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Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Simple enough, I sat in the segregated UCD section as there were no empty covered seats on the Bohs side. UCD score a peno and no reaction from at least half of the people around me.
Happy to e-mail your club, but would have thought UCD fans would be concerned about families attending being ripped off?
No, in the nou camp, everyone who enters the game has their ticket scanned (be it match or season)Quote:
Originally Posted by redobit
Some LOI clubs do not count season tickets as they enter the ground.
Its pretty amateurish too IMO
A foolproof system.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Of course I'd be concerned. However, what do you want me to do about it personally? Whining on the internet is almost a national pastime here, but if you want to actually achieve anything, e-mail the club with your concerns. That's not passing the buck, that's taking the issue to hand and telling you exactly who you should talk to about it.Quote:
Happy to e-mail your club, but would have thought UCD fans would be concerned about families attending being ripped off?
And the website comment seems like a bit of a petty jibe for the sake of it, but for what it's worth, I understand the club are in talks with the crowd who do another league website about getting it completely overhauled. There's been a fair few problems with the current company. (The news content is club controlled, the rest is done by a web company).
To be fair complaining on here about club pricing is not going to change much. If enough people contact the club involved and voice their concerns then there is a chance that the club(s) will take notice and address the issue - same advice to those complaining about prices at any other ground - let the relevant decision makers know.Quote:
Originally Posted by BohsFans
Alternatively there is always the Joe Duffy show ;)
€10 for an 11 year old is crazy alright. I suspect there may have been a mistake made as our student price is usually less than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Averages after round 2 -
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2,800 (2009 - 2,366; 2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976)
Bray - 1,000 (1,169; 1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550)
Drogheda - 1,000 (1,106; 1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682)
Dundalk - 2,545 (2,371; 1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD)
Galway - 902 (1,076; 1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD)
Pat's - 1,700 (1,631; 1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599)
Rovers - 5,500 (3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539)
Sligo - 2,858 (1,756; 1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD)
Sporting Fingal - 1,267 (635; 688)
UCD - 803 (272 FD; 546; 663; 546; 653; 306 FD)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 402 (462; 387; 670; 421; 316)
Cork - 4,401 (2,681 PD; 3,142 PD; 2,897 PD; 2,941 PD; 3,644 PD)
Derry - 2,779 (2,436 PD; 3,363 PD; 2,614 PD; 3,229 PD; 2,698 PD)
Harps - 1,006 (480; 1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Limerick - 861 (429; 517; 670; 364; 669)
Longford - 350 (260; 406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD)
Mervue - 250 (166)
Monaghan - 250 (183; 177; 292; 204; 183)
Salthill Devon - 330 (N/A)
Shels - 877 (972; 986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD)
Waterford - 1,000 (434; 670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD)
Wexford - 380 (494; 767; 810)
Premier Division average - 2,038 (2,010; 1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759)
First Division average - 1,074 (417; 641; 722; 570; 520)
Overall average - 1,512 (1,175; 1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195)
Figures in bold are mainly or wholly official; figures in normal type are mainly or wholly guesstimates. I'll update the prior year ones in due course.
Prices are E15 adult, E10 student and E5 UCD student. Don't know about child prices though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
I never understood that mentality, what 14 year old has a student card? 99% of secondary schools don't issue student cards, it's just third level that do so so asking for one as proof of age/if you are a student is ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quadruple1928
Obviously 14 year old fans of Bohs don't go to school. Fair play to UCD for enforcing an idiot tax ;)
Happened myself a few years ago as well when I was still in secondary school. The lads at the ticket booth wanted 4 of us to buy adult tickets because we didn't have student cards and they refused to sell us student tickets dispite the fact we were all in second level, only for a steward interving on our behalf we wouldn't have gotten to go to the game. JokeQuote:
Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge
Have been charged full price for kids under ten a few seaons back ,when asked about concession was told there was none havnt taken kids since ,**** poor attitude towards any inquiries or complaints at UCD by away fans,its almost as if we are an inconvenience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
Also, just to put things into perspective, I should have also pointed out that I've been buying student tickets for the past two seasons and never once asked for a student ID.
Same thing happened to me in Oriel Park but I was only 15 at the time and I had no choice but to buy a adult ticket.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leejo
Clubs should be trying to attract as many kids as possible on freebies, as long as an adult pays in and takes full responsibility for them. A lot of clubs seem to direct those offers at home fans only.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoversHead
What is it with Bohs that they struggle to get over 3000 to games.
There's a great catchment area around the club, plus they're the champions, so whats the story?
Agree 100% ,the kids are the future of the gameQuote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
On the flip side I managed to buy a family ticket for myself and my two kids - ie the brother and his girlfriend at Morton!!!!
I love the way this thread is 10 pages long after only 2 weeks.
Rovers only allocated Pats a certain number of kids tickets for Tuesday's game so some had to pay the full adult price (€15)
Pats charge €5 for kids accompanied by adult and €10 for unaccompanied kids (u16). They have discoounted family tickets too.
I never understand that. "Sorry - I know you're only 9, but we've run out of bits of the bits of paper for that, so we've to charge you as if you're 19".Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Well what you have Pats do? They were sent a finite amount of each ticket. If all kids tickets are gone, the options for the kid is either pay the full price, or don't go to the game. Pats can't just return the money to Rovers saying yeah I know you're expecting €15 per ticket but we sold most of them to kids so we only charged €7Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu