Ireland Ticket Information Thread

Well, ended up with a strange one ourselves with two tickets we got for Saturday through the Supporters Club ballot.

Basically, one of the tickets was for a seat that doesn’t exist.

They were for Block 131 (diagonally behind the corner of the pitch, at the Havelock Square/West Stand corner). Row M, seats 9 and 10.

We find Block 131 okay, go up to Row M, and then start counting seats in from the steps – they start at 15, then go 14 – 13 – 12 – 11 – 10, as you’d expect. My wife sits down in number 10. I then realise that the next one along is number 20, and after that, they go 19 – 18 – 17 – etc. There’s no number 9.

We double and even triple check that we’re in the correct Block and Row, and we definitely are. Then I go looking even further in both directions for a seat number 9, and there’s none to be found anywhere. And by that stage, I’ve very definitely wandered into Block 132 at one side, and Block 130 at the other.

I go to one of the stewards, he does the same look around, and is equally baffled. Then he calls another steward, and he can’t figure it out either.

They tell me to just take the next seat along from my wife (which is basically Block 130, seat 20 – not what my ticket is for), and they’ll deal with it if somebody else comes along with a ticket for that seat. I say that’s very likely to happen considering the match is a sell-out, and what will they do then? They say they’ll probably have to send us up to Premium, ‘where there’s always space’.

This sounds good to us and we’re half hoping somebody comes along sooner rather than later (!)…but nobody ever does. And the seat 19 beside me ends up being taken by some young lad who arrives 10 minutes into the game and asks ‘is there anybody sitting there?’ – leading me to believe that nobody had a real ticket for that seat either, and he’s just managed to blag his way in somehow and got lucky in searching for an empty seat.

Apologies for long post but this really was a strange one and I thought it was a story worth telling…..

Eod100 wrote: »

Might be worth following up with them or IRFU supporters club just to make them aware.

Yeah, I've just mailed the general ticketqueries@irishrugby.ie address, to make them aware of it. I say in it that I don't know if it's a matter for themselves or Ticketmaster or maybe even somebody else, but they can pass it on as they might need to anyway.

Will post here again if I hear anything back.