What do the various county Boards charge into the county finals and what do you get for your money?
Admission to the Down football final in Newry was £10. For that you got the MFC Final and the SFC final. Not bad value. It was £7 into the SHC/u16HC double header. Again good value.
Antrim run the SFC and SHC as a double header and charge £10. Great value in my opinion. Was the story elsewhere?
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QuoteWould be hard enough lifting a 14 year old plus over!
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£10 a head in Derrry, that'll be the county minor and senior finals - bit pricey imo, worse is that the county hurling final was £10 too even though it was a double header with a div 5 league play off - and they wonder why about 600 turned up!!
Slightly off topic, but do you lads get a receipt/ticket going into the ground? I dont think i have ever got a ticket going to a match in Casement, on Sunday there were about 8000 people at the hurling final but you dont get a ticket when you pay in..... Now if i was a cynic........
Armagh County Finals, Senior & Minor Football £10 plus a colour 48 page programme and if you were there early also included a seat in the covered stand.
Excellent value I think.
The Sligo county final last sunday which was on TV had a 20euro admission fee. The minor game preceded the senior game, 20 quid is very steep
The Mayo Senior & Intermediate final was 15euro
I was refused student rate in euros at the armagh county final and as i didnt have the sterling on me I had to pay 15 Euro and didnt get a programme. I thought it was quite expensive
€20 was a disgrace for the Sligo minor/senior football finals in my book. It appears this was discussed at a county board meeting and they said that they had checked with other counties and the price was about average. This thread questions that.
Had this discussion a few weeks back on intercounty game charges! It is an area i feel that is getting abused and will be the downfall of the GAA as their pride was always at local level. A few years ago there was a Railway cup game in Castlebar where they charged 300 people to get in. Would have been better to have said FREE Railway game, as it would have attracted a bigger curious crowd and promoted an ailing competition!
the pricing in this years Down championship has baffled me. the club was involved in a preliminary round game that finished in a draw. Was £5 into that match and £5 into the replay. They were evening matches and were the only games on at the venue. In the next round played on a Sunday afternoon at a different club venue (and again the only match at the venue) the admission was £3.
The semifinal which was played as part of a double header in Newry was £10 into the stand. At the county final on Sunday, the ticket I purchased for the stand was £12 and that was for three matches as there was a hurling game on prior to the minor final (and we also had the official opening of Pairc Esler)
10 euro for the mayo hurling final last saturday
This is 2008. £10 for any county final (nearly all of which have 2 games on) is CHEAP! Compare with any other sports event, even the local nightclub or cinema.
An extra £2 for the stand at Newry is ridiculously cheap for one of the best grandstand seats in the country.
Incidentally would someone talk to the Newry Reporter GAA correspondent who failed to even mention the official opening in this week's paper never mind have a pic of Nicky Brennan etc. No mention also of the special needs exhibition which was a treat and a credit to the mentors involved.
Quote from: Armagh Exile on October 09, 2007, 12:05:06 PM
Armagh County Finals, Senior & Minor Football £10 plus a colour 48 page programme and if you were there early also included a seat in the covered stand.
Excellent value I think.
What! I'd to pay for my programme??
Quote from: Leo on October 10, 2007, 12:28:16 PM
No mention also of the special needs exhibition which was a treat and a credit to the mentors involved.
Was that the mini riot behind the goals in the second half?
I agree £10 is good value but don't say it too loud or the feckers will stick the prices up!
charged €13 into the dublin senior football quarters last week- thought that was excessive. then my mate at work told me his father was charged €25 notes into the wexford senior hurling semis last weekend- i realised then it was cheap!
Quote from: INDIANA on October 10, 2007, 07:13:53 PM
charged €13 into the dublin senior football quarters last week- thought that was excessive. then my mate at work told me his father was charged €25 notes into the wexford senior hurling semis last weekend- i realised then it was cheap!
No, the €13 euro was a little steep, €10 would have been fine, €25 is an absolute joke - we've been over all this before, about where the money goes and so on, but personally I would not pay €25 to get into a club semi-final on a point of principle.
Why don't county boards have a minimum donation of say €10, if people want to pay extra then that's up to them. Btw Indiana, what sort of attendances were at the Dublin quarters?
I know we've said before that prices tend not to impact attendance, but in Wexford it certainly would, many neutrals might just say fcuk it, I think I'll sit in and watch the TG4 game today, sure isn't the radio covering the match, I'll just listen to it on that.
£10 into the ground for Antrim hurling and football finals and another £2 into the stand. not bad value,
Going to sound a bit miserable here but i think the GAA have gotten a bit expensive with there pricing to local club games, myself and the wife took in our intermediate footballers semi final, both semi finals of the senior hurling and the u21 final, in 7 days that cost us £48. everytime i go to a match now it seems to be a fiver each.
I know its not practical as the monies are split between clubs county boards etc but i would welcome a season ticket for local club matches
it not that the price puts me of going to games, but i'm hugely involved in my club, someone with a passing interest is going to be put off and thats a shame
I would say the majority paid £10 just to watch the hurling though, i came in just before the hurling started as i have little interest in the football.
ucd were playing so about 2,000. but they were several club fixtures on at the same time at all grades which wouldn't help things. really goes to show the level of fair weather fans we have
Tyrone county final on Sunday - £ 10
Seems to me that £10/€15 is standard for a double header county final. Minor/senior or Hurling/football. That to me is excellent value in todays prices. Anything more is a rip off, less you are getting a bargain!
the ship, were there many people at the Mayo Hurling Final?