Brazil Tickets

**Beavis** · 21/01/2004, 11:58 PM

I think people like Lopez,who went to Iran(God knows I would have if wasn't a broke student) should definitely be given priority when it comes to games.The same discussion is had among Dublin fans regularly,you go to every Championship and league game but as soon as we get to the Leinster final you cam't get a ticket for love nor money.

But what's to be done?I'd propose that if you can present your ticket stubs from away and home at Merrion Square that they should guarentee you a ticket (they'd mark the ticket so they couldn't be shared around).

For 2G such as Junior it's a different story,evey home game comes at the expense of an away game but to the Irish living population if some games your just 'not @rsed',then I would gladly brand them as partimers

**lopez** · 22/01/2004, 1:52 PM

Originally posted by Beavis
I think people like Lopez,who went to Iran(God knows I would have if wasn't a broke student) should definitely be given priority when it comes to games...

Beavis, thanks for your support but I was only messing about being a priority. There are various arguments that should prioritise who gets tickets. I don't go to home games much so I shouldn't get a ticket in front of anyone else just because Brazil are in town.

What makes me sick is the sight of mates who had been to every away game of the last campaign (and the one before) plus the friendlies in Athens and Glasgow standing outside Basel Stadium when I know there are people inside who are part-timers there just so they can tell the mates at work. The FAI have IMO got it right for the home games. Block bookings (season tickets in effect) will favour the committed fan, and for the games you can't get to, you can always give/sell them to someone else. It's the away tickets that the FAI f*ck up on. They need some sort of registry scheme like what happens with the Scots and Tans. Just because someone goes to all the home games doesn't mean he should jump the queue for crunch, easy to get to, full of Irish bars, away games.

BTW, Iran is a brilliant country, and I would not have preferred to be at home with twelve pints rolling down my throat. Shame I only had two nights.

**soccerc** · 22/01/2004, 2:18 PM

Originally posted by lopez
The FAI have IMO got it right for the home games. Block bookings (season tickets in effect) will favour the committed fan, and for the games you can't get to, you can always give/sell them to someone else. It's the away tickets that the FAI f*ck up on. They need some sort of registry scheme like what happens with the Scots and Tans. Just because someone goes to all the home games doesn't mean he should jump the queue for crunch, easy to get to, full of Irish bars, away games.

Rightly so, and I know that this is something being seriously considered by the FAI.

Indeed, the eircom League fans initiative has helped this process along and I would say has been instrumental in seeing a new system being introduced in the very near future.

Watch this space!

**Peadar** · 22/01/2004, 2:37 PM

Originally posted by soccerc
Rightly so, and I know that this is something being seriously considered by the FAI.

Something needs to be sorted for the short term anyway.
Realistically we'll have at least two international qualifying campaigns to play before we have a new stadium to play in.
As it stands the ticket situation is poorly managed and plays directly into the hands of touts.

**Ozymandias** · 22/01/2004, 4:21 PM

Lads all the FAI have to do is introduce a loyalty system...most FA's and clubs have them.....It would nmake life simpler and would have meant I would have got a ticket for Basel NAd not get let down by Euroteam and scalped by a tout for a finish

C'mon Fran....do the decent thing

**gspain** · 23/01/2004, 8:12 AM

Originally posted by lopez
Beavis, thanks for your support but I was only messing about being a priority. There are various arguments that should prioritise who gets tickets. I don't go to home games much so I shouldn't get a ticket in front of anyone else just because Brazil are in town.

What makes me sick is the sight of mates who had been to every away game of the last campaign (and the one before) plus the friendlies in Athens and Glasgow standing outside Basel Stadium when I know there are people inside who are part-timers there just so they can tell the mates at work. The FAI have IMO got it right for the home games. Block bookings (season tickets in effect) will favour the committed fan, and for the games you can't get to, you can always give/sell them to someone else. It's the away tickets that the FAI f*ck up on. They need some sort of registry scheme like what happens with the Scots and Tans. Just because someone goes to all the home games doesn't mean he should jump the queue for crunch, easy to get to, full of Irish bars, away games.

BTW, Iran is a brilliant country, and I would not have preferred to be at home with twelve pints rolling down my throat. Shame I only had two nights.

Agreed definitely need a travel club of sorts for the away games. Tartan Army seems like a good model. Ditto for major finals then - if you thought Basle was bad imagine the queue if we'd qualified and got the same numbe rof tickets for a smaller ground in Portugal.

In fairness though it was the first ever away game (outside of major finals) that there was a real issue with tickets (Brussels 97 was a problem but I think everyone got in in the end that travelled)

**lopez** · 23/01/2004, 9:55 AM

Originally posted by gspain
In fairness though it was the first ever away game (outside of major finals) that there was a real issue with tickets (Brussels 97 was a problem but I think everyone got in in the end that travelled)

It shows how bad the problem is with the event junkies that we've had two crunch away qualifiers and two play-offs, of which of the four, three have been in less than salubrious cities (Skopje, Bursa and Tehran), and where tickets have not been a problem. I can understand the cost factor (for Tehran the Ray Crazy travel and co. were I heard asking a �1000) but you can always get cheaper flights if people looked around (I paid �550 for Tehran). The cost for many isn't a problem. Taking account the price of a pint of Guinness in a Basel Irish pub, are shows that the event junkies are far from bothered about money.

BTW, is it me or does anyone agree with that 'Irish' pubs (as in theme pubs as opposed to pubs where the Irish community drink, which may go by the name of The King William of Orange) in foreign cities are best avoided.

**sylvo** · 24/01/2004, 8:45 PM

You drink in Irish bar's in place's like, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol, Liverpool, Hemel Hempstead, New york, Boston, Sydney etc. place's where there are massive Irish emigrant community's, but in place's in europe where Ireland are playing it's people with golf club's and day trip itinary that bev in them bar's and the beer alway's much more expensive, waxie o'shamrock's in the Faroe island's will be rocking

**lopez** · 25/01/2004, 12:50 PM

Originally posted by sylvo
You drink in Irish bar's in place's like, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol, Liverpool, Hemel Hempstead, New york, Boston, Sydney etc. place's where there are massive Irish emigrant community's, but in place's in europe where Ireland are playing it's people with golf club's and day trip itinary that bev in them bar's and the beer alway's much more expensive, waxie o'shamrock's in the Faroe island's will be rocking

It'll be rocking expensive.

BTW, I've moved from Harlem Hempstead to Luton. I've been told that there is a 'papist' team there where I can go along for a no-nonsense chucky - oke, so I was.