All Ireland final tickets for 2009 already sorted !!!!!!

[T Fearon]

Anybody actually got the season ticket yet. I see my credit card has been charged this morning and the first games aren't until the end of January

[ziggysego]

Anybody actually got the season ticket yet. I see my credit card has been charged this morning and the first games aren't until the end of January

You bought tickets? 

[T Fearon]

Didn't I confirm this earlier in the thread? Way I see it, you can't get enough All Ireland Final tickets if your county is involved, so if a few freebies turn up here and there, on top of the purchased tickets, I'll still make good use of them

[Doohicky]

Anybody actually got the season ticket yet. I see my credit card has been charged this morning and the first games aren't until the end of January

I assume you didn't read the receipt thingy after you ordered then? It said that the ticket would be sent out in the next few days and if it had not arrived to contact such and such... (GAA ticket site I think)
Of course when I asked about this earlier you were too busy being snide and pointing to FAQs explaining everything, so not surprised you missed it.

If anyone does receive their ticket any time soon, post to let us know.  If mine takes much longer than other peoples I will know to contact them about it.

[ONeill]

May have been addressed earlier in the thread (can't be arsed), but I take it there's nothing to stop leeches who'll purchase the ticket and just give it out for others to use, then nab the AIF ticket?

[Doohicky]

May have been addressed earlier in the thread (can't be arsed), but I take it there's nothing to stop leeches who'll purchase the ticket and just give it out for others to use, then nab the AIF ticket?

Hard to say really...
It does say only one person can use the ticket, but whether it will be enforced is another thing. Will they ask for ID when you show the ticket or not?

I am sort of hoping they don't. I plan to go to pretty much every Tyrone match this year, bar maybe the Mayo game as it's just too far to travel. But if for some reason I can't make a game, I would like to be able to give it to a family member who is going to save them a few bob.

However I see what you mean about people using it for the final and nothing else.

[ziggysego]

May have been addressed earlier in the thread (can't be arsed), but I take it there's nothing to stop leeches who'll purchase the ticket and just give it out for others to use, then nab the AIF ticket?

Can't tickets be traced now? Surely that could be used to combat this foreseeable problem/cheat.

[ONeill]

How so?

[ziggysego]

From what I hear, codes are broken down to County Board - then club - then allocation number. Easy enough to trace back.

[Puckoon]

Did anyone who had bought a touted ticket get refused entry to this years AIF? There was quite a bit of noise from HQ about this - I wonder did anything happen in actuality?

[Doohicky]

From what I hear, codes are broken down to County Board - then club - then allocation number. Easy enough to trace back.

I think you are getting the wrong end of the stick here.
ONeill is (I think) asking about a person who buys the Season ticket, doesn't attend ANY matches (Just gives the ticket to friends/family/people they know all year long and then uses it to get a final ticket despite going to no games.

It may happen, but I think the positives of the majority of people actually going to the games will far outweigh this small minority.

[ONeill]

Yes, can't see how someone else using your season ticket can be traced.

Probably being negative but it's a nice present for little Johnny at Christmas, a 2009 AIF ticket, even though he mightn't set foot at a game until then.

Surely the GAA can introduce some kind of photo ident turnstiles at the major ground(s) in every county. You swipe the card and the details come up including photo. If my school canteen can do it....

[ONeill]

You don't know Fearon.

[tyrone86]

If OAPs and Students have to show ID then it shouldn't be too difficult for the season ticket. There aren't too many that don't have some form of Photo identification.

[criostlinn]

I reckon anyone getting one of these tickets at this time of year is probably going to use it and get good value from it.
Id say if Im willing to spend 75 euro on a ticket now, sell maybe about 13 tickets for different matches throughout the year and then fork out for the final ticket, well I know the final tickets are hard come by, but lads seriously that sounds a bit extreme to get my hands on one.