FAO: Away travellers overlooked for tickets

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Edited by Bob Hoskins - 25 Mar 2012 at 12:40pm

great stuff lads 

What's being done for us regular home fans that were overlooked last week 

Fair play lads

Im bowing out as we've gotten sorted through the Resale Portal for 2 out of the 3 matches over the weekend.

We've 3 weeks left on the portal to try and source the Spanish tickets and Im going to contact the ticket office as well and see what our realistic chances are of getting them off the FAI. Considering they are like hens teeth I dont fancy our chances at all.

Good luck to all involved and great work by the FLO's again

By the fans for the fans

There might also be an option to provide travel details for fans who travelled to these games and sourced tickets in the Portacabin in Andorra and off a tout in Estonia ?

M.50 wrote: flick wrote: M.50 wrote: What's being done for us regular home fans that were overlooked last week  +1 As I said to the Fai how are fans supposed to build loyalty when both of their away ticket applications were rejected? There's that + the fact that many can't afford to travel to Ireland away games so they support the team at home. I don't deserve a ticket more than anyone else but I've attended the majority of home internationals for the last 5 years, about 30 games I guess so not having the opportunity to support my team in a major championship is hugely, hugely disappointing. 1 ticket for one group game would have been small compensation but greatly appreciated at that. I'm resigned to the fact now that I won't be going to EURO 2012 but whilst I miss out so will the FAI because I won't be spending another cent on a home match ticket in future.

                                                                                                                                                                               That's a cringeworthy post. Talk about throwing the toys out of the pram! You have obviously done huge things for ybig in the past and the work on the go green campaign was a credit to you but appears every time something doesn't go your way you throw the toys out of the pram. The thing is if u had just said I was unsuccessful in my application people on here would of sorted you out for tickets instead you say I didn't get a euro ticket so I'll never go to a match again. That attitude would defo put me off passing you on a spare if I had one. Man up!

sledgehammer wrote: M.50 wrote: flick wrote: M.50 wrote: What's being done for us regular home fans that were overlooked last week  +1 As I said to the Fai how are fans supposed to build loyalty when both of their away ticket applications were rejected? There's that + the fact that many can't afford to travel to Ireland away games so they support the team at home. I don't deserve a ticket more than anyone else but I've attended the majority of home internationals for the last 5 years, about 30 games I guess so not having the opportunity to support my team in a major championship is hugely, hugely disappointing. 1 ticket for one group game would have been small compensation but greatly appreciated at that. I'm resigned to the fact now that I won't be going to EURO 2012 but whilst I miss out so will the FAI because I won't be spending another cent on a home match ticket in future.                                                                                                                                                                                That's a cringeworthy post. Talk about throwing the toys out of the pram! You have obviously done huge things for ybig in the past and the work on the go green campaign was a credit to you but appears every time something doesn't go your way you throw the toys out of the pram. The thing is if u had just said I was unsuccessful in my application people on here would of sorted you out for tickets instead you say I didn't get a euro ticket so I'll never go to a match again. That attitude would defo put me off passing you on a spare if I had one. Man up!

Yep all those who have knocked the FLO's in the past shame on you .

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2012/0321/1224313641764.html
From the report in today's Irish times it looks like there are thousands of tickets floating around if you believe Mr delaney.  We were all under the impression that the initial FAI allocation was around 6,000 per game and they later got another 700 or so per game.  We understood from that allocation the FAI had to take care of Abbey TRavel and its own sponsors.   Not so says Delaney:-
“We now have about 7,000 for each game,” he said yesterday, “and probably 9,000 for the Italian match. If you add in what Abbey Travel get and what the Uefa sponsors get and our own sponsors get, that’s going to be close to 10,000"
So it seems if my math is correct Abbey and the sponsors got over 3,000 tickets per game between them but not from the FAI allocation of approximately 6,700 per game.
Strange how the story keeps changing to suit the particular tune JD is humming at any given time.