Airtiricity League XI v Manchester United confirmed for Aviva Stadium on August 4

[marinobohs]

As pasing interest points out, the dry runs are usually low key games. They start small to iron out gliches that come from the stadiums being full of numpties without a clue where they're going, what to do at a match etc. It's a PR disaster waiting to happen for the FAI on that front, imo.

Still, once people get the chance to wave their green and gold scarves whilst paying the glazers debts, who am I to argue...

........ and I bet you some "fans" will forget to bring thier 3D specs At least the green/gold colours will save some embarrasment for those clowns supporting a foreign team over an Irish team (they can pretent its Irish colours). Wait until they discover there is no action replays !

[SupaJon]

...or half time commentary from Andy Gray!

[Schumi]

I would have thought there would be some rugger games (as it's the IRFU's stadium) to be the actual opening games and safety certificate games. I'm assuming the Argentina & United games are the FAI's first but not the stadiums

Yeah, Leinster/Ulster v Munster/Connacht is the first game in the stadium. At least I won't be missing the first game there by ignoring this nonsense.

[Jofspring]

When Thomond Park re-opened it was at reduced capacity for the frst few games. They played an U20 munster match as the first game and after about 3 matches they finally opened it to full capacity.

[SupaJon]

There'll be absolute riots at this match if they run out of prawn sandwiches!

[pixiehead]

Going to E-Mail MNS to see what the panel think. Personally this is a joke but at the same time I think every fan should attend to make massive noise for our league! We have some of the best and Noiseist fans around so why not get together as one league and show a massive support for OUR LEAGUE!!!

[Lim till i die]

Going to E-Mail MNS to see what the panel think. Personally this is a joke but at the same time I think every fan should attend to make massive noise for our league! We have some of the best and Noiseist fans around so why not get together as one league and show a massive support for OUR LEAGUE!!!

Why does it matter what the MNS panel think??

You think it's a joke but you think everyone should go??

I don't support the league, I support Limerick FC (or whatever form we are taking any particular year).

[Redie]

Surely the tickets for this match should go on sale inside each ground on match days and clubs allowed to keep a percentage of their sales.

[Lim till i die]

Or clubs could sell stuff in their grounds that they get 100% of the sales from

[Buller]

Surely the tickets for this match should go on sale inside each ground on match days and clubs allowed to keep a percentage of their sales.

Thats what should happen...

[outspoken]

everyone seems so against this game but I think it can be a great thing for our league. It will give the LOI great exposure and will give fans and players the chance to see and take on utd.
The problems though could be that LOI clubs are unlikely to release players as they game takes place during a crucial period in the league and BOHS and ROVERS is also on a day before/after. Also Utd will probably have reserves on show also if any players do play well an English side will rob them away and if we get hammered our league becomes a laugh. the cons weigh out the pros by the look of things. BOHS and ROVERS might have been a better choice by the FAI , but lets hope it goes well.

[Lim till i die]

but lets hope it goes well.

I hope it collapses on its aras, along with that one crap end of the ground if at all possible.

[OneRedArmy]

Surely the tickets for this match should go on sale inside each ground on match days and clubs allowed to keep a percentage of their sales.

The last time Derry played Man U, the tickets were sold in this manner and we had the cringeworthy (yet financially rewarding) sight of people travelling long distances arriving in the ground, buying tickets, and not even staying to watch the league game that was on.

Football fans indeed....

[Straightstory]

Article on extratime.
Not quite sure I could stomach the company of that many barstoolers to go along myself.

Couldn't agree more. What a bunch of ******s the FAI are. I think I might actually leave the country for a few days to avoid the embarrassment of the Barstoolers Day Out. Ugh!

[micls]

The last time Derry played Man U, the tickets were sold in this manner and we had the cringeworthy (yet financially rewarding) sight of people travelling long distances arriving in the ground, buying tickets, and not even staying to watch the league game that was on.

Football fans indeed....

I wouldn't mind once we got their tenner....

[Dodge]

Intesting point made by Butsy here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5LMeMh_aAU

In the week leading up to the Setatna Cup final, the FAI chose to announce their friendly rather than promote the final...

[Mr A]

The last time Derry played Man U, the tickets were sold in this manner and we had the cringeworthy (yet financially rewarding) sight of people travelling long distances arriving in the ground, buying tickets, and not even staying to watch the league game that was on.

Football fans indeed....

We had the same for our Celtic Friendly.

[MariborKev]

The Indo mentioned today that there is a row as apparently Vantage club tickets won't cover this game. Though, for anyone stupid enough to buy them they probably deserve to pay again for this match.

[Lim till i die]

This farce doesn't adversely clash with any other fixtures by any chance does it guys??

[Longfordian]

The last time Derry played Man U, the tickets were sold in this manner and we had the cringeworthy (yet financially rewarding) sight of people travelling long distances arriving in the ground, buying tickets, and not even staying to watch the league game that was on.

Football fans indeed....

We actually had a worse situation in 2003 or 2004. We were selling cup final tickets at a home game, people came in queued to buy them and didn't even bother to stay and watch the game of the team they were buying tickets to watch the following week!. Says alot about the Longford sporting public, I'm in no doubt they'd do the same if it was a GAA team in a final.