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How many times can we shoot ourselves in the foot on one tour?!
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The legacy of this tour should be a new forwards coach and a skills coach.
Do you not think that we are just knackered at the end of a long season?
We have too small a player pool imo to play Rugby from August to june every year?
Our scrum has been poor for years, our lineout has been weak since the Autumn tour.
We can't have it both ways with the Southern Hemisphere sides, lauding victory against them at the end of their season in the Autumn and then claing tiredness when the shoe is on the other foot.
Wont get any sympathy here I know but still I thought id highlight the disgraceful ticket prices for the Autumn international series at the Pallindrome in November.
Cheapest ticket for the New Zealand and South Africa games is 100 euros, 90 euros for the Argentina game, and 50 euro for the Samoa game. The clincher then is that you must buy a ticket for all 4 games - 340 euros! Before expenses etc.
An absolute disgrace. I thought the football prices were a bit on the steep side! These are double!
Same story for the 6 nations in the autumn. 100e each for England and France.
Too rich for my blood.
Yup disgraceful prices. Hopefully people will boycott them and let the stadium rot being empty. Talk about making sport very elitist.
On a selfish personal note they make the 10 year tickets slightly better value.....
Expensive enough, are all tickets distributed through the clubs at this price? presumably even though there's no terrace there are still schoolboy tickets at a reduced price?
Not sure if the club tickets are different, schoolboy tickets are 40 each for the big games and , 35 for the Pumas and 20 for the Samoa game. So 2 adults and 2 children for 1 game is 280 , and thats assuming you can buy for 1 game, which you can't so an average family of 4 it will cost €950 to attend the 4 games.
I hope people vote with thier feet. Is this the only way we can keep these players at home?
By having most of our big games on pay tv and charging this for the internationals ?
I'd say its probably the only way we can pay for the stadium.
If tickets aren't discounted through the clubs, its too much IMO. Personally though, I've no problem with those who aren't involved in club rugby being charged those prices.
Well tickets I used to get in Lansdowne and Croker through local clubs were the same price as general sale tickets.
The prices are too much regardless, some people don't have the wherewithall to be involved due to family, travel, work commitments etc. Same in any sport. Fine if you want to fleece the day-trippers but don't fleece everybody.
I think clubs can sell them as individual tickets, not as the package.Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
I personally don't have too much of a problem with the prices. Obviously, there are genuine supporters not involved with clubs, but there's a hell of a lot of bandwagoners as well. Fleece them while rugby is popular.
I'm sure the GAA heads in the media and especially RTE (who seperately pay to sponsor and broadcast the GAA) will take full advantage to have a pop at the "foreign games" to distract from their own ticketing price issues and criticisms this summer.
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IRFU on the defensive: http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/rug...277196850.html
Bit of an odd one in there: "Irish Rugby is the only fully professional sport in Ireland and the only dividend that the IRFU produces is one of participation in sport".
They have 4 professional teams.. the FAI have at least as many. I wonder how they define "fully professional".
On the issue at hand- those prices just seem like a step too far and they may well regret it. More power to them if they can make it stick though.
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Leinster have also moved two games from the RDS to the Aviva. Magners league v Munster and the Clermont Auvergne game in the Heineken cup. Their lease with the RDS states they must play 13 games there a season, but the two Italian clubs in the league are extra so they've moved the 2 big games to the Aviva. I think I read they're charging €30
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They will have no problem selling them this year with AB's, Argentina, Saffa's and England and France all at home.
Next year will be a different story with Scotland, Wales and Italy (is there even Autumn internationals next year with the World Cup only finishing in late Oct?).
Warm-up games against France, England and Argentina, I think. Not sure of the location.
I've asked a few here in work that are giving out whether they were going to pick the Argentina or Samoa games out of the four. Kinda took the wind out of their sails. When you strip it out, people aren't giving out about the prices for the Blacks and South Africa games - they are giving out about having to take the other tickets too. Big game charlies - the blight of all Irish sports.
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