AFL players selling their GF tickets

[Adz]

Reported on SEN today.
A number of high profile players are selling their GF tickets for 2k plus. Pretty disappointing.

 

[Carti2900]

Well you'd assume they won't be offered tickets to GF's in the future

Pretty despicable but it isn't my business what players do in their own time



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[telsor]

Well you'd assume they won't be offered tickets to GF's in the future

Part of the CBA is that all players get tickets.

It's also quite likely they're selling them 'back' to the AFL. (after all, their allocations are for upto 130,000...)

 

[Bokonon_]

Not so sure it's an issue. I think the players are entitled to a small number of tkts for freinds and family, but up to them what they do with the tkts.
Both teams would have players in their 22 for the GF on minimum wage of around $150k. Not paupers but not silly rich either. If the highest paid players did it I'd raise an eyebrow but I suspect it would be the lowest paid if anyone.

 

[Sydswans666]

Reported on SEN today.
A number of high profile players are selling their GF tickets for 2k plus. Pretty disappointing.

Been happening for years

 

[Carti2900]

Part of the CBA is that all players get tickets.

It's also quite likely they're selling them 'back' to the AFL. (after all, their allocations are for upto 130,000...)

Possibly.

Quite risky for a player to be re-selling a ticket; it is a declared event (i.e. illegal) after all

Would not be something you want a name/career attached to


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[telsor]

Not so sure it's an issue. I think the players are entitled to a small number of tkts for freinds and family, but up to them what they do with the tkts.
Both teams would have players in their 22 for the GF on minimum wage of around $150k. Not paupers but not silly rich either. If the highest paid players did it I'd raise an eyebrow but I suspect it would be the lowest paid if anyone.

Several players/teams would be on holiday, and it would be unreasonable to expect them to fly back...Hell, it's quite a trip for non Vic players generally just to watch a game...even Vic players might prefer to spend the day elsewhere... so even those on higher wages could still be 'relinquishing their tickets' and being compensated for it, and I wouldn't blame them in the slightest. Far better than leaving the seats empty.

 

[blue harvest]

Illegal to sell above face value, dob them in.

 

[BACCS]

Several players/teams would be on holiday, and it would be unreasonable to expect them to fly back...Hell, it's quite a trip for non Vic players generally just to watch a game...even Vic players might prefer to spend the day elsewhere... so even those on higher wages could still be 'relinquishing their tickets' and being compensated for it, and I wouldn't blame them in the slightest. Far better than leaving the seats empty.

No issue with them selling their tickets, just do it at the same price of the ticket. Didn't a couple of Essendon rookies get in trouble for trying to mark up their tickets a few years ago?

 

[Dwhale44]

Reported on SEN today.
A number of high profile players are selling their GF tickets for 2k plus. Pretty disappointing.

What did they pay for them in the first place?

 

[Bokonon_]

Several players/teams would be on holiday, and it would be unreasonable to expect them to fly back...Hell, it's quite a trip for non Vic players generally just to watch a game...even Vic players might prefer to spend the day elsewhere... so even those on higher wages could still be 'relinquishing their tickets' and being compensated for it, and I wouldn't blame them in the slightest. Far better than leaving the seats empty.

I was thinking it was only the competing teams entitled. But I have read your previous post now and stand corrected.

 

[Adz]

What did they pay for them in the first place?

0.

 

[NitroFan]

Not so sure it's an issue. I think the players are entitled to a small number of tkts for freinds and family, but up to them what they do with the tkts.
Both teams would have players in their 22 for the GF on minimum wage of around $150k. Not paupers but not silly rich either. If the highest paid players did it I'd raise an eyebrow but I suspect it would be the lowest paid if anyone.

The minimum AFL wage is $150k? Higher than I would've guessed.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Part of the CBA is that all players get tickets.

It's also quite likely they're selling them 'back' to the AFL. (after all, their allocations are for upto 130,000...)

The players are selling them back to the AFL?

Mate, no chance, in every year that Hawthorn played a GF between 2012-2017 I was able to buy tickets fro friends from AFL players if I wanted to part with $500-800.

SEN were told today there was a Club Captain selling his tickets for $2K each. They wouldn't name him.

It's a complete rort and has been going on for years.

 

[Milanista28]

Give them to the fans, Many die hard fans miss out every year. Makes me all sad like.

 

[BACCS]

The players are selling them back to the AFL?

Mate, no chance, in every year that Hawthorn played a GF between 2012-2017 I was able to buy tickets fro friends from AFL players if I wanted to part with $500-800.

SEN were told today there was a Club Captain selling his tickets for $2K each. They wouldn't name him.

It's a complete rort and has been going on for years.

Isn't it against the law to be selling them for such a big mark up? Why don't SEN just name the player and let the AFL deal with it.

 

[Bokonon_]

The minimum AFL wage is $150k? Higher than I would've guessed.

You may be right as I think it through. I thought that was the rookie AFL contract figure but not sure. As I That may be just the the figure at which rental assistance stops for our list and the Swans

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Isn't it against the law to be selling them for such a big mark up? Why don't SEN just name the player and let the AFL deal with it.

Yes, it is, but if you've not seen your club ever win a flag and desperately want tickets you pay the money and take them.

SEN would not want to light that fire. They said they would investigate and ask the question of that player and club off-air.

 

[1970crow]

Isn't it against the law to be selling them for such a big mark up? Why don't SEN just name the player and let the AFL deal with it.

What if they're selling them signed?

 

[StevenwellerHFC]

AFL players can afford to give them away, scum bags.

 

[SterlingArcher]

Pretty shitty. Also illegal. Definitely happens all the time but would be happy if some finally got scapegoated if it meant the practice died out.

 

[NitroFan]

"Buy a Mars bar wrapper licked by *player* for $2000 and get FREE Grand Final tickets"

 

[1970crow]

The minimum AFL wage is $150k? Higher than I would've guessed.

First round draftees were on about $85 plus about $3.5k per game from memory. Not sure how much that has gone up, $150k would certainly be around the minimum for a player who plays every game.

 

[MightyTiger]

Isn't it against the law to be selling them for such a big mark up? Why don't SEN just name the player and let the AFL deal with it.

Probably because it's not true. Those idiots take anything that gets texted in as gospel.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Part of the CBA is that all players get tickets.

It's also quite likely they're selling them 'back' to the AFL. (after all, their allocations are for upto 130,000...)

The only reason the players wanted them put in was so they can sell them