Quote from: statto on May 22, 2024, 02:34:46 PMIs there any reason with games being played next week why the GAA can't confirm the dates and times of next weekends fixtures so that supporters can sort travel/accomodation if required. I understand last round of games are neutral and undecided but why could they not announce the venues/times for the first two rounds at one time.
The thing is that this surely has to impact ticket sales.
The group draw was made on April 30th. On that date it was known that Derry would be playing at home against the loser of the Ulster final on the weekend of the June 1st/2nd.
On the 12th of May, Armagh were confirmed as being the opposition for Derry in this game.
10 days have passed by since then and there is still no confirmation of the date, location, or time.
It's a similar situation for all the final round games.
That's 10 additional days of ticket sales. Whatever way you want to slice it I doubt that having the tickets on sale for a longer period of time would lead to less overall sales and there has to be a very serious chance that it leads to increased ticket sales.
The season ticket holders and the other types of GAA regulars are pretty much guaranteed to turn up no matter where and when the game is on but even if you sold no additional tickets, it would surely be a benefit to a significant percentage of these thousands of people to know the date/time and location two weeks earlier.
I jsut can't understand why the GAA aren't better on this issue.