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I am a 47 year old man from Galway. Capaptaggle to be exact. I have been a loyal follower of all things Galway GAA my entire life. AustinGleeson6 (Galway) - Posts: 223 - 25/07/2017 15:26:27 2023295 Link 0 |
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Try ticketmaster.ie, you might get a few better options. garlicbread (Galway) - Posts: 17 - 25/07/2017 15:36:11 2023302 Link 0 |
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Or maybe they are looking after the season ticket holders who have attended games all year and loyal club members with the general sale ones not being just as good? Plus a lot of people obviously got in the queue before you and got better tickets, again not the gaa faults. I hate the way over every decision someone brings up the gaa being interested in money even when it has nothing to do with what they are talking about. If you are a loyal fan join the gaa season ticket scheme next year and you will get good seats for all games in croke park. Also 336 is the Hogan, if the children are u16 you would be safer in the cusack were tickets for children cost 5 euro each. I would also suggest you wait to closer the time now when you will get better tickets. There are some great seats at the front of the upper cusack/Hogan once they open. A Another (None) - Posts: 192 - 25/07/2017 16:21:02 2023329 Link 0 |
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Obviously the good seats in the lower stands have been sold already, when the lower stands are filled they will start selling the upper tier tickets, your best bet is to wait an hour and two and then if you're on the ball you'll get central tickets for upper Cusack or Hogan.....thats what I did for this Sundays games and got 3 near the halfway line upper Hogan.
Derealbqlover (Mayo) - Posts: 4 - 25/07/2017 16:22:47 2023331 Link 0 |
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I'm going to Croker for the football on a Sunday and bringing one of the kids. Went online three or four times yesterday and all I was offered with the €5 kids ticket was brutal tickets at the extreme ends of the lower cusack and lower Davin. Onion Breath (Carlow) - Posts: 1412 - 25/07/2017 16:46:47 2023349 Link 0 |
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How can you claim it's all about money, money, money, when you can take your 3 lads to an all-Ireland semi-final for 5 euro each, it p*sses me off when people spout the lazy old stereotype of the GAA being all about money. The best tickets will be issued to the participating county boards so get your tickets through your Club
downredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 567 - 25/07/2017 16:47:00 2023350 Link 3 |
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Join the gaa season ticket holder plan? Are you joking ? Paying for these figurehead's salarys. If I had any belief that the money trickled back to grassroots gaa clubs I would. My football club were turned down for a grant this year. And yet the top brass pulling massive salarys. AustinGleeson6 (Galway) - Posts: 223 - 25/07/2017 16:48:49 2023352 Link 1 |
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Sure you are a loyal fan who goes to all the games so you might as well get a season ticket, it works out cheaper per game than paying into all the matches that you do as a loyal supporter. What has money and the salary of the head of the gaa got to do with your original point about not getting a good seat? Of course there are some paid positions in the gaa, an organisation the size of the gaa simply couldn't function without them. And just because your own club didn't get a grant doesn't mean it doesn't trickle its way down. There are 3000 clubs, if every one got a big grant from headquarters the organisation would be burst. If you want to see were the money goes go look at the accounts which are easily available. A Another (None) - Posts: 192 - 25/07/2017 17:19:51 2023372 Link 1 |
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The best seats are allocated to season ticket holders and rightly so. At least you were offered some tickets, imagine if the game was sold out before you went looking? Some seats in Croker are better than others but when you're going to watch your county, there, there's never a bad seat to watch from. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7326 - 25/07/2017 17:37:31 2023380 Link 0 |
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If you go to all the matches, you are lining their pockets even more by not having the season ticket!! Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 25/07/2017 17:38:46 2023382 Link 1 |
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Season tickets are limited to a certain number for each county so impossible to accomadate every supporter. I know with the Parnell pass scheme in Dublin they had so many looking to join but each year its almost all renewals so there was an area for people looking to become new members and that quickly got filled up and had to be closed too with only a handful of them actually got into the scheme this year. They need to expand the schemes but the gaa insisting on giving every club in the country tickets to the all ireland finals is preventing this happening which is ridiculous at this stage. hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 25/07/2017 18:49:23 2023417 Link 0 |
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Yet you have no issue paying to watch GAA on sky. Where do you think that money is going?
gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 25/07/2017 20:17:05 2023457 Link 2 |
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Trying to get tickets a joke on line. I have been on line for the past 2 days just looking for one ticket for the football and another for hurling well I have f and f and f cos every time I try to get a ticket they are in the corner. Shame on the GAA the way they treat fans heartbroken (Galway) - Posts: 370 - 25/07/2017 20:49:27 2023472 Link 0 |
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Season ticket holders are allocated the lower tiered centre tickets. Clubs are probably getting the next best then its online sales. Seems fair?
yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11225 - 25/07/2017 21:32:34 2023491 Link 0 |
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your post is ridiculous every club in the country runs fundraising off the few tickets they get every year valley84 (Westmeath) - Posts: 1890 - 25/07/2017 21:57:21 2023509 Link 0 |
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Do you expect them to put the best seats in the house online and give the rest to season ticket holders?
GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7326 - 25/07/2017 22:15:10 2023518 Link 0 |
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I'm pretty sure everyone going to matches wants the best seats ( myself included) but you can only put one arse on every seat. Over the years I've had great seats and crap seats. I've always been a club member and worker but for every good seat there's probably hundreds or even thousands equally "entitled" to that seat. Be content in getting a seat anywhere and especially content if your county is there to watch. ponga (Mayo) - Posts: 647 - 25/07/2017 22:44:52 2023544 Link 1 |
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I would love to get a season ticket to support my native county i.e im a blowin RAHKILL (Westmeath) - Posts: 395 - 25/07/2017 22:48:53 2023547 Link 0 |
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Yeah they make money out of the tickets instead of them going to the counties involved supporters who have gone to their counties games all year. Plus it prevents county boards improving their hard-core support levels by capping the season ticket schemes instead of allowing them to grow which would see bigger gates at home league game's for each county. hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 25/07/2017 23:04:00 2023557 Link 0 |
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Not really season tickets yes I agree but clubs I don't on the basis that over the last number of years across the country clubs have not bothered to provide tickets for members to games unless it was going to be a full house. The vast majority of tickets for games throughout the year are sold through supervalu,centra and gaa.ie and then come the big days in croke park these outlets are pushed aside and people who have followed their team all year via this outlet are then the ones who loose out. It shows no loyalty to people as they want you to buy tickets via these outlets all year until they know they don't need them anymore and hand the clubs them instead and come all ireland finals not one ticket is even availble to purchase through them outlets which is a slap in the face.
hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 25/07/2017 23:11:24 2023566 Link 0 |