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Tickets Controversy

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I see Galway and Clare supporters are livid that tickets for the replay are only being sold online and in Supervalu/Centra. I really don't see what the issue is and in fact, I believe this access to tickets should be the way it is for every game. The county boards always hand select who in the club/county get the good seats. The county board should get a small allocation for players etc. and the remainder should go on general sale online and in the stores.

Anyone else agree?

MuineachanAbu (Monaghan) - Posts: 640 - 30/07/2018 17:09:44    2127599

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Replying To MuineachanAbu:  "I see Galway and Clare supporters are livid that tickets for the replay are only being sold online and in Supervalu/Centra. I really don't see what the issue is and in fact, I believe this access to tickets should be the way it is for every game. The county boards always hand select who in the club/county get the good seats. The county board should get a small allocation for players etc. and the remainder should go on general sale online and in the stores.

Anyone else agree?"
No - agree fully that club members who work all year with their clubs should be looked after.

Torcaill (Australia) - Posts: 204 - 30/07/2018 17:21:53    2127601

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Loyalty should be rewarded.

Workingclass (Mayo) - Posts: 26 - 30/07/2018 19:13:56    2127625

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I'd be the same livid pay 200 Euro a year half of which goes to county gaa draw and other half goes to club draw.
GAA are running amuck at the minute so much off field negativity lately.
Simply they have lost connection with the people who keep them afloat week after week.

WildPundit (Tipperary) - Posts: 1709 - 30/07/2018 19:41:13    2127634

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You'll never please everyone.

The All Ireland finals are 100% club based yet every year we're inundated with anecdotes of loyal dedicated Gaels being cheated of a ticket while club and county board officers hoard tickets for their friends who don't know what a hurl is and only go along for the bandwagon.

CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1643 - 30/07/2018 19:54:23    2127635

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Club members should be looked after. Anyway besides the real die hards in both the Clare and Galway will have season tickets.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11227 - 30/07/2018 20:05:37    2127639

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Replying To Torcaill:  "No - agree fully that club members who work all year with their clubs should be looked after."
Fair enough. So why, for example, does a county like Kilkenny get an allocation of 9k tickets for an AI Final? In a ground that holds 82k

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2446 - 30/07/2018 20:08:17    2127640

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Replying To MuineachanAbu:  "I see Galway and Clare supporters are livid that tickets for the replay are only being sold online and in Supervalu/Centra. I really don't see what the issue is and in fact, I believe this access to tickets should be the way it is for every game. The county boards always hand select who in the club/county get the good seats. The county board should get a small allocation for players etc. and the remainder should go on general sale online and in the stores.

Anyone else agree?"
Not for this match. There was over 54k at last Saturdays match...if it had been held on the Sunday there would have been another 10k at it. Thurles capacity is something like 47k. Selling the tickets online means that the ticket touts will snap up a lot of them and they'll seek to make a killing next Sunday.

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1902 - 30/07/2018 20:33:26    2127647

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for the all ireland finals, a certain (as small as possible) amount of the media and gaa repersentatives should get tickets and players and staff should be allocated a few each. after that it should just be through clubs in the counties involved. no clubs from around the rest of the country should get tickets, thats just nonsense. as much of the stadium as possible should be filled with fans.

NaomhNaille (Donegal) - Posts: 124 - 30/07/2018 20:53:20    2127655

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there is absolutely no way any club who does not promote hurling deserves a ticket for any hurling match.vice versa for football.

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 30/07/2018 21:39:39    2127665

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The GAA PR department must be running out of bullets to shoot ourselves in the foot

890202 (Wexford) - Posts: 1278 - 30/07/2018 22:45:32    2127690

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Replying To NaomhNaille:  "for the all ireland finals, a certain (as small as possible) amount of the media and gaa repersentatives should get tickets and players and staff should be allocated a few each. after that it should just be through clubs in the counties involved. no clubs from around the rest of the country should get tickets, thats just nonsense. as much of the stadium as possible should be filled with fans."
2 tickets for a club in any county that promotes gaa all year round is little to ask for. It is a very small percentage of overall tickets available for an all ireland. The should cut down the number of tickets given to certain celebrities and people in the know. Just because your own county is competiting shouldn't mean you have an automatic right to a ticket. If the all ireland final is your first or second game of the year you should have no ticket right.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 31/07/2018 07:40:38    2127729

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What I don't understand with the GAA this summer is the communications.

The GAA had a lad on Clare FM yesterday who stated that the game could not have been played in Croke Park on the Bank Holiday Monday because it was not a bank holiday in Northern Ireland.

(i) This day has been used frequently to host massive games over the years
(ii) This would have been the venue and date for a Cork v Limerick replay

I just don't understand why they keep putting themselves in these situations.

bigfrankt (Monaghan) - Posts: 123 - 31/07/2018 08:51:09    2127739

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Replying To MuineachanAbu:  "I see Galway and Clare supporters are livid that tickets for the replay are only being sold online and in Supervalu/Centra. I really don't see what the issue is and in fact, I believe this access to tickets should be the way it is for every game. The county boards always hand select who in the club/county get the good seats. The county board should get a small allocation for players etc. and the remainder should go on general sale online and in the stores.

Anyone else agree?"
And have the touts buy them and rip off real fans ??? seriously

Club system perfect if you haven't paid membership no ticket

clooney (Clare) - Posts: 878 - 31/07/2018 09:59:21    2127756

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Replying To bigfrankt:  "What I don't understand with the GAA this summer is the communications.

The GAA had a lad on Clare FM yesterday who stated that the game could not have been played in Croke Park on the Bank Holiday Monday because it was not a bank holiday in Northern Ireland.

(i) This day has been used frequently to host massive games over the years
(ii) This would have been the venue and date for a Cork v Limerick replay

I just don't understand why they keep putting themselves in these situations."
Roscommon Mayo replay was on the bank holiday last year.

Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 31/07/2018 11:32:20    2127794

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