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GAA To Start Charging Children Who Attend League Games

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Replying To yew_tree:  "A fiver….so what? The price of a pint."
Sometimes I think you're being controversial on purpose you know

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3228 - 13/12/2024 07:14:51    2583395

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Replying To yew_tree:  "A fiver….so what? The price of a pint."
So I just bring one of the 4 children then?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14127 - 13/12/2024 08:00:16    2583398

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Replying To Canuck:  "From your posts you are an example of what a genuine gaa support represents club and county level. As a dad unselfish with joy taking four child with what that entails minding and cost wise. I wonder do the people doing this crap even cast a thought on this. Always throwing out the baby with the bath water. If it is safety issues start off by allowing all kids with adults free. Or a stewarded area for unaccompanied. This is not baby sitting. Or if it is, stewards are baby sitters for adults also. If buying tickets on line have it noted in the ticket request child request. Several ways of doing this without the nuclear option. Maybe kids going down to the local pitch for a kick or puck around should not be allowed except an adult is there."
Thanks Canuck

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14127 - 13/12/2024 08:01:06    2583400

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Replying To Canuck:  "From your posts you are an example of what a genuine gaa support represents club and county level. As a dad unselfish with joy taking four child with what that entails minding and cost wise. I wonder do the people doing this crap even cast a thought on this. Always throwing out the baby with the bath water. If it is safety issues start off by allowing all kids with adults free. Or a stewarded area for unaccompanied. This is not baby sitting. Or if it is, stewards are baby sitters for adults also. If buying tickets on line have it noted in the ticket request child request. Several ways of doing this without the nuclear option. Maybe kids going down to the local pitch for a kick or puck around should not be allowed except an adult is there."
Exactly.

Simple solution to all this - kids must be accompanied by an adult to games - H/S argument gone out the window then.

If the GAA are that stuck for cash - let u12's in free, and 13-16's in on a family discount.
Cant buy a child ticket without buying an adult ticket.

Being selective on kids being charged for certain League Division games is a nonsense, and only a precursor for it being introduced across the board, inc Club games imo.

Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4052 - 13/12/2024 09:19:00    2583404

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Replying To yew_tree:  "A fiver….so what? The price of a pint."
Jaysus you would doing well to find a pint a fiver these days.

Ollie2 (Louth) - Posts: 938 - 13/12/2024 09:32:58    2583407

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Replying To Ollie2:  "Jaysus you would doing well to find a pint a fiver these days."
Temple Bar charging €11 these days....

Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4052 - 13/12/2024 09:39:33    2583408

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Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "The only joke here is the dire way the game is being currently played…that's why a review committee was set up to dramatically change the way the game is played…. never in the history of the game has so many changes been made at the one time .. Funny how the old cost of living crisis line that's always used as an excuse hasn't had any effect whatsoever on attendance figures for Hurling championship games…. I wonder why… ? Try and work it out …!"
Another thing you want to ignore is that hurling has less counties that take the game seriously, therefore, less matches to attend and usually, with the exception of maybe Cork and Galway, fans that follow only hurling because their county doesn't compete at the top end of football. Important information that you blissfully ignore along with pricing that's never been higher, petrol that's never been higher, cost of food and drink, especially in Dublin, has never been higher. I'm sure you think so long as the football is played the way you want it played that all this stuff just comes for free on match day for struggling families! Anyways, I'll let you get back to complaining, it's been a few hours so you're probably getting withdrawals by now.

SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2513 - 13/12/2024 10:10:33    2583412

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Replying To Fionn:  "Temple Bar charging €11 these days...."
I heard that's only Happy Hour prices.

Ollie2 (Louth) - Posts: 938 - 13/12/2024 11:06:46    2583424

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Season ticket for the kids is €30. There is all the league games paid for and guaranteed seats for the family at championship games.

LohansRedHelmet (Clare) - Posts: 2683 - 13/12/2024 11:42:33    2583428

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Replying To LohansRedHelmet:  "Season ticket for the kids is €30. There is all the league games paid for and guaranteed seats for the family at championship games."
So not a discounted rate then?

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3228 - 13/12/2024 11:54:02    2583431

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Replying To SaffronDon:  "Another thing you want to ignore is that hurling has less counties that take the game seriously, therefore, less matches to attend and usually, with the exception of maybe Cork and Galway, fans that follow only hurling because their county doesn't compete at the top end of football. Important information that you blissfully ignore along with pricing that's never been higher, petrol that's never been higher, cost of food and drink, especially in Dublin, has never been higher. I'm sure you think so long as the football is played the way you want it played that all this stuff just comes for free on match day for struggling families! Anyways, I'll let you get back to complaining, it's been a few hours so you're probably getting withdrawals by now."
Even someone as naive as you can surely admit that the football being served up at County level is disastrous..: you could hear a pin drop at most matches they are that boring… This is why because of paltry attendance figures the GAA have introduced a sneaky entrance fee for kids which really means adult tickets are increased by at least €5 depending on the number of children going with them.. I think this will backfire badly on the GAA because people in general aren't stupid enough to pay extra money in to see a bore fest….!

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3154 - 13/12/2024 13:16:44    2583440

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Replying To Doylerwex:  "Sometimes I think you're being controversial on purpose you know"
Really? I've been around here a long time mate. I'd like to think more along the lines of common sense.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11426 - 13/12/2024 13:58:15    2583445

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It's a fiver now, in 5-10 years it will be adult prices because we can't discriminate against kids who feel they are adults

boxtyburgerbuns (Leitrim) - Posts: 40 - 13/12/2024 14:12:10    2583446

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Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "Even someone as naive as you can surely admit that the football being served up at County level is disastrous..: you could hear a pin drop at most matches they are that boring… This is why because of paltry attendance figures the GAA have introduced a sneaky entrance fee for kids which really means adult tickets are increased by at least €5 depending on the number of children going with them.. I think this will backfire badly on the GAA because people in general aren't stupid enough to pay extra money in to see a bore fest….!"
Elements of the game have changed and how teams approach attacking and defending have become redifined. Some parts of that play is slow and laborious, no doubt. But that also includes some great scores and tackles and some close battles between more emerging counties than before. I would have that any day of the week over Dublin hammering everyone in Leinster by a cricket score en route to a handy AI. So no, I wouldn't jump to the sensationalist narrative and call the game disastrous. Dublin never needed to be split in two any more than the GAA rule book needed to be rewritten. Tactics and teams will figure themselves out over time if the powers that be would stop throwing so many short term solutions onto the flight path, off the back of a few end of season viewing complaints. Referees are going to need a masters degree in GAA rules if it continues on this trajectory.

SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2513 - 13/12/2024 14:43:30    2583451

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Replying To Doylerwex:  "So not a discounted rate then?"
Possibly, if based on the new charge, €30 for 7 or 8 games.

Actually, it's a €30 per child tax compared to 2024. They don't seem to know a lot about tax in the GAA. So the Revenue will educate them. Probably explain they need to pay tax on them new fivers too as well as players expenses, referees match fees. Some people will vote with their feet. GAA seem to think they're the only show in town, that people aren't feeling the pinch in 2024. To go to some grounds with poor facilities in rainy cold weather and you've paid an extra €5 per child, already bringing them to and from training and games during the week. You might think it's a waste of time and money, stick to the club, watch the games on telly, and budget to skip intercounty league games and see how funds are for the championship.

A bit like foreign owners for big football clubs. They make financial decisions but have no idea about how stretched for cash the loyal supporters are.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7704 - 13/12/2024 14:49:00    2583452

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Replying To SaffronDon:  "People like you, whinging like a child about the same thing every day would deter more kids from playing than anything they see in the current game. I've yet to hear a child complain about how the game is played, now or previously. All that noise comes from adult kids like yourself who can't cope with change."
So well said Saffron. GAA still best value in town.

ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 404 - 13/12/2024 15:04:29    2583454

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Replying To LohansRedHelmet:  "Season ticket for the kids is €30. There is all the league games paid for and guaranteed seats for the family at championship games."
So it is a money raising exercise then and nothing to do with safety? Viking needs to to fork out 120 before a ball is struck for his kids and then purchase his own.

Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2900 - 13/12/2024 15:11:22    2583455

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Replying To Doylerwex:  "So not a discounted rate then?"
If you want guaranteed seats beside your kids for championship games and free entry to all league games it's great value. Not having a pop but it is certainly more beneficial to Munster counties who have sold out RR games than Leinster. Great piece of mind knowing if Clare V Limerick sells out this year I have 4 seats together with the kids and the wife. That alone is worth the €30 for piece of mind

LohansRedHelmet (Clare) - Posts: 2683 - 13/12/2024 16:43:19    2583462

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Replying To Canuck:  "So it is a money raising exercise then and nothing to do with safety? Viking needs to to fork out 120 before a ball is struck for his kids and then purchase his own."
I don't think they should have brought H&S into it but I don't think charging a fiver to kids is a big deal, granted I only have 2 of them.

LohansRedHelmet (Clare) - Posts: 2683 - 13/12/2024 16:44:47    2583464

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Replying To SaffronDon:  "Elements of the game have changed and how teams approach attacking and defending have become redifined. Some parts of that play is slow and laborious, no doubt. But that also includes some great scores and tackles and some close battles between more emerging counties than before. I would have that any day of the week over Dublin hammering everyone in Leinster by a cricket score en route to a handy AI. So no, I wouldn't jump to the sensationalist narrative and call the game disastrous. Dublin never needed to be split in two any more than the GAA rule book needed to be rewritten. Tactics and teams will figure themselves out over time if the powers that be would stop throwing so many short term solutions onto the flight path, off the back of a few end of season viewing complaints. Referees are going to need a masters degree in GAA rules if it continues on this trajectory."
I certainly agree with you that the GAA rule book didn't need to be rewritten but that's what Gavin and the Sleep inducer have done…. The game will be destroyed for ever….

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3154 - 13/12/2024 17:51:08    2583470

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