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2014: 27,374 Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 15/09/2019 17:19:07 2235697 Link 4 |
Congrats to our ladies, 3 in a row, superduper ultra professionals that they are, chi-ching!!! realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8571 - 15/09/2019 17:43:14 2235702 Link 4 |
Some going, considering the weather and the men's football being on the day before reducing promotion and possibly eating into the attendance eoghan6688 (Galway) - Posts: 154 - 15/09/2019 18:08:07 2235715 Link 1 |
Well done all, fantastic crowd. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13692 - 15/09/2019 18:08:47 2235716 Link 3 |
Great to see. Bigger attendance than Kerry v Tyrone semi final this year. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11219 - 15/09/2019 18:25:56 2235726 Link 7 |
Great attendance on a miserable day. great displays by Louth and Tipperary. The senior game was very poor, not helped by poor reffing. neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 15/09/2019 18:42:20 2235734 Link 0 |
'Professionals' , not the best term to use when describing any Dublin team.
neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 15/09/2019 18:55:16 2235739 Link 0 |
What a bite fest that senior games was DuhallowRed (Cork) - Posts: 264 - 15/09/2019 20:23:25 2235772 Link 0 |
Sarcasm flies at different heights
realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8571 - 15/09/2019 20:43:51 2235778 Link 3 |
Bore fest** autocorrect
DuhallowRed (Cork) - Posts: 264 - 15/09/2019 21:02:21 2235795 Link 1 |
It was brought to my attention recently that 10s of thousands of school kids were let in free to Croke Park for the ladies finals. 56 thousand is impressive and by handing out freebies would help promote rhe game and rightly so but there seems to be a great silence about the amount of people who paid. If I gave out free pints for an hour to everyone in my local I'm sure the attendance in that establishment would swell enormously. Let's be honest, if full price was charged across the board, I would bet the attendance would have been halfed.
Blockandhook (Wexford) - Posts: 668 - 16/09/2019 10:46:31 2235977 Link 2 |
Not sure it was tens of thousands, but definitely a large number of freebies given out all right. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2185 - 16/09/2019 14:09:09 2236100 Link 1 |
The Dublin ladies team are very professional. Look at the shape their in. They'll dominate going forward more then cork did in the past. Obviously ticket revenue would be lower but as somebody said the attendance was bigger then the semi final this year. But it also beat the Dublin vs galway semifinal and monaghan v Tyrone one of recent years. Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 16/09/2019 15:48:45 2236168 Link 3 |
suckvalleypaddy (Galway) - Posts: 1662 - 16/09/2019 21:05:41 2236347 Link 0 |
That's all true and packages include mentors go free if they bring more than 10 girls etc etc it's about promotion of the game itself and it's working. Very few ladies sporting finals would attract crowds of that number. Its an investment in their game and its no brainer.
arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4892 - 17/09/2019 10:00:02 2236511 Link 0 |
I wish the GAA would do these for the hurling semis. Make them 80k sell outs. You already have 55 - 70k paying in to see them every year. The Nally terrace is rarely open. Do what the ladies do and try and get bus loads of kids and their mentors into the Nally stand. It could be like a kids/student section. Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 19/09/2019 00:16:05 2237404 Link 3 |