Grand Final Ticket Allocation

[Westsider]

How would you divide up the tickets for the AFL Grand Final?

100,000 tickets

Competing clubs
Other Clubs
MCC Members
AFL Members
AFL Sponsors
Corporate Tickets (packages)

[Wedgie]

Me - 4
Don't care - 99, 996

[Dutchy]

How would you divide up the tickets for the AFL Grand Final?

100,000 tickets

Competing clubs
Other Clubs
MCC Members
AFL Members
AFL Sponsors
Corporate Tickets (packages)

Depends if your a fan or the CEO of the AFL (and have a $$$ target you have to achieve)

[fester69]

It's a bloody disgrace!! I'm going to Melbourne Friday night with my daughter but with no bloody tix!!

[stan]

It's a bloody disgrace!! I'm going to Melbourne Friday night with my daughter but with no bloody tix!!

The GF is not for the normal people. Its more of a corprate event these days.

[Wedgie]

I don't have an issue with it, when you consider how much it would cost to have a Premium membership with most of the bigger clubs to get assured of Grand Final seats its actually just cheaper forking out a few hundred when it rolls around.
2 weeks ago you could pick up tix for $600 including a dinner and a breakfast (the people that ordered the breakfast version got shafted by Port as they didn't have it sanctioned when they advertised it).
You can still get premium seats including all the booze and food you can put down plus after match entertainiment for JET for $1500.
Probably could get them cheaper if you were lucky around the ground on the day.
If you want 'em you pay for 'em, simple.
I could go but choose not to, haven't even decided on a function to go to yet, might even end up staying at home and yelling abuse at the neighbours who are Ferals.

[stan]

I don't have an issue with it, when you consider how much it would cost to have a Premium membership with most of the bigger clubs to get assured of Grand Final seats its actually just cheaper forking out a few hundred when it rolls around.
2 weeks ago you could pick up tix for $600 including a dinner and a breakfast (the people that ordered the breakfast version got shafted by Port as they didn't have it sanctioned when they advertised it).
You can still get premium seats including all the booze and food you can put down plus after match entertainiment for JET for $1500.
Probably could get them cheaper if you were lucky around the ground on the day.
If you want 'em you pay for 'em, simple.
I could go but choose not to, haven't even decided on a function to go to yet, might even end up staying at home and yelling abuse at the neighbours who are Ferals.

Sonds like a nice way to spend your afternoon

[am Bays]

It's a bloody disgrace!! I'm going to Melbourne Friday night with my daughter but with no bloody tix!!

$2700 will get you two tickets through the Crows and entry into teh Crows GF breakfast...

How badly do you want them.....

[Wedgie]

It's a bloody disgrace!! I'm going to Melbourne Friday night with my daughter but with no bloody tix!!

$2700 will get you two tickets through the Crows and entry into teh Crows GF breakfast...

How badly do you want them.....

Exactly, $2700 is nothing considering the cost of 2 premium memberships for Geelong for every year they don't make the GF.
Take out a loan and pay it off if its an issue.

[Booney]

From memory the 30,000 tickets that get allocated to the two competing clubs,yes 30 odd thousand(from a 98,000 seat stadium) get divided up depending on who has the most members.

ie: If Adelaide played the Bulldogs,Adelaide would get 20odd and the Dogs 10 or so.IIRC that is.

[am Bays]

It's a bloody disgrace!! I'm going to Melbourne Friday night with my daughter but with no bloody tix!!

$2700 will get you two tickets through the Crows and entry into teh Crows GF breakfast...

How badly do you want them.....

Exactly, $2700 is nothing considering the cost of 2 premium memberships for Geelong for every year they don't make the GF.
Take out a loan and pay it off if its an issue.

Not saying Wedgie is but before people have a crack at the Crows for selling GF tickets at that price. All clubs have an allocation of GF tickets and to my knowledge most of the package some of those tickets up in some way to make money through a corporate event e.g. a breakfast....

So if you don't want to buy through the Crows let your fingers do the walking.....

[Wedgie]

Yeah, its definatley not a Crows thing.

Apparantley this year the AFL has taken on board the job of selling most of the club's "corporate" tickets for them by having one function. They've set up a marquee on Junction Oval for the gig before and after the GF, they were the $1500 tix I mentioned before, read all about it in the Age or Herald Sun today.

[Squawk]

How would you divide up the tickets for the AFL Grand Final?

100,000 tickets

Competing clubs - the balance of what is left after the deductions below
Other Clubs - 4 tickets per player/official plus a sundry allocation (volunteers and misc) to a max of 250; 100 tickets for club sponsors; 150 tickets for philanthropic purposes (charities, disadvantaged, talented juniors etc)
MCC Members - whatever the area's capacity is
AFL Members - whatever the area's capacity is
AFL Sponsors - 9%
Corporate Tickets (packages) 1%

I'd be pretty hard nosed.

With a lazy $780million for TV rights there is no real need to allocate so many GF tickets to sponsors and corporates. IMHO GF tickets should be quarantined or severely restricted from corporate and sponsorship packages. They get enough exposure for 22 rounds plus pre-season and finals games. I cringe every time I see a sauce bottle offering a chance to win a GF Ticket - provided you ring a number that costs 55 cents per minute/higher from mobiles etc. Major/Premium/Long Serving sponsors should get a very tight allocation. I disagree with clubs auctioning them off in packages at $1500 a pop. Footy needs to grow its supporter base and you don't do that through corporates cause they dont hand their tickets out to juniors. Sure, their money may in some way go to game development but certainly not all of it. It's a bit like fuel taxes and roads - a lot is collected and little is returned.

[fester69]

Take out a loan and pay it off if it's an issue? What a wanker response! All I am saying is 26,000 tix for two competing teams supporters out of 100,000 tix is a bloody disgrace! Maybe Wedgie can stop paying for Cocks membership and pay me $2700 for breakfast and GF tix if they ever make it! Footy should be for the people! Simple as that!

[Psyber]

Take out a loan and pay it off if it's an issue? What a wanker response! All I am saying is 26,000 tix for two competing teams supporters out of 100,000 tix is a bloody disgrace! Maybe Wedgie can stop paying for Cocks membership and pay me $2700 for breakfast and GF tix if they ever make it! Footy should be for the people! Simple as that!

Yep, If I were living in Adelaide again I doubt I'd ever go to an AFL match, but I'd go to Norwood matches when I could. AFL teams are overpaid and overpriced.

[am Bays]

Yep lets not acknowledge the sponsors who chuck in $$$$$$$$$$$$$ to make our game affordable for the people.

Like it or not Footy is a business and the people who make the business tick need to be rewarded not just the people who support a team or have a lower membership category (like me (boundary line for the Crows) when it comes to the GF.

There are many ways to ensure a ticket for the GF as has been pointed out on this thread if you REALLY want to go you'll get one....

IIRC correctly teh AFL have actually increased the ticket allocation to the two competing clubs was it not only 20 000 tickets in 1997 & 98?

[Wedgie]

No need to be rude to a fellow Cats supporter because you disagree with them Fester.
I'd expect that sort of childish response from a Norwood supporter but not a Cats supporter.

Simple fact is anyone can go if they really want to.

If tickets were cheaper and more made available to members you'd have just as many screaming blue murder and the AFL getting less money.
I only tried to get tickets to the 94 ad 97 GFs and got some easy.
If you are poor it still would have been easy to get someone else's members tickets and studied up on how to get through to busy phone lines before others do. It's not rocket science.

[Hondo]

I know many Crows supporters who went in both 97 and 98 basically because they really wanted to - some used SANFL and Crows memberships others just drove over and waited at the ground at 9AM.

As many have said, if you really want to go badly enough you can go

You either pay extra per year through your club membership or put it in a bank account and use it up when your team makes it via one of the Corporate tickets. May work out to be a similar result.

People who pay extra on the club membership must get priority as a reward for their loyalty

[MightyEagles]

They've been dividing the tickets up this way for years and every year people complain that they couldn't get tickets.

[BPBRB]

They've been dividing the tickets up this way for years and every year people complain that they couldn't get tickets.

Still doesn't make it right - 26 thousand tickets between the two competing clubs is a joke!