Tickets for Cup Match v. Cork City

[Monkfish]

I work on the gate on match nights and think there should be a facility of selling tickets on the night.

So there!
Ticket on sale for the last week on Ticketmaster, in the clubshop and at the game last night. If you, our someone you know cant get you one through these outlets then give Toutfish a ring the day of the game and he'll sort you out.
The Cork lads on banning orders need not apply, we know who you are!

[fc hammer]

So there!
Ticket on sale for the last week on Ticketmaster, in the clubshop and at the game last night. If you, our someone you know cant get you one through these outlets then give Toutfish a ring the day of the game and he'll sort you out.
The Cork lads on banning orders need not apply, we know who you are!

Don't worry about the cork lad's we'll be there on friday !

[redron]

I'm glad there's a few people getting worked up about this, because the situation is far from ideal.

First up, the capacity in Jackman Park is 2500.
Cork have already been allocated 600 tickets (apparently, they had initially asked for a thousand, but only given 600). I don't know how their sales have been going, but I wouldn't be surprised if they asked for a couple of hundred more.

The setup in Jackman Park for the ticket office and turnstiles is very bad (as far as I know, this was highlighted in the Licensing process).
I don't know who designed it, but the passage up to the ticket office and turnstiles is far too narrow to accomodate people moving smoothly in both directions. And even though there are two people working there, it's quite difficult to deal with two people at the same time at the ticket hatch. Really, the ticket office should be nowhere near the turnstiles.
So, the queue gets choked at the ticket hatch. And effectively there are only two turnstiles (one for people who pay at the ticket office, and one for season ticket holders, complimentaries, press, etc). The other two are generally redundant.
This is exaggerated by most people arriving at more-or-less the same time, quite close to kick-off. Thankfully, those who have had to queue and sometimes miss the first couple of minutes of the match have shown great patience and understanding, and there has been no trouble. But I can imagine that if we were getting 1500 at matches regularly, it would be really disastrous, and tempers would fray.

The problems at Jackman Park are not really the fault of Limerick 37*. As owners of the ground, the LDMC is ultimately responsible for the facilities there.

The club does not have enough volunteers to cope with a big crowd. Stewards, ticket sellers, programme sellers, shop workers, etc: they are all volunteers. Not only do they not get paid for the few hours work they put in at every match, they don't even get to watch the game!
There are only just enough stewards to deal with the crowds we have been having this year, and would find it difficult to deal with anything over 1000 (even with the few lads from Advance Security who have been there at recent matches).

I presume the reason for pushing people to buy their tickets in advance is to minimise the costs to the club.
For example, if the club hired extra security on the basis of a projected sellout crowd but only 1200 showed up, the cost of those security guards to cover the 1300 who didn't show up would make a big dent in the club's share of the income for the night.

If the match was on in Turner's Cross, ticket prices would be as follows:

Adult €15
Under 18 €8
O.A.P €8
Under 12 €5
Under 5 Free (when accompanied with adult, a ticket for the child must be obtained prior to the match)

Because this is a Cup match, the gate is shared with the opposition, and all arrangements for admission have to be agreed between the two teams. Therefore, the club cannot give out loads of complimentaries unless Cork City agreee to it. Presumably, since U12s are charged €5 to get into Turner's Cross, they would have been reluctant to see this potential income disappear. And I presume this is why OAPs have to pay €8 rather than the €5 they are usually charged. So if the club did want to give out other complimentary tickets they would in effect have to pay for them (or at least pay Cork the share of those tickets that would normally have gone to them).

Admission prices for Limerick 37 matches are actually very competitive. Those supporters who travel to away matches will have noticed that many of the other clubs in our division also charge the same prices as Cork City.

And getting back to the ticketing situation.
Presumably, unless the match is sold out in advance, there will be some mechanism for buying tickets on the night (the club can hardly afford to turn down potential income). That might mean keeping the shop open as a ticket office, or hiring a garden shed or something like that and plonking it somewhere reasonably close to the ground. Whatever arrangements are made, they would have to be approved by Cork City and the Gardai.


*Obviously, as the biggest tenants Limerick 37 could have quite an influence on improvements to the ground. And when that ticket office and turnstiles were going to be put in, someone should have realised that the design was wrong (as soon as I saw it I knew it would be problematic). And I realise that the club at the time had a major say in this.

[redron]

Just to let you all know, tickets for the Cup match v. Cork City will be on sale from the Super Blues Store on Davis Street on friday. The shop will remain open to sell tickets until at least 8:00pm.
There will be NO ENTRY to the ground without a ticket. There will be NO tickets on sale at the ground.

So let everyone know what the story is, and get them to drop by the Super Blues Store on their way to the ground in order to avoid any embarrassment or disappointment.
Hopefully everything will work out...

[micls]

Theres no way we'l be bring 600. Id say 300 max