Delaney wants England friendly at New Lansdowne

[elroy]

Anyone heard anything concrete on how the corporate tickets are selling? Plenty of advertising for them anyways

[geysir]

The main concern for Delaney and the FAI is to sell enough of the 10 year vantage tickets to keep the FAI totally solvent on the Stadium costs. At €7k to €12k cash down plus a guaranteed annual fee, wouldn't selling 5,000 of them be just about enough?

The main match day income will be needed elsewhere.

[eirebhoy]

I asked this before and can't remember if I got an answer. If they did sell half, what happens to the other 5,000 seats? I'm guessing they'd have to keep lowering the price for all 10,000 until all 10,000 (or very close to that) are sold?

[OwlsFan]

i could be wrong but i dont think there is the scumbag hooligan element to the england rugby fans owlsfan -- i would say thats more the reason why the gaa wont have the english soccer team in croker rather than the historical associations with 1920

But Delaney never mentioned fans. I was just commentating on the reason he gave:

"Ireland have been playing their home games at Croke Park and the FAI chief executive John Delaney has admitted it would be virtually impossible to host England there because of the historical associations with Bloody Sunday in 1920."

[boovidge]

Matiure isn't quite the right word for it. For the most part, rugby draws from a higher socio-economic group then does football. That lends itself to more orderly fans as they tend to be more "corporate" (i.e. they attend with clients and co-workers etc.) as well as being economically advantaged enough that causing mayhem is not their first goal. Now this is a generalization but it's somewhat of a reasonable one.

I think you're giving the reasons why they are more mature. Better education and better upbringing.

[geysir]

I asked this before and can't remember if I got an answer. If they did sell half, what happens to the other 5,000 seats? I'm guessing they'd have to keep lowering the price for all 10,000 until all 10,000 (or very close to that) are sold?

Afaia they will keep trying to sell them over the first few years as a block at the same going rate.
But in the meantime, sell the unsold block vantage seats on a game by game basis through the FAI.

The FAI offer as one of the terms that if you have a vantage seat but can't attend you can sell the seat for the game through the FAI.
They will be selling vantage seats anyway on a game by game basis.

[gspain]

Afaia they will keep trying to sell them over the first few years as a block at the same going rate.
But in the meantime, sell the unsold block vantage seats on a game by game basis through the FAI.

The FAI offer as one of the terms that if you have a vantage seat but can't attend you can sell the seat for the game through the FAI.
They will be selling vantage seats anyway on a game by game basis.

That is my understanding too.

no idea how they are selling but I can't believe they are selling well. I can't believe anything is selling well actually in the current climate.

[bennocelt]

I think you're giving the reasons why they are more mature. Better education and better upbringing.

so people who are working class (like myself) must be right old hooligans then