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10-11-2010Is it just me? I am the only one who thinks it was unbelievably out of line for the IRFU to charge €100 a ticket to Saturday's match? As a rugby fan (and a poor one at that) I feel a bit indignant about the whole thing. €100 is obscene to charge for 80 minutes of entertainment in this day and age. In an economic climate where wages are on the decrease, taxes on the increase and everything else is financially arse about tits is is unfair to expect people to fork out such money.
That's not even the worst of it. The IRFU are also trying to tie people who are willing / mad enough to spend this money, into a two match minimum. So basically if you had managed to scrap together the ridiculous €100 that they were asking you were not allowed to buy tickets for just one match, you had to buy tickets for two! Meaning if you wanted a pair of tickets for Saturdays match you had no choice but to pay €200 for the pair for that match and another €200 for a pair of tickets to the Samoa game or any of the other Irish internationals. Harsh.
No wonder when Saturday rolled round and I curled up on the sofa with a cuppa and himself to watch the match the TV showed a barely half full stadium with match commentators making excuses for the empty seats. 'Hardly anyone will arrive in time for the kick off as there are so many bars and restaurants in the area so the stadium will still fill up'. For those of you who don't know the area let me fill you in - the stadium is smack bang in the middle of a residential and business area. The closest bar would be Slattery's and restaurants are few and far between. Certainly not enough entertainment to hold up 20,000 ticket holders.
Meanwhile I heard this morning that tickets for the FAI Ford Cup final between Shamrock Rovers and Sligo Rovers which is also being held in Landsdown / Aviva, are going for a modest €10 a pop. Oddly enough tickets are sold out. At least one sporting body seems to have the 'ticket price' v 'economic state of the country' ratio right.
Tags: meanderings
Jonny said on Wed, 10 Nov 10 15:02:17 +0000
You do moan alot! 1 might say the prices are supply and demand they took a punt but i dont think they lost out. Why? becasue 20 odd thousand paying 100 yoyo's or 40000 paying 10? what would you have?
Shortie said on Wed, 10 Nov 10 15:23:26 +0000
I am not saying charge 10 for a game ticket but 50 would suffice - look at it this way if they have less people in the stadiums every match then companies advertising in the match program, billboards in the stadium, advertisements on the big screen - they will start to pull back on spending as they are not getting their monies worth so in the end it's the IRFU that will lose out on that money.
The atmosphere in a half full stadium isn't going to help the moral of the players either. Not to mention its looks pretty shite on TV when the stadium is only half full.
Also its a 50,000 seater stadium not 40,000
Booya! lol
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