No Chance, thats a joke!!!
Know a fella who got the letter this morning accepting him onto the BB scheme. He only joined the waiting list at the start of the current campaign. Joke.
No Chance, thats a joke!!!
Wish it was a joke. Looks like it was a random draw for the 49!Originally Posted by jok1
Whats the point of a list, should just give the tickets to the Event Junkies who will be in CP next week!
im about 550 last time i checked wih fai, about 9 months ago...im goosed aswell, avnt got the letter, but will be expecting it in tomorrows post...disgusting is what it is, an attempt to try a bully us wlisters into buying vantage club...I got the PFO letter as well, thing is im around 1200 too, and i dont actually know anyone below that number
'How can I hate women, my Mums one!!!' Chris Finch
No offence to any BB'ers or anyone who does this but the point is that the sale/transfer of tickets shouldn't be up to them. Some do as you say but not all and there's no obligation on them to do it.
Tickets should be distributed fairly by the FAI to those who attend matches regularly as they're the ones who have a record of this and if it was one ticket per person on the BB and waiting list schemes this would help in that.
*Edit: Forgot to say this would also enable people apply for tickets seated together by making joint applications and if supply exceeded demand then extra tickets could be allocated on a match by match basis to those at the top of the queue.
Last edited by eaststand85; 30/10/2009 at 1:58 PM.
I actually think block booking is about the fairest way of distributing tickets to fans.
BUT
Its been alleged many times over the years, pre-Croker, than elevation from the waiting list to block booker status bore little relation to your number/time on the list.
I must admit that I always put that down to incompetence rather than willful action, but in the last couple of years the Ticket Office seems to be run in a lot slicker way, with applications coming out a bit earlier and a smoother process all round.
As an IRFU 10 year ticket holder though they are still well behind the IRFU in getting tickets out to people in good time with a minimum of fuss.
Interesting to see how this plays out.
Did you not hear the news, Rafa B? Our old friend Rick Parry is the ticket allocation consultant for the FAI nowadays.
Got the letter myself this morning, pretty disgusted. The main problem is that people have anything up to 8 or 10 tickets with only 4 regulars going. With high demand they can shift the others.
Never forget going to all the home games for the WC 2002 only to be shafted for the play-offs so your man could give the ticket to his daughter. The FAI had an ideal chance to thin this process out by asking people did they want to cut their allocation.
I reckon all us waiting listers will be used to buy up those Vantage Club tickets while the FAI sit it out. Probably hoping that we get to the WC so interest sparks up again. Not the first time they've shafted proper fans.
And you ask me to help you??!! Man is evil!!!! Capable of nothing but destruction!
The timing of this announcement is quite frankly staggering - the pr in PR must be short for ***** - nice bit of momentum building for the next 2 weeks to the biggest game in 7 years and they go and **** off a sizeable proportion of dedicated fans, and that even before those not getting Paris tickets get notified. Unbelieveable
Still say May 2010 will be the deadline where the FAI have to bite the bullets and go for plan B. So not panicing just yet
Never felt so gutted after being rejected. Got my letter this morning too
However I'm still trying to get my head round the maths. Plenty of people have done the calculations on here before and it seems that on average, there'd be about 3000 tickets leftover after the move. It was broadly assumed that these would be for the WL. Where have they gone? Surely they can't be keeping them for general sale, why would they do that when they can guarantee those tickets will be sold by awarding them to the WL!
The timing is also very suspect. With the furore over tickets for the French games, maybe they think that by rejecting the whole WL, the knee-jerk reaction will be to take up Vantage club seats. Doesn't make much sense (can't see anyone paying that kind of money) but then this is the FAI we're talking about. I'll be amazed if there aren't more off the WL offered tickets closer to the move (wishful thinking maybe).
have been on the waiting list 8 years.
got the pfo letter this morning. have been taking 2 tickets for each match ive been offered (pointless friendlies in LR and all the croker games.)
now they are telling me thanks for the money, came in real handy to pay the rent in croker, now kindly pfo.
17,000 additional capacity and they offer 49 to ordinary fans..the numbers dont add up at all. Over 200million of the stadium was paid by the taxpayer (us) to pay for this new LR. Now the ordinary punter is not being accomadated, just the suits. This should be highlighted and made an issue on the airwaves. A huge waste of taxpayer money.
raging over the shower. expect to now get a pfo for france, even though ive been to all 9 of the 10 games in the group..
disgrace. shower of .......
Last edited by aidz1; 30/10/2009 at 9:11 PM.
I got the infamous pfo letter too, however I did get offered a ticket for France. How ironic. Dunno how I feel really. Well I do, gutted actually. I've gone out of my way consistently since I turned 18 to get to Ireland games, incl bribing a c*nt of a steward in Basle 400€ to get in, paying touts ridiculous amounts for tickets against Holland France and Switzerland.
And its not the money spent, as I'd do it all again ina heartbeat, its the prospect of not being surrounded by fellow minded supporters in the SS, the one genuine luxury I have in life.
Gutted. And its not something I'm going to forget in a hurry.
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
about number 994 on the list and no pfo yet but presume its on the way too...that i can take ....gettin no france away ticket after being at every game is just a bitter pill to swallow
Is the number on the letter not your number on the waiting list??
I could've sworn the offer of Croker tickets to waitlisters was with a heavy caveat that they were guaranteed for Croker only and all bets were off when it came back to Lansdowne?
Yes very much so, but understandably naturally enough given the new bigger LR a number of us WLs were hoping to be accomodated on the return. Im not sure how many is on the WL exactly but I know they have stopped taking applications with about 2 years or so. I have been on the WL for nearly a decade.
I joined it 5 years ago and after a year was no 1408 on the list.
Also in my search I found a reference to an email I Sent in complaining about a taoiseachs salute.. not seen that since oddly.
Anyway - gutted there's only a token wave at the waiting list. problem is we have almosst no way of fighting back. Let's face it the old block booking list with lads getting 8-10 tickets is going to be a millstone for years.
Vantage club is destined to be a disaster but the whole system has been pretty rubbish for years too.
The Rugby is going through a purple patch at the moment (their best ever in fact) so it's easy to see why they're over subscribed. There's people going to Rugby these days who have no clue of the game. A dip in fortunes in the future and LR might well be big enough for them.
I entered the waiting list some time in 2003. I tried previous to that but wasn't accepted on. By end of 2006 I was promoted to the full BB list. So I didn't even have a 3 year wait and I remember at the time that a lot of others got bumped up too.
Is correct. Was stressed in almost every letter that the FAI sent out at the time as regular block bookers were also given the opportunity to increase their allocations. It was made clear that on return to LR the old allocations would apply.
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