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Hi All, I'm assuming your all read the guide on getting GF tickets today.

Who's planning on entering this?

On another note, i currently have a GIANTS Insider membership have for 2 years, will i get priority 3 access to GF tickets?
 
cardje said:
On another note, i currently have a GIANTS Insider membership have for 2 years, will i get priority 3 access to GF tickets?
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You should've received a letter in the post with what priority level you are if it includes that. I can't remember the breakdown and I don't have the letter to hand.
 
cardje said:
Hi All, I'm assuming your all read the guide on getting GF tickets today.

Who's planning on entering this?

On another note, i currently have a GIANTS Insider membership have for 2 years, will i get priority 3 access to GF tickets?
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Yes, priority 3 access
 

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Determinant said:
Yes, priority 3 access
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Thanks for the response.

Looks likely the majority of us who will go, will be able to go. Hoping some people higher up the chain don't get tickets and then palm them off or sell them giving us who really want to go the chance to go :). Think were "i guess i'm allowed to say that not that my primary club is out, are a good chance to get the job done so really think we will make it"
 
cardje said:
Thanks for the response.

Looks likely the majority of us who will go, will be able to go. Hoping some people higher up the chain don't get tickets and then palm them off or sell them giving us who really want to go the chance to go :). Think were "i guess i'm allowed to say that not that my primary club is out, are a good chance to get the job done so really think we will make it"
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I agree. I will have a very very new baby and it pains me to think that I wouldn't be able to go.

I'm hoping as many people as possible can go. Now is the time for all us dual club members to put our money where our mouth is and support.
 
Simmofreo said:
I agree. I will have a very very new baby and it pains me to think that I wouldn't be able to go.

I'm hoping as many people as possible can go. Now is the time for all us dual club members to put our money where our mouth is and support.
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Should've planned the baby better. Our'll be 7.5 weeks and we'll be going! :)
 
Simmofreo said:
Ours will be 7 days. Does that work ?? :)
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Would for me. My wife gave me permission to take our older daughter to a Giants game if she was still in hospital after giving birth.
 
Anybody planning on coming down GF day that hasnt been here before should do some pre-planning.
Melbourne is just football mad during GF week and an exciting place to be.
Arrange a place to meet fellow supporters and travel to the game together as it will be a huge plus and help build the day for you.
I know its early days but its all worth it.Also after match meetings are a must.
 
Gotta say the whole ballot set up seems stuffed up. You have to buy a ticket without knowing where the seat is and without fully knowing if you will get it and then if you get allocated one and dont like the seat you still get billed for it.
 

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I always worry about anything left to chance like a raffle/ballot but I finally got around to actually reading the GF ballot letter (I usually leave all the fine print stuff to Ellie, she's the lawyer) and I had a good look at the various steps in the process.

I got a little nervous about the "the number of tickets available for Club members to purchase is less than the total number of members we have"

So I could miss out - and if anybody is going to, it's going to be me, because, you know.... Murphy's Law really should be Noodle's Law.

My nervousness was not alleviated by the bit about - it doesn't matter when you buy tickets in the window because there's no queue, it will just be random - so much for my plan of logging on at 11:00 and 30 seconds. I'm still going to, but again, Noodle's Law would say that I could be first on and still miss out.

But I kept reading and did some mental maths and am now quietly confident that all should be good.

Firstly, 1 ticket per barcode and you have to have a barcode to get a ticket. For the Qualifying final, theoretically with our three barcodes I could have purchased 30 tickets and I was originally worried that all those Priority 1 people would buy up the whole allotment with multiple tickets per barcode - but that can't happen it seems. Good.

Ok, so there are more members than tickets
15,311 members - so how many tickets do the club get?
15k? Dead easy, there would have to be at least 311 people who can't go, no problems
12k? Slightly more problematical, that's 3,311 not wanting tickets
10k? Much more worrying - that's over 5,000 people either not wanting to go or missing out if they register.
Noodle's Law - I'm going to be one to the 5k

But I'm priority 2 (on two counts - members reserve and remaining foundation)

So what's the breakdown of our membership base?
Well, you'd think there'd be a few thousand priority one ultimate and coterie - be generous and say 3,500, leaving 6,500 at a worst case scenario.

But more importantly, how many would be behind me stuck at the back of the bus in priority 3 - three game members, Battle of the Bridge (Swans) members, Silver ACT, interstate, insider/digital members etc?
You'd think, what 5k there? Maybe/probably even more - we're still new, so a lot of 3 game "I'll go have a look, test the waters, Easter show freebies a bonus" type members, and a fair whack of those who follow another team "I'll get to see my team and take in another couple of games to get my AFL fix for the year" type members.

And they exhaust the priority 2 requests before they even start randomly drawing names from that lot.

So there are not enough ahead of me, and more than enough behind me that even if everyone who is eligible registers (and I know that's statistically and practically unlikely) a random draw should see me right.

Next year though.....

How many of those 3 gamers will upgrade to members reserve or Sydney Giants, or how many will upgrade from members reserve or Sydney Giants will upgrade into ultimate to get into priority 1?

Then again this will be the first, this is the History, with a capital H, one (touch wood, go outside turn around three times and spit and try to avoid incurring the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing) and I'm glad I won't be missing out if we get there.

I already feel bad enough about booking accommodation (yes, it's no charge cancellation, won't cost me anything) but it's bloody well tempting fate isn't it. I've been touching every wooden surface since the booking was made.

It's also very weird to be lining up to buy grand final tickets before I can line up to by prelim tickets. Any idea when they go on sale?
 
grouse mate said:
Gotta say the whole ballot set up seems stuffed up. You have to buy a ticket without knowing where the seat is and without fully knowing if you will get it and then if you get allocated one and dont like the seat you still get billed for it.
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I'm not overly concerned where the seat would be, but would it be a fair assumption to say that they would put all 10k GWS member allocation seats together?
 
Ichabod Noodle said:
I always worry about anything left to chance like a raffle/ballot but I finally got around to actually reading the GF ballot letter (I usually leave all the fine print stuff to Ellie, she's the lawyer) and I had a good look at the various steps in the process.

I got a little nervous about the "the number of tickets available for Club members to purchase is less than the total number of members we have"

So I could miss out - and if anybody is going to, it's going to be me, because, you know.... Murphy's Law really should be Noodle's Law.

My nervousness was not alleviated by the bit about - it doesn't matter when you buy tickets in the window because there's no queue, it will just be random - so much for my plan of logging on at 11:00 and 30 seconds. I'm still going to, but again, Noodle's Law would say that I could be first on and still miss out.

But I kept reading and did some mental maths and am now quietly confident that all should be good.

Firstly, 1 ticket per barcode and you have to have a barcode to get a ticket. For the Qualifying final, theoretically with our three barcodes I could have purchased 30 tickets and I was originally worried that all those Priority 1 people would buy up the whole allotment with multiple tickets per barcode - but that can't happen it seems. Good.

Ok, so there are more members than tickets
15,311 members - so how many tickets do the club get?
15k? Dead easy, there would have to be at least 311 people who can't go, no problems
12k? Slightly more problematical, that's 3,311 not wanting tickets
10k? Much more worrying - that's over 5,000 people either not wanting to go or missing out if they register.
Noodle's Law - I'm going to be one to the 5k

But I'm priority 2 (on two counts - members reserve and remaining foundation)

So what's the breakdown of our membership base?
Well, you'd think there'd be a few thousand priority one ultimate and coterie - be generous and say 3,500, leaving 6,500 at a worst case scenario.

But more importantly, how many would be behind me stuck at the back of the bus in priority 3 - three game members, Battle of the Bridge (Swans) members, Silver ACT, interstate, insider/digital members etc?
You'd think, what 5k there? Maybe/probably even more - we're still new, so a lot of 3 game "I'll go have a look, test the waters, Easter show freebies a bonus" type members, and a fair whack of those who follow another team "I'll get to see my team and take in another couple of games to get my AFL fix for the year" type members.

And they exhaust the priority 2 requests before they even start randomly drawing names from that lot.

So there are not enough ahead of me, and more than enough behind me that even if everyone who is eligible registers (and I know that's statistically and practically unlikely) a random draw should see me right.
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THE AFL has divvied up seats for this year’s Grand Final, with more than one in five tickets slated for corporate use.

Competing clubs will split 30,000 tickets

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...k=446be6935dbdf7641be9093bd881138a-1473811355

So I think the estimate will be closest to your 15k mark, which is in line with the comment "NOTE: While we do have more members than tickets available it is unlikely that any members will miss out in 2016."
 
dlanod said:
THE AFL has divvied up seats for this year’s Grand Final, with more than one in five tickets slated for corporate use.

Competing clubs will split 30,000 tickets

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...k=446be6935dbdf7641be9093bd881138a-1473811355

So I think the estimate will be closest to your 15k mark, which is in line with the comment "NOTE: While we do have more members than tickets available it is unlikely that any members will miss out in 2016."
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That's a strange breakdown for the clubs isn't it?

Every club gets 250 tickets except:
Adelaide 300
Carlton Freo Wet Toast 800
Norf 816
Colliwobbles 824

What makes those teams special?

And competing clubs split 30k if there's preferential treatment for some clubs in the other thing, will there be in this? Will they say, well Geelong has more members so we'll split to 20/10?
 

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