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It's 9:55am - Dublin v Tyrone tickets on sale!
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08-08-2005 8:51am#1
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The main thing is that we have tickets. It beats queueing for hours outside the ticket office at the Cusack stand on Friday morning. When it comes to Croke Park and matches, the best place to be is inside it!
I am in the Upper Hogan, section 732. A great view of the pitch, and the Hill! Come on the Dubs. 0 -
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kilkennycat2004 wrote:Flukey
Its hard to understand that you never seem to have got involved with a club up there.
You obviously go to a lot of games but I find the club scene as important & indeed enjoyable.
Are you a native Dub btw?
I rarely miss a game in Croke. From the club finals on St. Patrick's Day through to the All-Ireland Finals or the International Rules games if they are on, I am there, if at all possible. That is the way it has been with me for years. I love being there. Winter Sunday afternoons are so boring! Yesterday was my 16th day there this year. My parents are from the west, but I am born and bred in Dublin. I am a member of a club, but I've never really got involved in that scene, though I have gone to a lot of games over the years. Inter-county GAA is where my interest really is though.
Armagh play Laois on Saturday week Lemlin. The next two Sundays are for the Hurling Semi-Finals.0 -
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Flukey wrote:This has been posted here before by KilkennyCat but here is the way the tickets are allocated:
Good to see its still of use Flukey.
Was out at a junior hurling match at home in KK the other night Flukey, always out & about either at club matches or under age in Waterford where the son plays.
I'd find myself as into it there as on the summer Sunday's in Croker but as I probably said before you deserve tickets as a regular supporter of both codes in Croker.
We'd have folowed the Village from the KK first round to Croker on Paddy's Day as like to get to some league & certainly all the knock out KK c'ship games out home.
Different strokes for different folks as they say.0 -
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Tyrone have played Dublin twice in Croke Park in the Championship, in a semi-final in 1984 and the final in 1995. Dublin won both and we will make it 3 on Saturday. I was at both of those games. On both occasions they had pre-match incidents with Hill 16.
As most of you know, Hill 16 is the spiritual home of Dublin supporters in Croke Park. When the teams come out on the pitch, Dublin always go to that end of the ground to warm up. In 1984 Tyrone came out first and went down towards the Hill 16 end of the pitch. They promptly moved up to the Canal End when Dublin came out.
JAgain as you will know, just before the game, the teams parade around behind the Artane Boys Band, taking a full circuit of the pitch. In 1995 Tyrone broke away as they came past the Hill. The Dublin team kept on behind the band until after they passed the Hill. I thought then that it was a psychological defeat for Tyrone not to have gone past the Hill, as if they were afraid. I thought then that Dublin had the upper hand. Dublin won the match, so I was proved right.
The other thing I remember about the 1984 match was this: In the Ulster final that year, Frank McGuigan had scored 11 points for them, an incredible display. There was much hype about him, coming into the semi-final. There was also a successful band around then called Frankie Goes To Hollywood. At the match, up on the top deck of the Hogan Stand there was a banner that read: Frankie goes to Croke Park. 0 -
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I posted that Lemlin, not Rooster. Don't worry about it. Your mind is probably still astray after Cavan being knocked out of the championship.
Continuing the Tyrone stories, there was what happened in the 1996 semi-final. Peter Canavan was the star of that time too. He'd put up a high score in the 1995 final against Dublin. In typical Meath style, early in the 1996 semi-final they nobbled him and effectively put him out of the game.
In 1986 Tyrone played Kerry in the final. They were playing great stuff. Early in the second half they were 6 points up. They got a penalty. They put it over the bar, as this photograph I took of it shows. You can just see the ball going over the left hand side of the bar:
That put them 7 points up. If they had scored a goal they'd have won the match, but they didn't. Kerry came back, getting two quick goals. In one, Plunkett Donaghy of Tyrone was fouled in the middle of the pitch but no free was given and a goal came out of the Kerry attack that followed. For the other, between them, 3 Tyrone players messing with the ball around midfield lost possession and Kerry got a goal from the move that developed. Kerry played great stuff in the closing minutes in fairness to them, but it was a match that Tyrone should have won, even having lost those two goals. It seemed to take the wind out of their sails.0 -
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It was worth getting up early. 
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