Two sides master ... a couple of clubs who seen Grand Final glory in recent times whose fans might be saving their sheckels for next week, because there is a next week.
Fixed prices ... maybe a discount for any Tom, Dick or Harry?
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Two sides master ... a couple of clubs who seen Grand Final glory in recent times whose fans might be saving their sheckels for next week, because there is a next week.
Fixed prices ... maybe a discount for any Tom, Dick or Harry?
Sauce?
Top level GA should all be the 1 price.
Rioli2Gunstall
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its not just 40 or 60 to a one off event. Its a 3 or 4 week thing and if your team makes the granny u are looking at $600 plus for a few games of footy. Depends on your priorities in life whether you go or not. Having a different price for row 10 to row 11 top deck is pure greed. It was a disgrace seeing the crowd jammed into the back of level 4 with whole stands in front of them empty. Then when you ask if you can sit in that big empty area ' oh no they are reserved seats' haha ead afl
lol, all those prices are pretty reasonable, if you are too lazy or dumb to budget to go to the game it's not the AFL's fault.
ffs back in 2003 I only cleared a paltry $270 a week as an apprentice and still managed to set aside $70 for Freo's Elimination Final.
Yes the AFL is often pretty greedy but some people also just always want something more for nothing..
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I have a real problem with some of the prices to regular season games - they should be affordable as possible. Finals...nah, I think you should pay a premium for a premium product. Have to be realistic.
beez
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We are spoiled. Anyone who wanted to be there was so no probs. its the neutrals who decided to stay away. A buddy factor may have boosted crowds in the past. Im yet to be convinced hes dragging them through the gates in sydney
Amazinf that telstra customers could have bought $28 cat 5 tickets. If you are a bigpond customer surely you are more likely to be a TV watcher
Anyway the AFL are the losers here
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Yeah $ 80 is fair, 2 adults and 3 kids to potentially 3 finals.
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You shouldn't need to budget too much for yourself and your kids to sit in a crap seat in the first week of the finals.
Gillon wants to pride himself on bringing the game to the people and making it accessible. Having to save and budget is not my idea of accessibility and affordability.
If I was lazy I would be home on the couch without complaint.
By the way- I think a good definition of dumb might be spending more than a quarter of your weeks wage on watching Freo get smashed in an Elimination final.
Our home / away crowds were up this season. 907000 across home / away games, up from 899000, 892000 and 862000 in 2013, 2012 and 2011(beaten only by 922000 and 911000 in 2010 and 2008) in a year of declining Victorian crowds. Sure we got a 15000 plus boost from the Swans game but that would have been offset by the other 21 games if the Buddy draw (and for that matter Rioli) was significant.
With respect to the Swans crowds for the year they drew 734000 which was a major boost on 657000 and 595000 - though both 2012 and 2013 were inhibited by a smaller SCG. 2014 crowds are really a return to the glory 2005-2006 Swans games (pre SCG development) where they drew 730000 across the home and away season.
The Buddy impact on crowds is overrated, where his benefit will come home to roost is in future support for the Swans in Sydney over the next 5/10 years
I've got no issues with the crowds drawn (historically 75000 and 79000 are excellent first round crowds) but more must be done to dress the stadiums better for TV purposes
The last time Haw v Geel and Ess v NM were drawn in finals the games drew 73500 and 71700 respectively...both were significant improvements
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$18 for seats on level 2. 
I do think ticket prices are stupidly expensive. Once you crack $50-$60 it's getting silly and counterproductive.
The median household income in Australia is around 68 grand a year.
For unattached people who are in their 20s/30s it's not such a big deal, because their expenses are usually sufficiently elastic that if they want to go to the football they'll go, even if it's a ripoff.
But like a lot of people, I started out going to the football with my dad when I was a 10 or 11. That's the age I got hooked and I think that is true for a lot of people. When you go to a big game or a final at that age for the first time, the emotion and the spectacle and the feeling of being in the crowd are just an incredible experience, far better than TV.
If tickets are priced the wrong side of $50 for parents, simply put we are robbing a lot of middle class kids of that experience. Certainly in my family there is no way I would have got to go to the football at today's prices.
That's sad for kids, and in the long term it will hurt the AFL a lot, because it's those first few trips to the footy as a kid where a lot of long term connections with the game are forged.
The median household income in Australia is around 68 grand a year.
For unattached people who are in their 20s/30s it's not such a big deal, because their expenses are usually sufficiently elastic that if they want to go to the football they'll go, even if it's a ripoff.
But like a lot of people, I started out going to the football with my dad when I was a 10 or 11. That's the age I got hooked and I think that is true for a lot of people. When you go to a big game or a final at that age for the first time, the emotion and the spectacle and the feeling of being in the crowd are just an incredible experience, far better than TV.
If tickets are priced the wrong side of $50 for parents, simply put we are robbing a lot of middle class kids of that experience. Certainly in my family there is no way I would have got to go to the football at today's prices.
That's sad for kids, and in the long term it will hurt the AFL a lot, because it's those first few trips to the footy as a kid where a lot of long term connections with the game are forged.
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Particularly as seats are just sitting there empty
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The afl apart from publicity and the look would probably care more about a big drop in ratings, they might one day just play in a tv studio and bugger the crowd
If you can't afford it, don't go. Pretty simple
I'm sure we would all love to be driving around in a nice Mercedes too but if you want a quality product you have to pay quality prices. Either budget your money or if you really can't afford it I'm sorry but tough luck that's life. AFL doesn't need to give hand outs because you have a shit job
I'm sure we would all love to be driving around in a nice Mercedes too but if you want a quality product you have to pay quality prices. Either budget your money or if you really can't afford it I'm sorry but tough luck that's life. AFL doesn't need to give hand outs because you have a shit job
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Maybe the fans need a COLA as well
Wtf are you on about?
