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Post by austinstacksabu on Aug 21, 2006 18:28:54 GMT
Thought I'd get this up there early seeing as we're in the final now :-)
Anyway, I have mine. And if I see anybody come on and give out about people not deserving tickets for the final because they weren't at the semi or whatever, there'll be tears. Well, I'm spending 18 hours either way in a tin can to get home for the All Ireland and back again to work on the Wednesday. Surely that counts the same as a few drives up from Dromid to Dublin? :-)
Ps, I'll ask the local soccer clubs out here if they have any spare for the Canal upper
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Post by Joxer on Aug 22, 2006 9:38:15 GMT
I think its the Davin stand now ASA, not the Canal....try and keep up!!
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Post by kerryman on Aug 22, 2006 10:13:56 GMT
Stacks, you deserve a ticket as much or more than anyone here.
Now that I've done my brown-nosing: any chance of a spare?
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Post by kerry50 on Aug 22, 2006 11:51:03 GMT
How many do the players get anyway i'm sure they get well sorted so kerryman you'll get one from ur countyman on da panel!
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Post by scout on Aug 22, 2006 12:02:18 GMT
The players get anything up to 20 tickets i think
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Post by inforthebreaks on Aug 22, 2006 12:03:50 GMT
his county man on teh panel will be innundated with people looking for tickets.. itst a rat race and every man to himself really from now on in. things will be way easier for us on teh ticket front if mayo somehow overcome the dubs on sunday. speaking of which. i was just on to a good friend from mayo there and he is scouring around for a ticket for sunday. noone on here has access to one i suppose? ?
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Post by kerryman on Aug 22, 2006 12:20:11 GMT
Ironic really. Mayo sent back 3000 to Croke Park for the Laois replay.
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Post by butchy on Aug 23, 2006 10:19:58 GMT
There'll be no trouble getting tickets if its Dublin either. I just checked the premiership games on that day and Liverpool are playing Chelsea and Man Utd are playing Arsenal !!
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Post by seamus on Aug 23, 2006 10:36:29 GMT
Great spot butchy. The Hill Pub will be as full as Hill 16 watching Gerrard and Co!! True die hards those dubs!! Parnell Park is always mobbed in January.....not!
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Post by butchy on Aug 23, 2006 10:46:07 GMT
Colm O'Rourke wrote a great one in an article he wrote. He was getting a taxi in Dublin one and the driver was on about Football and Rourke asked him how long was he following Dublin and the driver reply "I'm following Dublin since Kevin Moran and Jimmy Keaveney were playing midfield for them".
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Post by Walter Mitty on Aug 23, 2006 11:14:36 GMT
If kerry play Dublin it will be a real rat race! Lets hope the fans leave the players alone and don't be bugging them for tickets.... the players will need to be focused for the game and not worrying about getting uncle johnny and his friend a ticket.
As I said before the minors winning the last day was very important......gives us 2500 tickets...
I know I am always saying that genuine supporters always get tickets but if kerry play the dubs it WILL NOT be the case as the spares which are floating around from other counties will not be there this time.... it could be high pressure the week before trying to get hands on a ticket
As for the week after, as Euronews once said..."it'll make a mighty races if they win" - especially when you have the whole week off!
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Post by buck02 on Aug 23, 2006 11:19:40 GMT
It'll be no different to any other year no matter who we play. It certainly will be a lot easier than 2000 when the capacity was just about 60,000.
What I will say is that if we are playing the Dubs in the final (and no offence meant to genuine dublin fans here) anybody with a ticket should take serious care in the pubs the night and morning before the match and on approaches to barriers where you have to show your tickets.
Another point, when we played Dublin in 04 the hill was closed and there was still no bother at all for tickets.
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Post by animal on Aug 23, 2006 11:30:36 GMT
My Dad had a ticket for '78 final snatched out of his hand before the game. Nothing he could do.
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Post by kingdomkerry on Aug 23, 2006 12:39:16 GMT
All genuine fans will not get tickets. How many of the fans who bothered to show up for the waterford game and tipp game will have no bother getting tickets. How many people who get tickets will be going to their first kerry game of the year.
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Post by eastciarrai on Aug 23, 2006 13:20:39 GMT
Same old story every time. I know I suggested this before but why cant they have a system where you get a card which you swipe going into a game, be it a club game or inter-county game. Then when there's a lack of tickets give it to the loyal fans not the ones who turn up on the day and need directions to the field. So will you only be turning up for the finals now stacks.
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Post by austinstacksabu on Aug 23, 2006 13:25:48 GMT
No, was at the Tipp game and both Cork games.
Put it this way lads. The GAA will never commit millions to installing a swipe card system or any other electronic tag system either at intercounty or club level. They need to put the money they have into the development of the game first.
And besides, like everything else, they'd start rotting away out in the open at some turn style or other, the wire connecting it would break and never be replaced etc etc etc. Sure a good battery operated electric fence box only lasts a small few years out in the open :-) What hope has a ticket swipe system all over the country!! You'd probably find one end up at the door of a nightclub in Kilishandra for their local VIPs to swipe in and pass the five man queue!!
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Post by Jo90 on Aug 23, 2006 13:54:28 GMT
There'll be no problem getting tickets even if Dublin are in the final. 1. The minors are in the final giving us an extra few thousand tickets. 2. Cork hurlers are in the final which will mean a thousand or so hurling tickets will get swapped for football ones. 3. Kerry support has dwindled with surely the smallest ever Kerry support for a Munster final even though the game wasn't even on TV. I would say that the very most 20,000 Kerry supporters saw Kerry in action in the championship this year all of whom should be able to get their hands on tickets.
The only fear I'd have is that a lot of neutrals might want to go to the game if it's Dublin v Kerry.
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Post by eastciarrai on Aug 23, 2006 13:59:23 GMT
No, was at the Tipp game and both Cork games. Put it this way lads. The GAA will never commit millions to installing a swipe card system or any other electronic tag system either at intercounty or club level. They need to put the money they have into the development of the game first And besides, like everything else, they'd start rotting away out in the open at some turn style or other, the wire connecting it would break and never be replaced etc etc etc. Sure a good battery operated electric fence box only lasts a small few years out in the open :-) What hope has a ticket swipe system all over the country!! You'd probably find one end up at the door of a nightclub in Kilishandra for their local VIPs to swipe in and pass the five man queue!! Fair enough so about your ticket. At least you turned up for the first games and you are a die hard fan, im guessing. Its not that hard to get this up and running definately at a inter-county level at least. We've moved on from Battery operated fence boxes. You could have wireless technology and bring the equipment indoors so it would not wear out. Your point about the nightclub is just ridiculous. The GAA just dont want to do it anyway, youre right about that. Although it wouldnt take millions to do it. Its easier to keep mickey john down the road happy and throw him 5 tickets for the final although. Screw the lad who's been getting them all year long. I dont like this raffle system either some clubs have. Its fairs as a one off thing but it dont take into account who really goes to the game. I know a guy who won one last year and he was only laughing at the rest of us because he wasnt at a kerry game in three years. What a system.
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Post by sydneyswan on Aug 23, 2006 16:25:54 GMT
Eastciarrai, I can identify with your sense of frustration on this issue which no doubt will intensify over the next few weeks until you get your hands(hopefully) on a ticket of some sort as I hope do all genuine supporters. Though Joe 90 makes some valid points in relation to the possibility of tickets being more easily sourced, I definitely would not put the words "no problem" and All Ireland tickets in the same sentence based on my previous experiences. Unfortunately its the same every year that we reach the final and its surely every person for themself. If Dublin are involved the media frenzy will contribute to the neutral supporters intrest in the final. Obviously its the game that everybody wants to be at and definitely where the "who you know/who you are" factors come into play big time. Luckily enough Im in the ticket scheme and it has certainly served me well in terms of guaranteed tickets over the last 3 years even if row y upper Canal wouldnt be my preferential ticket if I had the choice. Nontheless beggars cant be choosers!. Another annoying factor in relation to Croke Park allocations has been the "quality" or lack of same of the majority of tickets allocated to participating counties on an annual basis. Im based in the midlands and it annoys me somewhat to see prime quality Hogan/Cusack tickets by allmost all the people who have got tickets in the locality/county in the last 3 years. Croke Parks view on it seems to be that where a relative famine exists(participating counties) the punters would/will take your hand off for a ticket of any sort. What are the possible solutions? Would a county board administered system whereby supporters are given a numbered attendance record/ticket when entering grounds at ticketless games ie leauge and early championship games. At the business end of the season priority would be given to those with most of the afore-mentioned tickets/records.
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Post by eastciarrai on Aug 23, 2006 16:40:19 GMT
Would a county board administered system whereby supporters are given a numbered attendance record/ticket when entering grounds at ticketless games ie leauge and early championship games. At the business end of the season priority would be given to those with most of the afore-mentioned tickets/records. I agree with you. Of course Sydney, any sort of a system would make common sence, its just to put it in place. I think Ive secured my ticket but there will always be some who will be left without. Its not right. Just because people already have a ticket they just dont care. It would not take a lot to put a system in place.
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Post by Riocht on Aug 23, 2006 19:28:35 GMT
Just got off the phone with my Aunt in New York - She's coming home early Sept - Big fan and member of Kerryman Association in New York - Asked her to look for ticket - What do ye think her chances are?
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Post by kerrygold on Aug 24, 2006 9:47:19 GMT
i think we can forget about ticket distribution systems,
once croker is full on all-ireland final,no matter what their religion,skin colour,country,county or planet of origin,nobody will give a toss about the gob* that drove from the beonds in kerry to omagh or scotstown in the middle of the winter.
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Post by eastciarrai on Aug 24, 2006 11:21:31 GMT
Just got off the phone with my Aunt in New York - She's coming home early Sept - Big fan and member of Kerryman Association in New York - Asked her to look for ticket - What do ye think her chances are? Your probably right kerrygold, no one cares where you come from for it, even the back and beyonds. Tell your aunt get off da luas, right at the spire, right at the church and straight on past barrys unless shes thirsty that is.
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Post by kerrywoman on Aug 24, 2006 11:55:55 GMT
There'll be no problem getting tickets even if Dublin are in the final. 1. The minors are in the final giving us an extra few thousand tickets. 2. Cork hurlers are in the final which will mean a thousand or so hurling tickets will get swapped for football ones. 3. Kerry support has dwindled with surely the smallest ever Kerry support for a Munster final even though the game wasn't even on TV. I would say that the very most 20,000 Kerry supporters saw Kerry in action in the championship this year all of whom should be able to get their hands on tickets. The only fear I'd have is that a lot of neutrals might want to go to the game if it's Dublin v Kerry. Be careful on the swapping of tickets did that one year and did not get football tickets back
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Post by JOAN on Aug 30, 2006 19:13:56 GMT
I hope you Aunt can get her ticket in Irealnd as the County here get only a hand full. I will be up the walls for the next week or so trying to help our own club for tickets. The most we get from the board is 20. Two teams delegates officers and sponsers?? Leaves little to play with. Ps Riocht your aunt cant be a member of the Kerrymans as it is the kerry MENS. No women allowed. Trust me I know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Must be the hubby is a member unless he is not from kerry
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Post by Riocht on Aug 30, 2006 20:56:59 GMT
God knows she called a few people but was told the names were on the tickets before they arrived! She is def a member of some Kerry Association as she is a bit like myself (The tinkers ass - known everywhere!)
Ná bac san - We'll get them somewhere le cúnamh Dé!
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Post by una on Aug 31, 2006 20:42:14 GMT
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Post by OnTheForty on Sept 1, 2006 10:34:28 GMT
Look out for the new ticket scam where they now scan a ticket at the turnstiles instead of tearing a stub. A scanned ticket looks the same but can't be reused. So the scam is if a group of people have one spare ticket, they all go in the turnstiles, one person collects all tickets, goes back out, keeps the spare to get back in and sells the already scanned tickets. Same thing can happen for a double header where someone goes in for the first game, then leaves and resells his used ticket.
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Post by Jo90 on Sept 1, 2006 15:21:54 GMT
I know of a few people who got tickets for the semi-finals from Donegal, Laois and Mayo lads and they were able to reuse them. I don't think the scanners or scanner operators are 100% successful.
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Post by Tadhgeen on Sept 2, 2006 0:09:28 GMT
How could you possibly know if a ticket has been scanned already?
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