QuoteThey were offered a reduced price not free tickets as far as I know. Don't know how many took up the offer of the 40/50 teams there but i'd say 500 is about rightOriginally Posted by wonder88
Teams were sold tickets, not given.
They were offered a reduced price not free tickets as far as I know. Don't know how many took up the offer of the 40/50 teams there but i'd say 500 is about right
I heard around 400+. Good initiative by the club and everybody seemed to enjoy their night, except for the healthy Dundalk travelling support.
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When you look at the 5 possible opponents there is not a huge gulf between them. Some say its a good draw and others say bad draw but I think all 5 can be considered good and bad draws when actually analyzing them. For me, Dundalk would have a chance against all of the them. Before Wednesday's games, I was thinking if they avoid Olympiakos, then that would be a successful draw and since they were eliminated altogether gives me hope that Dundalk can actually do it but they need to at their very very best, which is a tough ask for a LOI team to do on a regular basis in European football.
If Dundalk do end up in the Europa League, you would want to hope that they avoid clashing with Manchester United's games, you would like the so called 'neutral fans' to have some reason to watch Dundalk's games and if that clash does happen it would obviously not help.
Any word on when tickets go on sale and where online. Have a few people here in Limerick asking me looking to get on the bandwagon.
How are dundalk only 5000/1 to win the champions league
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I know it's not related but I found it interesting that Dundalk were getting good coverage after making the playoffs and then the GAA out of the blue announce an idea about a top 8 group stage.
Dundalk's and Cork's progress in Europe has been far more interesting than the GAA championships to date.
Yes but the GAA always react quickly.
During the recent European Championships the GAA had their adverts showing during the ad breaks.
The GAA are always thinking ahead while the FAI just stand still.
They need to. The Championship is in decline yoy. The Provincials are a joke. Attendances are down, particularly in the Hurling. The GAA have been living off their reputation for too long and presuming the All Ireland takes care of itself. It does to an extent but that should never be taken for granted. They are lucky that the Association responsible for the most popular Sport in this Country are the real amateurs.
The GAA championship has a poor format. Over 2 months of action before it gets interesting for 6 weeks.
The majority on here within LoI circles probably can't relate to the fact that the LoI lacks a national vibrancy. An intermediary league is the solution. Some within the league have called for a reserve league. Enough said.
Enough said as in there will be no need to say it again?
The ball is round and has many surprises.
Ah no! I will keep banging on about it.Enough said as in there will be no need to say it again?
Nearly snorted my mouthful of tea reading that
It is true though that Gaelic Games is suffering at the moment. I used to take a passive interest every summer and even go to the odd game in Dublin/Navan or the like. I have no idea what stage the competitions are at currently other than to guess that Dublin, Kerry, Donegal, Mayo are probably the last 4 in football and Kilkenny, Tipperary, Galway and one of the others of Clare, Wexfford, Waterford, Cork, Limerick are left in the Hurling. It's about as interesting as the SPL....
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The GAA managed to get 120k to go to Croker this weekend, and there will be 70-80k attendance at the two hurling semi-finals next week. The Gaelic championships, and games in general have their problems but lets keep it a bit realistic here folks.
Dublin were in Croke Park yesterday. The double header led to the first full house. 35k for today's hurling semi-final was low for that stage. The replay and other semi-final will help a bigger crowd. You're right to bring that realism though. It's a relative decline in GAA terms but still decent attendances.
Cork GAA are doing a fine job at aiding this decline. Allied with Munster Rugby basically being a Limerick thing now, we have a huge catchment of people with nobody to support......except us......which is great tbh!
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What is this "Gaelic Football" you are talking about.
The next time they have a world cup for it, I'll check it out.
I always find it ironic that the media (and many non Football people) refer to the game played far less with your feet as Football and the game played predominantly with your feet as Soccer. Growing up it was Football and Gaelic Football. Somewhere in the mid to late 90s that abomination of a word started to be the De Facto name for Football. When did we decide to be like the Yanks and the Aussies? I blame USA 94 personally.
I'm not a fan of the word soccer but it was originally used in the late 19th century as an abbreviation for Association Football. I call it football anyway, and just Gaelic for the other.
I know of the origins of the word but how it became to be so widely used, so quickly in modern lexicon is a strange one.
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