How do you get tickets for an All Ireland Final?

Always_Running

A break down on where all of the AI final tickets go.

Martina1991

Always_Running wrote: »

A break down on where all of the AI final tickets go.

Some of those sections are so vague. What does provinces mean?

3rd level: what colleges? to lecturers or students?

Schools: which schools? Schools from competing counties or into the pockets of teachers and staff.

cocoman

Always_Running wrote: »

A break down on where all of the AI final tickets go.

What are Term Tickets?

Stationmaster

Martina1991 wrote: »

Some of those sections are so vague. What does provinces mean?

3rd level: what colleges? to lecturers or students?

Schools: which schools? Schools from competing counties or into the pockets of teachers and staff.

Provincial councils eg Munster Gaa etc.

3rd level councils.

Second level schools body.

In other words the Gaa committees in these various areas. They're fully entitled to them if you ask me.

Stationmaster

cocoman wrote: »

What are Term Tickets?

Open to correction here but Croke Park used to offer long term tickets in the hogan and cusack stands ever before premium tickets were available. Some of these are still in operation but I think Croke Park are trying to phase them out.

partyguinness

I have 5 tickets sourced in the UK.

I am going to hawk them outside the Gresham from midday on Sunday onwards for well above the face value.....get in.

Stationmaster

partyguinness wrote: »

I have 5 tickets sourced in the UK.

I am going to hawk them outside the Gresham from midday on Sunday onwards for well above the face value.....get in.

You're a great lad, well done.

Although if you're there on Sunday you might find that demand for the camogie all irelands isn't as great as the demand that'll be around Sunday week.

partyguinness

Stationmaster wrote: »

You're a great lad, well done.

Although if you're there on Sunday you might find that demand for the camogie all irelands isn't as great as the demand that'll be around Sunday week.

Bugger....:(

SimpleLogic

Always_Running wrote: »

A break down on where all of the AI final tickets go.

Is a breakdown of the county allocation ever published?
Would be interested to see how many tickets go to the counties in the final.

Martina1991

SimpleLogic wrote: »

Is a breakdown of the county allocation ever published?
Would be interested to see how many tickets go to the counties in the final.

It was published a couple of days ago that Mayo are allocated 16,500 tickets. I presume Dublin is the same.

Those tickets include season ticket holders and families I assume.

It seems like a small number to me. There's never enough to go around at club level.

partyguinness

I know some counties give tickets to former county players from minor upwards. Would be interesting to know what that adds up to.

Stationmaster

partyguinness wrote: »

I know some counties give tickets to former county players from minor upwards. Would be interesting to know what that adds up to.

That would be included though in the county allocation.

TCDStudent1

Always_Running wrote: »

A break down on where all of the AI final tickets go.

The ard chomairle section seems a bit high. Other than that, it seems fairly reasonable to me.

In the past, I would've always said that for the most part, tickets get to genuine fans. However, for the hurling final, I saw some people getting tickets who hardly ever go to games while I saw people who contribute a lot to the gaa fail to get a ticket.

Sono

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

franklyon

so 350 altogether, so a match ticket 80,ladies ticket maybe 20? the shirt 65 retail, probably worth more as its signed plus a nice breakfast listening to Ciaran Whelan and whoever else will be there lets say 20 euros worth. I would be half tempted if I was a Dublin supporter if only to get a ticket.

Sono

franklyon wrote: »

so 350 altogether, so a match ticket 80,ladies ticket maybe 20? the shirt 65 retail, probably worth more as its signed plus a nice breakfast listening to Ciaran Whelan and whoever else will be there lets say 20 euros worth. I would be half tempted if I was a Dublin supporter if only to get a ticket.

Could be a nally ticket which would be €40, it's bloody expensive.

Shurimgreat

Get friendly with someone involved in the GAA. Buy them pints all year. Slap them on the back a lot. Come September you should have no problem. Send Christmas cards and ring them every so often. Don't make it obvious you are after one thing!

kala85

I think that Galway GAA also ran a fundraiser like this as well in the Loughrea hotel.

I think that people attending got match tickets as well. Does anyone have any more information on this?

Bonniedog

Martina1991 wrote: »

It was published a couple of days ago that Mayo are allocated 16,500 tickets. I presume Dublin is the same.

Those tickets include season ticket holders and families I assume.

It seems like a small number to me. There's never enough to go around at club level.[/QUOTE]


Unfortunately one of consequences of increased number of county board passes and season tickets - and I think Dublin and Mayo are by far the biggest subscribers to both - is small number that go to clubs as the former are taken as part of county allocation.

I have had Parnell Pass for nearly ten years now and it is a gift. Well pays for itself, even just for club matches. I am no longer active in club so have no business looking there and they find it impossible even to look after playing members,

Even Gavin's own club Round Towers only had initial allocation from DCB of 40 last year! I assume that increased as they hunted about but it is rather ludicrous situation. Of course I assume quite a lot of RT members have PP and season tickets. They really are the best option if you can get one at this stage.

Martina1991

Bonniedog wrote: »

Unfortunately one of consequences of increased number of county board passes and season tickets - and I think Dublin and Mayo are by far the biggest subscribers to both - is small number that go to clubs as the former are taken as part of county allocation.

I think season tickets are sold out now in Mayo for the last couple of years. It had to be capped with so many members.

I haven't got a season ticket simply because I would not get the use out of it. I don't live in Mayo so I would miss a lot of club games.
Even when you do go to Mayo games, you still have to pay for the tickets. I think you get free admission to the first game of the championship, but if that's New York or London forget about it.

Season tickets are only of value if you get to the final so you're guaranteed a ticket.

seligehgit

Martina1991 wrote: »

I think season tickets are sold out now in Mayo for the last couple of years. It had to be capped with so many members.

I haven't got a season ticket simply because I would not get the use out of it. I don't live in Mayo so I would miss a lot of club games.
Even when you do go to Mayo games, you still have to pay for the tickets. I think you get free admission to the first game of the championship, but if that's New York or London forget about it.

Season tickets are only of value if you get to the final so you're guaranteed a ticket.

They're great value besides,gratis admission to all league games,first championship game gratis and five euro discount on all subsequent championship games.

Bonniedog

Is there not a county board scheme too? Cairde Maigh Eó or something similar? Probably like Parnell it is over-subscribed. If you are not in Mayo value of them is not as good as you won't be at many home games or club games, I suppose.

Dublin championships are restarting in a few weeks and my pass will save me almost as much as I paid for it.

FullBack Jam

Always_Running wrote: »

A break down on where all of the AI final tickets go.

Doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm missing something. But if each of the senior finalists get 16,500 each. That's 33,000. I'm just guessing that the minor counties would get 5,000 in total between them. That would be 38,000. The total county allocation is on average 57k. So that would leave 19k distributed to the clubs in the other counties. Leaving aside the 4 counties in the finals (on the basis that neither senior team nor minor team are from same counties), there would be 28 other counties. That would be about 670 tickets to each county. We hear that each club gets 2 tickets. That would mean on average that there are 335 clubs in each county, which obviously is not trure.
In reality if you assume that there is an average of 40 clubs in a county, and each gets 2 tickets. That's only 80 tickets. And for 28 counties, that's less than 3,000 to the clubs in the non-participating counties. But that's a lot less than the 19,000 that I refer to above. Where does the rest of the county allocations go. Unless my reckoning of the minor finalist counties is incorrect, and that they get an allocation of about 15,000 between them.

Martina1991

seligehgit wrote: »

They're great value besides,gratis admission to all league games,first championship game gratis and five euro discount on all subsequent championship games.

To get the value out of the season ticket, you have to be available to go to those league games in Tyrone/ Kerry/ Derry/ Cork/ Dublin etc. and be free every weekend in the Summer (going through the back door with replays).

With my job that's just not possible and for families with young kids it'd very expensive/ not ideal to travel that much.

Undoubtedly worth the money if you can facilitate it.

Stationmaster

flasher0030 wrote: »

Doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm missing something. But if each of the senior finalists get 16,500 each. That's 33,000. I'm just guessing that the minor counties would get 5,000 in total between them. That would be 38,000. The total county allocation is on average 57k. So that would leave 19k distributed to the clubs in the other counties. Leaving aside the 4 counties in the finals (on the basis that neither senior team nor minor team are from same counties), there would be 28 other counties. That would be about 670 tickets to each county. We hear that each club gets 2 tickets. That would mean on average that there are 335 clubs in each county, which obviously is not trure.
In reality if you assume that there is an average of 40 clubs in a county, and each gets 2 tickets. That's only 80 tickets. And for 28 counties, that's less than 3,000 to the clubs in the non-participating counties. But that's a lot less than the 19,000 that I refer to above. Where does the rest of the county allocations go. Unless my reckoning of the minor finalist counties is incorrect, and that they get an allocation of about 15,000 between them.

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.

PARlance

flasher0030 wrote: »

Doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm missing something. But if each of the senior finalists get 16,500 each. That's 33,000. I'm just guessing that the minor counties would get 5,000 in total between them. That would be 38,000. The total county allocation is on average 57k. So that would leave 19k distributed to the clubs in the other counties. Leaving aside the 4 counties in the finals (on the basis that neither senior team nor minor team are from same counties), there would be 28 other counties. That would be about 670 tickets to each county. We hear that each club gets 2 tickets. That would mean on average that there are 335 clubs in each county, which obviously is not trure.
In reality if you assume that there is an average of 40 clubs in a county, and each gets 2 tickets. That's only 80 tickets. And for 28 counties, that's less than 3,000 to the clubs in the non-participating counties. But that's a lot less than the 19,000 that I refer to above. Where does the rest of the county allocations go. Unless my reckoning of the minor finalist counties is incorrect, and that they get an allocation of about 15,000 between them.

Seems to be a bit of a difference, my best guess is that they actually withhold a nice chunk of tickets for the second allocation... which always happens and is always more than could be possible from just the non competeing Counties returning tickets.

33,000 first allocation Senior Counties (known)
8,000 first allocation Minor Counties (always thought it was 4k each)
4,000 Non Competing Counties

~14,000 held back and released in the 2nd allocation to Senior & Minor Counties. 5.5k each for Senior and 1.5k for Minor.

That would bring it to 59,000.

When the few tickets that are returned from the non-competiting counties are returned, they're added to this withheld tranche imo.

FullBack Jam

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.

Oh, ok. I thought that every club from non-participating counties just got 2 tickets each.

Although, that sentence is indicative of part of the problem. That club you refer to gets 3 All-Ireland football tickets, although has no connection with football, whereas you have supporters from the participating counties paying over the odds for any ticket out of desperation.

Stationmaster

PARlance wrote: »

Seems to be a bit of a difference, my best guess is that they actually withhold a nice chunk of tickets for the second allocation... which always happens and is always more than could be possible from just the non competeing Counties returning tickets.

33,000 first allocation Senior Counties (known)
8,000 first allocation Minor Counties (always thought it was 4k each)
4,000 Non Competing Counties (probably a high estimation)

~14,000 held back and released in the 2nd allocation to Senior & Minor Counties. 5.5k each for Senior and 1.5k for Minor.

When the few tickets that are returned from the non-competiting counties are returned, they're added to this withheld tranche imo.

Nowhere near close - I'd guess more like 500 per county on average (will vary a lot depending on registered clubs in each county).

Stationmaster

flasher0030 wrote: »

Oh, ok. I thought that every club from non-participating counties just got 2 tickets each.

Although, that sentence is indicative of part of the problem. That club you refer to gets 3 All-Ireland football tickets, although has no connection with football, whereas you have supporters from the participating counties paying over the odds for any ticket out of desperation.

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

PARlance

Stationmaster wrote: »

Nowhere near close - I'd guess more like 500 per county on average (will vary a lot depending on registered clubs in each county).

Ya just edited that, if it is 500 per county then that's the difference so. I didn't think it was that high at all.