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Replying To Pikeman96: "Not sure what to make of the tone of your final line. Are you implying that it's somehow immoral or wrong to make money from the efforts of amateur players? Because other key things in the accounts show just how much is spent on amateur players. In particular, more than €1.5 million on county teams, and remember, they're all amateur players too. That's more than twice the total income from every club match played in the county, and club season ticket sales. How do you propose to keep our county teams on the road if there's no charge or a lower charge for club matches? Or also what's spent on facilities for those amateur players and their clubs to use. €136,000 on upkeep of Wexford Park, for amateur club players to play there was well as our amateur county teams. €25,000 on St. Patrick's Park, €176,000 on the Centre of Excellence, and €130,000 for groundskeepers to keep them all maintained. Maybe I'm picking up the tone of your post wrongly, but if you've an idea how to pay for all these things (and much more besides) if you drop the price of going to club matches, I'm sure they'd love to hear it." One of the biggest issues is anybody going to a game in Wexford park or Bellefield has to pay admission for two games when they only want to see their own club play. WexMurph (Wexford) - Posts: 326 - 05/12/2025 11:16:20 2647115 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "I get what you're saying but I think the question is if the tickets were half the price would twice as many people go? The costs associate with opening the park are the same regardless of attendance." "If something was half the price, would you sell twice as many?" is actually a simple way of summarising what's a big thing in marketing & economic theory. Short answer is it depends on what you're selling, but generally, it's a no. For most goods, a drop of 50% in price would be expected to lead to only a 10% to 20% increase in volume of sales. Obviously impossible to say for tickets for Wexford club matches, but personally, I'd say that if you had 1,000 people paying €15 to watch a senior hurling double-header, it's unlikely you'd have 2,000 people there instead if the price was only €7.50. You might pick up a few casual supporters all right, but bigger picture view would be that your initial €15 price point isn't pricing half or your potential customers out of the market. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3289 - 05/12/2025 11:41:10 2647120 Link
Replying To WexMurph: "One of the biggest issues is anybody going to a game in Wexford park or Bellefield has to pay admission for two games when they only want to see their own club play." Well, anybody going to a double-header at any venue will pay a double-header price. It's up to themselves whether they want to get value out of that by actually watching most or all of two matches, or if they only want to see one of them. Somebody who goes to a concert but leaves early doesn't get part of their money back on the way out. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3289 - 05/12/2025 13:00:13 2647127 Link
Anyway 25 euro is a decent price for double header tomorrow in croke park Lockerroomboy (Wexford) - Posts: 533 - 05/12/2025 14:00:20 2647137 Link
Replying To Pikeman96: ""If something was half the price, would you sell twice as many?" is actually a simple way of summarising what's a big thing in marketing & economic theory. Short answer is it depends on what you're selling, but generally, it's a no. For most goods, a drop of 50% in price would be expected to lead to only a 10% to 20% increase in volume of sales. Obviously impossible to say for tickets for Wexford club matches, but personally, I'd say that if you had 1,000 people paying €15 to watch a senior hurling double-header, it's unlikely you'd have 2,000 people there instead if the price was only €7.50. You might pick up a few casual supporters all right, but bigger picture view would be that your initial €15 price point isn't pricing half or your potential customers out of the market." I understand the principles of supply, demand and equilibrium but have no idea how to apply it to Wexford gaa club games in fairness. I think we can safely say supply almost always outstrips demand when it comes to Wexford park, therefore I don't know what's driving prices. I wonder how much it's influenced by charging a fiver for kids? This is purely anecdotal but I know a lot of people who were only going to matches because kids were free and have since stopped. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4058 - 05/12/2025 14:24:32 2647139 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "I understand the principles of supply, demand and equilibrium but have no idea how to apply it to Wexford gaa club games in fairness. I think we can safely say supply almost always outstrips demand when it comes to Wexford park, therefore I don't know what's driving prices. I wonder how much it's influenced by charging a fiver for kids? This is purely anecdotal but I know a lot of people who were only going to matches because kids were free and have since stopped." In fairness, the new thing of €5 for children this year was only for National Hurling League matches. I'm absolutely 100% opposed to it myself. But those prices are set by Croke Park, and Wexford GAA have nothing to do with it. Children were still free to all club matches in the county, including county finals. And since the gate receipts in the accounts only refer to club matches (i.e. Wexford GAA's own income), any difference the €5 for children made to National League matches is irrelevant. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3289 - 05/12/2025 15:43:47 2647145 Link
Replying To Pikeman96: "In fairness, the new thing of €5 for children this year was only for National Hurling League matches. I'm absolutely 100% opposed to it myself. But those prices are set by Croke Park, and Wexford GAA have nothing to do with it. Children were still free to all club matches in the county, including county finals. And since the gate receipts in the accounts only refer to club matches (i.e. Wexford GAA's own income), any difference the €5 for children made to National League matches is irrelevant." I wonder was overall league revenue up by much after introducing the 5 euro charge for children? Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17689 - 05/12/2025 20:21:46 2647174 Link
Best of luck to St Martin's and Davidstown over the weekend Lockerroomboy (Wexford) - Posts: 533 - 05/12/2025 21:49:11 2647178 Link
The best of luck to davidstown and st martin's tomorrow be grest to see 2 cups coming back to wexford. Ryanworld (Wexford) - Posts: 43 - 05/12/2025 22:11:22 2647180 Link
Hopefully both teams get that little bit of in game good fortune that can be the difference between winning and losing! Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17689 - 06/12/2025 12:44:19 2647198 Link
The level of support for Wexford clubs in Leinster competitions is not replicated in many other counties. People in Dublin, Kilkenny, Tipp and for sure Galway don't support their clubs like Wexford do. Best of luck to St. Martins later and Davidtown tomorrow. ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1517 - 06/12/2025 13:52:33 2647203 Link
Replying To ExiledInWex: "The level of support for Wexford clubs in Leinster competitions is not replicated in many other counties. People in Dublin, Kilkenny, Tipp and for sure Galway don't support their clubs like Wexford do. Best of luck to St. Martins later and Davidtown tomorrow." Do you mean in the sense that other clubs are wishing them the best of luck or in that they are actually going to their matches and supporting them? For the record, I'm not a member of either club but I want to see the two of them win as we've enough people lamenting the quality of Wexford hurling and I want these clubs to prove the naysayers wrong ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 721 - 06/12/2025 16:52:31 2647218 Link
What an absolutely brilliant game! Well done to the Martins! Jacko had the best game I ever saw him play! Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17689 - 06/12/2025 19:52:43 2647239 Link
Brilliant! Jedobi (Wexford) - Posts: 268 - 06/12/2025 19:53:01 2647240 Link
Very well done to the martins fully deserved that brilliant performance Ryanworld (Wexford) - Posts: 43 - 06/12/2025 19:55:43 2647242 Link
Absoutely incredible performance from St.Martin's. As good as display as I've seen from any Wexford representative in the white heat of battle. To show the resilience they did to twice come back from go-ahead scores from Ballyhale, especially the second goal after a scoring burst, was remarkable. They were more disciplined in the tackle and moved the ball better overall I thought. Let me say too, the whole county was behind them and there is no begrudery at all. History makers, well done. beano (Wexford) - Posts: 1515 - 06/12/2025 19:57:14 2647243 Link
As good a game of Hurling as you would want to see, Brilliant ZUL10 (Clare) - Posts: 709 - 06/12/2025 20:20:47 2647250 Link
Congrats to St Martin's on a fantastic win in a great game. It was fully deserved. They showed great character to come back and win it at the death after Ballyhale went a point up near the end. Looking forward to the all-Ireland semi-finals - all 4 teams will fancy their chances. Gaillimh_Abu (Galway) - Posts: 1044 - 06/12/2025 20:27:26 2647251 Link