Great after a match. Firing out Guinness to beat the band.
Took the father there for 1 after a league match a few years ago. He’d 8
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Ah lovely.
To be honest CP hosts 4 big hurling games every year -
Barring a Wex presence a Leinster final will do very well to hit 35,000
I can’t see quarters going there at this stage .
The semi finals will need certain pairings to top 60k .
The all Ireland will always sell out although I have seen fellas trying to dump tickets on the day .
Football will really struggle to offset real apathy . The product is now poor enough & it isn’t very competitive .
The GAA are a bit unlucky that the year Tipp and Cavan break through in the football they can’t monetise the novelty.
I did both the hurling and football finals in 2014. It was my first time doing a weekend in Dublin for the football final. I sold the ticket the night before to the manager of the Louis Fitzgerald hotel and I couldn’t get over how much bigger a crowd the football attracts. The pubs around crime park were jammed during the match with supporters who hadn’t tickets.
Football is a much bigger draw. If Dublin are in the final it’s not easy to get a ticket.
Bars are full around Croke Park in recent years as it’s Dublin and Dublin are in final so people are out to watch it who’d have no intention of ever going to Croke Park
Unfortunate typo there.
The football final will always sell out. Very easy to get hurling tickets and very hard to get football ones I find.
Mayo are simply incredible to support.
More counties play football tbf so it will always have a much bigger neutral crowd.
Football is popular in nearly every County & add a huge amount of exiles who come for the weekend .
Yes
Yeah, it was Kerry v Donegal too and both would bring a lot of exiles and overnighters given the travel time
The Imperial gallon of porter is a noble and satisfying experience.
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A load of Northerners just love going down to Croker to watch the big football games.
They are great to support eachother and are also quite in awe of this current crop from Dublin.
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There’s great camaraderie amongst the Ulster Football folk. Their chippyness towards the other provinces is the one single thing in life that unites them.
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You fucking Fanny 
You’d see big Joe Kernan and the sons at any type of match in croker
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The Kernan boys are incredible.
They used to often come down to the big hurling games in Munster and be taking photos of themselves standing outside the ground etc. True Gaels.
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Any time I was in Croke park hotel before or after a match they only take cash at bar …