Gaa Season Ticket 2014

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Southern Belle wrote: »

Yep, replied to point out the irony of us being asked to pay 5 months in advance of the league starting. This is making me more mad the more I think about it. Surely there has to be some other avenue for representation and have our voices heard? Would county board have any remit?

County boards are quite anti the season tickets and have been the ones campaigning against holders getting good seats in finals etc. it's a Croke park central run scheme and they appear to short sightedly resent it.

TouchingVirus

http://www.thescore.ie/gaa-season-ticket-prices-1700454-Oct2014/

The article's up but unfortunately TheScore shied away from mentioning the situation with All Ireland final tickets or pretty much any other issue with the system

BonnieSituation

Wrote something more in detail on Krank.ie that was published this morning:

http://www.krank.ie/category/lifestyle/spo/gaa-season-tickets-wheres-loyalty/

GAA Season Tickets: Where’s the Loyalty?
Launched in November 2008, the GAA Season Ticket was an inspired decision to encourage fans to regularly head to games over the course of the inter-county season from the start of the National Leagues in February through to the Championships over the summer. The basic premise of the season ticket was that paying the €75.00 for it meant that you got access to your county’s National League matches and their first Championship game; 8 games for €75.00 was a pretty good deal really. It also gave you the right to buy a ticket for every round of the Championship that your county qualified for thereafter and you got €5.00 off the full price of the ticket.

Season ticket holders also get to have a devoted section in grounds around the country – generally under cover – and in Croke Park it is on the halfway line. The other advantage of the ticket was that if your county got to the All-Ireland Final and you had attended at least 60% of their games prior to that you would get access to a ticket for that too. As anyone in Ireland knows, they are like gold dust, often changing hands for many times their face value.

All in all, it has been a great system.

On the night of launch back in November 2008, I happened to be online and purchased one of the first season tickets out of the initial trial batch – 250 tickets were allocated to each county for 2009. Because I had this season ticket it meant I was able to renew it for 2010, 2011 etc. Being from Dublin, this was a particularly advantageous situation to be in as they have been hugely oversubscribed ever since. Because of this ticket I was able to be at the 2011 and 2013 All-Ireland Finals to see Dublin win. Nothing will ever come close to the feeling of those days.
{CONT'D on krank.ie}

Continued over on http://www.krank.ie/category/lifestyle/spo/gaa-season-tickets-wheres-loyalty/

Realt Dearg Sec

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Wrote something more in detail on Krank.ie that was published this morning:

http://www.krank.ie/category/lifestyle/spo/gaa-season-tickets-wheres-loyalty/



Continued over on http://www.krank.ie/category/lifestyle/spo/gaa-season-tickets-wheres-loyalty/

Jaysus the end of that article is a bit of a scary thought. However much the value of it has been compromised before, it wouldn't shock me in the least if they reduced league prices again, but won't give potential season ticket customers fair warning about that. It's disgraceful what's been happening so far so that possibility wouldn't be a shock. And the county boards happily backing the process doesn't surprise me in the least since they were the very reason why good fans never got good tickets in the past. It was always a chance for these guys to repay favours and help out their buddies with nice tickets, it never had anything whatsoever to do with county loyalty. And that's the way these guys liked it.

As a former club secretary who found himself being f**ked around by a fairly good cross-section of ar$ehole club administrators over my time trying to get us off the ground, I'm not in the least surprised by such actions, these guys are, after all, the ones who were best at climbing the greasy poll. A GAA admin could buy and sell the entire Fianna Fail shadow cabinet while he was cooking his breakfast. The season ticket holder will be screwed.

yop

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Jaysus the end of that article is a bit of a scary thought. However much the value of it has been compromised before, it wouldn't shock me in the least if they reduced league prices again, but won't give potential season ticket customers fair warning about that. It's disgraceful what's been happening so far so that possibility wouldn't be a shock. And the county boards happily backing the process doesn't surprise me in the least since they were the very reason why good fans never got good tickets in the past. It was always a chance for these guys to repay favours and help out their buddies with nice tickets, it never had anything whatsoever to do with county loyalty. And that's the way these guys liked it.

As a former club secretary who found himself being f**ked around by a fairly good cross-section of ar$ehole club administrators over my time trying to get us off the ground, I'm not in the least surprised by such actions, these guys are, after all, the ones who were best at climbing the greasy poll. A GAA admin could buy and sell the entire Fianna Fail shadow cabinet while he was cooking his breakfast. The season ticket holder will be screwed.

I think the County boards are the root of a lot of this, I know in 2013 when the Chairde Mhaigheo tickets were handed out there was up roar and threats by clubs not to pay memberships and the like due to the quality of ticket received.
While I understand their grievance as there were plenty of full on supporters who attended most if not all the likes of FBD/League etc at the same time it seemed to relegate us season ticket holders to the corners, so u had your corporate, "buddy tickets" and no chairde Mhaigheo and the likes getting the prime spots and we were the 3rd or 4th class tickets.
From what I can see they want rid of us and they are doing their utomost to try and psiss off as many as possible.

BonnieSituation

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Jaysus the end of that article is a bit of a scary thought. However much the value of it has been compromised before, it wouldn't shock me in the least if they reduced league prices again, but won't give potential season ticket customers fair warning about that. It's disgraceful what's been happening so far so that possibility wouldn't be a shock. And the county boards happily backing the process doesn't surprise me in the least since they were the very reason why good fans never got good tickets in the past. It was always a chance for these guys to repay favours and help out their buddies with nice tickets, it never had anything whatsoever to do with county loyalty. And that's the way these guys liked it.

As a former club secretary who found himself being f**ked around by a fairly good cross-section of ar$ehole club administrators over my time trying to get us off the ground, I'm not in the least surprised by such actions, these guys are, after all, the ones who were best at climbing the greasy poll. A GAA admin could buy and sell the entire Fianna Fail shadow cabinet while he was cooking his breakfast. The season ticket holder will be screwed.

It's making me think twice about lamping out my €95.00 for mine and my brothers' tickets especially given that this is the "crap" year for away games.

yop wrote: »

I think the County boards are the root of a lot of this, I know in 2013 when the Chairde Mhaigheo tickets were handed out there was up roar and threats by clubs not to pay memberships and the like due to the quality of ticket received.
While I understand their grievance as there were plenty of full on supporters who attended most if not all the likes of FBD/League etc at the same time it seemed to relegate us season ticket holders to the corners, so u had your corporate, "buddy tickets" and no chairde Mhaigheo and the likes getting the prime spots and we were the 3rd or 4th class tickets.
From what I can see they want rid of us and they are doing their utomost to try and psiss off as many as possible.

They should just get rid of the bloody scheme then or tell the Countyn Boards where to go. They'll soon toe the HQ line.

PatrickJoseph

I suppose the big thing here is the guaranteed provincial and All-Ireland Final tickets, but if your county isn't likely to get that far, I can't see any incentive

Prop Joe

Just renewed although i feel i am not getting much value.

The reason's why i went for it in the end


Got good seats for Croker games the last 2 years

Gonna hopefully get a seating group going together with the lads so we can all have good seats together


Other than that i'm kinda stumped why i bothered