Bill O'Herlihy

€60....that is rough.....didn't realise it was that much in.

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.

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.

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??

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.

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

€45 for majority of tickets last night.

If you have kids the games are priced out of reach (like me )

Way too high for the cost to watch them, i would say 25 euro should be the cheapest 35 or 40 for the best !!

The FAI can't charge that low unfortunately. They still have a large debt to pay.

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

Joeeeee Duffyyyyyyy on about it now on Radio

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

TV Licence payers must be tearing their hair out!

all except ye cork lads ...no one up here understands what the clown is saying ffs....

Whatever you think about Bill (72), Giles (70) and Dunphy (79?), surely the time has come for RTE to start nurturing some younger talent.

Dunphy is younger than Giles, even though he looks 80-odd

Denis Irwin and Roy Keane would be the right boys to have in there!

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

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.

i think you could be right vinnie...

20,000???
very optimistic there vinnie,
unless tickets are been sold for €5 a head then id say your well wide of the mark

There'll be more spectators at that power station in Japan.

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!

*now

looks packed

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".

Disappointing to see Trap not singing the national anthem.

Seen more at the opening of an envelope. Punter#1 They're playing the World Cup Semi-finalists what is the excuse tonight?.

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 .....

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??

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.

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.

^^^^^^^
couldn't disagree with any of that

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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?.


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.

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.

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!

Billions then.

Billions sounds about right-you're a big fan of hyperbole aren't you

I was there and it was a very enjoyable game, they got sense and organised for some top class opposition and both teams played open attacking football. Atmosphere was quite cack to be honest, but I can't blame the FAI on that one.

The bile that Ireland is a "sports mad nation" is finally being shown up for the myth that it is.

Bullsh . . Cork and Kerry playing in a ickey mouse friendly 65,000...Ireland playing in a European qualifier...32,000 If it's not the price then it must be the hatred of a foregin game the reason why no one is going....Wonder can anyone reply without using the names Jack Charlton and his band of merrymen for getting 40 thousand in the rugby ground

What you on about?? 4,100 showed up at Cork Kerry in the league in February. €13 a ticket for that.

It should be pointed out that it is very tough to succeed in International soccer for a nation our size, its deep water. In Rugby, the teams seem to always have tangigle success within a few steps, therefore its easier for them to drum up support. Its a case of win 5 games and you're the best in Europe. I'm a rugby fan but derive greater satisfaction when the footballers are going well as it is not just the foreign game but also the global game, success in that depth of competition is a great achievement.

Just watching the geezers previewing tonight's match.

It's like an episode of Last of the Summer Wine.

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Just watching the geezers previewing tonight's match.

It's like an episode of Last of the Summer Wine.

Justify that statement please...

Three retirees mumbling about stuff.

All that's missing is Nora Batty to make the tea.