Ticket Frustration

turlough man

This is bulls#*t! I live in a parish with no football or soccer just hurling. we live for hurling. yet the club only gets 80 tickets. yet a parish up the road dont have any hurling in the club and they get 80 tickets. surely tickets should be divided up according to the amount of hurling teams etc.

cournioni

Most clubs get around 80 tickets AFAIK. It depends on the size of the club obviously.

damienom

What I can't understand is why for the biggest game of the year do they give every club in the country and organisations abroad 2 tickets for the All Ireland.

From my experience, most clubs make a handy profit holding a raffle for them rather than actually using them as intended.

Flukey

There is no perfect solution. The only one that makes people happy is when they get a ticket.

Trampas

They should bring in a card where every game you go to you get a stamp or something and the people who go to all the games should get priority over other people for tickets.

I just dont mean you local club but nation wide.

I know a cork fan who has been to every game in the championship hurling and football and he wont get a ticket for the final unless he is lucky.

Not fair if you ask me.

Msfc

thats very true trampas.. and i dont see why some paddy joe something from leitrim or somewhere should get a ticket for the final when there are dedicated hurling fans in cork or galway that cant get a ticket. its very unfair!!

Flukey

We have this debate every year. There is no fair system. There are all sorts of ways that it could be decided and that people suggest. Maybe Paddy Joe Something from Leitrim goes to every match all year, or maybe he is heavily involved in the GAA and does magnificent work in his local club. There are lots of reasons why he might be entitled to a ticket. In the coming week we'll have all sorts of Cork and Galway people screaming for tickets, who probably haven't been at a match all year. There will be lots of those sunshine fans there next Sunday. Lots of Tyrone and Kerry folk who have not been at a game all year will be looking for football final tickets.

You can only put 83,500 people into Croke Park and many more than that want to be there. Lots of people will be disappointed, people with genuine grounds for being there. It doesn't matter what criteria you come up with, like being involved in a club or going to every match or whatever, there is no system that satisfies everyone, unless, as I said, we can all have a ticket.

cougar

This is the type of situation which Roy Keane would describe as the prawn sandwich brigade invadeing the relm of the loyal fan. I'd agree that a priority ticket scheme should be launched sometime similar to what the premiership teams use for important champions league games. But in the short term you can't really do anything about it.
Here's an Idea though, wear a high-vis jacket and carry a clip board and approach the gates before the turnstiles open. everyone will assume you are something important. Or else join the St. John's Ambulance, gets one of my mates into every game for free, plus a whole heap of concerts.

Camogie Playa

Does anyone know when the hurling tickets are going on public sale in Cork?Is it to-day?

Imposter

Camogie Playa wrote:

Does anyone know when the hurling tickets are going on public sale in Cork?Is it to-day?

Are you sure they are going on public sale? That would be highly unusual for an all-ireland final.

thirdmantackle

tickets don't go on general sale for finals

the problem in most counties is that the fair weather supporters want to go

along with all those genuinely involved in the GAA who could not go to earlier matches

The main problem I have is the large amount of officials who retain their power year on year just to attend the All-Ireland finals

Trampas

That is it. All the other counties send back their tickets in every previous round and then come final day they decide we should go and sit there and enjoy the day and let the true supporters watch on tv.

Very poor if you ask me.

Kerry never travel until the final and i bet you that they will be complaing about not enough tickets down there.

to many fair weather supporters when the finals come around.

priorty system has to come in for the geniune fan.

Anyone against it is a fair weather supporter as fell fans wont object to it

coolhandluke

Blah blah blah,don't be blaming the gaa this is your own county boards fault.Dublin have a season ticket scheme for people that go to inter county matches,if dublin reached an all-ireland I would be guaranteed a ticket,(and that's with a far bigger crowd than you have),end of story.You'd want to give you're own lads a kick up the hole before you start abusing croke park.

Imposter

Trampas wrote:

That is it. All the other counties send back their tickets in every previous round and then come final day they decide we should go and sit there and enjoy the day and let the true supporters watch on tv.

How many Cork or Galway supporters were at the previous games (Highest number from all the games they've played)?

Tyrone have been quite good supporters this year even with all the trips they've had to Croker but the same question as above for Kerry.