Only in Ireland could you build a Superb Stadium

[corkpunter]

would you agree that leaving Croke Park was a huge loss in revenue,Aviva cannot match its capacity ,which means less tickets for us at home and abroad,ie if you only offer the away supporters 10,000 tickets thats all we will get inreturn from the away matches

I know rugby isn't nearly as commercialised as soccer, but take a look at how fans of the different clubs are being treated at any of the finals. The Europa league finals this season/next year is at lansdowne road, how many tickets do you think will be given to the fans for this final? I'll be absolutely astonished if the fans of each team will get 10k tickets. The rest will go to corporate scums that doesn't follow the teams at all, but just uses this as a day out to impress their corporate scum friends. Disgusting if you ask me. They could build it to 80k and you'd most likely only get 12k or 13k to each club. This is not about the normal fan anymore, it is fine when they sit there on a freezing wet january wednesday, but when it comes to the finals in May, it is the corporate scums that take over. Disgusting. And rant over for now.

[Ric Hardgear]

I know rugby isn't nearly as commercialised as soccer, but take a look at how fans of the different clubs are being treated at any of the finals. The Europa league finals this season/next year is at lansdowne road, how many tickets do you think will be given to the fans for this final? I'll be absolutely astonished if the fans of each team will get 10k tickets. The rest will go to corporate scums that doesn't follow the teams at all, but just uses this as a day out to impress their corporate scum friends. Disgusting if you ask me. They could build it to 80k and you'd most likely only get 12k or 13k to each club. This is not about the normal fan anymore, it is fine when they sit there on a freezing wet january wednesday, but when it comes to the finals in May, it is the corporate scums that take over. Disgusting. And rant over for now.

EMMM I have access to corparate seats....sometimes through work..but my tradition is supporting my team and will que up if i dont avail of tickets through my business contacts

[An don]

The rest will go to corporate scums that doesn't follow the teams at all, but just uses this as a day out to impress their corporate scum friends. Disgusting if you ask me.

I know you were on a rant and we all do it from time to time . But not all corporate people are scum ,I have premium level seats in croker which i share amongst my customers if my county arent involved but they still go to genuine supporters .
My rant over lol

[corkpunter]

EMMM I have access to corparate seats....sometimes through work..but my tradition is supporting my team and will que up if i dont avail of tickets through my business contacts

I know you were on a rant and we all do it from time to time . But not all corporate people are scum ,I have premium level seats in croker which i share amongst my customers if my county arent involved but they still go to genuine supporters .
My rant over lol

I'm not saying anything against queuing up to get tickets to follow your team or to get corporate tickets to follow your team. I'm talking about 2/3 of tickets not going to supporters of the teams involved. I see it almost every year, some team has gone to a final in the EL or the EC or Heineken Cup etc. Now how many of those 20k or 30k supporters that travelled to Macedonia or Ukraine or Turkey etc. will get a ticket to the final they get into? Perhaps half and that is simply not acceptable in my eyes, when 2/3 of the tickets go to the "corporate scum" as I call them. Now I understand it is different for Croker, seeing as it is GAA, again, and it is kept within the isle, but Lansdowne is a different beast here. They will do soccer and rugby matches and soccer is absolutely rife with this kind of crap. 45 euro to 85 euro to see an airtricity select 11 against a Man Utd 11 warm up match.
WTF???

I should probably clarify, this has got nothing to do with the stirium having 3 or 4 sides. As long as it serves it purpose, I doubt how many sides it has is important.

[An don]

I should probably clarify, this has got nothing to do with the stirium having 3 or 4 sides. As long as it serves it purpose, I doubt how many sides it has is important.

But that was the point of my thread , there is only three sides seating and a big glass wall that seats about 500

[corkpunter]

But that was the point of my thread , there is only three sides seating and a big glass wall that seats about 500

Ok, sorry for taking the thread off topic. So how many games each year will this new stadium be sold out, as it stand now? In your view.

[An don]

You didnt take it off topic in fairness to you but my point is that a extra 10000 seats wouldnt be stretching the selling out idea . Thats why i said it was a compromise between the organisations the irfu will sell it out for every game at higher attendance and i doubt the fai will sell it out if it had higher attendance for every fixture.(i dont even think they will see out the current attendance for all their fixtures)

[up for it]

I was told tonight the tickets for international soccer games are now to be sold in blocks of 6 games. it is set to cost €500+ a pop. Can anybody confirm or deny this

[anitasizzle]

That sucks. I use to live a couple blocks from Croke Park and was able to place winning bets at the bookies because I was able to observe the fans before the match and tell who was going to win or lose; Inner City Dublin had buzz about it when the matches were on at the Croker, sorry to hear there won't be anymore matches there

[kamn101]

i seemed a bit sterile, nothing like the old landsdowne, even crowd werent gettin into it .shame