1200 missing tickets

damienom

Some **** up there wasn't it- wonder will the GAA do the decent thing and admit liability or try and blame someone else?

Stewards in the Cusack Stand told to move people down the front to make it look full for the telly.

It's not the first time they've cocked the whole thing up, every Sunday in Croker there's people turning up with tickets that don't exist, down where the new tunnel was built where the Canal and Hogan meet and also where they built one mid way down the Cusack

solice

Sitting in the upper Hogan i could clearly make out 6 different sections of empty seats. 2 in the upper Cusack and 4 in the lower Cusack. It wasnt as if these were people that just didnt turn up as they were all perfect squares or rectangles of between 50 and a 100 seats each.

My brother was in the Upper Cusack and he said that it was the same situation in the Hogan stand. There were so many people outside the stadium looking for tickets. What reason has been given for the fcuk up?

damienom

They haven't given one yet, said investigations are under way!

It just doesn't make sense how that amount of seats can just be left vacant

solice

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/09/12/story220413.html

The GAA have issued an apology. If i was one of the people outside asking everyone they passed for a spare ticket i would be so angry right now

damienom

It's odd though, you'd think someone somewhere along the line would have sussed it?

Surely the printing mechanism is the same game to game, it's not as if the areas that were vacant were areas that they hadn't opened for the Quarter Finals etc?

The section in 306 (half way line in Cusack) is one of the only sections in the ground that is constantly full regardless of what the match is.

There's some tulip who's made a sham of this to be fair.......either that of there's a couple of bundles hidden down the back of the filing cabinet in the printers.....

Flukey

According to Danny Lynch, PRO of the GAA, staff are off on the Monday after the All-Ireland but they will be investigating tomorrow and respond then. They'll easily be able to trace where these tickets were allocated to.

kaimera

official word is that the tickets were thrown into a drawer with Football tickets.

idiots. :rolleyes:

Flukey

It happens. Of course, even if they had been allocated, no matter how many tickets there are, there are never enough for the All-Ireland Final.

Culchie

There would have been some fun if the tickets got sent out for the Football Final

damienom

Can you imagine if the touts got their hands on them, flogging 1100 football tickets for the hurling final....classic!

dcr22B

It's funny that this should happen because my Mum worked as Secretary to the President of the GAA in the mid 1970s and she told me yesterday that football tickets weren't even printed before all of the hurling tikcets had been distributed to avoid such a thing happening.

Waylander

Maybe things have changed a bit in the last 30 years!

Culchie

dcr22B wrote:

It's funny that this should happen because my Mum worked as Secretary to the President of the GAA in the mid 1970s and she told me yesterday that football tickets weren't even printed before all of the hurling tikcets had been distributed to avoid such a thing happening.

I personally don't believe the excuse that was put out by the GAA. I don't think there was any intended fraud, but I do think that the excuse they have come up with does not hold anyone directly responsible, except a faceleass and nameless 'admimistration person'.

I remember buying tickets from the Mayo county board for All-Ireland semi final last year over the phone ..... only a 1 euro charge for 6 tickets tickets arrived promptly the very next day to my home address in Mayo in a branded GAA envelope that a blind man would know that there were tickets inside :eek: Talk about discreet :rolleyes:

It's things like this (no commercial cop-on or common sense) rather than fraudulent intention that I think is to blame for the latest ticket fiasco.

I bet the tickets were sent down to their intended destination alright, but probably sitting in the 'Out Tray' in the Croke Park post room, along with the 2006 calendars.

solice

Flukey wrote:

It happens. Of course, even if they had been allocated, no matter how many tickets there are, there are never enough for the All-Ireland Final.

It happens? It doesnt just happen!!!!!!!!! It was a royal fcuk up, Some of the best seats in the stadium lay empty while there are genuine supporters walking up and down the North Circular Road asking everyone and anyone if they have a spare ticket.

Tickets for the all ireland dont go on general release, they are distributed among the clubs throughout the country. As a result of this fcuk up some clubs didnt receive their tickets. Why was the alarm not raised at least a week before the final. This whole thing is a little sus if u ask me.

As well as that, they expect people, not just from cork, to travel up every second weekend and pay an absolute fortune in traveling to play a county next door to them (cork and kerry playing the football semi in a virtually empty stadium, it would have been a sell out in Semple) and then they have to balls to deny the loyal supporters a chance to get into the final. Bad form on behalf of the gaa

por

dcr22B wrote:

It's funny that this should happen because my Mum worked as Secretary to the President of the GAA in the mid 1970s and she told me yesterday that football tickets weren't even printed before all of the hurling tikcets had been distributed to avoid such a thing happening.

I think they were printed as Hurling Final tickets but just ended up in a area that football tickets are kept.

I would have been worse if they were printed as Football Final tickets and then distributed, 700 + seats double booked !!!

RuggieBear

a friend of mines nephew was playing on the limerick minors.....she couldn't get a tcket to watch him and is still absolutely steaming

RedorDead

Expensive mistake for someone to make!!

Serious deductions out of their wage packet next month methinks.

1200 x €45 = €54,000

Flukey

Tickets for the All-Ireland Final are €60 so they'd have lost more than that, though still a drop in the ocean for them, so they wouldn't miss much of it.

Blackjack

An administrative error, which could quite easily happen. I am assuming that they arrange printing of the Tickets in batches so it's quite possibly they order for the months ahead, so Septembers tickets would all be ordered and delivered at the same time. While it's unfortunate, particularly for those who could not get tickets, it's not the end of the world. I recall a few years ago that Hurling Finals were less than full, and as Hurling tickets do go on General sale (I believe) and football tickets don't, the allocations would be a little harder to keep track of.

As long as it does not happen again though.

thirdmantackle

Hurling tickets do not go on general sale anymore such is the demand for tickets

there are about 25,000 tickets pre-sold to 10 year ticket holders, the corporate boxes and tickets to officials, ex officials, sponsors and inter county players etc

solice

Blackjack wrote:

While it's unfortunate, particularly for those who could not get tickets, it's not the end of the world. I recall a few years ago that Hurling Finals were less than full, and as Hurling tickets do go on General sale (I believe) and football tickets don't, the allocations would be a little harder to keep track of.

As long as it does not happen again though.

They dont go on general sale, they are released the same way that football tickets are and have been for as long as i remember. Demand was incredible and finding one ticket was near impossible.