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26 Mar 11
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been paid too much. Thinks it's the teams preformance and not the €60 ticket price that has the place half empty..Okey Dokey Bill your right again.
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€60....that is rough.....didn't realise it was that much in.
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Joke isn't it. No Reccesion... You could stick another tenner to it and buy a ticket for the Gold Cup day at Cheltenham. .6 hours of great craic or 2 hours of boredom.
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Paid £55 sterling for a day at British open golf(friday but same for 4 days)today,never been at a golf tournament but thought it was really good value to see sporting superstars in the flesh for approx 15 hours if you wanted. 60e bit much against a relative minnow.
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Bill for sure not feelin any recession same for the other 3 and Liam pullin Bill to task
 and he havin 2 or 3 jobs RTE and Gooners and what else?? |
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Well at least Brady knows the trouble people are in. That old git O'Herlihy is another on the RTE gravy train for years even though he has no idea about the game.
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Exactly. Brady might have his fingers in any pies and may be a multimillionaire but he knows the price of a loaf of bread and he's not going to go on tv and let on €60 is nothing unlike that other thicko BOH
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€45 for majority of tickets last night.
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If you have kids the games are priced out of reach (like me
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Way too high for the cost to watch them, i would say 25 euro should be the cheapest 35 or 40 for the best !!
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The FAI can't charge that low unfortunately. They still have a large debt to pay.
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i tend to agree with bill,me and my brother were offered FREE tickets but declined them,i personally dont like trap and think hes utterly clueless and past his sell by date
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Joeeeee Duffyyyyyyy on about it now on Radio
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Have to say both arguments hold up
My last trip to an Irish game was the WC qualifier v Cyprus. i drove up that evening from Limerick and bought a ticket at the ground for E70. I had previously been a block ticket purchaser for about 6 years when Ireland played at Lansdowne road. I watched the game and drove home afterwards announcing on my arrival home ... I'm cured, never again!!!! My abiding memmory of the night was Paul McShane attempting to overlap from right back on Trappatoni's wing. As he passed by the technical area I thought his hamstring was gone he stopped so abruptly. Not much has changed since and i for one will not be spending the hard earned on watching a team playing under Trappatoni's watch |
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TV Licence payers must be tearing their hair out!
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all except ye cork lads ...no one up here understands what the clown is saying ffs....
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Whatever you think about Bill (72), Giles (70) and Dunphy (79?), surely the time has come for RTE to start nurturing some younger talent.
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Dunphy is younger than Giles, even though he looks 80-odd
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Denis Irwin and Roy Keane would be the right boys to have in there!
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To be honest if I was paid €60, I wouldn't go to watch those plonkers. Bill was correct in his comment. I believe the crowd would turn up if Ireland were any bit decent to watch.
Liam Brady is the biggest muppet in RTE. He is totally biased in his views on all matters relating to Arsenal as he is on all views anti-Roy Keane as well as his unjustified affection for Giovanni. Bill was definitely correct in his view as the facts below disprove that asswhole Brady's unjustified views. The recession hit Ireland in early 2007 and hit really hard in 2008. Check out the home attendances in recent campaigns up to the Macedonia game. Please take note of the high attendances against lesser teams than Macedonia, old Lansdowne could only hold around 35000 all seater, FAI's against the better teams and the dead rubber games at the end of the campaigns. Brady's argument just doesn't stack up. EURO 2012 HOME QUALIFIERS 2007-10-17 19:30 UTC+1 Republic of Ireland 1 – 1 Cyprus Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 54,000 8 October 2010 19:45 UTC+1 Republic of Ireland 2 – 3 Russia Aviva Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 50,411 26 March 2011 19:45 UTC±0 Republic of Ireland 2 – 1 Macedonia Aviva Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 32,000 WORLD CUP 2010 HOME QUALIFIERS 15 October 2008 19:45 UTC+1 Republic of Ireland 1 – 0 Cyprus Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 55,833 11 February 2009 19:45 UTC+0 Republic of Ireland 2 – 1 Georgia Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Jouni Hyytia (Finland) 28 March 2009 19:45 UTC+0 Republic of Ireland 1 – 1 Bulgaria Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 60,002 10 October 2009 20:00 UTC+1 Republic of Ireland 2 – 2 Italy Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 70,670 14 October 2009 19:00 UTC+1 Republic of Ireland 0 – 0 Montenegro Croke Park, Dublin (DEAD RUBBER) Attendance: 36,442 EURO 2008 HOME QUALIFIERS 2006-10-11 19:30 UTC+1 Republic of Ireland 1 – 1 Czech Republic Lansdowne Road, Dublin Attendance: 35,500 [FULL CAPACITY] 2006-11-15 19:30 UTC+0 Republic of Ireland 5 – 0 San Marino Lansdowne Road, Dublin Attendance: 34,018 [ALMOST FULL CAPACITY] 2007-03-24 15:00 UTC+0 Republic of Ireland 1 – 0 Wales Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 72,539 2007-03-28 19:45 UTC+1 Republic of Ireland 1 – 0 Slovakia Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 71,297 2007-10-13 19:45 UTC+1 Republic of Ireland 0 – 0 Germany Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 67,495 2007-10-17 19:30 UTC+1 Republic of Ireland 1 – 1 Cyprus Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 54,000 |
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The fact is leinster will sell out for their heineken cup matches in lansdowne road. If Thomond Park had a capacity of 40,000, Munster would sell out their heineken cup matches. I wouid take a guess that 20,000 will turn out for the match tonight, and you could easily pick up a ticket for €20 outside.
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i think you could be right vinnie...
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20,000???
very optimistic there vinnie, unless tickets are been sold for €5 a head then id say your well wide of the mark |
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There'll be more spectators at that power station in Japan.
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i found a ticket in my brothers from when ireland played england years ago at landsdowne rd,a schoolboy ticket,£2 it was for kids back then,compare that to know,joke!
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*now
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looks packed |
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my mate phoned up the Aviva Stadium today, he asked "What time is the K.O.? The receptionist replied, "What time can you get here".
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Disappointing to see Trap not singing the national anthem.
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Seen more at the opening of an envelope. Punter#1 They're playing the World Cup Semi-finalists what is the excuse tonight?.
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i first heard that joke when channel 4 first came on air ..it was about a trucker going to milan and inquiring about a show he was interested in ...when do you get back .....
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Everyone on here wondering where the crowds were last night. I wonder how many posters actually went?? You're all happy to comment on it but who went and doesn't who didn't why not??
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I didn't go, got offered a free ticket and all but i'll be totally honest i couldn't have been bothered. A few years ago i went to all the games, i used to have to buy tickets outside Lansdowne and pay over the odds and still did so to see them play. I think the last game i was at was a friendly against the Czech Republic which i think we won 1-0 with a Eoin Harte free kick.
I'll probably never go in to see them play again. I think they are cack, the price of tickets are a joke and it does not rate any value for money. You get a better laugh watching the game down your local with your mates in my opinion. |
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At least your honest satelliteflight. I have to disagree as last night was excellent entertainment and the singing section which has been set up in south stand is a brilliant initiative and really adds to attending games. This stuff about us been cack now is way out of order I feel.
If anyone remembers the first couple of years under McCarthy we played some awful stuff as we were a team under transition after the Charlton era. Yet back then the fans stuck by the team and were rewarded with an excellent campaign in lead up to world cup 2002. The difference now is that these fans have deserted the team but no doubt if we get to Poland/Ukraine next year the bandwagon will be truly rolling again. Sport in general has become more and more about the glory. It use to be that fans would stick by their team in the worse of times but that no longer seems to be the case. Someone above mentioned rugby(the most glory-hunting sport of all in my opinion) but I see in the Times today Leinster have returned 4000 of 6500 tickets for a Magners league game v Munster. It's not just soccer thats suffering but it does seem to be the one that gets the biggest battering from non-fans on here and other outlets. |
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^^^^^^^
couldn't disagree with any of that |
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Date Joined: 05 Jan 10 Add contact When: 29 Mar 11 19:46 Seen more at the opening of an envelope. Punter#1 They're playing the World Cup Semi-finalists what is the excuse tonight?. I was not making up excuses in my previous post. I was arguing that Bill was right - the main reason for the poor attendances is the poor quality of the football Ireland play and are set up to play. Not the fallible excuse of the recession given by Brady. What I was demostrating was even though the recession existed in recent years - the attendances were still high and have probably only diminshed due to people's reluctance to pay to go to watch rubbish! Incidentially, I saw on one paper that the attendance for last night's game was 20,200. That was actually impressive considering it was a friendly and that an experimental side were playing. |
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20,000 at 60 quid a head...not bad...but they dont give a fiddlers if no one turns up...TV rights gets the millions.
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why do you insist on bandying about this €60 figure?? It was €30 for the majority last night and is even less than this if you have a season ticket. You can be sure they did not get 'millions' for last nights TV coverage either!
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Billions then.
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