Armagh v Galway AIQF

[Armagh18]

I saw someone on the Orchard Fans forum complaining already about the price of hotels the night of the All Ireland final, ye will be spending a lot of money in Dublin over the next month.

Yeah I've tickets for Garth Brooks going every night! Cute hoorism has started!

[Redhand Santa]

Still some Hill tickets left but the rest of the ground has sold out on Ticketmaster. I'm very surprised as I thought there would be 50-60k but the finance & marketing lads in the GAA will be happy anyway. It could be the first CP full house in almost 3 years.

There should be plenty of tickets yet coming available. No way will this sell out, a-la an AI final.

Hard to know with Galway fans, as Seafoid refers to. With both Senior teams in CP within a week, it may 'split the vote'. However, the general feeling is that this Galway team is (finally) a bit better and balanced than it has been for a good number of years, thus the support should be on the larger side of things.

Currently if you want a seated ticket you can't buy them though. So where or why would they become available between now and matchday? If they just wanted to create the illusion of a sell out in advance in order to trigger demand, then you would think that there would at least be one or two sections with seated tickets available to purchase.

Standard Ticketmaster (nightclub) tactic of holding back sales to create pent-up demand. Same as last Saturday's hurling quarter-finals, which backfired on them.

At a guess I'd say Galway bring an absolute max of 15k, Kerry struggle to 10K, Mayo < 20K, Armagh 22K tops?

Ticketmaster don't hold back the tickets. They don't open sections of the ground if demand isn't there. For these quarter finals they started with the lower decks and when the demand was there all of the upper deck was opened.

What happened with the hurling was only 17,000 tickets or something were put on ticketmaster, the rest left to be distributed between the clubs. These didn't all sell and became available later in the week on ticketmaster.

For the football only something like 1,500 per county was held back for sponsors/officials etc and the majority has gone on line (season ticket holders also had option to buy). There could still be a small element of the one's held back for individual counties coming back but the numbers shouldn't be huge as the decision was taken to sell the vast majority online. Also I don't think they have sold any for the Nally Terrace yet which would hold 3-4000. There should easily be 70-75,000 at the game.

[maddog]

I saw someone on the Orchard Fans forum complaining already about the price of hotels the night of the All Ireland final, ye will be spending a lot of money in Dublin over the next month.

Just booked flights for the day of the final. Regardless of who is in it so thanks for jogging the memory. £9.99 per flight is a steal.

[seafoid]

Looks like it's a full house for next Sunday's double header. I'd expect a large travelling support from both Armagh and Mayo ... what is Galway's representation likely to be?

Galway followers wouldn't get that excited about a quarter final. I remember 1995 after we won Connacht after a sizeable gap, and the crowd in CP for the semi vs Tyrone was poor enough. I think it comes down to how good people feel the team is. It's a bit like US Justice Potter Stewart's 1964 test to identify hard core pornography "I know it when I see it".


However if we bate Armagh and then Derry , the perception would obviously change.

Surely Galway people feel you's are well capable of beating ourselves and Derry/Clare if everything falls in to place? All 4 teams on our side of the draw will probably never get a better chance at making a final.

Surely Armagh and Derry are the future. Donegal and Monaghan would seem to be due a period of introspection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T12sepCTJLU

[galwayman]

I saw someone on the Orchard Fans forum complaining already about the price of hotels the night of the All Ireland final, ye will be spending a lot of money in Dublin over the next month.

Anyone seen the price of hotels in Dublin for this Saturday night? Jaysus. Planning to go to the minor game on Saturday as well but looks like will have to drive up and down both Saturday and Sunday now. Accommodation very expensive.

[tiempo]

I saw someone on the Orchard Fans forum complaining already about the price of hotels the night of the All Ireland final, ye will be spending a lot of money in Dublin over the next month.

Anyone seen the price of hotels in Dublin for this Saturday night? Jaysus. Planning to go to the minor game on Saturday as well but looks like will have to drive up and down both Saturday and Sunday now. Accommodation very expensive.

A complete f**king shambles, so much so I'm getting the first flight into Dublin on the day, last flight out, and spending the Monday on wine and cheese in my adopted parish, wouldn't give them crooks the payday, pure robbing bastards

[marty34]

I saw someone on the Orchard Fans forum complaining already about the price of hotels the night of the All Ireland final, ye will be spending a lot of money in Dublin over the next month.

Anyone seen the price of hotels in Dublin for this Saturday night? Jaysus. Planning to go to the minor game on Saturday as well but looks like will have to drive up and down both Saturday and Sunday now. Accommodation very expensive.

Its a farce.

Next time them hospitality reps come on the tv complaining about this and that, they can go to f#$k.

Complete rip off.

[yellowcard]

I saw someone on the Orchard Fans forum complaining already about the price of hotels the night of the All Ireland final, ye will be spending a lot of money in Dublin over the next month.

Just booked flights for the day of the final. Regardless of who is in it so thanks for jogging the memory. £9.99 per flight is a steal.

This always amazes me. Flying at the same cost as a gallon of diesel when it would barely even take you as far as the Drogheda toll if driving.

[yellowcard]

I saw someone on the Orchard Fans forum complaining already about the price of hotels the night of the All Ireland final, ye will be spending a lot of money in Dublin over the next month.

Irrespective of who gets there, I doubt if too many people will be staying up at those prices. Ridiculous stuff. I get the fact that hospitality had a tough few years and that there are a lot of Ukrainians staying in hotel accomodation but some of those prices are still scandalous. Hotels are price gouging just because they can.   

[balladmaker]

I saw someone on the Orchard Fans forum complaining already about the price of hotels the night of the All Ireland final, ye will be spending a lot of money in Dublin over the next month.

Anyone seen the price of hotels in Dublin for this Saturday night? Jaysus. Planning to go to the minor game on Saturday as well but looks like will have to drive up and down both Saturday and Sunday now. Accommodation very expensive.

Its a farce.

Next time them hospitality reps come on the tv complaining about this and that, they can go to f#$k.

Complete rip off.

500 quid for a standard hotel room, breakfast extra ... WTF .. someone must be paying it that they can get away with it.  To whoever is paying it, catch a grip!

[tiempo]

They've been at it for years in the off licenses and pubs, milking visiting fans in some cases for the 5-6 hours they're in town, seen a local Dub refuse to buy a pint as the day before it had been x price and the day of the game up 40%

This is another reason games need to be decentralised as often as possible, ordinary people are being priced out, its the antithesis of the GAA, I know the GAA can do very little about it but lets be honest, Dublin gets way more than its fair share

[trailer]

Us Tyrone ones know this all to well. With all our success and trips to HQ it can add up. I can understand how it can be a huge shock for those Armagh fans who last went to Dublin with punts.

[clarshack]

I saw someone on the Orchard Fans forum complaining already about the price of hotels the night of the All Ireland final, ye will be spending a lot of money in Dublin over the next month.

Anyone seen the price of hotels in Dublin for this Saturday night? Jaysus. Planning to go to the minor game on Saturday as well but looks like will have to drive up and down both Saturday and Sunday now. Accommodation very expensive.

Its a farce.

Next time them hospitality reps come on the tv complaining about this and that, they can go to f#$k.

Complete rip off.

500 quid for a standard hotel room, breakfast extra ... WTF .. someone must be paying it that they can get away with it.  To whoever is paying it, catch a grip!

A big problem is that hotels like the City West are out of bounds for the next 2 years as they are accommodating refugees, which means whatever rooms are available in Dublin are ridiculously over priced.

I've spent plenty in Dublin myself over the years and with Tyrone having 4 All-Irelands in the bag during that time it's actually not too bad having a summer off from Dublin once in a while!

[tyrone08]

I saw someone on the Orchard Fans forum complaining already about the price of hotels the night of the All Ireland final, ye will be spending a lot of money in Dublin over the next month.

Anyone seen the price of hotels in Dublin for this Saturday night? Jaysus. Planning to go to the minor game on Saturday as well but looks like will have to drive up and down both Saturday and Sunday now. Accommodation very expensive.

Its a farce.

Next time them hospitality reps come on the tv complaining about this and that, they can go to f#$k.

Complete rip off.

500 quid for a standard hotel room, breakfast extra ... WTF .. someone must be paying it that they can get away with it.  To whoever is paying it, catch a grip!

I have no idea how people are paying it. Belfast is the same. 250 quid for a single room on a fri night with no breakfast. Place is packed so there must be plenty of people about with a lot of spare cash.

[balladmaker]

I saw someone on the Orchard Fans forum complaining already about the price of hotels the night of the All Ireland final, ye will be spending a lot of money in Dublin over the next month.

Anyone seen the price of hotels in Dublin for this Saturday night? Jaysus. Planning to go to the minor game on Saturday as well but looks like will have to drive up and down both Saturday and Sunday now. Accommodation very expensive.

Its a farce.

Next time them hospitality reps come on the tv complaining about this and that, they can go to f#$k.

Complete rip off.

500 quid for a standard hotel room, breakfast extra ... WTF .. someone must be paying it that they can get away with it.  To whoever is paying it, catch a grip!

I have no idea how people are paying it. Belfast is the same. 250 quid for a single room on a fri night with no breakfast. Place is packed so there must be plenty of people about with a lot of spare cash.

Insane .. you'd almost think we're in a bubble that's about to burst  . Translink doing well out of it this weekend as well, that's 3 or 4 trains at this stage.