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After trying to buy tickets as a student for this weekends Leinster Hurling Final, can someone explain why the Hogan Stand is never included for students or OAPs?
Also, Hill 16 not open this weekend either and a crowd of 45000+ expected. A joke, and cheaper tickets not offered to reflect this either. A crowd of 30000 last weekend for Dublin Westmeath and it was open. I heard it's because of the concert next week, ridiculous, surely there are enough staff to move in straight away to clean the hill and get it ready for stage work. The usual cheap family tickets located in the Davin stand of adult 10euro child 5euro are also not offered this weekend either. Seems the Leinster Council are money grabbers trying to cash in.

sliotharfan (Galway) - Posts: 87 - 28/06/2017 13:05:33    2006795

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Hill 16 is usually closed for the Leinster Hurling Final unless the Dubs are involved.

garlicbread (Galway) - Posts: 17 - 28/06/2017 13:13:01    2006800

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Unless you're Dublin you don't get special testament. It's rule #1 in the gaa rule book.

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 29/06/2017 08:01:50    2007241

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have said it before,it is ridiculous that the seat behind the goal is the same cost as the middle of the hogan or cusack.
i know people would just buy a ticket and move around into a better one,but sure then you have like they have in england,those plastic things to stop people doing so and you can't just walk around at the back of the stand.

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 29/06/2017 10:57:22    2007339

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The reason the hill isn't open is because there's no demand.
dublin have terrace season ticket holders so the hill has to be open for league and championship under the rule of the schemes. You can get into cusack stand as an oap student with a rebate given at the turnstile and family tickets are avilable for the cusack stand also not just canal end. There is also the situation where if you buy tickets before the match day you will pay five euro less for stand tickets but there is no offer for the Leinster football final tickets for hill16 as they are the same price before match day as on match day 25euro.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 29/06/2017 13:31:02    2007435

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Replying To hill16no1man:  "The reason the hill isn't open is because there's no demand.
dublin have terrace season ticket holders so the hill has to be open for league and championship under the rule of the schemes. You can get into cusack stand as an oap student with a rebate given at the turnstile and family tickets are avilable for the cusack stand also not just canal end. There is also the situation where if you buy tickets before the match day you will pay five euro less for stand tickets but there is no offer for the Leinster football final tickets for hill16 as they are the same price before match day as on match day 25euro."
I thought the season tickets only applied to county grounds, not Croke Park ? Or is it the Parnell Pass you are talking about ?

Burnsey (Down) - Posts: 561 - 29/06/2017 16:56:50    2007567

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Replying To Burnsey:  "I thought the season tickets only applied to county grounds, not Croke Park ? Or is it the Parnell Pass you are talking about ?"
Season tickets apply to all grounds.
but the Parnell pass scheme has a stand and terrace scheme where you enter into one or the other and are guarnateed a ticket for which ever you enter into for that year.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 29/06/2017 17:57:01    2007615

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Replying To garlicbread:  "Hill 16 is usually closed for the Leinster Hurling Final unless the Dubs are involved."
Yep proper order.

Don't any of you western mucksavages running wild on it, has to be kept in decent nick for us 2 weeks later

HILL 16 IS DUBIN ONLY !!!!!!! :D

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 29/06/2017 18:11:42    2007641

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Replying To sliotharfan:  "After trying to buy tickets as a student for this weekends Leinster Hurling Final, can someone explain why the Hogan Stand is never included for students or OAPs?
Also, Hill 16 not open this weekend either and a crowd of 45000+ expected. A joke, and cheaper tickets not offered to reflect this either. A crowd of 30000 last weekend for Dublin Westmeath and it was open. I heard it's because of the concert next week, ridiculous, surely there are enough staff to move in straight away to clean the hill and get it ready for stage work. The usual cheap family tickets located in the Davin stand of adult 10euro child 5euro are also not offered this weekend either. Seems the Leinster Council are money grabbers trying to cash in."
Well if you don't like it; go back to playing Connacht; or maybe Munster... hold on; you threatened to do that 6 month's ago, until you found out Munster didn't want you. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2447 - 29/06/2017 18:34:31    2007649

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Surely if the hill was open there would be a demand.
It's not that there isn't demand, it's not open , you cannot get them.They cannot be bought.You supply the option and there will be demand.

catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 29/06/2017 18:59:35    2007657

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Replying To catch22:  "Surely if the hill was open there would be a demand.
It's not that there isn't demand, it's not open , you cannot get them.They cannot be bought.You supply the option and there will be demand."
They have often opened it for games not involving Dublin and only get a few hundred tickets sold so they don't see a financial reason as they have to pay workers and the private security company to do the stewarding inside and outside of hill16.
personally would rather see it open I think it does look poor on tv when it's closed anyway

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 29/06/2017 20:17:10    2007677

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Replying To hill16no1man:  "They have often opened it for games not involving Dublin and only get a few hundred tickets sold so they don't see a financial reason as they have to pay workers and the private security company to do the stewarding inside and outside of hill16.
personally would rather see it open I think it does look poor on tv when it's closed anyway"
I don't really get the reasoning though. As the op suggested, if you get 45,000 attending ,and why wouldnt you with a pairing like this,surely they would get a damp decent demand for Hill tickets and as you say it would add to the buzz around the place and the occasion on Sunday.

catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 29/06/2017 20:37:42    2007683

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  "Well if you don't like it; go back to playing Connacht; or maybe Munster... hold on; you threatened to do that 6 month's ago, until you found out Munster didn't want you. Don't bite the hand that feeds you."
The hand that feeds us, is it??

A home fixture every decade or so would be nice then. And before anybody states the obvious- remember London and New York aren't in Connaught.

streaker (Galway) - Posts: 497 - 29/06/2017 20:57:39    2007691

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Replying To streaker:  "The hand that feeds us, is it??

A home fixture every decade or so would be nice then. And before anybody states the obvious- remember London and New York aren't in Connaught."
It's Galway's choice. If you don't like it, leave.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2447 - 29/06/2017 21:14:08    2007698

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Replying To catch22:  "Surely if the hill was open there would be a demand.
It's not that there isn't demand, it's not open , you cannot get them.They cannot be bought.You supply the option and there will be demand."
There certainly would be the demand for this game. Bigger crowd expected than for the Leinster football final. Perhaps 50 or 55k. Thousands would opt for the Hill in preference to the nooky parts of the upper Cusack and Hogan.

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1902 - 29/06/2017 21:34:08    2007704

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  "It's Galway's choice. If you don't like it, leave."
I don't want Galway to leave, Cockney, and never suggested that. It benefits both parties, ourselves massively.
My gripe is that we are still seen as casual passers-by in Leinster. Have we not contributed enough yet? Would there be 45k+ expected in Croke Park on Sunday if Wexford were playing Kilkenny or (dare I say it) Dublin? ?

streaker (Galway) - Posts: 497 - 29/06/2017 21:36:27    2007705

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Replying To PoolSturgeon:  "There certainly would be the demand for this game. Bigger crowd expected than for the Leinster football final. Perhaps 50 or 55k. Thousands would opt for the Hill in preference to the nooky parts of the upper Cusack and Hogan."
Upper tier is far better for watching hurling than either hill16 or canal end. I think they should have opened upper tier.

HurlingSnob (Dublin) - Posts: 220 - 29/06/2017 22:02:19    2007718

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Replying To catch22:  "I don't really get the reasoning though. As the op suggested, if you get 45,000 attending ,and why wouldnt you with a pairing like this,surely they would get a damp decent demand for Hill tickets and as you say it would add to the buzz around the place and the occasion on Sunday."
Because they open it for all ireland semi finals and only get few hundred on the hill yet 50-60 thousand in the stand, so it ends up costing them money to open it with the staff that needs to be paid and security that do stewarding inside and outisde the hill

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 29/06/2017 22:06:43    2007724

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Replying To streaker:  "I don't want Galway to leave, Cockney, and never suggested that. It benefits both parties, ourselves massively.
My gripe is that we are still seen as casual passers-by in Leinster. Have we not contributed enough yet? Would there be 45k+ expected in Croke Park on Sunday if Wexford were playing Kilkenny or (dare I say it) Dublin? ?"
Galway haven't really contributed that much to Leinster. They've only won 1 Leinster in 8 years. Of their 15 wins in Leinster championship, 11 have come against Laois, Offaly or Westmeath, 2 against Dublin and 1 each against Wexford and Kilkenny. All they have done is taken the place of a weaker Leinster county coming up and getting games against Kilkenny, Dublin, Wexford and Offaly. I'd say Carlow, Laois, Westmeath and Meath would prefer if you weren't there.

HurlingSnob (Dublin) - Posts: 220 - 29/06/2017 22:23:54    2007731

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Replying To HurlingSnob:  "Galway haven't really contributed that much to Leinster. They've only won 1 Leinster in 8 years. Of their 15 wins in Leinster championship, 11 have come against Laois, Offaly or Westmeath, 2 against Dublin and 1 each against Wexford and Kilkenny. All they have done is taken the place of a weaker Leinster county coming up and getting games against Kilkenny, Dublin, Wexford and Offaly. I'd say Carlow, Laois, Westmeath and Meath would prefer if you weren't there."
Look Hurlingsnob, we haven't exactly pulled up any trees in Leinster, jeez I'm only too aware of that.

I'll ask you this as you seem to be a decent hurling supporter- Is the Leinster championship better/worse off for having Galway participate?

streaker (Galway) - Posts: 497 - 29/06/2017 22:31:20    2007737

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