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GAA To Start Charging Children Who Attend League Games

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Replying To LohansRedHelmet:  "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."
How long do you think it will be 5 euros. At least be honest and say we need to raise more money and stop the b.s. ? I don't care what other organizations do or if it costs kids to go to a movie the GAA needs to stand for better as they do in many ways. If this revenue is required to float the ship then it is all ready going down. No this is a case of some smart a-s- looking at this as low hanging fruit and grabbing it.

Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2900 - 13/12/2024 19:28:23    2583478

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Replying To LohansRedHelmet:  "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"
True enough. We're very rarely faced with that problem in Leinster, although I am mad enough to avail of a season ticket myself just in case all my dreams come true and I need a ticket for the final some day

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3228 - 13/12/2024 19:42:47    2583479

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Can an adult get more than one ticket if they have 2 or more children??if it's one and one it all adds up..we are lucky in limerick,6 league games,4 at home,however if a family of 4 go to all these it's an extra €60..some people say this is great value but there are people who just won't be able to do it..also how is it that cash is taken for a programme but no cash taken at entrance..no one has ever explained this..why also is the extra €5 for upper league games surely H&s comes into every game.

CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2404 - 13/12/2024 22:14:39    2583488

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Replying To Doylerwex:  "True enough. We're very rarely faced with that problem in Leinster, although I am mad enough to avail of a season ticket myself just in case all my dreams come true and I need a ticket for the final some day"
You could always avail of a Cairde membership for you and the kids? 90 euro for me and the 4 kids, and that money stays in Wexford.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14127 - 14/12/2024 08:35:38    2583497

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Replying To Canuck:  "How long do you think it will be 5 euros. At least be honest and say we need to raise more money and stop the b.s. ? I don't care what other organizations do or if it costs kids to go to a movie the GAA needs to stand for better as they do in many ways. If this revenue is required to float the ship then it is all ready going down. No this is a case of some smart a-s- looking at this as low hanging fruit and grabbing it."
Of course it's a money grabbing exercise and absolutely nothing to do with health and safety.. You are correct… the ship is sinking fast and these new rules will widen the gaping hole in football…!

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3154 - 14/12/2024 10:18:00    2583505

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Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "Of course it's a money grabbing exercise and absolutely nothing to do with health and safety.. You are correct… the ship is sinking fast and these new rules will widen the gaping hole in football…!"
Have you ever heard of hurling?

Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 2005 - 14/12/2024 13:20:52    2583512

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Replying To CTGAA10:  "Can an adult get more than one ticket if they have 2 or more children??if it's one and one it all adds up..we are lucky in limerick,6 league games,4 at home,however if a family of 4 go to all these it's an extra €60..some people say this is great value but there are people who just won't be able to do it..also how is it that cash is taken for a programme but no cash taken at entrance..no one has ever explained this..why also is the extra €5 for upper league games surely H&s comes into every game."
Here's a difference between taking cash at the gate, and accepting cash for a match programme:

Say 10,000 people paying €20 each at the gate - €200,000 in cash to be taken care of.

10,000 people might buy 3,000 programmes at €3 or €4 each - that's a total around €10,000.

One of them is a major, major security risk. The second one, far less so.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2648 - 14/12/2024 21:26:53    2583547

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Replying To Pikeman96:  "Here's a difference between taking cash at the gate, and accepting cash for a match programme:

Say 10,000 people paying €20 each at the gate - €200,000 in cash to be taken care of.

10,000 people might buy 3,000 programmes at €3 or €4 each - that's a total around €10,000.

One of them is a major, major security risk. The second one, far less so."
Very few of the 10,000 are going to want to pay cash. Most would like the option to use their card at the turnstile. I can't see how this is difficult in 2024.

Maybe it's just me - but I wince every time I see the ticketmaster logo.

brianb (Kildare) - Posts: 370 - 14/12/2024 22:15:27    2583559

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Replying To brianb:  "Very few of the 10,000 are going to want to pay cash. Most would like the option to use their card at the turnstile. I can't see how this is difficult in 2024.

Maybe it's just me - but I wince every time I see the ticketmaster logo."
Why on earth are the GAA persisting with this nonsense of pre buying tickets for matches when they can't provide a straight forward system for purchasing them… Ticketmaster is a disaster in this regard… It just turns people of attending

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3154 - 15/12/2024 08:02:48    2583564

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Replying To brianb:  "Very few of the 10,000 are going to want to pay cash. Most would like the option to use their card at the turnstile. I can't see how this is difficult in 2024.

Maybe it's just me - but I wince every time I see the ticketmaster logo."
Why on earth are the GAA persisting with this nonsense of pre buying tickets for matches when they can't provide a straight forward system for purchasing them… Ticketmaster is a disaster in this regard… It just turns people of attending

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3154 - 15/12/2024 08:04:41    2583565

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Replying To Pikeman96:  "Here's a difference between taking cash at the gate, and accepting cash for a match programme:

Say 10,000 people paying €20 each at the gate - €200,000 in cash to be taken care of.

10,000 people might buy 3,000 programmes at €3 or €4 each - that's a total around €10,000.

One of them is a major, major security risk. The second one, far less so."
We are never going back to paying cash at the gate for county matches. Covid woke the GAA up to the fact that hundreds of adults were gaining entrance to matches using friends on gates, they were losing thousands. Children under 16 should be free but with a free printed ticket or similar on phone just for numbers sake.

Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2168 - 15/12/2024 10:29:22    2583579

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Whilst I'm against it. It's only a fiver, people pay a lot more for food and drink

DuhallowRed (Cork) - Posts: 304 - 15/12/2024 11:33:14    2583589

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Replying To brianb:  "Very few of the 10,000 are going to want to pay cash. Most would like the option to use their card at the turnstile. I can't see how this is difficult in 2024.

Maybe it's just me - but I wince every time I see the ticketmaster logo."
He asked about cash. I gave an answer about cash. Paying by card would be a different thing.

But the issue would remain that if 90% or more of people just paid at the gate (by either cash or card), then the venue control team don't know with any great accuracy what the likely attendance will be. Say there's a match at Wexford Park which could draw somewhere from 6,000 to 10,000 people. There's a big difference in what's needed from an event control point of view, in terms of the number of turnstiles you'd have to open, the number of gate people that would therefore be needed, the number of stewards required, etc. Even whether or not you open the shop at the 'open' side of the ground opposite the main stand, and need people to run it for the day.

These are all important considerations. They don't occur to most supporters, but that doesn't make them any less important.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2648 - 15/12/2024 12:33:45    2583595

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Replying To DuhallowRed:  "Whilst I'm against it. It's only a fiver, people pay a lot more for food and drink"
That's fair enough but there's on awful lot of "only a fivers" after sneaking out of people's pockets in the last 3/4 years.

I hope attendances absolutely tank over it and people vote with their feet so to speak

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3228 - 15/12/2024 12:35:26    2583597

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Replying To brianb:  "Very few of the 10,000 are going to want to pay cash. Most would like the option to use their card at the turnstile. I can't see how this is difficult in 2024.

Maybe it's just me - but I wince every time I see the ticketmaster logo."
Won't someone please think of the children?!

oneoff (UK) - Posts: 1485 - 15/12/2024 13:33:29    2583603

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Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "Why on earth are the GAA persisting with this nonsense of pre buying tickets for matches when they can't provide a straight forward system for purchasing them… Ticketmaster is a disaster in this regard… It just turns people of attending"
Because if you pre-buy them and then for some reason can't go, the GAA still get the money.
We should be able to pay at the gate, either by cash or card, coffee vans at the side of the road can take card or cash for Gods sake, the GAA can't? please.
I don't see the collection in the chapel having any problem taking cash, people are so stupid,
it's unbelievable how much bs they swallow without question.

Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3057 - 15/12/2024 13:54:14    2583606

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Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "Because if you pre-buy them and then for some reason can't go, the GAA still get the money.
We should be able to pay at the gate, either by cash or card, coffee vans at the side of the road can take card or cash for Gods sake, the GAA can't? please.
I don't see the collection in the chapel having any problem taking cash, people are so stupid,
it's unbelievable how much bs they swallow without question."
The bottom line is that the GAA don't trust that cash will make it's way back to HQ.... the days of the 'biscuit tin' at national level are gone. I'd agree that at least card should be taken at the gate but that would mean having to put professional structures in place for an amateur organisation. That would be good craic knowing some of the bucks I see standing at turnstiles.... Right or wrong, it's best let Ticketmaster sort all that out with less hassle.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1057 - 15/12/2024 15:42:02    2583621

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Replying To Square_B:  "The bottom line is that the GAA don't trust that cash will make it's way back to HQ.... the days of the 'biscuit tin' at national level are gone. I'd agree that at least card should be taken at the gate but that would mean having to put professional structures in place for an amateur organisation. That would be good craic knowing some of the bucks I see standing at turnstiles.... Right or wrong, it's best let Ticketmaster sort all that out with less hassle."
I have gone to several club games and they are more than willing to accept cash for entry…. this pre buying tickets for club games is a load of nonsense… Yet another huge own goal by the GAA….!

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3154 - 15/12/2024 16:27:00    2583630

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Getting back to the main theme. The last few years it was €30 for Juvenile Season Tickets, even though it was free in for 6 of the 8 league games I attended. So that was a charge €30 instead of €10, a real display of loyalty.

I dislike Ticketmaster with a passion.

But I dislike more the GAA "Volunteer" who always turns up when there is cash present, let it be at a gate, or selling lotto. And he will always be the lucky fella in the All Ireland Ticket draw.

We have all seen video evidence of rigged GAA draws, and it's always the same "Volunteers". They are in every single GAA club in this country. I am sure you can imagine what them boys would be like with no cameras on them.

BrehonBlonde (Monaghan) - Posts: 89 - 15/12/2024 20:08:38    2583675

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Replying To BrehonBlonde:  "Getting back to the main theme. The last few years it was €30 for Juvenile Season Tickets, even though it was free in for 6 of the 8 league games I attended. So that was a charge €30 instead of €10, a real display of loyalty.

I dislike Ticketmaster with a passion.

But I dislike more the GAA "Volunteer" who always turns up when there is cash present, let it be at a gate, or selling lotto. And he will always be the lucky fella in the All Ireland Ticket draw.

We have all seen video evidence of rigged GAA draws, and it's always the same "Volunteers". They are in every single GAA club in this country. I am sure you can imagine what them boys would be like with no cameras on them."
100% correct. Every single club has them but thankfully there's more to keep an eye on them but you can never rest on your laurels.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1057 - 15/12/2024 23:56:38    2583695

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