Limerick GAA Discussion Part 2

the reason i imagine is because there are so many clubs in limerick , there is twice the clubs as there is up here and both counties have something like 10000 tickets each to dispense

if you are in anyway a genuine limerick supporter get a season ticket though it avoids all this hassle of searching for tickets , and while ye might not win every all ireland over the next ten years the seeds have been sown for ye to be very competitive year on year for the next decade

Except for the fact that season tickets are seat only. The lack of a terrace option for championship is why I don't get one despite going to all league games.

seems to be great buzz about this fixture wonder would clare consider nominating gaelic grounds as there home ground for bigger fixtures.

re tickets is there ever a breakdown of allocations or is that an omerta

no problem going to terrace but better half wants stand

Come gather around kids and put away the devil’s electronic devices, and let me tell you about the ancient but fun game of ‘draw the short straw’.

Seems to be quite a few in LImerick with stand tickets looking for city end terrace tickets if thats the terrace ticket you have . A share of parents giving up their stand tickets for johnie to go to Limerick terrace.

Most clubs in Limerick are getting about half to a third of the orders their trying to fill. One junior club got 80 but had 208 tickets requested by members .

11,000 terrace tickets went on sale to general public , that lives 30,000 . Season tickets 6,000 ( Limerick have 3,500 season ticket holders, clare have 2,500 ). Thats done to 24K , maybe 2k Sponsors etc down to 22K.

11,000 to both Limerick & Clare, divided up in limerick by hurling status - Senior down to Junior B , Na Piarsaigh might get 160 ? Fedamore 70 ? something like that not too far off breakdown

just chatting today about the 1996 match against clare remember coming out totally drained by the heat and the atmosphere,wonder what the real attendance was.Think it was bigger than munster final v tipp

No. But clubs can request. there's no guarantee they'd get them though.

Did you put an order in with the club secretary? Heard of some clubs distributing their tickets codes on Saturday. Ticket sales went live at 7 pm on Sat. Would only matter of course if you were looking for a stand tickets

I'd say if you heard nothing back then you were either unsuccessful or you need to contact them to see did they get your order. In Clare, the ticketmaster codes were sent out to members on Friday night/Saturday morning and I think people had until yesterday morning or this morning to use them or the seats would be thrown up again.

I can see how you are annoyed. I didn't envy club secretaries - if say they had 100 tickets and 300 ticket applications, the "pool" for members and a drawcould get very small if non existent very quickly.

By the time clubs have allocated 2x for each of president, secretary, treasurer, chairman, sponsors (and likely several sponsors) you've whittled away a good few tickets. You'd be a brave man/woman to only give one each to these people who run the club. Then you've coaches (who should all be "paid up members" also) from under 8s to under 20s and again, each person will be looking for two each. Then you've players on the adult team who again "should" be paid up members - club sec needs to have an allocation of at least terrace tickets here. Realistically, there has been likely no tickets left or very few to distribute to the "casual club member" - ie the person who also pays towards the running and supports the club (likely through Mackey stand/club Limerick aswell) and may have been actively involved in the past or with a less major involvement.

Realistically, your recourse is at the AGM at the end of the year to ask "how many tickets were received and what was the allocation criteria and how did this break down?". Then again, do you want to be putting the head above the parapet and making enemies. A few more terrace may have been held back but I wouldn't be banking on it unfortunately.

Tis always the case I’ve been to all Ireland’s and seen the yokes that get tickets. I was in the lower Cusack o e year and the lady beside read a book all the way through the match. Her father beside to shook to be there was listening on the radio because the poor man’s eyesight was well gone. It’s annoying alright but that’s the gaa way of ticket distribution.

There should be a points allocation system for these big games.

Where were all these people who want tickets back during the league or up in Thurles for the Waterford game.

I have no problem with people who for whatever reason don't go to all the games but there should be a system in place to get tickets to the people who do.

As for the All Ireland I'm not a fan of this tickets for every club in the country thing. You often hear about some "legend" or "hero" from Donegal or somewhere that went to every single hurling final for 50 years. I don't think he is a legend, I think he is a selfish prck.

Completely agree that tickets will come up. The morning if the all Ireland last year there was tickets going up for grabs. That's why for now I'm not doing the short straw draw at home to see who won't go.

Limerick have something like 3500 season tickets which is not enough. Also the season ticket restricts you to a seat which I'm not a fan of.

I've always managed to get a ticket in the end and I have one for Sunday but if I didn't I would be fairly p1ssed after being to every game (bar Westmeath) this season.

There will probably be people who bought terrace tickets who will end up getting better ones from their club so hopefully some will start to appear for you.