The "I've got tickets for myself" thread - Semi Final Edition

[Gets!]

got my 6 tickets this morning.

Of course we want to win this game! How good will the experience of playing in a prelim at the G with 90,000 people screaming, be for our youngsters!

Will be the biggest game of their lives, and guess what? No-one will give us a hope and that is fine by me. We will have no expectations, we will probably lose but who knows, we could play the game of our lives and Hawthorn could miss set shots etc and we would win.

Let's look forward to friday night, remember how good this side can be and be thankful for the chance to play in a preliminary final after finishing 14th last season. Boom.

 

[BUTTON 92]

got my 6 tickets this morning.

Of course we want to win this game! How good will the experience of playing in a prelim at the G with 90,000 people screaming, be for our youngsters!

Will be the biggest game of their lives, and guess what? No-one will give us a hope and that is fine by me. We will have no expectations, we will probably lose but who knows, we could play the game of our lives and Hawthorn could miss set shots etc and we would win.

Let's look forward to friday night, remember how good this side can be and be thankful for the chance to play in a preliminary final after finishing 14th last season. Boom.

Well said mate! got mine this morning too! Going with 2 mates! Bay 133! PUMPED!

 

[footy_noob]

YAY! got the tix! so excited. better seats than last week. yes!

 

[Crow-eater]

got my 6 tickets this morning.

Of course we want to win this game! How good will the experience of playing in a prelim at the G with 90,000 people screaming, be for our youngsters!

Will be the biggest game of their lives, and guess what? No-one will give us a hope and that is fine by me. We will have no expectations, we will probably lose but who knows, we could play the game of our lives and Hawthorn could miss set shots etc and we would win.

Let's look forward to friday night, remember how good this side can be and be thankful for the chance to play in a preliminary final after finishing 14th last season. Boom.

Great post!

Get behind the boys, they need us now more than ever.

 

[footy_noob]

Get behind the boys, they need us now more than ever.

yep, that's what i've been telling my friends. they need us more this week.

 

[Vooligan]

got my 6 tickets this morning.

Of course we want to win this game! How good will the experience of playing in a prelim at the G with 90,000 people screaming, be for our youngsters!

Will be the biggest game of their lives, and guess what? No-one will give us a hope and that is fine by me. We will have no expectations, we will probably lose but who knows, we could play the game of our lives and Hawthorn could miss set shots etc and we would win.

Let's look forward to friday night, remember how good this side can be and be thankful for the chance to play in a preliminary final after finishing 14th last season. Boom.

Good post!

Are you standing in the same place as normal on Friday night?

 

[radiojake]

Well last week I got to experience the luxury of watching the game in my own loungeroom - It was to be short lived

I am working this friday night - Though there are TVs at work (medical clinic, patient waiting room) I will not be able to fully focus on the game -

If we win, however, you bet your bottom dollar that I will be at the MCG the following saturday!

 

[johnnypanther]

Agree. I phoned up yesterday so I could pick exact seats - I got straight through & had them booked by 9.15am. Last week I sat on hold for 45 mins.

Just wondering, when you say that you could pick exact seats - how specific do you mean? (for example - bay xyz, row z ???)

 

[RichardMarx]

Just wondering, when you say that you could pick exact seats - how specific do you mean? (for example - bay xyz, row z ???)

Could pick exact seats (ie. row Z seats 1&2).

 

[Moonwatcher]

Got my ticket today. Don't think there will be too much interest in this one. Pity for a prime time final.

 

[BigD231]

Got mine again, 225 this week. Finish uni at 2 will be heading to the game via unibar for 3-4 hours for some birthday/pre finals bevs with some mates

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Heard there was still 15000 tickets left...

 

[relapse]

Heard there was still 15000 tickets left...

Doesn't surprise me, we've gone from being a great chance of making the grand final to now appearing like we're just making up the numbers in the space of a week.

I will be there on Friday night, but it's hard to escape that sinking feeling that after losing to Sydney that the Crows are now just going through the motions as far as September goes and I'm sure that i am definitely not the only person who feels that way. The stats dont lie, since our choke against West Coast in 2006 no other home side lost a prelim final, that week off is absolutely cruicial and a massive advantage going into the prelim final.

 

[Hank93]

relapse Exactly mate. The energy has been sapped right out of Crows fans after the loss to Sydney. Many, many fans will see this game as a "dead rubber" as the chances of making the GF are very slim. Hawthorn at the G is not exactly a game you can say "we've got a chance" with confidence.

The fact this thread only has 64 posts, as compared to the previous one which was near 300, shows this weeks crowd will be smaller.

 

[sportsfanextreme2]

got my 6 tickets this morning.

Of course we want to win this game! How good will the experience of playing in a prelim at the G with 90,000 people screaming, be for our youngsters!

Will be the biggest game of their lives, and guess what? No-one will give us a hope and that is fine by me. We will have no expectations, we will probably lose but who knows, we could play the game of our lives and Hawthorn could miss set shots etc and we would win.

Let's look forward to friday night, remember how good this side can be and be thankful for the chance to play in a preliminary final after finishing 14th last season. Boom.

With the Crows losing last week (which they were expected to win) , Surely they should be fired up to win this one. Or is it true what others say ....they have had an easy run all year.

 

[Moonwatcher]

With the Crows losing last week (which they were expected to win) , Surely they should be fired up to win this one. Or is it true what others say ....they have had an easy run all year.

You know we have had an easy run, that was never in question.

 

[Vooligan]

With the Crows losing last week (which they were expected to win) , Surely they should be fired up to win this one. Or is it true what others say ....they have had an easy run all year.

Hard run, easy run, we've still managed to beat Sydney in Sydney, Geelong, West Coast and finally win at both ETIHAD and the MCG, ending a long Victorian drought. If we didn't deserve a finals spot, we wouldn't be there.



WE CAN BEAT FREMANTLE

 

[Jars458]

Got my tickets. Went for much cheaper ones this time though. In a similar spot to where I was for the West Coast final in 97 so hopefully that's an omen. Not that I believe in omens.

 

[brucetiki]

You know ticket sales are flatlining when the headline on the Crows website is Hendo's resigning.

I have discovered this link that shows there's still 12000 tickets left.

http://www.afc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/4417/newsid/147482/default.aspx

We're looking at a sub-40K crowd, for a semi-final on a Friday night, yet we got 44.5k for a Saturday final. This means we won't be able to have Trigg begging Demitreou for favourable finals time slots in future (ala 2009).

 

[Vooligan]

You know ticket sales are flatlining when the headline on the Crows website is Hendo's resigning.

I have discovered this link that shows there's still 12000 tickets left.

http://www.afc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/4417/newsid/147482/default.aspx

We're looking at a sub-40K crowd, for a semi-final on a Friday night, yet we got 44.5k for a Saturday final. This means we won't be able to have Trigg begging Demitreou for favourable finals time slots in future (ala 2009).

Channel 7 News just quoted that just over 40,000 sold.

 

[Chief Crow]

channel ten news said about 7,500 remaining

 

[Vooligan]

Hmmm... All the media outlets quoting different figures. Means they have no idea?

Hope they get 48k.

 

[brucetiki]

Well I don't think Ten News would be the most reliable news source going around, I'd say 7's would be more accurate

 

[Moonwatcher]

I think 40k stops it from being embarrassing, particularly with a final last week and the show.

 

[Cap]

if the weather holds, we'll get over 40k but it is Fremantle after all.