Armagh Vs Galway All Ireland Tickets

[manwithnoplan]

Interesting to see Armagh fans giving eachother abuse due to some folks being members of smaller clubs and therefore finding it easier to get tickets. Hard to beat some old fashioned big club arrogance.

[Armagh4SamMaguire24]

I am associated with clann eirann with a huge following and i didnt get lucky so still looking for tickets if anyone can help a man out?

[Orior]

Got my two tickets this evening. Lower Hogan stand. It pays to be a member of a club.

It pays to be a member of a useless club.

I resemble that remark.

[Maroon Manc]

There seems to be a disproportionate amount of Armagh people that have no club connection. Is this from the strangle hold that Crossmaglen have had at club level or why is this? Not a dig either, I can see how that level of dominance would leave people asking why bother.

Social media awash with Armagh fans who've 'been to every game' but have no ticket for the final.

[tyroneman]

Interesting to see Armagh fans giving eachother abuse due to some folks being members of smaller clubs and therefore finding it easier to get tickets. Hard to beat some old fashioned big club arrogance.

More a gripe with proprtionality, no?

Should a club with 50 members recieve the same allocation as a club with 500 members?

[statto]

Interesting to see Armagh fans giving eachother abuse due to some folks being members of smaller clubs and therefore finding it easier to get tickets. Hard to beat some old fashioned big club arrogance.

I have some empathy to the bigger clubs to be honest.If you are in a big club and your chance of a ticket is 1 in 5 Vs smaller clubs where you can fill your boots it's not really consistent.

[imtommygunn]

There seems to be a disproportionate amount of Armagh people that have no club connection. Is this from the strangle hold that Crossmaglen have had at club level or why is this? Not a dig either, I can see how that level of dominance would leave people asking why bother.

Social media awash with Armagh fans who've 'been to every game' but have no ticket for the final.

I do think Armagh *seem* to have a level of support from ones not associated with clubs. It's just something I get a feeling of looking on social media etc.

[tyroneStatto]

If you have been to 'every game' and not a member of a club but don't have a season ticket then I've zero sympathy if you don't get a ticket regardless of whatever County it is.

[Sportacus]

Unpopular opinion, but haven't lots of Armagh folks been happy in every previous year to pick up an All Ireland  ticket or two from all sorts of sources? 
The system isn't great, but they need to look in the mirror a wee bit as well.

[Orior]

Interesting to see Armagh fans giving eachother abuse due to some folks being members of smaller clubs and therefore finding it easier to get tickets. Hard to beat some old fashioned big club arrogance.

More a gripe with proprtionality, no?

Should a club with 50 members recieve the same allocation as a club with 500 members?

The way that Armagh allocated tickets isn't fair. I don't know why they didn't allocate proportionally based on the number of club members. Maybe it was just easier as they only had week to get the tickets out.

[armaghniac]

I do think Armagh *seem* to have a level of support from ones not associated with clubs. It's just something I get a feeling of looking on social media etc.

The point being that the GAA want a significant proportion of the population to come to the likes of the Ulster final or the semi-final, while telling them to clear off if the team wins that semi-final.
However, the number that attended "every game" is not quite that large, but there are perhaps 12,000 who have been to many games. The problem is that the present system does not reliably direct tickets to that group unless they bought a season ticket. There isn't really a conflict between giving tickets to club volunteers and regular fans; allocate half the seats to competing counties, from that allocate clubs tickets per team or some other measure of their size, and then allow people buy tickets ranked by the number of tickets they have previously bought.

As always, a lot of people will get sorted eventually, I know Clare supporters who were in crisis last Friday who still got a ticket. But not everyone will.

The way that Armagh allocated tickets isn't fair. I don't know why they didn't allocate proportionally based on the number of club members. Maybe it was just easier as they only had week to get the tickets out.

It is one vote per cub in deciding how the tickets are given out and this arrangement suits the smaller clubs.

It is not fair, the county board will be hoping that thousands of people will come to watch the county final between the likes of Clann Eireann , Cross etc but they do not facilitate an equal crack of the whip for people in those places now.

[Saffrongael]

Saw quite a few "tickets needed" signs from supporters on Jones Rd on Sunday at the hurling, haven't seen that in years.

[imtommygunn]

Yeah I think it's a lesson to buy a season ticket if you're not in a club. It's a problem but one I am envious of as it is hard to see my county in an all ireland final any time soon 

It's a hard one to manage but there was an avenue there for season tickets so the GAA can at least say that.

Most seem to get sorted usually. The quicker turnaround seems to make a bigger panic though and both finals this year pretty unique pairings for AI finals.

[Armagh18]

Interesting to see Armagh fans giving eachother abuse due to some folks being members of smaller clubs and therefore finding it easier to get tickets. Hard to beat some old fashioned big club arrogance.

More a gripe with proprtionality, no?

Should a club with 50 members recieve the same allocation as a club with 500 members?

The way that Armagh allocated tickets isn't fair. I don't know why they didn't allocate proportionally based on the number of club members. Maybe it was just easier as they only had week to get the tickets out.

Easier, plus the fact that a club with 80 members still pay the same county board fee as the one with a few thousand members.

The GAA need to look at the season ticket as it was totally off putting to people at the start of the year. (Looking like great value now obviously) but realistically no one was confident of Armagh getting to a final. 

Doesn't bother me that clubs get the same amount of tickets, but hearing of people literally registering this week for some of the smaller clubs and getting tickets, or people ending up with tickets that  havent been to a game in their life is annoying me. Any club with less than 240 members should have had to give back any tickets past their member numbers.

[Maroon Manc]

There's very little wrong with the way tickets are distributed, clubs around the country won't distribute tickets to those who don't deserve them. Not a lot you can do with sponsors unfortunately, they've paid for the privilege!

I'd have an issue with the way a certain organisation (not a club) who receives a lot of tickets distribute there allocation, heard lots of stories down the years of people with zero interest in football/hurling getting them.

The Armagh county board have created chaos in their own county, absolutely ridiculous giving all clubs the same amount of tickets. Smaller clubs are hardly going to hand tickets back, I'm sure if anyone is really desperate they can approach some of those clubs and offer a bit of sponsorship in return for tickets.

What Donegal did in 2014

https://www.donegaldaily.com/2014/09/10/how-many-tickets-did-your-club-get-all-ireland-final-ticket-allocation-breakdown/