Thank you very much Casso!!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by casso36
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Thank you very much Casso!!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by casso36
Germany is first up...
As I live in Holland the German game is something I have to go to. Now because I live in holland I dont have th same contacts I would if I were at home so... I know its evil but im going to have to buy from a tout... What would be a price where I wasnt being ripped off for the game??
Have Faith Shamrock!!! Put your name down on waiting list!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shamrock
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Originally Posted by Shamrock
Have you tried the eventim.de web site?
Seen as your in Holland they may still post them to you if they have any left or when they figure out how many they canceled from Irish fans.
Is The Star the Irish version of The Sun?
No. Different papers altogether. Same basic idea though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jens1893
The Star
Anything over face value is a rip off IMO. You can keep checking the eventim.de website or wait till nearer the time and i'm sure a few will come available on this site (at face value).Quote:
Originally Posted by Shamrock
I hope you don't have to deal with the touts but they won't be that expensive. Tout prices for Germany v Argentina and Germany v Italy were €300 and €350 respectively. The Germans weren't paying that in either case by and large so it will be much cheaper than that for our one as they don't realise we're a far bigger team than the other 2. :D I reckon max €100 but why not do some work checking eventim and this site and you'll get them at face value.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shamrock
Does anyone know when people will find out if they are successful with their application for tickets with the Fai.
I rang the gimps the other day and was told, after an elongated pytonesque conversation with some foreign chick, that she could check if you're on the list but that they're not sending out the tickets til August(ie you won't know if you've been successful unless you ring them).Quote:
Originally Posted by KildareBhoy
The closing date for applications was only last Wednesday. Would guess it will be 2 or 3 weeks before they sort out applications from the various sources, Block Bookers, 10 year ticket holders, League clubs, the various Leagues up and down the country, supporters clubs, sponsors and corporates, players and officials and of course Ray Treacy :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by KildareBhoy
May be wrong, but would not expect to hear before the August Bank Holiday but would expect to hear before the Holland game.
Who is credited with writing that article in The Star?
Sorry Peadar,Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
Didn't get his or her name when i posted it the other day!!!
There's a lot of dodgy "journalists" prowling these pages... ;)
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Originally Posted by Superhoops
They will confirm if you have been successful, if you phone them.
The closing date for applications was May 26th.
They will post tickets out in August. But if you have tickets from the German agency and want to find out if you got FAI tickets. I'm also sure that you could return your FAI tickets as well if you were successful with the German agency.
Did you not read my previous post!
The closing date for registering for an application form was 26 May.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dismal
The closing date for submitting completed application forms was last Wednesday, 5th July on my form, several others had a closing date of 28th June, as discussed previously on this forum.
Not aware of any Block Booker who has yet been informed if they have been successful or not.
From your post i assume you dont think Ray Treacy should get tickets.... in fairness to Ray he brings the same gang to virtually every game and they are entitled to tickets....I still see some of the faces from the early 1980s on his trips....personally i would never travel with him as i dont need 5 star hotels and 5 star prices but he offers 10 times better value than our jumbo jet palQuote:
Originally Posted by Superhoops
Any one any Ideas of just how many tickets we've nicked from the Germans?
Not at all. I don't think you are right when you say he brings the same crowd to every game. He has a core of clients who travel to every game and no problem with them getting tickets. However, I think you will find that when tickets are more scarce, his allocation is not scaled down like everyone else, in fact I suspect it is actually increased as he is likely to have more travelling with him for such games as match tickets are guaranteed (so his adverts say)Quote:
Originally Posted by Forever Dreamin
In fairness, I think you will find that Michael at 747 has no guaranteed match tickets arrangements with the FAI. For games where there are plenty of tickets, I am sure he uses them all right, but when they are scarce from FAI he uses agents abroad to get tickets for him.
from what i know michael gets no tickets from the fai, they and he do not have any kind of relationship and i believe he uses agents for all games. What i would love to know is how these agents get so many tickets??Quote:
Originally Posted by Superhoops
Guys , just to let you know that the game is sold out . A colleague here told me that the German Fa Allocation are all sold. So thats the evintim.de Allocation and The DFB gone with the FAI sitting on 5,000 tickets to be allocated to the countless thousands who applied. oh and please check out my blog !!
Treacy gets tickets as he is the F.A.I.'s official Travel Agent. He runs good trips but they ar eoverpriced. I did travel with him 10 years ago when I won a free trip. I also know one of his regulars and they all swear by him.
None of the other agents get F.A.I. tickets AFAIK. Obviously for many away games they can buy them as Joe Public where demand does not exceed supply. However in most cases they source local tickets typically i nthe home end. They sometimes just don't offer a match ticket. For the game in Germany it would have been very easy to source tickets. A German Travel Agent would have bought 100-300 or whatever tickets as required.
only time i actually travelled with him was a stowaaway on his bus from amsterdam to rotterdam in 81 or 82;) ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by gspain
never heard one bad word about him except the price but you get what you pay for, and hea a real down to earth lad:ball:
Michael at 747 always gets tickets in the irish section along with Abbey travel. On many occasion I have bumped into people who travelled with them in bars and they are always sitting in the away end. In France last campaign and Switz in the last euros he had a few hundred and all had tickets in the fai allocated irish section.
I contacted the FAI and was told that they were still going through applications and it will be another few weeks before they inform applicants as to whether they were successful or not. Im expecting to find out in the first week of august.
First time to post a msg on the forum and feel a bit stupid now to have only only discovered the guide to the eventim.de website in the last week when of course they've no tkts left. Have flights and accommodation (I think) sorted but alas no tkts. Applied to FAI but as I'm not a bb etc, didn't have any joy there. Also trying on ebay but prices are getting a bit mad.
Anyone have any other suggestions? There's about six of us heading over....
Travelled with 747 to Paris. Michael sold us tickets of face value of €20 in the French end for €45. We were origionally told they were face value of €30 until we got them in our hands after we payed for them.Alot of other things didn't run smoothly with that trip as far as 747's arrangements were concerned. Transfers were late, he kept changing hotels and trying to get us to pay more for the privilage.Quote:
Originally Posted by reder
the eejits should have had the match at a bigger stadium, like dortmund, munich or berlin
It´s the fourth biggest in the country and those 3 all had 2 Germany matches at the WC. We haven´t had a qualifier here in ages!Quote:
Originally Posted by brine3
Sure, ye deserve a match, but I think the DFB might have underestimated the Irish travelling support here. We brought 40,000 to Stade de France, for example.
And why should the amount of travelling fans concern us? If you go without a ticket, that´s your problem ... and the FAI´s, but not ours.Quote:
Originally Posted by brine3
Seems most fans were on the ball with eventim for tickets, within the 1st couple of weeks when going on sale and posted on foot.ie they were delivered to Irish addresses without any problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by brine3
Ask the majority of the fans travelling where they would rather play this game. This is a return to where Ireland hit the big time , thanks to eventim have got tickets for virtually the same seats we were sitting in when Ray put the ball in the England net 18 years ago..................
BA flights / 2 nights 5* Hotel / match ticket - £240.......roll on September !!!
You won´t recognize the stadium if the last time you saw it was in 1988. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bring Back Mick
The Germans have shown with this WC how many top class stadiums they have. Seen as the DFB doesn't have it's own stadium they use different grounds around the country. Why shouldn't they use Stuttgart the countries 4th largest? It's a 55000 seater stadium remember. You are making it sound like some run down eL ground.Quote:
Originally Posted by brine3
Given I have free accomodation in Stuttgart, I commend the DFB on their wise decision.;)
nothing new about that:eek: :eek: :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by $Leon$
and do you think that the Germans care about how many we will bring, they could have sold out anygroud they wanted with their own supporters and we would only get 10% of the ground.Quote:
Originally Posted by brine3
what is most important is our friends in eventim gave us loads of tickets :D :D :D
Hi Lads
im looking for one ticket for this if anyone can help me please?
cheers!
I'd prefer Munich or Dortmund due to the absence of a running track
The german fa just have to take care of the german fans. As a previous poster said they can fill any ground in their country easily and they are following the rules by giving us 10%. Just because ireland bring a large away support to 1 or maybe 2 games in every campaign shouldnt entitle us to extra tickets. We only give away teams 3,000 for Lansdowne! Basel away part 1 had 20,000 irish fans in the city but the game in the WC qualifiers had about 2,500 at it max. The irish section wasnt even full.
I have 2 friends in Germany who were at all their world cup games and sales for the ireland match passed them by. They have no ticket now as do many other regular german fans. They are rightly annoyed and are all writing to the powers that be to get something done about it. (Personally, I dont think they can do squat about it but you can understand their frustration.)
To be honest the fact they have a system were the general public can buy tickets like ticketmaster for games is a joke to be honest. If I was a german fan I would be ****ed off with the German FA. The Irish fans did the right thing and used their resources.
I think the German FA underestimated the resources of the Irish fan. The French made the same mistake but I suppose the French public did not care for that team much until Zidane came back and they got to a world cup semi final and subsequent final