All Ireland Hurling Tix - when on sale?

trotter_inc

Anyone know when the tix go on sale on ticketmaster?

Emailed them last week but got no reply...

jank

LOL

Your wasting your time. These tickets wont go on general sale.

They are only allocated to clubs around the country.
Its all about who you know from now on.

Sniipe

I doubt ticketmaster will be selling tickets for the all ireland? Don't they just go to the clubs. Stops Touts and stuff. I hate toutes!

solice

Yeah, Cork and galway will be given about 20,000 each (if they are very lucky!) and the rest is split up between the clubs in the rest of the country. Ticketmaster wont get them.

From here on in its everyman for himself.

Flukey

Yes, the final tickets are never put on general sale or on Ticketmaster. You'll only get them through "sources", if you have any.

lukin

solice wrote:

Yeah, Cork and galway will be given about 20,000 each (if they are very lucky!) and the rest is split up between the clubs in the rest of the country. Ticketmaster wont get them.

From here on in its everyman for himself.

Galway will get more tickets than Cork 'cause they are in the Minor final as well as the Senior. For the final last year and the year before Cork got about 12,000. That's the 'official' allocation though, obviously anyone who saw the final on TV could see there were a lot more than 12,000 Cork fans there!
Every county board in the country gets a certain amount so a lot of Cork people got tickets through friends they had in other counties.
Even with an 80,000 capacity it will still be hard to come by a ticket as Galway is a big county and Cork is too.
I've attached the allocation that was in place for the 2003 final, dunno what it is for this year. Notice there were 15,000 tickets not available for circulation:seems like rather a lot!

The Rooster

lukin wrote:

I've attached the allocation that was in place for the 2003 final, dunno what it is for this year. Notice there were 15,000 tickets not available for circulation:seems like rather a lot!

I havent got a problem with the 15,000 - they are already bought by the people/companies that purchased premium tickets and boxes.

I have a much bigger problem with 659 going to past presidents. How many of them are there still alive? - 5 or 6? Thats over 100 each. Yes, give them a ticket, and their wives, and even their kids - but over 100 each FFS! :mad:

Mighty_Mouse

I think its safe to say that anyone who gets their tickets through past presidents are proper GAA people. My only stipulation when it comes to tickets would be for committed GAA people to get em first. Those people involved in club's day in day out. After that the people who are county supporters during the summer just have to scrap it out. I reckon contact everyone you know in galway this year

solice

Mighty_Mouse wrote:

I think its safe to say that anyone who gets their tickets through past presidents are proper GAA people. My only stipulation when it comes to tickets would be for committed GAA people to get em first. Those people involved in club's day in day out. After that the people who are county supporters during the summer just have to scrap it out. I reckon contact everyone you know in galway this year

Ideally thats the way its supposed to work. Clubs get them and pass them onto their members. Whatever is left over is handed out to the rest.

Ideally....

Sleepy

It'd be more the amount of corporate tickets or the ones handed out to TD's etc. that'd piss me off. Most of these tend to go to the people who'll ask you how many points are in a goal! If you don't even know the rules of the game, or if you haven't ticket stubs for at least two previous games involving your country that season, you've no right to be there.

lukin

Sleepy wrote:

If you don't even know the rules of the game, or if you haven't ticket stubs for at least two previous games involving your country that season, you've no right to be there.

Yeah Sleepy, I don't know why they can't introduce a ticket stub system here for the All-Ireland Finals. In the Premiership they have it for the big Champions League games. For instance if your team got to the semi-final and you wanted tickets for it, you would be asked to produce a ticket stub from one of the previous, lesser important, group games.
The GAA could do a similar thing no problem; like ask people to produce their ticket stubs from the quarter-final and semi-final in order to get a ticket for the final. Still not a perfect system but at least that way the most loyal fans would get tickets.