Ticket pricing inequality in the GAA

[Dinny Breen]

The Hill wasn't open last weekend and supporters of Kildare, Cork and Down had to pay 25 Euro for a stand ticket U16s 5 Euro yet Wexford and Limerick supporters had an option terracing (10 Euro) or stand (15 Euro), under 16s free.

This weekend no Hill again and it's 30 Euro for a stand ticket meaning Tyrone/Roscommon fans will have to pay double the amount for their qualifier game than Limerick/Wexford fans did theirs and 5 Euro more than Kildare/Cork/Down.

The following weekend The Hill will be open allowing cheaper tickets to Dublin/Tyrone/Roscommon supporters.

How can they justify not opening the Hill and having such a variation in ticket pricing from game to game?

[Kerry Mike]

Good man was only thinking the same today. Again a bit of marketing by the gaa would help to flog tickets. Met a few Aussies before the games last weekend they could not believe the lack of organising. Dublin  is full of tourists all summer and the gaa should have a drive on to get more people in. But the pricing is all messed up.

[Declan]

In Thurles on Sunday they were charging €30 in the stand and a fiver for kids but no kids tickets for the terrace which were €20 a pop. Allied to that the special train was €46 return for an adult - made it a more expensive day than I thought it was going to be.
All I can think of is the folks that decide these things just don't think of the ordinary punter

[Kerry Mike]

And people wonder why we don't get big crowds travelling from cork or Kerry. Its an expensive racket following your county

[heffo]

All I can think of is the folks that decide these things just don't think of the ordinary punter

Well for one thing the folks that decide these things sit in Ard Comhairle at every game and haven't paid for a ticket in a long time!

[David McKeown]

Antrim did a double header early in the qualifiers. Footballers v Westmeath and hurlers v Carlow. Was either a fiver or a tenner for both matches. Following week it was £17 into Armagh v Wicklow game

[From the Bunker]

A trick that has been used by the Gaa the last couple of years was to put a Hurling semi-final on with a Football quarter final, leaving the football fans having to pay a semi-final rate.

[snoopdog]

The Truth is the GAA dont give a sh1t about the paying punters. They will milk you for everything they can get.
When Kerry play Cork in the All Ireland Semi final the idiots wont have the decency to move the game to thurles or Limerick.
will be great to see a small crowd at HQ for it.

[orangeman]

To be fair the GAA could be doing a lot more in terms of marketing the games, but there are some very keenly priced ticket packages out there that brings down the admission price.

Yes, they could do more, but clearly feel they've done enough as the attendance levels are apparently up on last year and not down as a lot of people had predicted.

[From the Bunker]

I've been saying this for years, the prices for Gaa matches are rip-off! It just costs to much for a day out for a family to see Amateur footballers. If you are single costs are high, but if you have a wife and two kids to following a county doing well in the summer can mean putting off that sun holiday!

Yes, they could do more, but clearly feel they've done enough as the attendance levels are apparently up on last year and not down as a lot of people had predicted.

Maybe attendances around the country are holding up but Croker numbers have to be down!

[5 Sams]

And people wonder why we don't get big crowds travelling from cork or Kerry. Its an expensive racket following your county

Small bit cheaper for us this year

[ildanach]

The Truth is the GAA dont give a sh1t about the paying punters. They will milk you for everything they can get.
When Kerry play Cork in the All Ireland Semi final the idiots wont have the decency to move the game to thurles or Limerick.
will be great to see a small crowd at HQ for it.

Are you joe brolly in disguise? Today is Tuesday , mayo and limerick are still in the championship. maybe on sunday night you can talk about the cork v kerry semi final. It was like this in 2006 Tom humphries and the other journalists waiting for the old rivals kerry and dublin (although they haven't been rivals for almost 30 years ) to play in the final and we pissed on that parade. so please don't nail our coffin down just yet!

[armaghniac]

The Truth is the GAA dont give a sh1t about the paying punters. They will milk you for everything they can get. When Kerry play Cork in the All Ireland Semi final the idiots wont have the decency to move the game to thurles or Limerick. will be great to see a small crowd at HQ for it.

The OP has a good point about the terrace. But in these kind of threads this kind of excessive comment always comes up, and from someone with more interest in Man Utd than the GAA.

Last week there was a prolonged whine from Derry "supporters" about the game being in Croke Pk, saying that it should have been in Cavan or Newry. Yet Paddy Bradley was interviewed on TV and he said that the players wanted to be in Croke Pk. The location of games is a balance, there are probably as many Cork or Kerry people in Dublin who might go as additional people who would travel to Thurles.  The atmosphere might be better in a provincial venue, but I imagine Kerry would not forego home advantage to Limerick in any case.

[orangeman]

There's a lot of players, a lot of teams and supporters who would give their right arm to play a big match in Croke Park.


Admission price wouldn't matter too much to them.

[Kerry Mike]

If Kerry play Cork in the All Ireland Semi final the idiots wont have the decency to move the game to thurles or Limerick.

Nope, its Croke Park for a semi, yerra Cork can't/wont' bate us there anyway.