Which are the neutral blocks though?Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
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Which are the neutral blocks though?Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Based on what’s currently available, 523, 526 (although only 2 tickets left in this block), 527 (3 tickets left). Then for premium, there’s 1 ticket in block 303 and about 50-60 tickets in block 307. That’s the only neutral sections on Ticketmaster at the moment. I see there’s also been 4 tickets pop up in the lower tier in the pats end which is a big mad seen as the entire lower tier sold out last weekQuote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Customers now sometimes have the option to resell tickets on TM so maybe that’s how there are some available again in the lower tier. Someone probably bought 4 earlier and now can no longer go.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Regarding premium blocks, I got tx in Block305 months ago.
As of today Monday, over 30,000 tickets sold for the cup final which is still approx 4 weeks away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philosophizer
I passed a poster for the final on a Dublin bus stop shelter today. Good to see it advertised.
Ticket sales have probably slowed now after the early rush by both clubs. I reckon it is well into the mid 30,000 + now.
The extra fans will now come from the casual fans who decide on the day to turn up which could bring it over the 40,000+ figure.
All in all a great attendance will be there. :rolleyes:
Any update been provided on ticket sales?
There seem to be quite a few left on Ticketmaster for the top tier in the Bohs section in particular.
Still likely to be a bumper crowd, and the biggest in modern times, but not sure it'll exceed 40k? Probably all depends on the weather for it on the day now.
Doesn't look like it'll break 35k at this stage. After the initial burst of sales it's gone dead altogether.
Like you said in your post ticket sales have probably slowed now after the early rush by both clubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
The extra fans will now come from the casual fans who decide on the day to turn up which could bring it over the 40,000+ figure.
All in all a great attendance will be there. :rolleyes:
It’s come a long way lads, imagine a few years back being disappointed that the final didn’t break 40000!!
It's such a good day out. If it doesn't break 40k it won't be long. I'd nearly go myself but.....I wouldn't want to help give bohs or pats the record crowd. Because I'm small and bitter. As it should be.
Pints at a game as well. What a small joy.
I'm going just to annoy myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by ontheotherhand
I hate bohs and pats equally but I have a soul patch so that gives me a pass.
See yee there soul patch brotherz and sisterz
Annoy yourself less by shaving the soul patch for charity. You can donate it to the fund to keep Pat Hoban.....Quote:
Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
But it's nice you can be a neutral...I struggle with that. Although I'd love to go to a Derry v Cork final. or maybe a Louth derby final. Has there been one?
Watching Bohs lose the cup final and miss out on Europe would be a good reason to go but on the other hand watching them win would be a right pain.
I'm small and bitter as well ;).
Its probably unfair of me as all the Bohs fans were cheering us on in Europe :)
In all serioiusness i wont be there this year as im away but regardless of the record attendance or not it will still be a mostly full good advert for the league.
Hopefully its a good game with a few goals
Still two weeks to go however and imagine the clubs and the FAI will continue to market the build-up nicely. Not much else on either with the rugby over and GAA county finals finishing up so expect the sports pages will have a few featuresQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
The weather will be key. We've had some baltic cup final days, soem majorly rainy ones, but also some surprisingly mild days too. Fingers crossed for the latter.
Over 35k gone already according to FAI.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Looking at Ticketmaster just now, there are in total just 190 pats tickets left and a few thousand Bohs ones left in the upper tiers, with no general sale tickets on sale at the moment
The tickets with the QR code are available in your Ticketmaster account now. I’d say some are looking to swap sections etc.
You'd still have to be confident it'll break the record at the very least. Once the season wraps up today you'd imagine the cup final will come into sharper focus. Domestic football has gotten a much better coverage in the past couple years and I'm assuming there'll be decent previews of the game in the week leading up to the final. On paper anyway the game sells itself to the neutral.
Hopefully it's a dry day and everyone who's bought tickets actually goes. Should be a cracker.
AAHHAHHHHAAAAAAHAAAAA! Thats the funniest thing OTH No never happened, Drogheda and cup finals are like hens teeth and required selling the family silver whenever. One day maybe and certainly would be fun but its as likely as Louth in an All Ireland final.Quote:
Originally Posted by ontheotherhand
Caring about records like Cup Final attendance is beyond unimportant - as unimportant as Dundalk being the fist LoI side to play a home game under floodlights....its trivia questions stuff not rivalry stuff. Its far more important that the leagues showpiece game has roper credibility with a full national stadium and we've been growing toward that target - organically tbh irrespective from past contempt from the FAI.
Was that not Dalymount ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Yes a big ommission there, in saying home game I meant 1st home European ties actually at home, full circle playing games in Dublin again. First hoe games under floodlights domestically outside Dublin/Dalymount. Such was the novelty at that time that teams travelled from both England and NI for friendlies under the floodlights, large curious crowds went a long way to pay for them. Then again Oriel Park at that times was considered one of if not the best league ground in the country - brand new stand, proper terracing, floodlights, new pitch having been turned 90degrees so was actually level, 4 sided spectator areas, bar facility, soup/bovril/food hatches shedside, commentary and TV gantry, easy access and egress.... then time stood still. Too young to remember but there was a stand behind the town goal that I think came from a NI club i think?!Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
37500 tickets sold for the final so far!
I think you're over-egging the impact of floodlights at Oriel Park to be honest. Distillery was the first club on the island to get lights, as early as 1952. Dalymount then followed in 1962, and Oreil 5yrs later in 1967. So I'm not sure lights were the great novelty you claim - certainly for English clubs in the late 1960s, and also not even for Irish League clubs at that time? If NI clubs wanted to play under lights, they had 15years to do so in Belfast before Dundalk got on the scene.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Good to hear. Is that figure from the FAI?Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
With a bit of decent weather it might just break 40,000 after all.
Bohs tweeted it there…Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Defo has a chance of the record. It should be a great day out.
When did 'Sam Prole's fairy lights' go up at Tolka Park?Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
I remember my first cup semi there in 1976 under lights. It could have been the Maracana as far as I was concerned. Pure magicQuote:
Originally Posted by Demesne Lad
Still is something wonderful about a game under floodlights all the same. Love when the evenings get darker. Love seeing the lights as you get closer. You'd sound like a madman if you kept going on about it being magic but it is a bit :-DQuote:
Originally Posted by Jamesie
On the final itself my objective side says something I don't want to hear, so I'm trying not to listen. Bohs are backed into a corner now on two fronts. On one end we really should've finished in the top 4 given the position we were in and on the other is the fact we're playing a team that have proved themselves to be better than us. There's a clear favourite in my view but hopefully something *ahem* magic happens. It will mean a hell of a lot to Bohs to go and win the cup. Our eggs have been in that basket for years.
I keep hearing people saying devine out if bohs don't win the cup. I don't get it 007 was there for 7 years and won nothing divine gets to a cup final in his first season and with half an hour gone on the final day of the season was in fourth. What did bohs fans expect this year?
Europe. He has a big budget which Long did not have for years. Expectations are higher now that we are spending more money on a squad and have gone full-time. To finish in the same position as Long did last season is not good enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Except for Shels and Drogheda everyone finished where their budget allowed. . We were 2 goals off 5th so it's way better than last year with the cup final. Don't think there was much between Bohs and Pats btw. 10 men for most of one game...even the 0-2 could have gone either wayQuote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Pats have now sold out of all available tickets for the final. The only general sale tickets currently available are 2 premium blocks while there remains a few thousand unsold Bohs tickets in the upper tiers which will be helped by neutrals having no choice but to sit there now unless they want to pay the extra price of a premium ticket
What does finishing where your budget allows even mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamesie
Pat's sacked their manager because they were 7th, 11 points behind Bohs in May. They then clawed back those 11 points and ended up finishing 4 ahead of us. Pat's won 15 more points than Bohs since May and you don't think there's a lot between us?
But we were only 2 goals off 5th so that's grand.... We were top of the league in May and didn't even finish in the top half of the table! That's terrible. You can't even point to a huge amount of injuries to cover for the poor performances. The only long term injury was Williams until Bucko got injured. It was a masterclass in bottling a good start to the season. I didn't think we would win the league but we should not be finishing outside the top half. You can cry on about it being on goal difference all you want but it's makes no odds. 6th place is 6th place. The cup final is only plastering over the cracks at the moment.
By a very rough estimate it looks like about 400 Premium tickets and maybe 3k tickets in the South Upper.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Obviously hard to know if Ticketmaster have kept any back but certainly looks like it will probably break 40k attendance.
Ticketmaster also had Corporate tickets for sale in that stand. Not sure how they sold ?Quote:
Originally Posted by JC_GUFC
Largely agree with you from the outside looking in, I actually quite rate Bohs' squad and while they overperformed initially in leading the league I've found the drop-off pretty surprising. I think we've the better individual players but on the whole your squad is better and more balanced throughout and spent much of the season thinking Bohs were a likely shout for 3rd, not managing even the top half was underwhelming to say the leastQuote:
Originally Posted by Another Bohemia
The Derry fans on here got it spot on at the beginning of the season in terms of what it would look like under Devine. Awful league campaign.