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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 1, 2007 22:23:41 GMT
I ended up with 6 tickets for that replay cos i asked so many people for tickets during that week. I got rid of two of them but was left with two spares that I gave to a Garda at the barrier. still it was worth it. Saturday games are easier to get ticket sfor cos more people have to work on saturdays
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Post by una on Sept 3, 2007 11:14:17 GMT
4 all-Ireland finals in a 5 year scheme! twasn't bad value at all! Hopefully this last game of the scheme will be a cracker too, - there's been some great ones. No word on a new one yet for next year. Pity about Canel end seats tho. Croke Park authorities shouldn't even be giving these to competing counties FFS, the majority of tickets for other counties should go in here.[/quote]
Would you care to share with us the exact cost of the scheme five years ago? I know new scheme will be more expensive but just want a rough estimate of what it might cost.
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Post by animal on Sept 3, 2007 12:47:00 GMT
Apparently there were loads of spare tickets going around for the hurling final yesterday. Makes you wonder.
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Post by redbag on Sept 3, 2007 12:55:26 GMT
True- Limerick girl in work across from me didn't have one on Sunday morning, and had the pick of 5 tickets before the game.
Can't see getting tickets being a problem for this one, or to be more accurate, not as bad as the last number of years, the hype seems to be a lot quieter than last year for instance.
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Post by jpw1984 on Sept 3, 2007 13:29:17 GMT
Apparently tickets for the hurling yesterday were available no problem. Heard that some people had literally 7 or 8 tickets that they were struggling to get rid of them. Fingers crossed it will be the same story in 2 weeks.
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Post by kerrygold on Sept 3, 2007 14:23:22 GMT
The KERRY COUNTY BOARD should introduce a loyalty scheme where by genuine fans can show that they are genuine. We've discussed it many many times here... but the thing is, the GAA is unique - its not all about the followers, the guys who turn up just for the games... The guy in the club who trains the underage teams year-round is as "loyal" and even more worthy as the fan whose only involvement in GAA is to go to all the senior football games. (or even 5 or 6 games a year, - as some would claim gives them an automatic right). Look it, its an impossible argument and an impossible siuation - we'd be here all year trying to agree something. I don't go to games early in the year assuming we'll be in an All-Irl final. I go because I love the game and I love my county. Pride. DNA. Respect. what do you say to the person kerryNorth who in order to be involved with his or her club,either to help with underage coaching,doing a night in the bar,collecting money at the gate on match day would envolve a round trip of 450 miles?,is that person less loyal because he drives 3 or 4000 miles a year supporting kerry teams around the country than the person who lives 2 miles from club and is down in the club 3 or 4 nights a week helping out?. a loyalty scheme would involve a few thousand tickets for loyal supporters to reward loyalty to be put aside,these two thousand names could be very easily removed from club draws for tickets. if the county board formed a supporters club with these 2000 names and charged a 100 to 150 euro per head(300k) it would run all the underage teams in kerry at county level.Were not tapping into our full potential to raise funds.
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Post by Mickmack on Sept 3, 2007 16:46:37 GMT
following the county team is the easy part........
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Post by kerrygold on Sept 3, 2007 16:52:13 GMT
but it not possible for you to help out with ardfert from where your living,thats my point.
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Post by austinstacksabu on Sept 3, 2007 17:11:40 GMT
Sure I'll fly the Austin Stacks U12's out to TingTang biweekly for the training and I'll fly home ever other week to line the pitches and drive them to them game.....
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Post by kerrygold on Sept 3, 2007 18:00:34 GMT
i wont even ask stacks what you sprinkled into your tea today or else ur getting dizzy with the prospect of coming home to support the green and gold and talk football on the streets of tralee and rock street in the build up to big game.
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Post by zelemon on Sept 3, 2007 20:03:34 GMT
Lads, go to ebay.ie 7 type in Kerry V Cork some enterprising chap has come up with a stylish & novel approach to the Hayes issue
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Post by tabbyie on Sept 3, 2007 20:06:33 GMT
Twenty euro or nearest offer ;D
Just saw two Premium tickets on ebay for over a grand. Not good
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Post by austinstacksabu on Sept 3, 2007 20:29:28 GMT
i wont even ask stacks what you sprinkled into your tea today or else ur getting dizzy with the prospect of coming home to support the green and gold and talk football on the streets of tralee and rock street in the build up to big game. There are people here believe that you need to be actively involved in your club to be deserving of a ticket.....well I can't be. The post above proves how ludicrious their argument can be.
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Post by kerrygold on Sept 3, 2007 20:45:02 GMT
i agree fully
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Post by betfairking on Sept 3, 2007 22:22:11 GMT
I was at the Hurling Final yesterday and the place was flooded in tickets in and around Gill's Corner. Most people were selling them below half price and others were just giving fistfuls of them to random punters goin the road. One woman offered me 2 stand tickets for free. I think the "Croke Park Experience/buzz"is gone as everybody has been there now a few times. The attendance was 82,127 which was exactly the same as last Sunday. Surprise Surprise...They just wouldn't admit that a national final was not sold out. The only question is where were these tickets all week? or did the GAA hold them back till the morning of the game to combat the touts. I don't think there will be any problem getting tickets for the Football Final.
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Post by Owenabue on Sept 4, 2007 8:23:26 GMT
KerryNorth, I get where you are coming from. Everyone is in agreement that the people working their butts off for the clubs should get tickets. The issue is that people say the likes of Stacks who are coming back from abroad or the people who have genuinely being following the team all year sometimes struggle to get tickets because of they way they are distributed. I know the arguement might be made that if people were helping out in the club they would have no bother, but the simple fact is Cork and Kerry are getting approximately 10,000 tickets to distribute through the clubs. I don't know about Kerry, but at a guess that number is a good bit short of the tickets requested from the clubs.
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Post by buck02 on Sept 4, 2007 8:44:39 GMT
First of all there will be no problem with tickets for this final. On the Saturday night and morning of the game anyone who wants a ticket will be able to get their hands on one.
Secondly, the figure of 2000 relating to the Supporters Club is halarious. Was at a particular away league game this year and the supporters club members who travelled were sitting near me, there was 30 of them max. And the amount of encouragement they gave the team was minimal to be honest, there must be some rule when you put on that Supporters Club jacket.
Those people who say they were at the Donegal match this year might not realise that is clashed with Round 2 of the county league. So players, mentors and club supporters would all have been around the county playing/coaching/supporting their club. Please dont use the "I was at Letterkenny so I deserve a ticket" arguement - what about the guy from Tousist that was in Tarbert or the guy from Listowel who was in Sneem (for example).
Its the same old story every year in the lead up to the final, people get over anxious about tickets and it manifests itself in this thread. There has been one along these lines for the last 4 years, FACT. We'll all get tickets, that I'm sure of.
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Post by kerrygold on Sept 4, 2007 8:53:21 GMT
all the above listed should be included as loyalty kerryNorth in your last post.
2000 names would be a hard core average figure that attend co'league games,club championship games,underage club games,national league games,co. championship games and underage county games. i recon if you tooth combed every county in the country you would come up with a figure of around 2500 people who attend games on a regular basis throught out the year,
ie. there a hard core loyal group of about 2500 people in every county only.
in my opinion 10 thousand tickets is not enough of an alocation to competing counties,kerry got 15000 thousand tickets for the dublin game and dublin was awash with tickets the morning of the match.
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Post by luxrebel on Sept 4, 2007 11:14:51 GMT
The way the tickets are distributed is crazy. You have people asking everyone and everywhere for tickets in the build up to the finals. Then these people end up with too many tickets on the day of the game - often more than clubs from competing counties received e.g. Sister in law in Cork received 11 tickets through contacts in '99 - Junior club in Cork - allocation 11 tickets in '99.
As another poster said here, everyone who turns up on the day will get a ticket. I still didn't get one but I am certain I will get one. More worried about not making myu flight on the Sunday evening....
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Post by Walter Mitty on Sept 4, 2007 15:30:10 GMT
the main problem is that people hoard tickets until the day of the game....there should be no hassle getting tickets on the day of the game.....
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Post by austinstacksabu on Sept 4, 2007 15:44:13 GMT
Hoard tickets?
Feck me, you should see the military operation put in place in the days before a final in the abu household.....there's diagrams, drop off points, reconnaissance missions for required tickets......you name it.
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Post by Riocht on Sept 4, 2007 20:43:36 GMT
Did any of you hear Weechie on Radio Kerry yesterday evening? He had an interview with Pat O Shea. Pat thanked all the Kerry Supporters at the match last week. He said the players comented on their support. S well done all!
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Post by Aine on Sept 5, 2007 1:39:44 GMT
Secondly, the figure of 2000 relating to the Supporters Club is halarious. Was at a particular away league game this year and the supporters club members who travelled were sitting near me, there was 30 of them max. And the amount of encouragement they gave the team was minimal to be honest, there must be some rule when you put on that Supporters Club jacket. Buck i travel to the away league games with the supporters club (normally drive with friends to championship games). I would like you to name this particular league game because you definately were note sitting next to me if you think the 'supporters' give minimal encouragement so please don't generalise. Have attended the league games with the suppoeters for the last 4 years or so and we have very rarely had less than a full bus travelling and a lot of times have had 2. So you must have being sitting with a section of the supporters club members who travelled, not the whole lot.
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Post by Owenabue on Sept 5, 2007 12:04:26 GMT
KerryNorth, if Cork and Kerry are getting 10,000 each, it's more like 25% the counties are getting.
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Post by Owenabue on Sept 5, 2007 12:32:21 GMT
That was from 2004 and the 10,000 has been mentioned a good bit in the run in to the hurling All Ireland. Presume if it's hurling or football the allocation would be the same. If it's the 38.4% quoted there, it would be about 15700 tickets to each county. Isn't it 15,000 Kerry got for against Dublin fort the semis, and the All Ireland is less I thought.
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Post by kerrygold on Sept 5, 2007 12:49:02 GMT
thats the crux,the allocation is too small,its putting too much pressure on the clubs to try and keep everyone happy.
seeing as UEFA was mentioned,croke park is one of only 5 stadiums in europe that meet the new standards mentioned by plantini to host a champions league final,a possible final for croker is mention.I wonder how that will go down in the many gaa quarters.
finally it has being whispered that the 5 year scheme is putting pressure on the ticket situation and may not be relauched.
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Post by Owenabue on Sept 5, 2007 12:55:12 GMT
Sorry, I would confuse a nation at times! I was taking the 38% just for the senior which is incorrect. Basically I was going with the 10,000 so that would be less than 25% overall for Cork and Kerry. (20,000 out of 82,000) It seems a bit silly giving so many to non competing counties when all it does in effect is have us all ringing people outside the county for tickets. I know some clubs do deals with say Cork and Limerick this year swapping hurling and football tickets, but that is hardly ideal.
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Post by kerrygold on Sept 5, 2007 13:02:33 GMT
every club in the country gets 4 tickets for the all -ireland final,this is just a token gesture,half that alocation of 2 would still be a token gesture,2 or 4 tickets isnt going to accommodate every person in the non competing clubs for their involvement in club affairs.
this is where a big percentage of the tickets are going,roscommon got 2500 tickets last year for the minor final,many of them in the nally stand,that cant be right.
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Post by KevinT on Sept 5, 2007 13:23:16 GMT
finally it has being whispered that the 5 year scheme is putting pressure on the ticket situation and may not be relauched. I would say that with the Co.Board finances under pressure because of our success in reaching All Ireland Finals , that they will have to relaunch the ticket scheme. According to todays Kerryman it will cost in excess of 60k just to send the team to Dublin for the weekend . This money has to come from somewhere . The extra 10 euro that we are asked to donate for the car raffle goes to the players holiday fund. I would say that the opportunity to raise 1million plus via a ticket scheme would not be discarded that lightly.
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Post by austinstacksabu on Sept 5, 2007 13:26:06 GMT
A few big differences between the UEFA Champions League Final and the All Ireland Final:
1) There's no minor match planned for Moscow next May. That saves you a few thousand tickets. 2) Platini wants to give the clubs 75%. He doesn't have to cater for other provincial councils etc - no matter if you cut the numbers going to other counties etc, you still have that problem. He doesn't. 3) All he has to take care of outside of the clubs is UEFA's central allocation for staff / media / former Presidents such as Johannson and VIPs. He's able to give just under 1200 tickets to each of his six sponsors!!
The current ticket allocation from HQ for the final has survived for an age, and there is absolutely no problem with it. The problem is in how counties distribute to their supporters.
And if they do disband the ticket scheme, they are daft and it will lead to many more problems. Besides, it's a feckin cash cow for them. All they need to do is introduce a yearly fee instead of a one off fee.
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