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Outrageous Ticket Prices

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Replying To royaldunne:  "Have to agree with that. Used my opt out option on the season tickets for this as a couple of the little ones wanted to go. 4 adults 2 juveniles cost €166 , no problems with that as I have paid more for a single ticket off a tout. But the options I was given was davin or cusack. Didn't want to be stuck behind the goals so said cusack , right in the corner with davin, bloody ridiculous."
Exactly. Children's tickets should be available anywhere in the stadium. And I believe personally they should be totally free but I won't gripe too much over a fiver as long as I'm not stuck behind the goals with my full price ticket as well. I must send an email giving out about it to some faceless Croke Park drone. Not that it would make any difference but I'd feel better.

cabbage (Meath) - Posts: 143 - 16/06/2019 23:06:46    2196131

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I disagree regarding children's tickets. They are a bargain at €5 and rightly should be in the corner. The better seats should be reserved for those paying full price.

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 17/06/2019 15:31:15    2196577

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Replying To cabbage:  "Exactly. Children's tickets should be available anywhere in the stadium. And I believe personally they should be totally free but I won't gripe too much over a fiver as long as I'm not stuck behind the goals with my full price ticket as well. I must send an email giving out about it to some faceless Croke Park drone. Not that it would make any difference but I'd feel better."
agree completely with all this. Its our first time having to use kids tickets as nephew has just started coming to games this year. Please please do send an email to them. If enough people do they might just actually listen. I've sent one and my brother too. Its disgraceful the hugely limited options they give, corner Cusack or down front in Davin right behind goal.

Eri (Meath) - Posts: 44 - 18/06/2019 14:52:24    2197127

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Replying To Jack_Goff:  "It's about the principle more then anything"
Fair enough. But we are Meath not Cavan

Jackpot (Meath) - Posts: 199 - 20/06/2019 22:59:35    2198166

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Replying To Jack_Goff:  "I disagree regarding children's tickets. They are a bargain at €5 and rightly should be in the corner. The better seats should be reserved for those paying full price."
Good man, you obviously have plenty of money or no kids! Or are you from the Dick Clerkin school of thought that kids should be at home and not in Croke Park. I will be there with my 4 and wouldn't have it any other way. They have been at every game this year and will be at them as long as Meath are involved. Do you think that the Leinster Council have the tickets at €5 out of the goodness of their hearts? probably 30 or 40 percent of people at the game will be under 16s. It would bring the expected crowd from 40000 to somewhere round 25000 because the reality is that many would simply not be able to afford it.

longroadback (Meath) - Posts: 300 - 21/06/2019 16:10:37    2198338

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Replying To Jack_Goff:  "I disagree regarding children's tickets. They are a bargain at €5 and rightly should be in the corner. The better seats should be reserved for those paying full price."
Where a game is likely to be 80% plus full i would agree however the likely hood is that for Sunday croke park will be just over half full so putting people in the poorest seats is not neccessary. I will say that in fairness there are very few poor seats in croker.

Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1338 - 21/06/2019 17:45:47    2198366

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Replying To longroadback:  "Good man, you obviously have plenty of money or no kids! Or are you from the Dick Clerkin school of thought that kids should be at home and not in Croke Park. I will be there with my 4 and wouldn't have it any other way. They have been at every game this year and will be at them as long as Meath are involved. Do you think that the Leinster Council have the tickets at €5 out of the goodness of their hearts? probably 30 or 40 percent of people at the game will be under 16s. It would bring the expected crowd from 40000 to somewhere round 25000 because the reality is that many would simply not be able to afford it."
I never had a problem as a kid sitting in the corners. Why should kids today?

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 22/06/2019 16:18:55    2198597

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Replying To Jack_Goff:  "I never had a problem as a kid sitting in the corners. Why should kids today?"
I agree Jack that the kids might not mind so much, particularly the younger ones for whom going to croker is a day out and great excitement.

Problem is the 1/2/3+ adults going along too, who all have to also sit in the Davin end (paying full price by the way) as children can't go to games on their own.

To me it's a no brainer. Let families chose where in the stadium they wish to purchase their adult/child tickets. What difference does it make to you anyway, are you worried Croke park will go out of business?

cabbage (Meath) - Posts: 143 - 23/06/2019 21:17:03    2199403

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Replying To cabbage:  "I agree Jack that the kids might not mind so much, particularly the younger ones for whom going to croker is a day out and great excitement.

Problem is the 1/2/3+ adults going along too, who all have to also sit in the Davin end (paying full price by the way) as children can't go to games on their own.

To me it's a no brainer. Let families chose where in the stadium they wish to purchase their adult/child tickets. What difference does it make to you anyway, are you worried Croke park will go out of business?"
I've no problem with that either I just see the logic behind the current system the GAA would rather give the central seats on the lower tier to adults paying full price. Those seats mainly go to season ticket holders and club allocations.

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 24/06/2019 12:40:37    2199837

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