any more. Come on IRFU stop making it elitist. Drop your God damn prices!

First of all, the IRFU wouldn't be setting prices for interpros. I paid 22euro for my ticket last weekend which is reasonable imo. Second, if the stadium is selling out (like Munster - Leinster, the home 6N games) unfortunately there's no good reason for them to drop ticket prices.

Aidric

They probably won't drop prices because they need revenues to fund the new Lansdowne. An announcement that they are to freeze prices would be welcome and sensible.

robgloster

Scotland upped theres to £70 a pop

NickNolte

barnesd wrote: »

I paid 22euro for my ticket last weekend which is reasonable imo.

Me too. It is reasonable. Although €90 for internationals is a bit steep.

anonymous_joe

Can be €30 for a Leinster game which isn't much but usually too much for me.

suppafly

The magners league and HEC tickets are pretty reasonable tbh, but the international are a complete rip off at €90 a pop. They put them up €10 since last yr.

Serenity Now!

rugbynut wrote: »

I don't want to get political on the Rugby forum but the IRFU need to get real with the ticket prices. I'm showing my age now, but there was a time I never missed an interprovincial match. The lads on the stiles used leave the kids in for free. Not any more. To go to a match and take the kids now costs an arm and a leg. Bottom line is its not affordable any more. Come on IRFU stop making it elitist. Drop your God damn prices!

The provincial branches set their prices. Not the union itself.
I seem to remember the family deals for Leinster games being great value actually.

Re.internationals, the public spent through the nose to get to Cardiff and surplussed the crowds. Ticket prices to see the Grand Slam champions are going nowhere but up if they don't stay the same.

barnesd

suppafly wrote: »

The magners league and HEC tickets are pretty reasonable tbh, but the international are a complete rip off at €90 a pop. They put them up €10 since last yr.

Agree there, and we saw the effect of that in the Autumn with the Argentina game not selling out. I would have gone if I could get a ticket for €50 or even €60 but just wasn't going to pay €90.

Serenity Now!

barnesd wrote: »

Agree there, and we saw the effect of that in the Autumn with the Argentina game not selling out. I would have gone if I could get a ticket for €50 or even €60 but just wasn't going to pay €90.

You saw nearly 69,000 at the Argentina game because
1) the fickle Irish fan chooses its games very carefully indeed and for some reason deems the Pumas, Italy, Scotland etc as games not worth bothering their hyney with. Have you ever seen a full house with Italy or Argentina in town? Never. Look it up if you want.
2) Tickets not sold to clubs or corporate were sold in packages.

Tickets to the Hill end are €40 aren't they?

murphym7

Serenity Now! wrote: »

You saw nearly 69,000 at the Argentina game because
1) the fickle Irish fan chooses its games very carefully indeed and for some reason deems the Pumas, Italy, Scotland etc as games not worth bothering their hyney with. Have you ever seen a full house with Italy or Argentina in town? Never. Look it up if you want.
2) Tickets not sold to clubs or corporate were sold in packages.

Tickets to the Hill end are €40 aren't they?

I went to see Italy last year and was in the Nally, was about €40. Not too bad. If I had the chance to pay €90 for the stands I would have (No pints in the Nally!)

robgloster

As long as they keep filling the satdium they will up the prices. They have to pay for lansdown some how

zAbbo

I was on the Hill for 6n v England, €35

Season tickets for Leinster start around €220 - which is good value if you plan to go to at least 10 matches a year as well as guaranteed HC tickets.

I agree that the pricing is very high for Internationals, but the games are usually sellout.

I don't expect prices to get any lower or easier once the move back to LR happens.

Downtime

They have already said that they are going to re-examine the pricing system, as all provinces have complained and that they are likely to package the tickets together differently for next year and well as re-examining the price of the tickets.

Iang87

we should all become like accountants or something like that and get our firm to sponsor the teams, free tickets all round wahey :pac:

rugbynut

I suppose the point I was trying to get across was that its so expensive to go to a match now and take the kids.

zAbbo

rugbynut wrote: »

I suppose the point I was trying to get across was that its so expensive to go to a match now and take the kids.

That's more a health and safety issue with lifting kids across the turnstiles, that topic has come up here often.

[Jackass]

Ah provincial tickets are great value imo. My season ticket cost €220 - that's for 12 games (9 ML + 3 HEC) which works out at €18 per game plus first preference on any away fixtures or HEC tickets plus first preference for additional tickets to games also.

I was at every single game in Croke Park this season and to be honest, I would never do it again. I was so delighted to be getting all these tickets and realised how lucky I was that I couldn't turn them down (also baring in mind it's not long before the dreaded Lansdowne is built and unless you are actually playing in the match, you have little or no chance of seeing it) but the ticket prices are a joke.

I understand the IRFU have big bills to pay and from an economic perspective it makes sense, as these games sell out no matter what...but as someone said, it does make it elitest to an extent, not many people can afford international games and I sure as feck can't and would never do it again, I've absolutely crippled myself on rugby tickets this season between Leinster and Ireland, I've gone OTT hard core this year!! But that will mellow out a fair bit next year. I'll just have my Leinster season ticket and maybe one or two away games for a long weekend but that's it, I wont see Ireland at all next season as I just can't afford it.

Trojan

[Jackass] wrote: »

I wont see Ireland at all next season as I just can't afford it.

I did that this year, they were way too much, particularly when buying for several people. I was buying 4 tickets at a time for family, and looking at it that way, it's scary.

leeroybrown

For me it would be sensible Connacht ticket prices. I'm a Connacht season ticket holder and this season my ordinary ground season ticket cost me more than a Leinster fan pays for a similar ticket in the Anglesea Terrace. I paid €225 (early-bird discount from €250) a 25% increase on €180 the previous season which was a 20% increase on the season before at €150. On top of this the gate pricing means that if you exclude non-competitive games you only need to miss one game before paying at the gate is cheaper. I'll miss one to two games a season due to work so it's not great economics. I know the money has to come from somewhere but hammering your core fans for it doesn't make sense.

Tim Robbins

suppafly wrote: »

The magners league and HEC tickets are pretty reasonable tbh, but the international are a complete rip off at €90 a pop. They put them up €10 since last yr.

I was going to bring 20 - 25 of mates to the Cardiff Blues match for part of my stag but it was 35 euro so we went to see a comedian for a tener instead.

Most of my mates would Soccer / GAA heads so asking them to pay 35 for ML would have been unfair in January.