Hulk Hands wrote: » There was 29k at a game last year and plenty of room inside. This seems really excessive. Only reason I can think of for the decrease is the concrete benches all around are health and safetys worst nightmate. They really should remove those and make it standing. When Ireland had the RWC bid there were people on here claiming McHale Park was an all seater stadium!
Fr Tod Umptious wrote: » A bit like Killarney the designation of all tickets as "General Admission" means that they have to reduce capacity beyond what would be usually expected.
RedDevil55 wrote: » The championship game vs Galway last year was a disaster crowd wise. I arrived 15 minutes before throw in and getting from the bacon factory end to the Albany end took ages. Ended up having to walk through the pitch with a few hundred others! There were around 29k at that and it was a double header so you'd think a lot of the crowd wouldn't be arriving last minute. If they had 4 or 5 turnstiles at the Albany end and make a chunk of the crowd use them it would solve the problem. Probably don't want to spend any more money on the place though!
spakman wrote: » They DO have turnstiles at the Albany End - new ones which were put in the same time as the Sportlann end AFAIK. Why they're not operating on big match days I don't know.
Coillte_Bhoy wrote: Ah ok, didnt realise that, odd that they not being used
Westernyelp wrote: » They were open for the Roscommon game. I Came in that way
km79 wrote: » Thats gonna sell out easily
Fr Tod Umptious wrote: » [/b] More than likely rugby people who had never been to a GAA game let alone to McHale Park trying to big up that stupid idea of a WC bid. Lipstick on a pig.
Deleted User wrote: » km79 wrote: » Thats gonna sell out easily Must be nearly at that stage now. The "There are no tickets available at this time. Please check later." message is appearing again on tickets.ie.
boosabum wrote: » stand tends to be full an hour before throw in so for a good seat you would be looking to be getting in at 4pm. Stand was opened at 1.30pm for the 4pm match in Killarney
Coillte_Bhoy wrote: » Semi final fixtures confirmed, if we qualify in second we play on the Saturday at 5pm
km79 wrote: » They are banking on the dubs topping that group !
Bunny Colvin wrote: » That's the 10th?
seligehgit wrote: » Re the tickets issuehttp://www.mayonews.ie/sports/34045-mayo-and-donegal-fans-face-anxious-wait-for-news-on-tickets
“If you had one game at MacHale Park, with reserved seating, then the capacity would be around 28,000. When you have unreserved seating for a fixture like this, you reduce your capacity by 10%.”
Coillte_Bhoy wrote: » So if they had reserved seating in the stand only, would this would satisfy that criteria?
Euphoriasean wrote: » Hasnt that ship sailed given tickets have already been sold as general admission. Surely this should have been worked out a couple of weeks ago.
Coillte_Bhoy wrote: » Euphoriasean wrote: » Hasnt that ship sailed given tickets have already been sold as general admission. Surely this should have been worked out a couple of weeks ago. ya that was my point really, was always highly possible this would be a huge game sos urely contingency plans could have been made
irishgeo wrote: » That's not the prenty way.
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