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I hope the blueprint for timeslots has been set this year for QClash - the sunday night before the public holiday, and a Saturday twilight for the return, with venues swapping each year.
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The only thing they need to do is move it to a time that it can be on the main 7 channel. Would need to be 3.20 instead of 4.30. You don't want the derby shoved away to secondary channels, as it makes it appear unimportant in QLD.
yeh good call
3:20 even better for that reason and earlier start, first half daylight, second half twilght into night.
30,000 sell out games for North, Saints and dogs would be so much more a spectacle than 25,000 at Marvel. It would even drive demand with the fear of missing out.
30,000 is still a lot of people and can create an atmosphere out of this world, we here in Melbourne take crowds for granted.
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Assuming if the QClash sells out - That would 4 sell outs out of 8 games?
For a team that’s never played finals.
5 years ago plenty were saying “get rid of the suns, it’ll never work” etc. I’m glad that chat is no longer.
If the suns have a period of success, they’ll need to look at expanding the capacity of the ground I reckon.
The VFL mural at Waverley Park was always amazing (still is).
Funnily enough, I searched my Twitter and found that I suggested to the MCG that they do something similar on the outside of the GSS. They replied with “not a bad idea…”
That was in June 2010, and still no mural
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The VFL mural at Waverley Park was always amazing (still is).
Funnily enough, I searched my Twitter and found that I suggested to the MCG that they do something similar on the outside of the GSS. They replied with “not a bad idea…”
That was in June 2010, and still no mural
They should get right on that, just after they add the statue of Scott Pendlebury.
Ticket sales look to be headed for a technical sellout for tonight’s game. A bit riding on it and a good night weather wise so no surprise. I would’ve be surprised to see 42-43k posted.
Tomorrow’s weather forecast is awful (again). Will impact reserved seat and walkups. Saints crowd last weekend was probably 10-15% below expected thanks to the weather. They haven’t released reserved seats the last couple of hours so perhaps they’re calculating a significant walkup of GA Club members from both sides. Again, I think it’s weather dependent but I was loosely thinking 35-37k at best if it’s a wet day. It may surprise however.
Tomorrow’s weather forecast is awful (again). Will impact reserved seat and walkups. Saints crowd last weekend was probably 10-15% below expected thanks to the weather. They haven’t released reserved seats the last couple of hours so perhaps they’re calculating a significant walkup of GA Club members from both sides. Again, I think it’s weather dependent but I was loosely thinking 35-37k at best if it’s a wet day. It may surprise however.
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I know that if they made finals awhile back they were going to put temp seats. Not sure if the ground was built with expansion in mind. Hope so.
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Ticket prices would be much higher, access to GA seats and memberships much lower. If its not on a trainline in the city its harder to get to, and since every line on the Metro goes past either the MCG or Docklands people will be annoyed about the extra travel to get a shittier experience.
The games at the 30k stadium are going to be the games that don't pull crowds now or get sold off to Tasmania/Darwin/Cairns, so why would they suddenly pull crowds in a new stadium?
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40,500 at Docklands.
There seems to be a lot of seating left for GA. Also weird that stopped selling GA and then started again.
I am in the ‘roof open is way too glary’ camp. But it’s a great stadium that has its place, for example for 40,000 crowds like last night.
All of the seats seem to be sold out in Hobart including restricted view; there’s still some GA on the hill for sale.
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This takes the Blues home average to 56,978 for the season, including a home average of 41,473 at Marvel.
I’m in QLD.. I just saw the Melbourne radar. It wouldn’t matter if there was a roof or not, today’s crowd will be impacted by the rain. Imagine walking to the stadium from the city or from South Wharf in that!
We're down in Melbourne for the weekend and will be heading to the game. Having lunch at South Wharf before the game.
Bit of a bleak kind of afternoon but will be heading in to the undeterred. Can imagine others won't be be as keen.
More worried about the Dee's v Giants game at the G. Got poncho's with me but hopefully won't need them later this afternoon with a rain clearing trend on radar edging it's way across the city
South Wharf is terrific. I worked for 5 years in that ‘ANL’ corporate building at the entrance of the DFO. Spent many mornings enjoying a coffee or lunchtime at the various eateries and evenings at the bars. Great memories. I had a carpark in the office building and walked across to the ground. My memory serves me well.We're down in Melbourne for the weekend and will be heading to the game. Having lunch at South Wharf before the game.
Bit of a bleak kind of afternoon but will be heading in to the undeterred. Can imagine others won't be be as keen.
More worried about the Dee's v Giants game at the G. Got poncho's with me but hopefully won't need them later this afternoon with a rain clearing trend on radar edging it's way across the city
The rain will clear in the next hour. Lucky you!! Barrack hard for the ‘Same Olds’ in my absence
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South Wharf is terrific. I worked for 5 years in that ‘ANL’ corporate building at the entrance of the DFO. Spent many mornings enjoying a coffee or lunchtime at the various eateries and evenings at the bars. Great memories. I had a carpark in the office building and walked across to the ground. My memory serves me well.
The rain will clear in the next hour. Lucky you!! Barrack hard for the ‘Same Olds’ in my absence
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That Essendon-Fremantle game At the G next week is looking REALLY bleak right about now.
Why is that game scheduled for the G anyway?
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