Portlaoise last saturday

Mike O' Brien

Just somthing that irked me a little on saturday was the admission price of €20 on saturday aswell as €10 for a 4 year old child.

Struck me as a little expensive. Is it just me??!!

Syferus

Mike O' Brien wrote: »

Just somthing that irked me a little on saturday was the admission price of €20 on saturday aswell as €10 for a 4 year old child.

Struck me as a little expensive. Is it just me??!!

For seats at an All-Ireland semi-final?

If you were that worried about cost why didn't you get a terrace ticket? They were €10 for you and free admission for children.

buck65

I paid €20 for a ticket to see Clare V Antrim in Ennis a few weeks back. Utterly outrageous price. Tenner is plenty for a league game.

ducksmalone

buck65 wrote: »

I paid €20 for a ticket to see Clare V Antrim in Ennis a few weeks back. Utterly outrageous price. Tenner is plenty for a league game.

20 quid for 1 adult? for 1 Gaa game? are you serious buck?

theoneeyedman

whatever about 15 e for yourself a tenner for a 4 yr old is just plain wrong.

Being from Connacht, we know all about fancy pricing. Connacht u-21 final a few weeks ago was 15E, while the semi on Satrday was a tenner for the terrace (at the excellent Pearse Park). Maybe they reduced it for the Cavan men..........:P

Stevecw

buck65 wrote: »

I paid €20 for a ticket to see Clare V Antrim in Ennis a few weeks back. Utterly outrageous price. Tenner is plenty for a league game.

Really??

Tenner a game was kinda standard set down by gaa for all league games i thought. Every Carlow hurling or football game i went to was 10 except for double headers which were 15. Can't believe 20 was charged into 1 league game.

MrJoeSoap

All the Dublin league hurling games up to Saturday were €13 as far as I remember, I'd a season ticket so can't be 100% sure.

The fact that Barry Kelly's sheer incompetence led to another game and another road trip for Dublin hurling fans (I clocked up well over 1300km this campaign alone, 5 of the 7 games were outside Dublin) is bad enough, but to raise the ticket price on top of that because it was a double-header is ridiculous.

Add to that the fact that relegation was thrown in at the end of it all and I'm a very bitter man this week.

€10 for a child is scandalous.

MickySticks

League final in Croker next weekend is €25! Madness!!

MrJoeSoap

MickySticks wrote: »

League final in Croker next weekend is €25! Madness!!

And they are still "shocked" at the poor attendances.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/low-croker-turnout-leaves-gaa-officials-shocked-3082206.html

The GAA is already so worried about how the recession -- and some big global sports events -- will affect crowds this summer, that they are launching a massive marketing campaign in the coming weeks.

Just reduce the f*cking prices, it's not rocket science.

MickySticks

The official line is "well you're getting 2 matches".

I will stay to watch Mayo beating Cork but I'm sure the majority of Kildare and Tyrone fans don't give a fuck about that game and vice versa.

MrJoeSoap

MickySticks wrote: »

The official line is "well you're getting 2 matches".

Indeed, but you don't really have a choice in the matter... :rolleyes:

Syferus

MickySticks wrote: »

League final in Croker next weekend is €25! Madness!!

For two national finals. €12.50 a game for over three hours of sport in one of the finest and most historic stadiums on the planet. You'd pay about three or four times that to watch a single random Premier League game and almost every other non-GAA sport is bet out the gates by the GAA's prices. But those basterds at HQ, eh? Always stealing your monies!

Seriously guys, the prices for GAA matches are ridiculously good value 90% of the time. At some point people need to enjoy the entertainment without making themselves look like moaners that will never be satisfied. Oh.

premierstone

€25 for two national finals seems very reasonable to me considering they are been held in a stadium that has a break even mark of close to one million euro.

MrJoeSoap

Syferus wrote: »

For two national finals. €12.50 a game for over three hours of sport in one of the finest and most historic stadiums on the planet. You'd pay about three or four times that to watch a random Premier League game and almost every other non-GAA sport is bet out the gates by the GAA's prices. But those basterds at HQ, eh? Always stealing your monies!

Seriously guys, the prices for GAA matches are ridiculously good value 80% of the time. At some point people need to enjoy the entertainment without making themselves look like moaner that will never be satisfied.

The OP's post was certainly one of the 20%, would you not agree? €30 for an adult and child?

Syferus

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

The OP's post was certainly one of the 20%, would you not agree? €30 for an adult and child?

I was at the other u21 semi. The terrace tickets were €10 and children got in free. If he was worried about prices then he should have got a terrace ticket. Unlike terraces children take up as much space in stands as a 6'5'' behemoths so a fee is very understandable. The GAA has done absolutely everything possible to be accommodating on pricing over the last few years and people still try to act like their eyes are being gouged out with hot pokers.

MrJoeSoap

Syferus wrote: »

The GAA has done absolutely everything possible to be accommodating on pricing over the last few years and people still try to act like their eyes are being gouged out with hot pokers.

If I'd been asked to pay €20 after having paid €13 to the other 6 games and having seen the disgrace of a refereeing performance that had resulted in the hurling replay being necessary, I'd have told them where to stick it. No offence to Galway supporters but Kelly did cost Dublin the game (again) in my opinion.

The fact that it was a double header wasn't of much interest to me, I'm not a big football fan and the fact the GAA decided to put both games together was not my fault, so why should I have to pay extra having supported my team away from home in five of the seven games this year? Even if we'd been at home in five of the seven games, why change the standard NHL pricing? I'd just as happily have gone to Tullamore again for a single game for the same price as the week before.

€13 was the standard (and very reasonable) price all campaign, so doubling the matches up and charging extra is poor form. Either make it a double header and charge the same (as they were doing for the double-header in Tullamore before the first match was cancelled), or leave it as two separate matches and charge people the normal price. If people want to go to both games that's their own choice.

MickySticks

Syferus wrote: »

For two national finals. €12.50 a game for over three hours of sport in one of the finest and most historic stadiums on the planet. You'd pay about three or four times that to watch a single random Premier League game and almost every other non-GAA sport is bet out the gates by the GAA's prices. But those basterds at HQ, eh? Always stealing your monies!

Seriously guys, the prices for GAA matches are ridiculously good value 90% of the time. At some point people need to enjoy the entertainment without making themselves look like moaners that will never be satisfied. Oh.

As has been said the majority of people aren't going to see the 2 games. So can I buy a ticket for €12.50 and then leave after the Kildare game? No I cannot.

Don't get me wrong, if they were €50 I'd probably still go watch my team but that's just me.

As for the comparisons to the EPL, that's just ridiculous, it's a professional sport.

theoneeyedman

Syferus wrote: »

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

The OP's post was certainly one of the 20%, would you not agree? €30 for an adult and child?

I was at the other u21 semi. The terrace tickets were €10 and children got in free. If he was worried about prices then he should have got a terrace ticket. Unlike terraces children take up as much space in stands as a 6'5'' behemoths so a fee is very understandable. The GAA has done absolutely everything possible to be accommodating on pricing over the last few years and people still try to act like their eyes are being gouged out with hot pokers.

Children were not free in longford syf they were five euro each. Not bad value to be fair but still reckon u 16S should be free imo as long as they are accompanied by an adult. E15 general admission into an antiquated Hyde pk for an u 21 game is ott

Syferus

theoneeyedman wrote: »

Children were not free in longford syf they were five euro each. Not bad value to be fair but still reckon u 16S should be free imo as long as they are accompanied by an adult. E15 general admission into an antiquated Hyde pk for an u 21 game is ott

Maybe I'm confusing it with the league games then. Still, 10 for adults and 5 for kids is excellent value. It was a very wrong occasion for the OP to target to question the pricing schemes of a match.

howiya

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

If I'd been asked to pay €20 after having paid €13 to the other 6 games and having seen the disgrace of a refereeing performance that had resulted in the hurling replay being necessary, I'd have told them where to stick it. No offence to Galway supporters but Kelly did cost Dublin the game (again) in my opinion.

The fact that it was a double header wasn't of much interest to me, I'm not a big football fan and the fact the GAA decided to put both games together was not my fault, so why should I have to pay extra having supported my team away from home in five of the seven games this year? Even if we'd been at home in five of the seven games, why change the standard NHL pricing? I'd just as happily have gone to Tullamore again for a single game for the same price as the week before.

€13 was the standard (and very reasonable) price all campaign, so doubling the matches up and charging extra is poor form. Either make it a double header and charge the same (as they were doing for the double-header in Tullamore before the first match was cancelled), or leave it as two separate matches and charge people the normal price. If people want to go to both games that's their own choice.

In addition the double headers in Croke Park were €13 during the league. Why they are raising the prices is beyond me

MrJoeSoap

howiya wrote: »

In addition the double headers in Croke Park were €13 during the league. Why they are raising the prices is beyond me

Which was fantastic value, it has to be said. The Spring Series last year was great as well...