All Ireland ticket distribution system

Starie1975

Hello all,

Does your club have an All-Ireland ticket distribution system in place and if so how does it work? I'd like to make a proposal at our AGM to make it simple for members to understand why an active member should get first choice of a ticket.

Does anyone have an example of a points system?

nice_guy80

Starie1975 wrote: »

Hello all,

Does your club have an All-Ireland ticket distribution system in place and if so how does it work? I'd like to make a proposal at our AGM to make it simple for members to understand why an active member should get first choice of a ticket.

Does anyone have an example of a points system?

most counties don't get to all irelands very often, so it isn't much of an issue

once you pay your membership you should be entitled to a ticket just as much as anyone else. every member has the same status as per GAA rules. one membership one vote at meetings.

JazzyJ

I saw a good one from a club up the north a couple of years back where they based it on participation in the club. Something like (there's probably a few more sections):

• Executive Members (Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, etc.)
• County Board Representatives
• Mentors
• Players
• Other Club Members

In our own club there's an element of a wink and a nod to good section of the tickets, and the rest are raffled, but for the 2011 final I didn't meet anyone who didn't get a ticket by the Saturday evening.

Agueroooo

nice_guy80 wrote: »

once you pay your membership you should be entitled to a ticket just as much as anyone else. every member has the same status as per GAA rules. one membership one vote at meetings.

THIS ^

Starie1975

JazzyJ wrote: »

I saw a good one from a club up the north a couple of years back where they based it on participation in the club. Something like (there's probably a few more sections):

• Executive Members (Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, etc.)
• County Board Representatives
• Mentors
• Players
• Other Club Members

In our own club there's an element of a wink and a nod to good section of the tickets, and the rest are raffled, but for the 2011 final I didn't meet anyone who didn't get a ticket by the Saturday evening.

I've heard of this system and I wanted to find out how it works. I know that there were load of tickets available for the hurling final this year but it would be good to have a system in place.

It's okay saying that every memeber gets the same right and thats the way it has been done at our club. Do you not think a player or a committee member should be further up the list than a not active member? I belive they should.

antoobrien

Starie1975 wrote: »

I've heard of this system and I wanted to find out how it works. I know that there were load of tickets available for the hurling final this year but it would be good to have a system in place.

There were loads available for the first match, there were very few available for the replay. It took a lot of searching for me to get a ticket for the replay.

The family tickets meant that people that never even go to club matches ended up with tickets because their children/friends children were pulled in the draw. There has to be a better way of dealing with prices for children.

Anyhow, we do it on a draw basis. Two kept for the main sponsor, then possibly some (up to 10) for the executive committee (not sure if they still do this), then a general draw for paid up members.

If you are proposing a system, I suggest:
Keep 2 for main club sponsors (plain good manners i.m.o.)
Keep up to 20 for executive committee, trainers & other workers (e.g. Turloughmore & Castlegar have card nights, many clubs have lotto, golf am-ams etc) for draw #1.
Anybody who doesn't get a ticket out of draw #1 & the remaining paid up members go into an open draw.

If your club regularly supplies tickets (i.e. not bringing teams to matches as part of group outings), have some mechanism to reward the members that buy tickets through the club, possibly an extra draw or something.

rockonollie

In the years where the demand exceeds supply, our club has always done a draw. Of course certain individuals always get a ticket and nobody really argues because of the amount they put into the club, the deserve some reward for their time.

Be well and win

Only thing I would suggest about active members is to make sure that you don't ignore guys who over the years have put their heart and soul into a club but now, maybe on grounds of age and health, may not be as active as some of the younger members.

overshoot

JazzyJ wrote: »

I saw a good one from a club up the north a couple of years back where they based it on participation in the club. Something like (there's probably a few more sections):

• Executive Members (Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, etc.)
• County Board Representatives
• Mentors
• Players
• fundraisers, sponsors, legacy etc
• Other Club Members

id add in people who assist in fund raisers etc, basically anyone who has given up time to assist in the running on the club, (also included some set aside for legacy as be well and win suggested
these people are entitled to 1 ticket (at least depending on role),

should there be less tickets than members the remaining members will be entered into a draw

you would think that would be hard enough to argue with, you give what you get kind of thing... usually the members themselves are well enough covered tho

Starie1975

Hi all,

In the end there was no change to the system in our club but I'm going to propose the points system for next year’s AGM. (I left it too late this year)

At the moment the committee get three tickets, chairperson, secretary and the treasure. The rest of the tickets are raffled off to all the members.

I’d like to go with some sort of system encourage member to be more active in the club. I’m post my draft soon.

If anyone have a system in place I’d like to see it. PM me if you’d prefer.

Stinicker

Here in Kerry there is a structure in place to divide All-Ireland tickets.

The Executive members will all get All-Ireland tickets and players too; who are going; buddy passes where they pass on their ticket are heavily frowned upon and you have to be actually going to get a ticket.

Left over tickets are then raffled off to members who have submitted their names, a special allocation of of 2-4 tickets is set aside in a special childrens draw to ensure a few children get tickets but not too many. There was a trend of parents paying childrens membership and not the full adult rate and then using their childrens tickets to go to matches. People often only bother to pay membership for the sole reason of getting match tickets and basically it is a case of those who are workers will be looked after even a few who never pay membership but help out throughout the year.

Sometimes a few tickets are also set aside for a raffle or to be given to big money sponsorers of the club too. Basically the ethos is look after you own first