How do you get tickets for an All Ireland Final?

Bonniedog

Stationmaster wrote: »

Clubs get more than 2 each. Each county is different. In Clare, a senior club that has 2 adult hurling teams but no football team gets 5 hurling tickets and 3 football ones. The figures are fairly accurate to be honest I'd say.

Dublin clubs certainly don't get that many tickets if non participating. If Clare figure was translated to whole country you'd be talking about somewhere around 10,000 tickets? Would that be accurate?

FullBack Jam

Stationmaster wrote: »

I'd disagree - every club is entitled to their tickets in my opinion.

Why? How many from that club would have been to the Mayo/Kerry semi final - when the attendance was 20k short of full house. No problem getting a ticket. How do you conclude that people from a non-football club in Clare (who more than likely would not have been at a Mayo or Dublin game all year) are on equal footing with a Mayo or Dublin person in terms of entitlement to buy an All-Ireland ticket.

Bonniedog

Dublin clubs got two tickets each for hurling final afaik. Which is fair enough. IfClare figure was applied to Dublin would mean us getting hundreds of tickets for a final in which we have no involvement! I don't see how that could be considered fair.

There were 150,000 people at the Mayo and Dublin semi finals (only including the last Mayo game.) Easily 110,000 were from Mayo and Dublin. Obviously they can't all logistically get tickets but 90% should be reserved for the participating counties.

Martina1991

flasher0030 wrote: »

Why? How many from that club would have been to the Mayo/Kerry semi final - when the attendance was 20k short of full house. No problem getting a ticket.
How do you conclude that people from a non-football club in Clare (who more than likely would not have been at a Mayo or Dublin game all year) are on equal footing with a Mayo or Dublin person in terms of entitlement to buy an All-Ireland ticket.

I agree. Fans from competing counties deserve tickets far more than people in other counties just because they have an involvement in the GAA. There are thousands or people around the country involved in the GAA. How can you say some people deserve them over others.

Martina1991

Also the senior Mayo ladies football team never get a look in when it comes to tickets for the men's final.
I know the LGFA is a separate organisation, but the ladies represent their county at the same level as the men and don't have the option to receive All Ireland tickets.

This is the case for Mayo, I don't know about Dublin ladies.

FullBack Jam

Martina1991 wrote: »

Also the senior Mayo ladies football team never get a look in when it comes to tickets for the men's final.
I know the LGFA is a separate organisation, but the ladies represent their county at the same level as the men and don't have the option to receive All Ireland tickets.

This is the case for Mayo, I don't know about Dublin ladies.

That's bad form. I was watching Mayo-Cork game last weekend. And it was a great promotion for Gaelic football. The GAA should acknowledge this.

Bunny Colvin

Martina1991 wrote: »

Also the senior Mayo ladies football team never get a look in when it comes to tickets for the men's final.
I know the LGFA is a separate organisation, but the ladies represent their county at the same level as the men and don't have the option to receive All Ireland tickets.

This is the case for Mayo, I don't know about Dublin ladies.

They've their own All-Ireland to be worried about in fairness

Realt Dearg Sec

The LGFA have been invited to join the gaa and refused to do so. If they joined the gaa the players would have a player pass and could probably be entitled to tickets, but when they belong to a different organisation and refuse to join the gaa it's a bit much to be complaining about not being entitled to tickets for that organisations biggest day.

People from clubs outside the participating counties give their lives to the gaa and many are from counties that will never be in the final. The day isn't just about those two counties, it's a celebration of the association, and all that it has achieved through the hard work of its volunteers throughout the country. Getting the odd ticket for those people is important imo.

Stationmaster

flasher0030 wrote: »

Why? How many from that club would have been to the Mayo/Kerry semi final - when the attendance was 20k short of full house. No problem getting a ticket. How do you conclude that people from a non-football club in Clare (who more than likely would not have been at a Mayo or Dublin game all year) are on equal footing with a Mayo or Dublin person in terms of entitlement to buy an All-Ireland ticket.

Like 1000's of others up and down the country I put a lot of voluntary hours every week into my club through playing, coaching and administration. I do it all for the love of it just like everyone else. The all ireland finals are like christmas day to me - they are everything the gaa stands for and is all about. I love going to them as often as I can and I think that it's a bloody great thing that the gaa think about me and 1000's more like me by giving me that opportunity sometimes.

I will never see Clare in an all ireland football final - does that mean I should never be allowed go?

I fully sympathise with any dedicated Mayo/Dublin fan that can't get a ticket but I also think that between season tickets, competing counties allocations etc there are enough tickets there for anyone with any bit of involvement/contacts to get one.

I won't be feeling guilty sitting in my seat sunday week anyway.

PARlance

And rightly so. For every 100 hard luck stories, you'll probably find a few genuine ones.

franklyon

Yes normally it would be easy but the fact that the two counties with the most season ticket holders plus a long waiting list for both counties means a lot of the fans that went to the league matches, went down to Limerick,up twice for Roscommon games and 2 more trips to see Kerry won't have a chance to go to the final while people with contacts get to have their choice of ticket and haven't been to a game since the last AI Final.

Bonniedog

Stationmaster, I played hurling and was involved in underage teams for a long time.

I would not feel that I was as much entitled to a hurling final ticket as a Clare person if Clare were in it.

Not begrudging you your ticket by the way. Ce la vie!

franklyon

Bonniedog wrote: »

Stationmaster, I played hurling and was involved in underage teams for a long time.

I would not feel that I was as much entitled to a hurling final ticket as a Clare person if Clare were in it.

Not begrudging you your ticket by the way. Ce la vie!

C'est la vie is better and Idon't begrudge him his ticket either, it's the fair weather fans (I know a good few) that I have issue with.

Stationmaster

Bonniedog wrote: »

Stationmaster, I played hurling and was involved in underage teams for a long time.

I would not feel that I was as much entitled to a hurling final ticket as a Clare person if Clare were in it.

Not begrudging you your ticket by the way. Ce la vie!

Yea, I see your point too of course and, to be honest, I have a friend or two in Mayo who I might end up giving the tickets to if they don't get sorted. Just annoys me a little this time of the year everyone going on about how much they deserve a ticket when a lot of them have no idea what's involved.

Let's hope everyone gets sorted!

Bonniedog

franklyon wrote: »

C'est la vie is better and Idon't begrudge him his ticket either, it's the fair weather fans (I know a good few) that I have issue with.

Oh definitely. Far prefer to see likes of Stationmaster in a seat than some of the characters that will turn up next Sunday week who haven't been at a Dublin or Mayo game all year.

In fairness, that is not as bad as it used to be because of county board passes and season tickets, but there are always chancers who know someone or get one through work or business connections.

Having said that, was at one final in a corporate box and almost everyone in it was either a Dub or Kerry supporter who knew their stuff. Even the elite seem to have some sense of fair play!

Hulk Hands

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

People from clubs outside the participating counties give their lives to the gaa and many are from counties that will never be in the final. The day isn't just about those two counties, it's a celebration of the association, and all that it has achieved through the hard work of its volunteers throughout the country. Getting the odd ticket for those people is important imo.

That's an important point I think. Someone from a weaker county should have the chance to go to a final if they put work into the GAA. Also with the majority of people in Ireland spending time living elsewhere in the country, there has to be other avenues to sort local GAA volunteers. For example Galway county board were under pressure from within to do a ticket swap with Mayo to secure extra hurling in exchange for football but refused because there's plenty of Mayo football people active in Galway clubs that deserve a shot at those tickets.

The allocation structure looks ok generally imo. The season ticket was there to cater for the season long fans. The fans who can't make every game due to work or whatever, can get active in their local clubs instead during the week. Not many can have complaints. Maybe Dubs and Mayo should add some extra season tickets and take that off their club allocation in future but that's something they can decide themselves

seligehgit

Sono wrote: »

If all else fails there's always a €250 brekky and a €100 ticket for the match. €350 all in what a bargain

This breakfast/glorified robbery of ordinary fans got slaughtered on the GAA hour and rightly so.

Bonniedog

Indeed. And where do those tickets come from? And the money to pay the boys, assuming they are not stupid enough to be doing it for the good of their health!

seligehgit

Bonniedog wrote: »

Indeed. And where do those tickets come from? And the money to pay the boys, assuming they are not stupid enough to be doing it for the good of their health!

They seemed to be of the opinion that they were tickets from the Dublin County Board and weren't really been targeted at the real fans.More so the big corporate firms who distribute them as they please.

Not widely advertised,quelle surprise.I'm sure they'd expect quite a backlash.Very much doubt Whelo is doing it for the good of his health.Perhaps I'm too much of a sceptic and he's doing his little bit for the boys in blue.Anyway I can hear him any Sunday night on TSG.

howiya

Bonniedog wrote: »

Dublin clubs got two tickets each for hurling final afaik. Which is fair enough. IfClare figure was applied to Dublin would mean us getting hundreds of tickets for a final in which we have no involvement! I don't see how that could be considered fair.

There were 150,000 people at the Mayo and Dublin semi finals (only including the last Mayo game.) Easily 110,000 were from Mayo and Dublin. Obviously they can't all logistically get tickets but 90% should be reserved for the participating counties.

My own club in Dublin got more than two tickets and we're not a big club.

PARlance

seligehgit wrote: »

They seemed to be of the opinion that they were tickets from the Dublin County Board and weren't really been targeted at the real fans.More so the big corporate firms who distribute them as they please.

Not widely advertised,quelle surprise.I'm sure they'd expect quite a backlash.Very much doubt Whelo is doing it for the good of his health.Perhaps I'm too much of a sceptic and he's doing his little bit for the boys in blue.Anyway I can hear him any Sunday night on TSG.

Brady certainly wouldn't be doing it for the Dublin cause anyway. I'm sure a couple of grand would be divided up among them. It is an early start in fairness