The 43

BrianBoru00

Official Attendance was 82 257.

What I want to know is where those gob****es were that couldn't be arsed getting their ticket to someone who wanted to go.

Collie D

BrianBoru00 wrote: »

Official Attendance was 82 257.

What I want to know is where those gob****es were that couldn't be arsed getting their ticket to someone who wanted to go.

Haha, wondered that myself. Friend suggested it could be latecomers who weren't scanned properly. Bus full of Mayo fans stuck in traffic or broken down?

The 43 "missing" certainly didn't have Hill tickets. Was pretty wedged there. Will make sure I'm in extra early next day

irishgrover

in any population of 82k there will be unforeseen emergencies. For example - in a city of 80K how many people die on any given day. The probability is that at least some of them suffered a dead in the immediate family in the previous immediate few hours.... plenty of reasons without being a gob****e really...

PARlance

And then there's always the hope/slight chance that a few touts got stung.

BrianBoru00

irishgrover wrote: »

in any population of 82k there will be unforeseen emergencies. For example - in a city of 80K how many people die on any given day. The probability is that at least some of them suffered a dead in the immediate family in the previous immediate few hours.... plenty of reasons without being a gob****e really...

That would be an average of less than 2 on any given day.
so 41 to go. . . .

TCDStudent1

BrianBoru00 wrote: »

Official Attendance was 82 257.

What I want to know is where those gob****es were that couldn't be arsed getting their ticket to someone who wanted to go.

It is rare enough that you get the 100% capacity of 82300 although it has happened a few times in recent years. One wonders why they just leave the ticket unused though.....

I came across a Mayo supporter yesterday who told me she had a Davin ticket and wasnt sure she would go because somebody told her she would have a better view on TV!

gobo99

"Give me my ticket."
"I thought you had em...."

irishgrover

BrianBoru00 wrote: »

That would be an average of less than 2 on any given day.
so 41 to go. . . .

well if you want to be pedantic, you could argue that GAA is very community driven and the vast majority of games are attended in groups of family and / or close friends. So one could easily argue that an unexpected death could lead to whole families or groups of friends not going on very short notice - maybe 20+
Then there are unavoidable car breakdowns - could easy have been 3 or 4 car loads on the side of the road and missed the game - 20+ people
There could have been people who took seriously ill on the way to the game or prior to leaving home, and were admitted to hospital. So a small number of the average of 3800 daily A&E visitors or 4000+ admissions to hospitals may have been planning on going to the game....
Or you could look at the statistically insignificant but equality plausible minority who lost their tickets, or put them in the washing machine etc etc.
or a very small minority just were not arsed..
there ya go, that could more than make up the 41...

zetecescort

Don't they keep a few seats free in case somebody in the upper tier suffer vertigo?

Shelflife

Greg Maher from Mayo died and was buried on Sunday afaik, former Mayo player and winner at minor level. Id imagine that caused quite a number of Mayo people to change their plans.

buck65

FFS what about people's car breaking down, people getting the flu or a misplaced ticket. Ridiculous first post.

irishgrover

buck65 wrote: »

FFS what about people's car breaking down, people getting the flu or a misplaced ticket. Ridiculous first post.

in defense of the OP, I don't think that it was a very serious post -- well I hope not

PTH2009

the tickets could of belonging too a company who own a coporate box/premium level seats and maybe they didnt use them

remember i was at a rugby match in the Aviva Stadium premium level and there was an empty seat next to us and a guy on his own sitting below us decided to sit there near the end of the game but the owner of the seats (presume he was the owner) told him to get out of the seat (even though there was no occupent of the seat). rich people and there seats lol

BPKS

Woman and her two kids near me left at half time and didnt bother returning for the 2nd half.

Was the X-Factor starting at 4:30 or something?

zetecescort

BPKS wrote: »

Woman and her two kids near me left at half time and didnt bother returning for the 2nd half.

Was the X-Factor starting at 4:30 or something?

there for the minor game and facing a drive back to Kerry or Galway?

Paulzx

BPKS wrote: »

Woman and her two kids near me left at half time and didnt bother returning for the 2nd half.

Was the X-Factor starting at 4:30 or something?

Queue for the ladies jaks. Always feckin brutal:)

mjp

There was probably a few mayo fans who went out and drank themselves stupid on Saturday night and lost their phones/ wallets/ tickets etc. Lot of tickets went to gas clubs in america and London and some may not have come back due to mix ups etc. Basically sh*t happens !!!

DDC1990

There was a free seat beside me in the Upper Davin (Ticket was disguised as Upper Cusack but reall once you pass 710 you are in the Davin no matter what the ticke said). Great view ocer the field though.

Bonniedog

Collie D wrote: »

Haha, wondered that myself. Friend suggested it could be latecomers who weren't scanned properly. Bus full of Mayo fans stuck in traffic or broken down?

The 43 "missing" certainly didn't have Hill tickets. Was pretty wedged there. Will make sure I'm in extra early next day

People die, miss their lift/train/bus. Its wonder so many people get there at all!

As for the Hill, thought we were wise arriving at 2.30. Ended up right up at back corner beside Cusack. Only dubs among Mayo people. Good crack has to be said, but stewarding was disaster. There was plenty of romm near us, but all the aisles were jammed and people were getting understandably narky because stewards were stopping them moving into free space. Where I was there was room for lots more people.

Oh, and I has a shower that morning so that's not reason :-)

BPKS

zetecescort wrote: »

there for the minor game and facing a drive back to Kerry or Galway?

No, Dublin jerseys on them all.

J Cheever Loophole

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

It is rare enough that you get the 100% capacity of 82300 although it has happened a few times in recent years.

The attendance might have been listed as that but I can't believe that was the actual number of people there.

Back in 2002, I remember the hurling final had an official attendance of something like 76,000, and there was a clear patch of empty seats in the Lower Cusack, around half way line. I remember there was outrage that the ground wasn't full despite the fact that so many people missed out.

Fast forward to our big day and the attendance was given out as 79,500 - the exact capacity - yet I'm convinced there was a bigger crowd there for our semi-final with Dublin on the basis of the views of the Hill.

By the way - someone mentioned the Hill was 'jammed' - anyone see the footage on the Sunday Game Live of Spillane kicking a point into the Hill in the 1984 Final against Dublin - now that was jammed - Health & Safety was not on any agendas back then!!

PARlance

Have we accounted for everyone yet?
A good few sponsors invites would couldn't be bothered, a couple of deaths, a few with serious illness, the lad whose wife went into labour, the eejit that lost his in the pub, Aidan, Seamie, Flynn and Brogan.... that's everyone isn't it.

jj72

Was a spare seat beside meself in lower cusack! ...musta been something I said!

Bonniedog

Tip for anyone not got tkt next day. Ask the cops at the barriers into Jones road and Clonliffe. Amazing the amount of people who hand tkts to them after missing their buddies. Seriously. Sister in law and niece got two free tkts from Garada outside Gills for the semi final

Bonniedog

jj72 wrote: »

Was a spare seat beside meself in lower cusack! ...musta been something I said!

Sure for men :-)

JimFin

I know one of the 43, lost his ticket at home that morning and couldn't find it anywhere. Just gave up and didn't even think to try to go back to the source of the ticket to have it re-issued. Another ticket was found on the ground outside somewhere!!

Whatever about the 43, if you look in the Eir Fanpic site zoom in on the Davin stand behind the goals and go to the Premium level - just over the SuperValu sign there is clearly a lad who it the worse for wears and is sound asleep - in premium!! now he should be made watch cricket for a week.........Several free seats around him too!!

Qwerty27

Slightly bigger crowds in 2012 & 2013!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship_finals

An official attendance of 82,300 or "Full House" as stated for the quarter finals is a lie, there will always be a handful of empty seats for a variety of reasons