Ticket Price Hike!

[galwayhoop]

GHoop as far as I know that is to cover the cost of repaying the loan to build Croker. and the additional costs

don't know bout that. you often hear the GAA wondering if x,y or z game should be played in CP or not .

their repayments are an annual figure like anyones mortgage etc but there is an additional running cost associated with the actual use of the venue for events which includes insurance (extra for each game on top of annual payment and quite high i'd assume), payment of gardai (and all of whom are surely on overtime!), stewards (inside and outside the venue), staff for the ground (turnstiles, food and beverage counters, cleaning staff) and i think that they have a fee to pay the corpo for road closing licenses, parking facilities ... etc

i pressume that they budget a certain amount of revenue from the total number of games played in any year toward servicing the debt but this obviously decreases the amount needed from each individual game the more times they play there.

[paul_oshea]

don't know bout that. you often hear the GAA wondering if x,y or z game should be played in CP or not .

their repayments are an annual figure like anyones mortgage etc but there is an additional running cost associated with the actual use of the venue for events which includes insurance (extra for each game on top of annual payment and quite high i'd assume), payment of gardai (and all of whom are surely on overtime!), stewards (inside and outside the venue), staff for the ground (turnstiles, food and beverage counters, cleaning staff) and i think that they have a fee to pay the corpo for road closing licenses, parking facilities ... etc

i pressume that they budget a certain amount of revenue from the total number of games played in any year toward servicing the debt but this obviously decreases the amount needed from each individual game the more times they play there.

3/4 of these apply already at landsdowne, they dont get much bigger just becaues the ground gets bigger!!!!

[endabob1]

3/4 of these apply already at landsdowne, they dont get much bigger just becaues the ground gets bigger!!!!

Payment of Insurance will be directly linked to the number of people coming to the event -
Payment of Gardai costs will be based on the number of Garda required which
will be directly linked to the number of people coming to the event -
Payment of Stadium staff Stewards etc.... will be directly linked to the number of people coming to the event -

Sure there will be some fixed costs but given that an all seated lansdowne holds 36,000 and all seated Croker will be double that I think it's a reasonable assumption that there will be a sizeable increase in costs on top of the rent to the gaa

[paul_oshea]

ok i should have read that properly, bad day today....i knew insurance and gardai, i was more on about road closures/ground staff/parking facilities, all pretty much the same.

thing is it will be so much easier to get to croker and parking for those coming from outside dublin, paricurlaly, south west, west, north west/north and airport.

[Ash]

The poor call care/receptionists that work there....they must always get people giving them abuse, because of those that have the power to make decisions!!!

I have to say that for the San Marino game I never spoke to a more ignorant
person in the ticket office in my life. I didn't get a chance to get her name as
Mary took over the call mid conversation.

Basically, I rang to ask about tickets being sent out and payment.
Started by explaining that I had my own block booking of 1 ticket which I had received with the Czech game, no problems, and so I was calling in relation to the eircom League Supporters allocation for ATFC which I administer.

She put me on hold and a few minutes later said I had already received the
tickets. I explained to her again, slowly, that I'd received my own 1 ticket
but was looking for the 10 for the ATFC supporters allocation. Asked her if she understood, she said yes, put me on hold again and a few minutes later said I had already received the tickets months ago and that it was in the system.

After a few more conversations like this I asked was the payment in the
system as I had no tickets and no money was taken from my account to which she said "yes its in the system".

Again I asked her again and quite rudely and abruptly she declared that I already had the tickets.

I then asked her what was I going to do with 10 people looking for tickets
that I haven't got, to which she replied "10, your only in the system for 1"
So I began to explain again about the allocation which she replied
"Well, why didn't you say that"
I replied "excuse me but I explained that a number of times" ... which she replied "No, you didn't" ... to which I replied "I most certainly did and on all occasions I asked if you understood, which you said you did" ... this went
on, back an forth for a few minutes until mid "arguement", the line cut to
Marys extension and the matter was resolved in under a minute as the tickets were on her desk.

Hopefully Emma will be back working there soon!

[paul_oshea]

women doing a mans job - sorting out tickets thats the problem

[pineapple stu]

I rang them to give out and I was told that I should put a little note on my application form saying that I want to be in a singing section.

Utter utter incompetent shower of idiots! And worse than that, I actually gave them a press release to issue to the papers to highlight the scheme for when the forms were being sent out! F***ing morons. I'll get on to them myself - I'd like a laugh listening to their excuse.

[aidz1]

Payment of Insurance will be directly linked to the number of people coming to the event -
Payment of Gardai costs will be based on the number of Garda required which
will be directly linked to the number of people coming to the event -
Payment of Stadium staff Stewards etc.... will be directly linked to the number of people coming to the event -

Sure there will be some fixed costs but given that an all seated lansdowne holds 36,000 and all seated Croker will be double that I think it's a reasonable assumption that there will be a sizeable increase in costs on top of the rent to the gaa

but landsdowne was liable for rent too, albeit a smaller amount.
i reckon that the projected net intake for the fai per seat surely must be vastly greater than that achieved at landsdowne....

[Dodge]

but landsdowne was liable for rent too, albeit a smaller amount.
i reckon that the projected net intake for the fai per seat surely must be vastly greater than that achieved at landsdowne....

Of course it is but as mentioned earlier we won't be allowed play friendlies there so overall we won't be much better off.

[paul_oshea]

Of course it is but as mentioned earlier we won't be allowed play friendlies there so overall we won't be much better off.

ha? what has that got to with intake PER seat?

[galwayhoop]

ha? what has that got to with intake PER seat?

i persume that he is talkin about the take per seat per game. therefore if you play less games your figure for the overall period will level itself off

[Dodge]

Nothing, If they kept the prices at Lansdowne levels, overall FAI income would be massively down. Seeing as they can't organise more games, they have to raise prices just to keep income levels where they are. And its how many games? 4/5? Not too big an increase IMO

[Student Mullet]

I'll pay the extra 20 quid for these games if it means I don't have to buy tickets for stupid friendlies.

[galwayhoop]

fair point. will probably end up costing less!!

[paul_oshea]

Nothing, If they kept the prices at Lansdowne levels, overall FAI income would be massively down. Seeing as they can't organise more games, they have to raise prices just to keep income levels where they are. And its how many games? 4/5? Not too big an increase IMO

have to agree, its not too big in fairness, all things considered ( like those bigots at G.A.A headquarters ).

[Kingdom]

have to agree, its not too big in fairness, all things considered ( like those bigots at G.A.A headquarters ).

I don't believe for one minute that when we go back to Lansdowne the prices will be reduced. And until they start proving that they are capable of using money correctly then then I don't believe increased ticket prices (in Landsowne) can be justified.

[Schumi]

I'll pay the extra 20 quid for these games if it means I don't have to buy tickets for stupid friendlies.

The last game of the group v Cyprus might as well be a friendly in fairness.

[Student Mullet]

The last game of the group v Cyprus might as well be a friendly in fairness.

I dinno, it could be a six pointer to decide 6th place,

[SUB of the day]

The ROI football team will play at GAA HQ in their next home game.This is huge, seismic, historic.The whingefest in this thread is so off the mark.75,000 fans in a worldclass stadium, I can't wait, and would pay well over 50 euro to be at the first one.BTW the cheapest rugby ticket is 80 euro...nuff said.

[Student Mullet]

The ROI football team will play at GAA HQ in their next home game.This is huge, seismic, historic.The whingefest in this thread is so off the mark.75,000 fans in a worldclass stadium, I can't wait, and would pay well over 50 euro to be at the first one.BTW the cheapest rugby ticket is 80 euro...nuff said.

The cheapest rugby ticket is 30 euro.