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Can't get away with it in either stadium. We need a better system to ensure that people who want to attend on the day can do so, whilst members can sit in a members area. Think the answer is reserved bays and opt-in for expected sellouts but it's going to take someone with a lot of balls to sell it to the rank and file.
They get a guaranteed 5 away games at the MCG in return. Think they'll be fine with the current arrangement.
Two different GAs being conflated. If they sold any ticketed GA seats they still need to hold GA bays for these people. If those people don't show up, those seats still go empty. The issue here is that someone who has bought a GA ticket likely did a while ago before the event got converted to fully ticketed.
How's that going to work? You then oversell each reserved seat bay and hope too many don't show?
People aren't going to pay the same premium for that as they would for a reserved seat.
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People are paying the premium for the whole package. The big ticket items in that package are in order: priority access to GF tickets, priority access for other finals, priority access for ANZAC Day and our MCG home games. Reserved seats for our 2 Docklands games would be a long way down the list, and the evidence is that the seats aren’t getting filled.
There’s absolutely no reason why the Docklands part of my suggestion would significantly affect the membership numbers or revenue. Changing the MCG to bays would require a change in culture but can be done as Richmond have shown.
I don't buy that the majority of people who bought a general admission ticket in advance decided not to turn up.
It is simply a money grab knowing that most people who will turn up on game day to access general admission are people with memberships who add nothing to the gate takings. Hawthorn did it the other week by making it a ticketed game with reserved seating only yet bays were empty and not sold.
The clubs gain nothing from general admission members who have already paid whether they go or not. But if you can get 5000 of them to pay another $20 plus on top for a reserved seat. Nice little money earner that.
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One of the most impressive crowds this season!
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Crowd should be huge for crows vs swans tonight.General public tickets are now sold out
Wow! What a crowd for an otherwise nothing game. Well done Tiger army!Looked like a half decent crowd at the GC as well.
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Good thing Essendon have already banked all the money from the ticket sales for next week.
A fitting crowd and a fitting day for our heroes.
They created joy we couldn’t dream of, so fitting that the favour was returned.
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Member show rate is going to be very low based on this performance...
Yes. Though, they’ve been ‘done’ for a month now. For reasons we don’t yet know, they’ve hit a wall physically / fitness wise. They did a much tougher preseason last summer, it may be showing I’m not sure. Going to be a flat affair next week.
How does it work then?
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Dont remember exact number but was around 19.2k at HBS today
I don’t say this to be smart in any way, shape or form because I genuinely believe it is the best way forward but it literally works how it sounds.
I can go to each home game and sit between N7-13 for 3121. Premiership circle is anywhere between N1-N6, you can enter the rooms behind accordingly.
I live in NSW so I’m rarely there more than 10-15 mins before the bounce and have never ever once not got a seat.
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This was a massive crowd from the Saints fans! Woweee
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