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AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Gone up $90 in two seasonsPrice has gone up to $735 for gold next year. Seems a steep rise.
Had to make up for Covid freeze, mind you the stuff they offered was rubbishGone up $90 in two seasons
Oh hello Mr AFL Membership managerImagining bitching about a small price increase while getting access to one of the best deals in footy; even without guaranteed grand final access.
Why is it so popular? Why are people complaining about the long waitlist? Because it's a freaking amazing deal.
AFL members don't know how good they've got it.
It's still a breakeven point of scanning your barcode to a non-sold out game 28 times across the season (so across 24 weeks of football, just slightly more than one per game average), than otherwise buying a GA ticket at $27 a pop. You can in effect get "free tickets" if you go to more games than that. Games that require reserving a seat in advance would also not be a GA accessible game outside of the reserve, so the value proposition relative to the game's demand scales up in teh same amount - as a gold member you're paying for the equivalent to accessing about 30 games that you otherwise wouldn't and if you go to more you can get them for free.Imagining bitching about a small price increase while getting access to one of the best deals in footy; even without guaranteed grand final access.
Why is it so popular? Why are people complaining about the long waitlist? Because it's a freaking amazing deal.
AFL members don't know how good they've got it.
14% increase over 2 years during a cost of living crisisImagining bitching about a small price increase while getting access to one of the best deals in footy; even without guaranteed grand final access.
Why is it so popular? Why are people complaining about the long waitlist? Because it's a freaking amazing deal.
AFL members don't know how good they've got it.
The 14% increase has already been mentioned.Imagining bitching about a small price increase while getting access to one of the best deals in footy; even without guaranteed grand final access.
Why is it so popular? Why are people complaining about the long waitlist? Because it's a freaking amazing deal.
AFL members don't know how good they've got it.
That's fair. I accept that to an extent.The 14% increase has already been mentioned.
People are complaining about the long wait list because
a) they were told something else when joining
b) the reason the wait is getting longer is because the AFL having taken away our seats for Medallion Club and also standing room for club members during Grand Finals.
AFL members who think we have it so good must not be aware that a full MCC member (after a super long wait) is now effectively cheaper than AFL Gold (for a GF attendee) as they pay $875 and can walk up to any game, including the GF. Even finals tickets were only $12 to reserve rather than $30 or something for AFL. Sure they don't get entry to that woeful Marvel Stadium, but they can get walk up to all the cricket.
Sure, but comparing access to the cricket and access to Marvel is on the basis of fundamentally different products. It's an unfair comparison. You're making the comparison because you want to treat both membership categories only through the lens of GF access, which is not what the products are. You yourself state that MCC gets you cricket, and AFL gets you Marvel. Both are meaningful. You don't get to handwave that away because it doesn't suit you.The 14% increase has already been mentioned.
People are complaining about the long wait list because
a) they were told something else when joining
b) the reason the wait is getting longer is because the AFL having taken away our seats for Medallion Club and also standing room for club members during Grand Finals.
AFL members who think we have it so good must not be aware that a full MCC member (after a super long wait) is now effectively cheaper than AFL Gold (for a GF attendee) as they pay $875 and can walk up to any game, including the GF. Even finals tickets were only $12 to reserve rather than $30 or something for AFL. Sure they don't get entry to that woeful Marvel Stadium, but they can get walk up to all the cricket.
There is no probably about it. Someone else said the increased wait time is not the AFL's fault, but it is because they have taken Medallion club into the AFL reserve. You used to be able to get level 2 pretty easily if you timed it right, but not now. This is surely the reason upgrades have slowed so much.The AFL could have probably anticipated the waitlist lengthening and communicated that better.
Agree.I reckon they're bumping the price up to make the other packages they mentioned in the midseason survey more lucrative (ie access to only 20 h&a games instead for 40 etc)
No, because I have a separate Dogs membership and use that to go to Dogs games (yes, I do really go to about 30-35 games of footy a year outside of Dogs home games, this includes Dogs away games in Melbourne)There is no probably about it. Someone else said the increased wait time is not the AFL's fault, but it is because they have taken Medallion club into the AFL reserve. You used to be able to get level 2 pretty easily if you timed it right, but not now. This is surely the reason upgrades have slowed so much.
I am not comparing MCC and AFL because I view them as Grand Final access tickets, but because I support an MCG tenant club and all the games I went to as a neutral this year were (deliberately) at the MCG. So point taken, the value proposition it is quite different for you as a Dogs supporter than for me as a Richmond supporter.
I doubt there would be many at all that would get the sort of use out of the membership and good on you for that, but I expect the majority would go to fewer than 20 home and away games. I would think that Grand Final access is more of a selling point to most than going to 40 games (at least it was when it looked like you'd get to Gold in under 10 years).No, because I have a separate Dogs membership and use that to go to Dogs games (yes, I do really go to about 30-35 games of footy a year outside of Dogs home games, this includes Dogs away games in Melbourne)
In terms of value proposition, I view MCG games and Docklands games essentially identical, because I enjoy the AFL so much, that the value of a neutral game is essentially identical as to who is playing (with bias to better quality teams naturally but that's in theory equally divided among the two stadiums). Both grounds are modern, easily accessible by public transport and I h
I think this is nonsense argument really. The AFL pay the clubs what they pay, but how that stacks up depends on how you use the membership.Keep in mind that if your club is an MCG tenant club, then the value proposition is against other membership categories with shorter waitlists. Also, you're not really supporting your club as less than $200 goes to the club of support, if the AFL considers the club contribution to only be equivlanet to a cheap GA membership when you nominate your club of support (about a third or a quarter of the membership), why should people buying the membership who understand the ins and outs of it consider the proportion of value relevant to the team they support to be any different to the third or the quarter of why they purchase it?