I have to be here in Cork on Sunday so tried to offload my pair of stand tickets even below face value. In the end gave the pair to a friend of mine gratis, to ensure that at least they are used and there are 2 other people supporting Munster in Thomond Park
Con Artist
Originally Posted by Upfront_1979
Well he's hardly going to say to a Journalist- Ah sure, there'll be nobody there.
the time of the match, the performances lately, the oppositon and the usual ' current climate' are all factors...the days of ticket lists on here seem to be over for a while.
What are the Munster Branch doing about getting the numbers out for this match? I'm not in Munster during the week, but in Dublin, depending on the match and the opposition, I get a real feeling of ongoing promotions to get bums on seats.
I heard on the radio some promotion coinciding with Halloween to get people into the next RDS match. Some, in Limerick especially, might sneer at that, but it needs to be done.
In times of poor performance, extra efforts will be needed. Anyone know what the Branch are doing in this regard?
"Playing against ROG, your big game plan is to try and pressure him but he’d dump it off to Wally and next thing you’re five metres behind the gain line because he was an absolute freak." Rory Best, Irish Examiner, May 2012
Aironi game this day week being marketed as friday night frights similar to what leinster are doing
http://www.munsterrugby.ie/news/10991.php
fancy dress party in dugout before game
Family Pack ticket offer is available for this game for 2 Adults and 4 Children all for €40.
Scarlets v Leinster are on the early shift tomorrow (1.30)
Exeter v Clermont are at 6pm
Saracens v Racing are at 5pm
Leicester v Ospreys 3pm
Quins v Connacht 6pm
Toulouse v Saints 8pm
Montpellier v Sharks 4pm sunday
Cardiff v Toulon 12.45 sunday.
The English teams get all the prime slots when played in UK & Ireland. The French dictate the time when played in France (late) - nothing got to do with how good you are, its how many viewers you provide.
Anyone spot the elephant in the room?
Fair amount of waffle from GF there. If the team were performing well tickets would be like platinum dust.
The band wagoneers will always find some cash somewhere.
well looka
Of course attendances are down, the bandwagon dont support teams in transiton. Also, given the recession, lots of Munster based folk have had to emigrate. Still 100's arriving weekly over to London for example...
Not long ago since people were moaning the new ground was too small- where are they now?Did they not have a 50 pager on the subject? I dont hear any well done lads, you actually saved us from having a big white elephant!
As for the numbers that will go on Sunday, the crap kick off time may well mean some ticket holders dont bother...however, Im pretty sure when the attendances come in from around Europe for this weekend, we will still be sitting comfortably near the top.
Win this with a BP and Im pretty sure Sarries will sell out no problem!
Seas suas agus troid!
That is the most sensible thing I have ever seen written or even spoken by you
Some people thought it was a bit on the big side.
If we win at the weekend the Sarries game will still be a hard sell for Munster. If we lose it will be near impossible.
The squeezed middle are cutting back. Simple as.
The thing which IMO is really hurting, is that in the normal run of things if you are to look at season ticket holders/regular matchgoers, a very significant cohort, the twentysomethings, who would have attended, be it out of a love for rugby or for events, and attended bigstyle, in numbers and horsed into the food & pints in the stadium/the city itself - this cohort have been decimated. Swathes are either not working or have headed away to find work.
The middle, who for the most part are tied to houses they can't sell and are now too tied to emigrate, are still here, but a fair old chunk are simply not spending - and as a pal of mine pout it recently "even though I can still well afford to go, I'm damned if I'm going to start ringing/emailing around trying to rustle up a gang, when I know full well that my efforts will be falling on quite a few ears who just don't have the dosh and I'm not going to piss of pals of mine by doing that..."
Tough Marketing task ahead.
Job 1: Sort the team/squad. Deliver performances; then results.
Job 2. Sweat the Marketing.
By all means do them in parallel - but if Job 1 isn't delivered on then fuggedaboudid.
Anyone know, BTW, has any concerted effort been made to entice ex-MRSC members back into the fold...???
the IRFU are lucky in some regards we don't have a premiership soccer franchise to contend with on the island of Ireland,the bandwagon or eventers would slide away and rugby would have to depend on niche/core support
There was a treviso home game in thomond a few weeks back that on the night it was announced there was 10,400 at the match on the radio just after the match, and at the end i guessed about 10,000 from my spot in the east terrace! however on the offical site it says about 15,600 which is ridiculous so they are messaging the stats big time, it also says about 15,800 for the dragons match few weeks later there was more at that match than the treviso match but still not 15,800.
Anyway the bandwagon is over it seems for now!
Bash Rebourne
They will include all season tickets sold in that 15,600 even if they're sat at home watching from the comfort of their couch.
Simple emigration I think, of my year in Ardscoil there's only a handful of my mates left in Limerick, two or three only. Most are out of Ireland. If that's replicated around the province then of course numbers are dropping.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Every plan I have is the best plan in the room. Everybody get quiet and listen to it, and everybody will win
He doesnt say ther will be a 25K attendance.....he says there will be 25K tickets sold.
Anybody who sees a psychiatrist would want their head examined.*&nb sp;Henry Ford
There won't be. Loads were returned very late.
Actually doing very well as of this evening, so he may well be correct with the 25K figure.
Good news for a change !! The Stade should be fairly full............
We are going to be back to the hoary old Chesnut that the Clubs cannot sell their allocations which they demanded in 2008 and Munster Rugby has a much better chance of selling the tickets direct to punters and that is the way it is going to be in future. Munster Rugby will get back control of the tickets and if people want to be Full members of MRSC and get access to tickets for all matches then anyone will be allowed to take Full membership to do so.
I can understand they have to stay optimistic because of sponsors and such, got make it look like gates are still real good to attract them. however 5k season ticket holders not showing up to a pre-paid for match is very surprising even though the teams played so far arnt the biggest draw. you can go to a munster match and not spend anything if things are very tight like in my case but to basically throw away a ticket after paying for it beggars belief tbh.
Also on another point if 15k buy tickets/season tickets for home games thats only about 55% full stadiums for the season that must be a worry to the Munster rugby branch
Bash Rebourne
The poulets didn't take long to come home to roost, as many us had predicted here.
Yes but it coincides with a reduced demand for full membership. Have to say I will give fair consideration before I hand out over 600 smackers for wife and myself next year. Wife gets to maybe 2 of the 4 Rabos in Musser....I usually get 3 or 4 and we usually get the 3 Heinos. If tickets are to be freely available and with money much tighter I think a lot of members will be thinking twice.
Anybody who sees a psychiatrist would want their head examined.*&nb sp;Henry Ford
That's far from certain I suspect unfortunately.
Im a Thomond park ST holder and i live the far side of athlone. Tomorrow will be the 2nd game i attend this season. if i had attended the dragons game i would have had to take a night off work. I dont know this when i purchase but thats how these things go.
I agree with GF in relation to the times of the matches affecting live attendances. IF i commute up and down on the night i wont be home til after midnight and i normally have my 5yr old son with me. Sometimes i dont do it because of the travel(cost and time) and the fact that game is on telly. For these big games i stay down as im originally from Limerick.
There are normally 6-8 of us who meet up for these games. tomorrow there are three. distance doesnt appear to be the contributing factor as im travelling from athlone and one of the others from Navan. One of the lads not bothering lives across the road from TP. Finance isnt the issue with him afaik and its pure apathy imo on his part. I have clear memories of him putting down LImerick hurling etc and pledging his undying allegence to Munster Rugby.
Imo its the Bandwagoners who have gone missing and we are left with the core support again and that is even mirroring gaa support trends at this stage. We have diehards who attend league games and the ones who save themselves for the championship. Tomorrow the two will be united again.
To get those bandwagoners back, (and we do need them), we need to be winning. How we win is immaterial.
I think there is a simpler reason for a slide in the number of supporters in TP.
People just dont have the money.
There is no slide in interest, when you talk to people,most people will watch the games at home or go to the pub for a few.
Hopefully, the fall off at this level will lead to more numbers at a grass roots level. its cheaper and it will ultimately lead to a better game at Provincial level.
Whatever number turns up for the Edinburgh match later today, they wouldn't have fitted into the old TP.
Sunday's crowd will be bigger than v Gloucester in 2003 and v Sale in 2006.
Remember that.
"Playing against ROG, your big game plan is to try and pressure him but he’d dump it off to Wally and next thing you’re five metres behind the gain line because he was an absolute freak." Rory Best, Irish Examiner, May 2012
Despite all the negative bs, Munster will still have the biggest attendance of any game this weekend.
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