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Replying To the_walls:  "Mayo got the same official allocation as Dublin though."
You had far more available with unwanted allocations being sent to Mayo

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 21/09/2016 16:18:06    1917532

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Replying To jimbodub:  "Very few unwanted ticket allocations around the country came back to Dublin"
Back to Croker Park...

Mid Don (Donegal) - Posts: 70 - 21/09/2016 16:25:44    1917539

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Least we forget a lot of Mayo fans have forked out a lot of money to see Mayo play over the past few years, won nothing and keep coming back. I am not sure how many tickets go overseas but I am almost certain that most of them will end up in Mayo supporters hands and they will pay a fortune to get back home to be at the final. Yea Dublin bring more than any other county to CP but they also have the lest cost and inconvenience in doing so. There will always be complaints about tickets on AI Final day - its all part of the way things are! Anyway I hear there are plenty of tickets available for this weekends All Ireland Final.

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1805 - 21/09/2016 16:33:10    1917543

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Replying To Mid Don:  "Back to Croker Park..."
Correct
jimbo - those tickets go back to Croke Park for them to redistribute, is there any proof that there is an agenda against Dublin? Hard to call that simply based on how it looked in Croke Park last Sunday. Maybe not as many Dublin fans wore as much of their county colours and were as easy to spot? Unless the Dublin clubs can verify the number they received from the redistribution doesn't match those the Mayo clubs got then there's not much to support the theory

keithlemon (Australia) - Posts: 920 - 21/09/2016 16:37:38    1917547

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Replying To keithlemon:  "Correct
jimbo - those tickets go back to Croke Park for them to redistribute, is there any proof that there is an agenda against Dublin? Hard to call that simply based on how it looked in Croke Park last Sunday. Maybe not as many Dublin fans wore as much of their county colours and were as easy to spot? Unless the Dublin clubs can verify the number they received from the redistribution doesn't match those the Mayo clubs got then there's not much to support the theory"
They weren't sent back

That's the point lads

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 21/09/2016 16:51:56    1917559

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How do you know? (apologies in advance I can't access that link on joe.ie in work)

keithlemon (Australia) - Posts: 920 - 21/09/2016 17:11:55    1917571

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People continuing to bang on here about club members entitlement to all ireland final day. First off Dublin clubs have huge numbers in comparison with country clubs in terms of membership so therefore if the club member should be looked after then shouldn't that entitle Dublin to a larger ticket allocations based on having larger numbers? Secondly why aren't all these hardened club people demanding tickets for all ireland club final day???? That is after all the biggest day for clubs in the country yet the club member from non competing counties don t even look for allocations, the ground holds 82 thousand yet on all ireland club final day you get around 30 thousand overall attendance for both football and hurling as a double header. Thirdly this is a replay the gaa have already done their club members a service on all ireland final day, this is an extra game shouldn't they reward the competing counties who were not able yo get enough for the first game by giving them a directly larger amount this cutting out the middle men who send them directly to mayo

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 21/09/2016 17:59:24    1917603

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Jesus lads, there's a lot of stuff being written about tickets.


One point I'd make; I was in Drumcondra on Sunday, but didn't go to the game. I counted about 8-10 ticket touts looking to sell tickets. All, apart from 1 English guy, were from Dublin (I'm basing that on the strong accents I heard). None were from Mayo.

So there were tickets ending up in Dublin hands that were then sold to Mayo fans.

cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5012 - 21/09/2016 18:04:01    1917606

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I dont follow any of those fan pages. But the sentiment of boycotting league home games is a feeling that will be received well by many Dublin fans. Crazy how many tickets the Mayo fans got compared to Dublin. Why wouldnt fans be annoyed when the allocation of tickets is so one sided. People who were at that debacle against Roscommon in the league and every other league game could get tickets. Its frustrating. The AI Final should be a 50/50 split between the counties involved. This sending them out to the counties is pointless. Ps. The final should be played on a Saturday.

JayP (Dublin) - Posts: 1772 - 21/09/2016 18:49:18    1917632

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My debut post here. There were clearly way more Mayo fans in Croker on Sunday. It's also well known that there were NO returned tickets to any club in Dublin. I'm a committee member in my own club and know this to be true. The authorities in Croke Park got NO tickets back from other counties. It's obvious that the nuetral counties are not nuetral.
My next point. Hill 16 army is by far the tackiest of all the Dublin social media pages. If you want to see a fantastic Dublin page then look no further than the Dubs supporters page. The guy who does most of their features, Derek is an excellent writer and has an astounding knowledge of Dublin GAA. His page would be the best example of how to run a fan page I've seen yet.

veterandub (Dublin) - Posts: 1 - 21/09/2016 19:15:05    1917649

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Why would any club want to return two highly sought after tickets for the biggest day on the GAA calender?

If names are not drawn from a hat (however dodgy a hat) clubs have a raffle as a fundraiser.

All these other extra tickets didn't end up 'allocated' to Mayo, they were hoovered up by keen Mayo folk, who knew they were in the final before Dublin. Anytime I see allocated in this sense, it comes across as a sour whinge.

m_the_d (None) - Posts: 1099 - 21/09/2016 20:24:24    1917692

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With no minor match before replay I hope both counties get close to 40,000 tickets each.

With respect to Hill 16 my most enjoyable matches were seated on top deck on the edge of Cusack stand overlooking the Hill ... sea of blue and that buzz from it.. great atmosphere!
While the breakdown last Sunday on the Hill was nowhere close to 50/50 I would admit that I never saw as many fans of the opposing team on it on a final day.

What do people think would be a fair breakdown of Hill 16 tickets (16,000 I think)
Should it be 50:50 or 100% to Dublin with 16,000 tickets allocated to fans of the other team in another section of the ground

What do people think?

Curlew66 (Roscommon) - Posts: 506 - 21/09/2016 20:25:51    1917694

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Replying To veterandub:  "My debut post here. There were clearly way more Mayo fans in Croker on Sunday. It's also well known that there were NO returned tickets to any club in Dublin. I'm a committee member in my own club and know this to be true. The authorities in Croke Park got NO tickets back from other counties. It's obvious that the nuetral counties are not nuetral.
My next point. Hill 16 army is by far the tackiest of all the Dublin social media pages. If you want to see a fantastic Dublin page then look no further than the Dubs supporters page. The guy who does most of their features, Derek is an excellent writer and has an astounding knowledge of Dublin GAA. His page would be the best example of how to run a fan page I've seen yet."
I was told the exact same from friends spread out across several clubs, many devote club people were scrambling looking for one from a raffle!

No tickets came back to Whitehall, Isles, Na Fianna, Kickhams or Peregrines and that's just the clubs I'm aware of

Unwanted tickets went west and no doubt there was a large lopsided amount of tickets that went Mayo's way to a load of bandwagoners

True blue Dub club members were left empty handed while Mayo was awash with tickets.

Just shows the prejudice that very much exists and it's at the expense of true club people in Dublin

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 21/09/2016 20:46:43    1917709

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Replying To hill16no1man:  "I don't get this perception from country people that if your involved in a club and don t bother to go to county games all year and come the final you get a ticket you deserve it solely because you are a member of a club. A person who goes and supports their county all year regardless of if they are in a club or not is more dedicated to the county team and is far more entitled to get a ticket to see their county than somebody who hasn't gone and supported the county all year.
plus a lot of country people don't understand the situation in dublin when comes to tickets. It seems quite clear 90% of club members in mayo can get tickets beacuse the club numbers aren't far off their ticket allocations, in dublin you get a fraction of tickets per club membership. The club is the worst place to get a ticket for an all ireland final in dublin and most clubs have to do a draw to give out tickets as demand is so high. Season ticket schemes like the Parnell pass and the gaa season ticket are only on offer renewals the last number of years so that avenue is closed off to a number of genuine Dublin supporters. For me what's on unfair is the gaa are quite happy for people to buy tickets through supervalu and centra and gaa.ie all year but then when they know they don't need them they dump them and don't sell a single ticket through them for the finals. Supervalu are a sponsor of the football championship and centra a sponsor of the hurling championship surely these two companies should be demanding as sponsors that their customers get rewarded for purchasing tickets through them all year and have a certain amount of tickets made avalible to them. When you see td's radio stationsand celebrities being given tickets it's hardly too much to ask that two of the main sponsors be given tickets to sell to genuine supporters."
the majority of club members in most counties do go to the vast majority of county games...largely because these people are gaa fanatics in a lot of cases

alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 21/09/2016 21:40:29    1917741

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what a lot of you don't seem to realise is the amount of mayo people living and working outside of mayo is huge. i myself live outside the county. the first week after mayo got through to the final i called and text everyone i knew that's involved in the gaa here where im living and all of my family member's did the same, we got 12 ticket's from outside of the county and 2 within the county. now that's just 1 family. do you's realise the amount of people that have brother's, sister's, uncle's, aunt's, friend's, colleagues living in every county all over the country. i can guarantee you everyone of them were contacted in the day's following mayo's semi, that is the reason why so many mayo people were there, plain and simple

glasagusdhearg (Mayo) - Posts: 55 - 21/09/2016 22:01:19    1917759

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Replying To hill16no1man:  "The main problem is why are the non competing counties being given the same allocation for the replay.
this is an extra game and as Milton States yesterday the gaa could have sold croke park out twice over with the demand from competing counties so then why don't the gaa out their money where there mouth is and give the competing counties the tickets. The non competing counties already had their big day out.
Its funny also mayo decided to rebuild McHale park as an all seater they purposely opted for no terrace because there was no demand for standing yet come the final against Dublin they are demanding hill tickets haha"
Why should only dublin get the much cheaper hill tickets? Would agree with you re the allocation to other counties for the replay and politicians should get none

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 21/09/2016 23:29:19    1917787

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Replying To heresam:  "people take swipe at others without knowing the facts, Barry and his site welcome all to the hill, the issue is the distribution of declined tickets and how to mitigate this fairly.
There is 31 counties up for Mayo so any final will be edged by dublin opponents which to be fair dublin is used to. However mayo having 70% of the tickets is wrong and nobody can argue that point"
How can you be sure their was 70 percent mayo there?

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 21/09/2016 23:31:26    1917788

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Replying To glasagusdhearg:  "what a lot of you don't seem to realise is the amount of mayo people living and working outside of mayo is huge. i myself live outside the county. the first week after mayo got through to the final i called and text everyone i knew that's involved in the gaa here where im living and all of my family member's did the same, we got 12 ticket's from outside of the county and 2 within the county. now that's just 1 family. do you's realise the amount of people that have brother's, sister's, uncle's, aunt's, friend's, colleagues living in every county all over the country. i can guarantee you everyone of them were contacted in the day's following mayo's semi, that is the reason why so many mayo people were there, plain and simple"
Ah yeah

Sure Dublin people have no relatives outside of Dublin

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 21/09/2016 23:31:34    1917789

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Replying To jimbodub:  "Very few unwanted ticket allocations around the country came back to Dublin"
I doubt too many clubs sent there tickets to any other county. My own club which is a small rural club had a raffle for our 2 tickets and could have easily sold 100 plus tickets if the had them to local people

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 22/09/2016 00:01:27    1917791

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I am sure those current senior dublin players who won under 21 all Ireland's in the last few years will laugh and think of the woeful support the got in those finals when the hear of this great dublin support.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 22/09/2016 00:17:30    1917792

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