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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? sliotharfan (Galway) - Posts: 87 - 28/06/2017 13:05:33 2006795 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
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 Link 4 |
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. perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 29/06/2017 10:57:22 2007339 Link 0 |
The reason the hill isn't open is because there's no demand. hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 29/06/2017 13:31:02 2007435 Link 1 |
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 Link 1 |
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 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
Surely if the hill was open there would be a demand. catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 29/06/2017 18:59:35 2007657 Link 1 |
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 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
It's Galway's choice. If you don't like it, leave.
Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2447 - 29/06/2017 21:14:08 2007698 Link 0 |
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 Link 1 |
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 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
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 Link 1 |