ormondbannerman
County: Clare
Not everyone gets a season ticket as they don't go to league games as they've other commitments like clubs games, work, other sports etc and they are genuine fans but simply have other commitments. Season tickets if you cant get to all games not worth price either...

I agree although club members I am sure will be looked after.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11691 - 27/06/2014 12:44:10    1609864

U r right ormond its not a joke. Will be a lot of kids left at home. That promotes hurling how? Cork do not have a stadium fit to hold Munster final.

I say again it won't affect me but it is no way to promote our game in a competitive environment.

disillusiondfan (Limerick) - Posts: 4279 - 27/06/2014 12:48:57    1609870

I really hope we dont experience situations like in the below links on July 13th. If there is issues like these then shame on the silence of the Irish Examiner for not highlighting the fact that PUC is not up to holding the match. When the new stadium is built give them an additional final, but this years game should be in Thurles.

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=115038

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/fans-rescued-from-crush-as-overcrowding-mars-gaa-game-26453691.html

Clubgaa (Limerick) - Posts: 879 - 27/06/2014 13:03:52    1609883

48,000 tickets were printed last year. 10,000 went to centra, online etc. That left 38,000. Presuming the capacity Sun 2 weeks is 35,000 and all go to clubs as stated, that means that roughly the same number of tickets are going to the clubs as last year.

The only people who will miss out are those who have to buy their tickets in a shop or online. Clubs members will be looked after and rightly so.

Move on now. This is getting boring

mike03 (Limerick) - Posts: 2000 - 27/06/2014 13:13:05    1609887

Hoover78
County: Limerick
Posts: 607

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Kurt between hurling and football Cork have a monstrous support. They outnumbered ye at the hurling semi last year,

thats a pointless statement saying they outnumbered dublin at hurling
you would expect that wouldnt you?
and was hardly by much as dublin county board sold 25 thousand tickets and there was 62 thousand at it.
how many cork were there the week earlier for the football quarter final ?

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 27/06/2014 13:14:03    1609888

Limerick are setting themselves up for the fall, getting distracted already with the venue. Its a bit like complaining about the football seeded draw!!
When there county board voted in it on the munster council!! Again county board have agreed to home and away deal.................!!!!..
Maybe the players will be 100% focused tho and if they have any chance they will need to be but cork is a difficult place to come which is added to by the bottle neck traffic hole of a location. the away team can not even tog out in one dressing room~! haha, there is 2 tiny rooms with an ole skiny bench to prepare for the game in, they are that small that most of the time ur stuff is next mixed up as everyone is on top of each other 'wheres my boot get off my towel kinda stuff. try give a team speach in there! a tiny window and the smell of de peat would smother you. then the shower is no place of beauty and the water is either freezin or scalding! It would be abosoluty gas if they dedevolped the stadium but left the away toilet/changing rooms the same!! but a deal is a deal!! Agreement made..The number of tickets are the number of tickets and thats it! If westmeath get home draw in football qualifiers and draw cork/mayo/kerry then its all roads to mullingar 6000tickets! The tickets should go to the most deserving fans. i.e. the fans who go to every game will have there ticket already! next clubs etc
Dont what to be too cocky or ginks it but I can def see a munster double for cork this year and it will be our home advantage that will give it to us! the fact that limerick are already not happy and Kerry are obvisualy depleted this year is not cork's fault!

Mickydan (Cork) - Posts: 7 - 27/06/2014 13:15:21    1609890

there was 25 thousand at tipp v limerick semi final
and there was 28 thousand at cork v clare semi final
so a ground holding 35 thousand isnt going to effect it that much
last year there was 42 thousand and the ground held more
dont see where all the limerick supporters where all year that they coming out now saying its too small

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 27/06/2014 13:19:18    1609895

Most club people dont buy season tickets as they get their tickets through their clubs. They would be too busy playing, managing teams..etc to go to all the league games so the season tickets are not worth it. I have found the season ticket holders to be the intercounty games only type of fan, wouldnt be able to find their local club with a compass..

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4656 - 27/06/2014 13:39:58    1609908

bad.monkey
County: USA
I have found the season ticket holders to be the intercounty games only type of fan, wouldnt be able to find their local club with a compass..

Really...I don't agree and I don't know if you are in Ireland or the US but that is not true. Personally I have a season ticket and club membership. I know a few others int he same boat in different clubs around the area.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11691 - 27/06/2014 13:46:07    1609915

Mike 03. You are wrong when you say that "Clubs members will be looked after and rightly so".
I am involved in a club, I am a member of that club and my name will be in a draw like the other club members for the ticket allocation that we get. Now maybe your club has a smaller membership then ticket allocation but definately mine has not.

Clubgaa (Limerick) - Posts: 879 - 27/06/2014 13:53:02    1609922

Gaelic Grounds full last year Hillman, 40,000 Cork fans and 40,000 Limerick fans at 2 semi finals last year now squeezed in Cork doesn't make sense

updwell (Limerick) - Posts: 904 - 27/06/2014 13:58:03    1609926

Lads, it Corks turn to host the match and the fact that they have had a ground that only can hold 35,000 is irrelvant. We are not talking about a ground that only hold 10,000 here, it is less than the numebers who want to go but not by a million miles.

If The Gaelic Grounds in Limerick could only hold 35,000 last year would we have offered to go to Thurles? Absolutely no way...

county man (Limerick) - Posts: 1156 - 27/06/2014 13:59:22    1609928

Why should people who didn't bother going to Munster semi final be catered for in a final? As others have said the genuine Limerick supporters will all get tickets if they want them. Same applies to all counties. Dublin's core support is what will be there on Sunday and that will be more or less what our ticket allocation for final, if we get to it, will be through clubs, season tickets and Parnell Pass. I really don't see what the problem is. I have no time for fair weather Dubs who whinge about not getting tickets for the two matches a year they bother their arse to go to and I apply same measure to other counties. Match is down for PUC. No reason at all to change it. Should be great game by the way.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 27/06/2014 14:01:10    1609930

There will be many people in Cork also, who normally go to most games, who will be unable to get a ticket for the Hurling final. I just got mine for the football today at the usual local outlet, but I have serious doubts that I will be able to get a hurling one..

While I can understand the desire of the County Board and the players to play this game in the Pairc for what will be the last time, I would have been quite agreeable to going to Limerick for the second year in a row if Limerick promised to return the favour when the Pairc is up and running again.

Midleton (Cork) - Posts: 646 - 27/06/2014 14:37:46    1609955

The Munster Council are stating the official capacity of Pairc Ui Chaoimh is 32,168.

Club members are going to find it hard to get tickets. Club officials, usually who couldn't hit a donkeys backside with a hurley look after themselves and their cronies before the players. I was once told when I was playing to go down to Pairc Ui Rinn and queue for tickets for a Munster Final by a club official would never played.

It seems a poor standard of commerce for an organisation getting funding of €30m from the government to build a stadium to be turning away willing customers. It would be like a food processor being asked by a major retail outlet to supply 45,000 units of their produce but the food processor refuses and is willing only supply 32,000 units. If the government left them fund their one developments like they should be wouldn't be long looking at opinions which produced maximum returns. The aim of any business is to make as much money as you can and left face it the GAA is a business regardless of this pillar of the community nonsense that we have to listen to. How many players are left out of pocket, dropped off and left at the hospital only to be collected by their parents. How many local GP's are left out of pocket by the GAA refusing to pay them after attending to their players.

Anybody can argue these facts with me. They are all true. I know GP's who are sick to the back teeth with the GAA clubs and their welfare for players.

I have been promised a ticket today but I probably won't be able to get one for my wife and family.

The_Bull (Cork) - Posts: 248 - 27/06/2014 14:46:31    1609962

This is awful Bull....Sell Outs are good for the GAA..If it was on in Thurles or Limerick i bet i wouldnt of sold out

shea (Kerry) - Posts: 409 - 27/06/2014 15:19:07    1609989

this is just a stupid thread

The tickets are going through the clubs as opposed to going on general sale.
I think its a brilliant idea as only those who paid membership for their local club will be entitled to get a ticket which is the way it should be. Also i cant see anyone who attended the semis being with out a ticket as neither was a sell out.

I in my 27 years going to matches never struggled to get tickets. And ill have my two for the final too.

In all my years the only people who iv seen struggling for tickets are those who dont have a specific source of getting the tickets

All the lads i usually travel with already have thier ticket lined up and as yet i havent spoken to someone that doesnt have a ticket organised

and the reality is last year was limerick this year its corks turn. Capasity is irrelevant if it was in pairc ui rinn then its still corks home advantage and thats the end of it

and all the whining about it wont chance it. So i guess club membership will be up in future so as people have more access to tickets and i hope this is the start of ticket being available only through clubs and long may it continue

rebels abu !!

ritchie (Cork) - Posts: 346 - 27/06/2014 15:29:02    1609998

someone said it was the second biggest hurling game of the year?!!?,,wake up and smell the coffee all ireland q finals(2) all ire semi finals(2) and obv final are bigger and more important by far.leinster final equally as big so its joint 6th in importance..

kavvie (Clare) - Posts: 505 - 27/06/2014 15:40:19    1610008

updwell
County: Limerick
Posts: 156

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Gaelic Grounds full last year Hillman, 40,000 Cork fans and 40,000 Limerick fans at 2 semi finals last year now squeezed in Cork doesn't make sense

wasnt full last year there was 42 thousand at it
the gaelic grounds holds 50 thousand and was reduced by 4 thousand that day
so there was 3 thousand tickets didnt sell.
there was nowhere near 40 thousand limerick or cork at the munster semi finals
as both games had 26 and 28 thousand overall attendances and tipp had as many as limerick at that match o could have only been
around 12 thousand limerick at it
so where were the other 28 thousand so far?

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 27/06/2014 15:50:47    1610013

the bull

the capacity this week i that figure but they told cork officals what to do to have the capacity increased
for the day of the munster final so it will be 35 thousand on the day you can be sure

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 27/06/2014 15:52:59    1610015