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A bit of communication would help. If Tipp clubs got 5k and supposedly TM only sold 14k then where is the other 7k tickets. Or did TM sell 22k?

Doon Exile wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 7:42 am A bit of communication would help. If Tipp clubs got 5k and supposedly TM only sold 14k then where is the other 7k tickets. Or did TM sell 22k?

Looks like TM sold 22k.

This has been handled terribly.

We even had a couple of days head start of Tipperary/Cork to suss out what way this was going to work.

On the allocation to clubs.....I'm not sure that this happens for underage finals as the demand is never this strong. But surely if an option to allocate a portion to one county was offered, it is only right that the other county be given the same option.

There seems to be no clarity on how many tickets offered to county board in Tipperary
No clarity on option to county board in Offaly
No clarity on how many were to be sold via Ticket Master

Tweets at 5.05 saying tickets not sold out when they clearly were.

I seen tweets informing of a number of Centra and Super Valu outlets where tickets could be bought at 3.07. Why was this not sent out in the days before, instead sent out after TM system had already crashed?

I don't want to be too critical, but supporters were asking questions about these arrangements straight after the match last Wednesday, and no information seemed to be forthcoming until after the horse had bolted. And even now, the scenarios that many are putting together are not based on any hard facts, just guesses.

Bottom line is a lot of people are left disappointed and that is a real shame considering the feel good factor around this team.

I went onto TM yesterday hoping to get Stand Tickets as I've young children who will struggle to see from the Terrace. I refreshed the tickets over and over again until it eventually kicked me out. I had the wife on as well and we had to take the Terrace tickets. I know of only one person who got tickets to Ardan De Gras and they are down right beside the terrace. I feel thankful to have gotten tickets at all but for no-one I know to get good stand tickets seems odd. Something stinks to the high heavens here. The County Board seems to have been asleep at the wheel - even before the sale at 2.30 they seemed to have no information and any information they did release was a copy of an earlier release from another source. I think that somehow the county has been shafted here somewhere.

I have lots of friends who haven't yet got tickets - these are guys that have attended earlier matches. It's just not fair. How the GAA can stay connected to TM is a disgrace. It's widely known that where they can they hold back tickets to sought-after events and sell them for inflated prices on secondary sites. The Ticketing System that Glendassaun has mentioned above is possible - indeed we have a Ticketing System company in Co. Offaly (Future Ticketing) who are streets ahead of TM. Jarlath Burns had a right go at the politicians lately about GAAGo saying that they should be supporting an Irish Start-Up company (which I personally agree with). Well now is the time to practice what he preaches.

I bet lots of people grabbed more tickets than they need and spares will be floating about.
People will also drop out once the logistics of a Saturday evening in Kilkenny get too difficult.

Hang in there.

I was lucky enough to purchase stand tickets at 2:33 yesterday only ones left at that stage were the stand behind the goals, hopefully the people that missed out on tickets yesterday will get them later in the week when they start recirculating . I work with a good few Tipp people some of them are diehard fans and there isn’t great interest in this game from them. Looking forward to a great game Saturday I can’t wait for it, Best of luck to the lads & management Uibh Fhaili Abu

It's also possible that Ticketmaster didn't sell all of their allocated tickets.
During surges, when users are getting kicked out and payments are failing, what can happen is that these tickets don't return to the available queue immediately.

Some credit card payments only clear or get declined after a delay of several hours. Their systems might still have been running cleanup jobs hours later.
Additionally, in response to the surge, their cloud servers need to scale up, creating new instances to handle the increased load. This usually introduces data inconsistency too and the data only becomes consistent some time later. Eventual consistency and all that.

Let's hope this happened. By what people have described, their systems were having a meltdown and these are the conditions that introduce this type of inconsistency.

https://www.offalyexpress.ie/news/gaa/1 ... ckets.html

The blame game started already . Ticketmaster and croke park told them not to take an allocation. Didn't want to burden clubs ?

The people involved at committee levels in the clubs arnt idiots and were well able to dish out tickets to club matches over covid.

Tbh just seems the county board didn't want the hassle and look fair enough just come out and say it.

Full explainer here from Colm Cummins.

Offaly buying up tickets for sponsors and stewards accounts for some of the “missing” tickets.

Personally I’d be skeptical of people “overbuying”, I think they just completely underestimated demand.

https://www.midlands103.com/news/sports ... and-final/

Hoping as much of you as possible get sorted for tickets; hopefully some Offaly fans can sneakily get their hands on tickets in the Roscrea, Knockshegowna, Lorrha and Moneygall areas.

Is there many of this current group of u20s still underage for next year?

Up The Faithful wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 4:16 pm Hoping as much of you as possible get sorted for tickets; hopefully some Offaly fans can sneakily get their hands on tickets in the Roscrea, Knockshegowna, Lorrha and Moneygall areas.

Is there many of this current group of u20s still underage for next year?

11 of their best 15 and a massive chunk of the subs and extended panel.

They’ll be red hot favourites for Leinster next year.

Anonymous1 wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 4:18 pm

Up The Faithful wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 4:16 pm Hoping as much of you as possible get sorted for tickets; hopefully some Offaly fans can sneakily get their hands on tickets in the Roscrea, Knockshegowna, Lorrha and Moneygall areas.

Is there many of this current group of u20s still underage for next year?

11 of their best 15 and a massive chunk of the subs and extended panel.

They’ll be red hot favourites for Leinster next year.

Hopefully if they win Leinster next year that the All Ireland won’t be in Nowlan park

If Seniors win Joe Mac, there will be a lot of next years U20 Panel on senior panel next year, and it'll a nightmare with game management with those boys that are u20 as well, but sure that's a problem for next year fingers crossed

Been mentioned in an earlier post but getting to nowlan park will be an issue, if a group had a minibus ordered and now a certain amount mightn’t have got tickets it makes it into a more expensive day or will be looking for alternative transport.

Remember the drive to nowlan park 2 years ago, thought we would have plenty of time but only got in 10 mins before the throw in, even getting to portlaoise last Wednesday was met with delays. You then remember the young lads with the cans getting out for a fag and toilet break and then running on to catch the bus and remember this was you in the 90s.

I have done lot of thinking and soul searching on the whole ticket thing and just my tuppence on it all.

I think county board were 100% correct in their decision to leave with TM as it would have been a total nightmare to try to distribute through the clubs given the amount of kids involved. I was gauging on 20,000 for Offaly and 6,000 for Tipp. That was going on an increase of 5,000 from the 15,000 Leinster final. It does seem to have far exceeded that (albeit hard to say for sure at this stage) so the statement of unprecedented demand may not be too unfair.

Just trying to visualise it in our own club. We have 30 on our committee and a further 250 members. Many have 2,3 or 4 kids. Husband/wife and 3 kids but could you imagine giving out 5-6 tickets to one committee member and another club member gets nothing. Not to mention the logistics of trying to accommodate families sitting together. In reality, it would leave parents having to tell kids ‘sorry you have no ticket’ which in turn would result in the parents not going either.

I wouldn’t think for a second that there were many Tipperary fans sitting on TM at 2:30pm with the intensity of Offaly people so probably 95% of what TM sold will be in OY hands. Tipperary were correct in requesting an allocation with view of trying to cajole their fans to travel. No matter how we look at it in Offaly, where hunger is great sauce, it simply doesn’t have the same appeal to Tipp people.

On the point of tickets being ‘sold’ in O’Connor park yesterday evening. County board have clarified that was for sponsors, stewards for home games, etc. I’m sure that all other team mgt were looked after e.g. is the minor football manager or the Offaly ladies manager not fully entitled to tickets - absolutely they are and county board would be very foolish not to look after all those that work tirelessly behind the scenes all year round for little reward.

I’m hearing of 2500 tickets coming back from Tipp tomorrow and I think slowly people are getting sorted anyways albeit there are still a lot waiting.

Hopefully the team are not being distracted by it all. Need to try to get this thread back onto the game.

BTW. I’m very confident that Offaly will win on Saturday.