All Ireland Final tickets thread (Buying/selling/swapping etc.) Mod note post #1

eoins23456

I'm looking for a ticket to the all ireland final along with everyone else from clare and I was wondering do any tickets go on general sale or is it all through the clubs ? Or did it sell out already even ?

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eoins23456

I'm looking for a ticket to the all ireland final along with everyone else from clare and I was wondering do any tickets go on general sale or is it all through the clubs ? Or did it sell out already even ?
I checked the GAA site and there weren't any on sale?

sasol

No tickets have gone on sale yet. But there will be none available on general sale. The tickets will be routed through the clubs, which is the fairest option in my opinion.

angelfire9

It says on GAA website all Ireland tickets through clubs and county board
I was talking to our club secretary at 5.45 yesterday and put my name down for five
No juvenile or concessions for AI either by the way

Thinkstoomuch

eoins23456 wrote: »

I'm looking for a ticket to the all ireland final along with everyone else from clare and I was wondering do any tickets go on general sale or is it all through the clubs ? Or did it sell out already even ?
I checked the GAA site and there weren't any on sale?

If you have had a season ticket and been to the majoirity of clare games your entilited to one through that.

Thinkstoomuch

sasol wrote: »

No tickets have gone on sale yet. But there will be none available on general sale. The tickets will be routed through the clubs, which is the fairest option in my opinion.

I wouldnt think it is in general.Yes some should go through the clubs but a lot poltics,i know from my own club,where tickets are often given to the wrong people,and die hards cant get tickets.

I believe that a small portion should go on general sale,but not online so sum one that wouldnt know a hurley from a tennis racket if it hit them in the face can just buy them easily.Any internet wizard with a credit card could buy them.No,No,No.
Its an allireland final,the true fans must get them.

They should be on sale from cusack park and pairc u rinn.A date and time should be given,and those that want them badly enough,the geuine fans not the bandwagers,can and will queue for 12 or more hours to get two if they go on sale.

I remember as far back as 2005,before online and supervalu became the norm,for a munster final,tickets went on sale at 6pm in the eveining,stand tickets but the queues,were unreal,where the first people were there at 1 o clock in the morning the night before.

I was their,and done it many a time.Stayed all through the night,with many others,with a bag full of sandwiches,a bottle of seven up and a walkman.

By 8 o clock in the morning,it be like a match,thousands their with still ten hours before pearse murphy would come and open up and sell them at 6 that eveining.
The typical cork county board would even be late,sum days be 6.30.

And all you got was two stand tickets.
They were the days,as anyone in those queues,knew you were imd good company ,surrounded by die hard fans willing to wait for any length of time just for a Munster Final ticket.

I hope every geuine fan on both sides get a ticket,but not the glory hunters or bandwagon fans.They do not deserve even consideration for a ticket.

Gally05

Five ?? you'll be lucky !!

munchkin_utd

the last 2 football all irelands were unreal for ticket demand and at the end of it anyone I knew who wanted a ticket that got one sorted by midday on the Sunday.

Sure I ended up with a spare myself for the Dublin Kerry All Ireland on the Sunday morning, and only after many phone calls could I find a taker for it seeing as literally my whole list of folks from Dublin and Kerry stuck for a ticket were sorted through one way or another.

yomtea98

Its all politics in the clubs. Gone to every match this year but wont get a ticket for the all Ireland.Why don't the people from Cork and Clare that went to the matches get first choice on tickets?It is much fairer and rewarded those who actually support the teams

adrian522

yomtea98 wrote: »

Its all politics in the clubs. Gone to every match this year but wont get a ticket for the all Ireland.Why don't the people from Cork and Clare that went to the matches get first choice on tickets?It is much fairer and rewarded those who actually support the teams

If you go to all the matches why don't you have a season ticket? Much cheaper and no messing around looking for all ireland tickets.

Diabhal Beag

I don't know how to implement a fairer policy for "true fans" than the season ticket. Those are the only supporters that you can believe are the real fans. They have proof. No offense to anybody who doesn't have the season ticket but the same argument comes every year and ye had advance knowledge.

celticbest

yomtea98 wrote: »

Its all politics in the clubs. Gone to every match this year but wont get a ticket for the all Ireland.Why don't the people from Cork and Clare that went to the matches get first choice on tickets?It is much fairer and rewarded those who actually support the teams

If you have gone to all the games this season then you should have got a GAA season ticket, this guarantees you a ticket for all games for your County in your chosen code (Football/Hurling), and as an added bonus it saves you money....

http://www.gaa.ie/seasonticket

Thinkstoomuch

adrian522 wrote: »

If you go to all the matches why don't you have a season ticket? Much cheaper and no messing around looking for all ireland tickets.

Nail on the head.Its unfortunate you only get one though.

Thinkstoomuch

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

I don't know how to implement a fairer policy for "true fans" than the season ticket. Those are the only supporters that you can believe are the real fans. They have proof. No offense to anybody who doesn't have the season ticket but the same argument comes every year and ye had advance knowledge.

A portion of tickets on general sale in both counties.Those that want them badly enough will queue in advance in hail,rain or snow.

At least geuine fans have control of the situation,as they just make sure they queue early.Separates the hard core from the fair weather fans.

Diabhal Beag

Thinkstoomuch wrote: »

A portion of tickets on general sale in both counties.Those that want them badly enough will queue in advance in hail,rain or snow.

At least geuine fans have control of the situation,as they just make sure they queue early.Separates the hard core from the fair weather fans.

I think touts would get more tickets in that kind of a situation though. Who's to say sunshine fans won't get a rake of those tickets either?

Rightwing

Clare haven't really been supported all year. Prob won't be too hard to get tickets.

Thinkstoomuch

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

I think touts would get more tickets in that kind of a situation though. Who's to say sunshine fans won't get a rake of those tickets either?

I woudnt think they qeue for 23 hrs etc to get one.No situation is foolproof but it does give the geuine fan a chance of more tickets,that he wnt get now,as the clubs in cork are all polticis.

I queued for 18 hours in 05 at pair u rinn for a munster final ticket with many others,on a thursday im sure.

Id wait longer for a final ticket if i had to.Many die hards would.

yop

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

I don't know how to implement a fairer policy for "true fans" than the season ticket. Those are the only supporters that you can believe are the real fans. They have proof. No offense to anybody who doesn't have the season ticket but the same argument comes every year and ye had advance knowledge.

Exactly, all this BS about going to all the matches yet they either haven't got a season ticket or heard of one I find hard to believe.
The amount of sunshine fks heading up to the match next Sunday is unreal. As I said to my sister in law yesterday, who has NEVER gone to a match, "what the fk do you know about Mayo football?" "I'm going because its a day out".

A DAY OUT!!!! :eek::eek: Sweet God above, anyone who has followed Mayo football for the last 40 yrs will know Mayo football don't do "days out", you get your head pulled down through your body catching each one of your ribs and then pull out through your bum!!! Then you just about avoid a heart attack and stroke all in one!!!!!!


Note: Sorry I sound a bit angry!

Rightwing

yop wrote: »

Exactly, all this BS about going to all the matches yet they either haven't got a season ticket or heard of one I find hard to believe.
The amount of sunshine fks heading up to the match next Sunday is unreal. As I said to my sister in law yesterday, who has NEVER gone to a match, "what the fk do you know about Mayo football?" "I'm going because its a day out".

A DAY OUT!!!! :eek::eek: Sweet God above, anyone who has followed Mayo football for the last 40 yrs will know Mayo football don't do "days out", you get your head pulled down through your body catching each one of your ribs and then pull out through your bum!!! Then you just about avoid a heart attack and stroke all in one!!!!!!


Note: Sorry I sound a bit angry!

It's a semifinal,,,,where are all these die hards if semi finals can attract only 50,- 60,000?

yop

Rightwing wrote: »

It's a semifinal,,,,where are all these die hards if semi finals can attract only 50,- 60,000?

Die hards?? Do you think there would be 25-30k die hard fans in any county in Ireland?

Rightwing

yop wrote: »

Die hards?? Do you think there would be 25-30k die hard fans in any county in Ireland?

So your sister is as much a fan as most others. Clare brought around 15,000 to a semi yesterday. These are the people who deserve tickets for the final....not members of a club who don't go to games.

Avns1s

yop wrote: »

Exactly, all this BS about going to all the matches yet they either haven't got a season ticket or heard of one I find hard to believe.
The amount of sunshine fks heading up to the match next Sunday is unreal. As I said to my sister in law yesterday, who has NEVER gone to a match, "what the fk do you know about Mayo football?" "I'm going because its a day out".

A DAY OUT!!!! :eek::eek: Sweet God above, anyone who has followed Mayo football for the last 40 yrs will know Mayo football don't do "days out", you get your head pulled down through your body catching each one of your ribs and then pull out through your bum!!! Then you just about avoid a heart attack and stroke all in one!!!!!!


Note: Sorry I sound a bit angry!

I wouldn't mind anyone going to the match next Sunday for a "day out" as there'll be no problem getting tickets.

Now, getting tickets because "it's a day out" for the All Ireland Final is another story entirely!!!

yop

Rightwing wrote: »

So your sister is as much a fan as most others. Clare brought around 15,000 to a semi yesterday. These are the people who deserve tickets for the final....not members of a club who don't go to games.

Don't agree at all, she has never been a to game in here life? Why would they go to a league or Connacht championship game then when its in her own back yard, or go to the Dublin league semi final then this year.

Not sure what you mean those part of a club who don't go to games... what club?

PTH2009

Hve the hard task of looking for tickets to the hurling final. The thing is my county are in the minor final.im not part of a gaa club or Hve a season ticket so it's going to be difficult.

It will be hard to pick up spares on the day in time for the minor game

Rightwing

yop wrote: »

Don't agree at all, she has never been a to game in here life? Why would they go to a league or Connacht championship game then when its in her own back yard, or go to the Dublin league semi final then this year.

Not sure what you mean those part of a club who don't go to games... what club?

Basically I think some tickets should be made available to the public. I don't buy this club stuff, that's where the genuine fans are etc. If they don't go to a semifinal,,,they don't deserve a ticket for the final.

yop

Rightwing wrote: »

Basically I think some tickets should be made available to the public. I don't buy this club stuff, that's where the genuine fans are etc. If they don't go to a semifinal,,,they don't deserve a ticket for the final.

Who says club members don't go to semis? Tickets get allocated to clubs and season ticket members, rightly so. These are the people who more than likely attend the games where the weather is cold and the football is slow. Also they either play with their clubs or work with them clubs.
Thats the way it should be.

Rightwing

yop wrote: »

Who says club members don't go to semis? Tickets get allocated to clubs and season ticket members, rightly so. These are the people who more than likely attend the games where the weather is cold and the football is slow. Also they either play with their clubs or work with them clubs.
Thats the way it should be.

Take the hurling, clare v galway, and cork v kk in the q/fs and the attendance is 34,000. 4 teams, and that's what they bring.
Now, this looks to me like a low figure,,,,,where are the these from the clubs when they were needed.

yop

Rightwing wrote: »

Take the hurling, clare v galway, and cork v kk in the q/fs and the attendance is 34,000. 4 teams, and that's what they bring.
Now, this looks to me like a low figure,,,,,where are the these from the clubs when they were needed.

Sorry don't want to sound pedantic, but I am not sure what you are saying here. Are you saying where are the clubs?

Rightwing

yop wrote: »

Sorry don't want to sound pedantic, but I am not sure what you are saying here. Are you saying where are the clubs?

I'm saying not everyone from the clubs go to the games, far from it. So the clubs shouldn't get all the tickets.

The 2 counties should get say, 500 tickets for the general public and if you a match stub from a match then let those people queue for them.

yomtea98

The season ticket is only worth it if your team gets to the AI.Every other game there is no need for it as tickets are not a problem.I honestly didn't think at the start of the year we would get to the final so I didn't get one.Still went to every game. I will get it next year

sasol

Rightwing wrote: »

Basically I think some tickets should be made available to the public. I don't buy this club stuff, that's where the genuine fans are etc. If they don't go to a semifinal,,,they don't deserve a ticket for the final.

Thats fair enough, but when you have 15k Clare people at a semi final and possibly 30k Clare people looking to go to a final, you have to put some sort of a system in place and I think that starts at the clubs.

There were a lot of the Clare crowd there yesterday that were nowhere to be seen earlier in the year. Against Wexford in Thurles, there was possibly only 2 or 3K from Clare.

Jumping on the bandwagon at the semi final stage does not automatically make you a die hard supporter.

munchkin_utd

yomtea98 wrote: »

The season ticket is only worth it if your team gets to the AI.Every other game there is no need for it as tickets are not a problem.I honestly didn't think at the start of the year we would get to the final so I didn't get one.Still went to every game. I will get it next year

you also have guaranteed GOOD seats for any appearance at croke park, and after flying back for the hurling league final/ u21 football a couple of years back - a crap seat that you get from a club or other channel can ruin your appreciation of the game.

yop

Rightwing wrote: »

I'm saying not everyone from the clubs go to the games, far from it. So the clubs shouldn't get all the tickets.

The 2 counties should get say, 500 tickets for the general public and if you a match stub from a match then let those people queue for them.

But as you said yourself already you've given up on going to Dublin, so its not an issue for you then

yomtea98 wrote: »

The season ticket is only worth it if your team gets to the AI.Every other game there is no need for it as tickets are not a problem.I honestly didn't think at the start of the year we would get to the final so I didn't get one.Still went to every game. I will get it next year

Season ticket gets you all the league matches for free, it gets you the 1st round of the championship for free and it gets you every other championship match for a 5 off the full price. Regardless of whether you think you will make the AI latter stages or not, its well worth the price.

Rightwing

sasol wrote: »

Thats fair enough, but when you have 15k Clare people at a semi final and possibly 30k Clare people looking to go to a final, you have to put some sort of a system in place and I think that starts at the clubs.

There were a lot of the Clare crowd there yesterday that were nowhere to be seen earlier in the year. Against Wexford in Thurles, there was possibly only 2 or 3K from Clare.

Jumping on the bandwagon at the semi final stage does not automatically make you a die hard supporter.

I definitely agree with you. But shouldn't a supporter from Clare who went to these matches be in with a chance to get a ticket if they are not a member of a club. Because a lot of Clare people from clubs didn't go.

yop

Rightwing wrote: »

I definitely agree with you. But shouldn't a supporter from Clare who went to these matches be in with a chance to get a ticket if they are not a member of a club. Because a lot of Clare people from clubs didn't go.

I'm not a member of a club and neither are the 3 that go to the matches with me. We are all season ticket holders and have been for the last 4 years.

Rightwing

yop wrote: »

But as you said yourself already you've given up on going to Dublin, so its not an issue for you then



Season ticket gets you all the league matches for free, it gets you the 1st round of the championship for free and it gets you every other championship match for a 5 off the full price. Regardless of whether you think you will make the AI latter stages or not, its well worth the price.

Limerick are out so it's not an issue for me. If we were in a final, there are far bigger fans than me who deserve a ticket. I don't deserve one, I just went to our two matches in the GG.

yop

Rightwing wrote: »

Limerick are out so it's not an issue for me. If we were in a final, there are far bigger fans than me who deserve a ticket. I don't deserve one, I just went to our two matches in the GG.

Least you went to the 2 games in the GG, plenty of people going to the semis as I have said haven't been to a match in their lives
My point isn't in relation to the tickets or lack of them, which won't be a case this weekend, but it will turn into an Old Trafford replica of prawn sandwich eaters

Maybe I am just too sensitive

Rightwing

yop wrote: »

Least you went to the 2 games in the GG, plenty of people going to the semis as I have said haven't been to a match in their lives
My point isn't in relation to the tickets or lack of them, which won't be a case this weekend, but it will turn into an Old Trafford replica of prawn sandwich eaters

Maybe I am just too sensitive

But my point is, a lot of these prawn sandwich are from the clubs...and they think they've a right to go.

Someone like yourself def deserves the tickets.

How many will be at mayo v tyrone ?

yop

Rightwing wrote: »

But my point is, a lot of these prawn sandwich are from the clubs...and they think they've a right to go.

Someone like yourself def deserves the tickets.

How many will be at mayo v tyrone ?

Don't agree with that, but regardless.

Don't know to be honest. I can't see more that 50k. I know Tyrone are well supported and from what I can hear the hype (over) has taken hold here, so I can see a lot from Mayo. We are generally well supported anyway.

Fr Tod Umptious

yomtea98 wrote: »

The season ticket is only worth it if your team gets to the AI.Every other game there is no need for it as tickets are not a problem.I honestly didn't think at the start of the year we would get to the final so I didn't get one.Still went to every game. I will get it next year

The season ticket is worth it full stop
All league games, first championship round, discounts on other games, club finals etc all for the price of 80 odd Euro.

Diabhal Beag

People have had options for a long time. There's really no sympathy that you can get nowadays. You're either a member of a club or you can get the season ticket. I wasn't a member of a club this year and had obligations that stopped me from going to away League games so I split myself between football and hurling. If Galway had gotten to either final at senior this year I wouldn't really have a leg to stand on moaning about Final tickets and that's fair. So I definitely won't shed a tear for Clare fans who don't start going to matches till late in the season.

sasol

Rightwing wrote: »

I definitely agree with you. But shouldn't a supporter from Clare who went to these matches be in with a chance to get a ticket if they are not a member of a club. Because a lot of Clare people from clubs didn't go.

If tickets for the final come down to a choice between

A) The people who went to the semi, but for whom it was their first game all year (and there were quite a lot of those)

or

Paid up members of clubs who may / may not have been at semi

I would give it to because these are people who have a genuine interest, or paticipate in, the GAA.

A lot of the people who went yesterday were there for the day out, otherwise Clare would have had huge crowds in Thurles against Waterford and Galway and in Limerick against Cork and in Ennis against Laois.

There is no excuse for someone not to be a member of a club or not to buy a season ticket.

Martin567

yomtea98 wrote: »

The season ticket is only worth it if your team gets to the AI.Every other game there is no need for it as tickets are not a problem.I honestly didn't think at the start of the year we would get to the final so I didn't get one.Still went to every game. I will get it next year

As others have said, you would have already saved money this year if you had bought a season ticket instead of paying your way into each match individually. You had six league matches (including the relegation final) so the total cost of paying in to each of those would have been roughly the same as the cost of the season ticket.

You would then have had free admittance to your first Munster Championship game and €5 discount on every match since. Therefore you have needlessly paid out an extra €40 or €50 and you're still not guaranteed a ticket for the final. With the season ticket, you would be sure of a ticket right in the centre of the Cusack Stand.

Zardoz

yomtea98 wrote: »

The season ticket is only worth it if your team gets to the AI.Every other game there is no need for it as tickets are not a problem.I honestly didn't think at the start of the year we would get to the final so I didn't get one.Still went to every game. I will get it next year

Myself and my wife went to all of Corks championship matches this year.
Bought tickets for 3 of the 4 matches on Tickets.ie and had good seats.
For the Munster final I bought terrace tickets in Supervalu .
In hindsight I'd have been better off buying them through the club but I'm still hopeful of getting final tickets.
As for getting tickets through the clubs for the final,from previous experience its who you know that counts and not what matches you go to .

Tipperary animal lover

Keep an eye on toutless.ie thery always seem to pop there..... 1st come 1st served

PTH2009

http://www.thejournal.ie/who-gets-all-ireland-final-tickets-583653-Sep2012/

Im going up to support the Waterford minors on final day, i would love if they had a share ticket option in which i could part pay with a clare/cork fan and i would leave after the minor game and give my seat to the clare/cork fan. I knw it would cause chaos but half of the crowd dont go to the minor game anyway

Rightwing

PTH2009 wrote: »

http://www.thejournal.ie/who-gets-all-ireland-final-tickets-583653-Sep2012/

Central council and former pesidents = 798. :eek:

deisedude

Don't have a season ticket so it doesn't apply to me but are you guaranteed an All Ireland final ticket if your county is represented in the minor and not the senior?

awec

The best way to do it is to implement the fan card system used in the premier league.

Every fan can buy one for a nominal fee (a tenner or something), and every match you purchase a ticket for is recorded against your account and adds a certain amount of points on. Maybe each Championship game gives you 5 points.

Then you'd have like:

"All Ireland Final tickets go on sale tomorrow to everyone with 50 points or more" and the surplus then goes to people with 40+ points and so on.

Of course there are complications due to each team not playing the same number of games each year, maybe you'd have to have a different level for each team, like Clare requiring 50 points on the card and Cork 40 or whatever.

Hammer Archer

deisedude wrote: »

Don't have a season ticket so it doesn't apply to me but are you guaranteed an All Ireland final ticket if your county is represented in the minor and not the senior?

Unfortunately not. However if you've been to 100% of games with your season ticket you go into a draw for the option to buy one.
I have a suspicion that these fans of the minor finalists may get 'priority' in this draw. Myself and my dad both got a ticket to the football final last year when the Meath minors made the final after years of not getting one. Was delighted with that

munchkin_utd

awec wrote: »

The best way to do it is to implement the fan card system used in the premier league.

Every fan can buy one for a nominal fee (a tenner or something), and every match you purchase a ticket for is recorded against your account and adds a certain amount of points on. Maybe each Championship game gives you 5 points.
.

but sure the season ticket is just that so no need for a parallel system