FAI Cup Final Tickets - Ticketmaster
I've heard a rumour that all FAI Cup Final tickets for Lansdowne Road will be put on sale through Toutmaster.
This has been implied by someone from the FAI, not an angry fan.
If it's true, I will not be surprised but will be totally disgusted!
Why can't the clubs be given an allocation, which could then be distributed to the fans at face value?
With Toutmaster, we will have to pay booking fees, handling fees, 'we're the only ones selling the tickets so you have to buy from us', fees. It's ridiculous!
How are they going to control who buys tickets for which section?
Are we all just going to be lumped in together?
What a joke!
Do eircom League fans carry signs saying, 'our trousers are down, do what you like to us'?
By the way, eircom suck as league sponsors and Carlsberg suck big time as Cup sponsors. What have either of them done other than getting their brands plastered across everything?
my 'feelings' on it from the offficial site
This is another monumental fcuk up on behalf of the FAIlures in Merrion Square.
Despite a plea from Brian Lennox to keep ticketing prices reasonable, it seems that they're going to hand over the ticketing for the Blue ribbon event in Irish football to ticketmaster. Thereby forcing every man, woman and child to pay and extra €3 - €5 for the completely unneccessary 'privilege' of using their monopolistic computer system (and of course, saving the FAI themselves some printing money).
No offence to Drogs fans, the few I know are dead on, but I don't want to sit next to you at the Cup Final. I want to stand (let's be honest, I don't want to sit) shoulder to shoulder with the same people I've spent the season standing next to, cheering and chanting for our club. People I know who will share my passion, who will live every moment of that game with the same intensity I will.
How are the fans groups like Commandos 84, who put so much time and money into organising displays, going to help the colour and atmosphere on final day when they could be split up in the middle of a mixed group. It's a disgrace that the FAIlures are thinking of robbing them of the chance (for once) to make Lansdowne look like a proper football stadium.
What of the Family enclosure, so vibrant all season, lending so much to the atmosphere of the Donie Forde stand in recent times? How Dare the FAIlures rob the children of our club, the future of this nations football support, the unashamed joy of experiencing that same level of enjoyment where our international matches are played, at the 'home' of Irish football.
That colour and that noise is what will make this final a showcase of football support, putting the sorry International games in stark contrast. It's in the leagues interest to win over new fans in Cork and Drogheda, and to win over neutrals by showing them that our league is the best sporting experience in this country, second to none in terms of supporter passion and participation.
Finally, to Brian Lennox and the club, it looks like you'll be left down yet again by this shambolic excuse for an organisation, do your very best for the fans. Rico and the team deserve to walk out on the pitch in Landsdowne to a raptorous welcome, full of noise and colour from the same fans who stood in unison willing our club to the final in the dying moments of the semi against Derry.
Our players deserve it, our fans deserve it, our club deserve it.
Shame on you John Delaney, shame on your board.
You still can't spell failure without FAI!!!!!
This is as angry as I have ever been with this shower of muppets.
