(Oldest Posts First) - Go To The Latest Post
|
Jesus lads it was some effort this morning getting tickets for the Munster hurling championship. What a complete farce. I ended up having to drive to 3 centras to buy them. Half my mates were left with none for the Clare Limerick match in Ennis. What a joke. LohansRedHelmet (Clare) - Posts: 2492 - 05/04/2022 14:17:56 2409769 Link 0 |
|
Had a similar situation in Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday. Went to 2 Centras. Luckily enough the steward on duty felt sorry for us & let us in for free. My mate had tried to buy them online for nearly minutes of the journey from Longford.
keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 05/04/2022 14:44:52 2409779 Link 0 |
|
The entire online system to buy them collapsed for 2 hours. If you didnt go to a centra you were screwed for the smaller stadia
LohansRedHelmet (Clare) - Posts: 2492 - 05/04/2022 15:08:28 2409787 Link 1 |
|
Why is this given to Ticketmaster?always seems to be problems with GAA tickets..also why sell tickets for all 4 munster championship games on one day?!me being cynical thinks it's a way of getting money from people..majority will try and purchase for all four days,a lot of money these days for families.. CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2230 - 05/04/2022 15:21:58 2409796 Link 1 |
|
Jaysus,, some folks weren't long forgetting the last 2 years with behind closed doors and restricted attendance at games..im happy to be sorted now for all of corks games bar the waterford game but hopefully the club will sort me out for that..but my point is there's people complaining about where in stands they are and only getting terrace tics etc..surely to feck you can be happy with your lot with actually being able to freely go to these games?? Its fantastic regardless of where your situated in the stadium pidge (Cork) - Posts: 543 - 05/04/2022 16:13:59 2409813 Link 1 |
|
Very small amount of tickets were left for limerick v Clare after season tickets and other bits of tickets taken off 12000 tickets . OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 677 - 05/04/2022 16:30:33 2409818 Link 0 |
|
Supposedly an All Ireland Association the GAA. If you live in Northern Ireland you can't purchase tickets at Super Valu stores or Centra as you could previously. Not everyone has a smart phone or knows how to navigate on line ticket sites. The ticket vans outside the grounds are gone. The attendance at Downs last National League at home to Clare was measured in the low hundreds, if you make it difficult for people to access tickets this what you get. Newmitch (Down) - Posts: 97 - 05/04/2022 19:23:17 2409864 Link 3 |
|
Nobody in this thread is complaining about where they're situated in the stadium. They're complaining about having great difficulty buying the tickets due to the system not working. It is indeed fantastic to be able to go to games again, but only if you can actually get the tickets in the first place. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2050 - 05/04/2022 22:02:07 2409876 Link 2 |
|
Surely members of gaa clubs should be entitled to buy tickets first? valley84 (Westmeath) - Posts: 1890 - 06/04/2022 07:32:29 2409877 Link 0 |
|
Ticketmaster probably had to tender for it. It's good business for them. Not just tickets sales for GAA matches but for likes of trying to tempt people to insure their tickets, I know I couldn't believe it either! Or get you to view what other events are on their site or spam you with stuff from other companies. You'd be quicker booking a Ryanair flight. The Ticketmaster site on gaa.ie was grand, in and out quick, even though they changed their pricing for juveniles during the league and not before it. GAA would have made more money doing that too. Maybe they can only allocate seat numbers to ticket on Ticketmaster.ie site though? As Newmitch says you need to be a bit tech-savvy to get the tickets on your phone. So be patient with anyone you know trying to get tickets that way, talk them through it or buy them for them and they can pay you cash. They're unlikely to have many more printed tickets available from now on or take your printed at home ticket. Sure isn't it mighty for Éamon Ryan and the environment. Before long we'll have the hole in the ozone layer fixed and with that the lovely weather for matches will go too. Go Greens, yeaaaah!
GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7369 - 06/04/2022 10:00:15 2409895 Link 3 |
|
You'd expect club members should have an advantage in getting tickets but it looks like the club don't really matter..surely if it's online sales they might have made sure it would work properly..what I want to know is why have they decided not to go with club distribution??have they explained this to anyone.. CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2230 - 06/04/2022 10:15:22 2409906 Link 1 |
|
The GAA don't care about its members, they only care about selling the tickets not about who buys them. But yes, you are correct, surely it should be a perk of membership ? If you go to the GAA museum as a club or bring juvenile members there, you pay the same as any tourist, no discount for members or clubs. Greed is the basis of decisions like this, plus the financial irregularities around certain County Boards which were covered up. There was one case with one County Board where Ticket sales amounting to a large six figure sum was not handed over to Croke Park. The removal of Ticket sales vans from outside grounds was disgraceful, not enough notice or advertisement of the fact that they were removing same led to elderly people who have no online access or skills to do so unable to purchase tickets. SuperValu has been real hit & miss with tickets. GAA will talk about security in terms of moving sales online with Ticketmaster but club members & elderly people lose out & they both know the reason behind all this is just greed. moc.dna (Galway) - Posts: 1212 - 06/04/2022 13:53:08 2409972 Link 1 |
|
I am absolutely disgusted at the way tickets have been distributed this year. I have a 6 and 8 year old who have been to all league games this year. Ballyknockill (Limerick) - Posts: 19 - 06/04/2022 14:29:06 2409978 Link 3 |
|
Clubs will have enough tickets for 3 of Limericks games but the Clare one is the problem with only 12K capacity, Limerick and Waterford as well in limerick in round 2 is going to draw a unusually big crowd in light of Waterfords big win last weekend . OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 677 - 07/04/2022 09:33:57 2410063 Link 0 |
|
Its a pain looking for Tickets but quiet simply neither Walsh Park or Cusack Park have anywhere near the Capacity for these games its unfair on Fans who go to all matched but bar conceding home advantage I cannot see any solution The Clare Limerick game especially is the one most will want to be at Limerick the AI champs coming to Town As one poster wisely pointed out we have been denied for 2 years so cant complain really clooney (Clare) - Posts: 891 - 07/04/2022 10:22:12 2410077 Link 0 |
|
Clooney our club informed us that only way we could get tickets was online..my problem is when or why was the decision made to not let clubs do the distribution and then put tickets on sale online.. CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2230 - 07/04/2022 10:55:45 2410087 Link 1 |
|
I agree yeah at least if Clubs distributed it would be much fairer also of course many fans don't have access to Computer to buy on line. Last night at Gaelic grounds many fans had to go across to Centra for tickets no VAN there clooney (Clare) - Posts: 891 - 07/04/2022 11:56:45 2410107 Link 2 |
|
The old school Gaels are really been squeezed out . seeing 70 year old men with money in their hand been fobbed off at the gate at Limerick v Clare under 20 match during the week was scandalous. OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 677 - 10/04/2022 10:48:52 2410422 Link 4 |
|
Fully agree with you, with the way I work,I can't buy tickets in advance, understood with covid but the clubs should have first choice for the members keeping the GAA going on the ground.
cityman73 (Limerick) - Posts: 779 - 10/04/2022 20:19:51 2410466 Link 0 |
|
Yes indeed. I am 72 years and spent the whole weekend trying to get tickets on to my Smart iphone, but I did it daif inderneath ' tickets have expired,'- WTF does that mean?
Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4342 - 11/04/2022 08:01:01 2410480 Link 0 |