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RudeBoy wrote:The club should have ensured better treatment of Legends members in the allocation of tix BEFORE promising Priority access to GF tix.
The club is trying to pass the buck onto Ticketek, but we Legends members forked our $950 each, on the basis of promises made by our club.
At the end of the day, our club, Ticketek and the AFL bear joint responsibility for the shoddy treatment of loyal fans. Not good enough.
i have said all along that pies membership is merely paying for the convenience of being allocated a reserved seat for 17 games plus social club and the add on of guaranteed access to a gf ticket. if you were to pay at the gate for a reserved seat for every game you would be paying similar amounts without the guarantee. the priority 1 only assures a ticket not a better seat than any other priority.
at least with some other sports i can get my seat for a final. perhaps this is what they should change it to - the option to buy your seat and if you don’t want it, it goes for resale.
One more thing, I wonder if it will ever be revealed the allocation of the 17000 Collingwood / Brisbane members seats in regards to category ie: 1000 x cat 1 to 6, 10000 x cat 7 and 1000 standing. It seems the premium part of the membership doesn’t make to GF day.
Good luck to all those going to the G on Saturday. Enjoy your seat or your steps and give the lions absolute hell for all it’s worth. Wherever you are go Pies!
Ed Allen kicked our last goal of the year at the 58minute mark of the last quarter
RudeBoy wrote:The club should have ensured better treatment of Legends members in the allocation of tix BEFORE promising Priority access to GF tix.
The club is trying to pass the buck onto Ticketek, but we Legends members forked our $950 each, on the basis of promises made by our club.
At the end of the day, our club, Ticketek and the AFL bear joint responsibility for the shoddy treatment of loyal fans. Not good enough.
i have said all along that pies membership is merely paying for the convenience of being allocated a reserved seat for 17 games plus social club and the add on of guaranteed access to a gf ticket. if you were to pay at the gate for a reserved seat for every game you would be paying similar amounts without the guarantee. the priority 1 only assures a ticket not a better seat than any other priority.
at least with some other sports i can get my seat for a final. perhaps this is what they should change it to - the option to buy your seat and if you don’t want it, it goes for resale.
ive said this over and over, year after year! its easy and it makes sense!
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
RudeBoy wrote:The club should have ensured better treatment of Legends members in the allocation of tix BEFORE promising Priority access to GF tix.
The club is trying to pass the buck onto Ticketek, but we Legends members forked our $950 each, on the basis of promises made by our club.
At the end of the day, our club, Ticketek and the AFL bear joint responsibility for the shoddy treatment of loyal fans. Not good enough.
i have said all along that pies membership is merely paying for the convenience of being allocated a reserved seat for 17 games plus social club and the add on of guaranteed access to a gf ticket. if you were to pay at the gate for a reserved seat for every game you would be paying similar amounts without the guarantee. the priority 1 only assures a ticket not a better seat than any other priority.
at least with some other sports i can get my seat for a final. perhaps this is what they should change it to - the option to buy your seat and if you don’t want it, it goes for resale.
ive said this over and over, year after year! its easy and it makes sense!
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
5150 wrote:One more thing, I wonder if it will ever be revealed the allocation of the 17000 Collingwood / Brisbane members seats in regards to category ie: 1000 x cat 1 to 6, 10000 x cat 7 and 1000 standing. It seems the premium part of the membership doesn’t make to GF day.
Well… it does - you have a guarantee that you will be let through the gates. Some priority 2 and 3 members might have got a better seat, but probably 3 out of 4 got nothing and will be watching from the couch…
Now I’ll get the maths wrong, but if we have 17000 seats, let’s assume we have 12000 legends members. That means for the approximately 94,000 who aren’t guaranteed, there are 5000 tickets to go around. Those odds are worse than 1 in 4 (assuming everyone applies which we know wouldn’t be true). Even if half of the remaining 96k apply for P2 and P3 that’s 5k tickets for nearly 50k people.
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think positive wrote: all the clubs need to get together. the fact that non competing clubs members can get tickets with AFL gold is a joke!
30 % of tickets are corporate, i understand sponsorship but 3 in every 10 seats has someone who may or may not be a competing club fan, or even an AFL fan! there is the biggest joke!
I agree that the corporates get way too much allocation, but its not 30%, its 16%
think positive wrote: all the clubs need to get together. the fact that non competing clubs members can get tickets with AFL gold is a joke!
30 % of tickets are corporate, i understand sponsorship but 3 in every 10 seats has someone who may or may not be a competing club fan, or even an AFL fan! there is the biggest joke!
I agree that the corporates get way too much allocation, but its not 30%, its 16%
I also think next time Ticketek could do a “practice” or “simulated” ballot draw first. Club could check that there were no issues and they could then proceed with the normal draw.
FIFA does “practice” or “mock” draws prior to major tournaments for the draws of Groups.