2024 Grand Final registration reminder

[FFB1]

I am certain the full quota of 17500 September memberships would be given out. September membership is not really extra money. It’s literally $40-$50. And the club is not greedy when an SM comes with an extra 4 free guest passes to use during the home and away season. So it’s not even a cash grab. Anyone who can afford to fly down and book accomodation, can afford a September membership.

Everyone in P2 gets the same hope, it’s just in the form of hoping to get your hands on a September membership opening, opposed to getting lucky in the ballot. Pre season is when that hope of opportunity for getting a guaranteed ticket becomes at its highest or not. Not in September, that’s all.

Happy to be stood corrected but I don’t believe it’s anywhere near 17,500; closer to 10,000. I think the club might be mindful there are some of us who have paid for a SM since it came out, which would be somewhat unfair if they jacked up the number?

 

[Section 5]

i didn't know it came with guest passes - but even then they are hoping to get new ppl in i guess.

and it's gone up to $100 i think? that's what they slugged me for adding on recently!

It was $50 for automatic renewals in November last year.
Maybe they charged more for anyone upgrading during the year.
If that was the case maybe they might increase the auto renewal for September membership to $100 this November.

You can check if it was $100 charged via: Membership - Account activity.
When you say recently was that when the AFL released additional tickets to participating clubs announced in July

 

[FFB1]

Heard that tickets were going for more than $1000 so beware of scammers and profiteers.

I also hope that some of newly registered Lions fans will stick around and get involved with board.

I’ll take No for $500 thanks

 

[Section 5]

Happy to be stood corrected but I don’t believe it’s anywhere near 17,500; closer to 10,000. I think the club might be mindful there are some of us who have paid for a SM since it came out, which would be somewhat unfair if they jacked up the number?

It would be silly of the Club to cap the September membership at 10K as you suggested.
The club will sell as many as they can that does not exceed the allocated total. This year it increased to 17,500.
The club would retain some tickets for their own benefit. The remainder would be for SM sales.
It just happens in Nov 2023 when renewals were processed, all September Memberships were taken up again and reached their limit.
I believe this is the first time that has happened.

Why is it unfair to people that have paid SM for many years. Thats their decision to make at the time.
It would not surprise me if September membership in the bad old days was around 1,000 maybe less. A donation really.
Just imagine if the club decided to be fair to those SM and put a generous cap of say 1,500 and held that number to 2024 or forever.

 

[Gadzorks]

I missed out and a family friend is an AFL gold member, figured I’d ask them and they’re selling at $1500.

Absolute greed lol, I said no thanks that’s ridiculous

And illegal right? Scalper laws and all.

 

[Gadzorks]

It would be silly of the Club to cap the September membership at 10K as you suggested.
The club will sell as many as they can that does not exceed the allocated total. This year it increased to 17,500.
The club would retain some tickets for their own benefit. The remainder would be for SM sales.
It just happens in Nov 2023 when renewals were processed, all September Memberships were taken up again and reached their limit.
I believe this is the first time that has happened.

Why is it unfair to people that have paid SM for many years. Thats their decision to make at the time.
It would not surprise me if September membership in the bad old days was around 1,000 maybe less. A donation really.
Just imagine if the club decided to be fair to those SM and put a generous cap of say 1,500 and held that number to 2024 or forever.

We started paying SM in 2016. The thoughts atm are we see one gf win them we do watch parties at home if we make it again in the few years after that win but travel to other finals (want to experience the g with 90k actual team fans. Must be awesome atmosphere). It's only 4 if it's that travel and we give a much larger group watching back here who we'd love to share the experience with.

Need to keep the SM for the other finals.

I couldn't imagine buying gf tickets and scalping them. Sure we could make a few dollars but I'd rather the tickets were made available through the ballot to actual paid up lions members.

 

[GOTHELIONS16]

Happy to be stood corrected but I don’t believe it’s anywhere near 17,500; closer to 10,000. I think the club might be mindful there are some of us who have paid for a SM since it came out, which would be somewhat unfair if they jacked up the number?

Why would it be unfair?

 

[cheekyLionsFan]

If anyone has any tickets they would like to sell please DM me

 

[FFB1]

Why would it be unfair?

The option has been there for years. Those who have invested/donated for a long time (when we were shit), when there were limited numbers, to be guaranteed a ticket when we finally became a contender, should feel somewhat befuddled if the club just jacked up the number. Clearly an unpopular opinion.

 

[FFB1]

It would be silly of the Club to cap the September membership at 10K as you suggested.

Why? All clubs have a membership level guaranteeing a GF ticket capped at a certain number. It’s why some have paid it all these years.

 

[GOTHELIONS16]

The option has been there for years. Those who have invested/donated for a long time (when we were shit), when there were limited numbers, to be guaranteed a ticket when we finally became a contender, should feel somewhat befuddled if the club just jacked up the number. Clearly an unpopular opinion.

You pay September membership ($50) each season which guarantees access to gf ticket for that season alone. In 2015 I paid SM. In 2024 I paid SM. Nothings changed, I gain guaranteed ticket to the grand final should the lions participate in that year. The number of SMs doesn’t change the fact you are guaranteed to get a gf ticket.

What WOULD be unfair is if the Lions decided to cap SMs above the 17500 allocation, and you no longer had a guarantee as a SM. That would be unfair. So I’m not quite sure what you are getting at.

 

[GOTHELIONS16]

Why? All clubs have a membership level guaranteeing a GF ticket capped at a certain number. It’s why some have paid it all these years.

It would be silly because there are 17500 guaranteed tickets available. Why not give as many members the peace of mind guarantee that the club can? Every single club will have the SMs capped at the maximum number they can. Because that’s what logically makes sense. Not all 17500 people with SMs will use it, that’s why P2s, even some P3s can get lucky.

 

[SMAC2024]

I'd assume most clubs would sell most of their 17,500 as September Memberships or whatever their equivalent is. If you think about it, every one of those memberships they sell is free money. BUT you have to balance that with giving hope for people who can't afford as much on memberships and give them some hope as P2. How you manage that balance is tricky - a good club would not get too greedy. Of course there will always be some p1 who don't put in for the ballot so they go to P2 as well. Am i right in thinking last year all P2 got them and some P3, whereas this year not all P2 did and therefore no P3? This is just part of being a bigger club.

I do think the AFL has made a bit of a rod for its own back with the AFL Membership / medallion access.

Members of competing clubs get 35k
MCC get 22,500 - that ain't changing. Nothing the AFL can do about that.
AFL members PLUS medallion members (stadium owned by AFL) get 19k. 15.5k are the afl members. This was a category created by the AFL as another cash cow in the year 2000. It's now a behemoth with a waiting list for Gold nearly as long as the MCC. It's like gambling revenue for Victoria - once it's there it's very had to turn off.

Could they trim the 7k for 'afl contractual obligations' - good luck when they need to keep getting more money for broadcast rights.
7.5k for corporate sales functions? That's a lot of tickets for fat cats!
5k for afl clubs - i do wonder if these will go one day. this is just another way for an afl club NOT competing to make money. surely all clubs would be happy to do away with these and increase allocation to 20k, the clubs could still make money by having more september members, and more fans would get in via their clubs

I’ve not heard of any P3 allocations this year, unlike last.

 

[FFB1]

It would be silly because there are 17500 guaranteed tickets available. Why not give as many members the peace of mind guarantee that the club can? Every single club will have the SMs capped at the maximum number they can. Because that’s what logically makes sense. Not all 17500 people with SMs will use it, that’s why P2s, even some P3s can get lucky.

OK we’ll agree to disagree, no point arguing a topic we don’t really need or want to this week.

 

[braddsey]

Anyone know if it's possible to sell plane tickets if you just bought the cheap non flexible tickets. I'm thinking about changing the dates I fly and I got a ticket for a 9pm Friday flight for 370.

Not possible. Name change not allowed (normally!).

 

[Roytheloinboy]

Hi [emoji638][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]][emoji640][emoji639][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]Roytheloinboy can you please let me know if you’d like to sell? Travelled down to Melb on a gamble but missed out in the ballot. Keen for two tickets, allocated or standing.

Hey mate,

Spoken to a few people but haven’t found anyone with [emoji638] lower level tickets to swap yet.

I’d only sell as an absolute worst case scenario and having had [emoji640] people reach out already I’m optimistic.

Will keep you posted though.

Thanks.

 

[Toffee Lion]

And illegal right? Scalper laws and all.

Absolutely but if done from friend to friend etc then nothing you can do. Not very friendly though.

 

[braddsey]

It would be silly because there are 17500 guaranteed tickets available. Why not give as many members the peace of mind guarantee that the club can? Every single club will have the SMs capped at the maximum number they can. Because that’s what logically makes sense. Not all 17500 people with SMs will use it, that’s why P2s, even some P3s can get lucky.

I’ve no idea how many SM’s they offer, but taking it to the full available capacity would make some SM’s unhappy. Our club allocation includes standing room and restricted view seats. I would be disappointed to get a standing ticket as a “guaranteed ticket”. So at most, they could extend and cap at the number of “regular seats” for SM.

I only got SM this year and paid $100 x 4 (didn’t know about SM last year until it was too late). At $100 I would only continue for as long as we’re contending, but if we stop contending and it was dropped back to $50 I would continue.

I’m Melbourne based, but imagine there’s members who may drop the SM after seeing a winning GF. The cost of flights, accommodation, tickets, other expenses, is significant. I would think having seen a winning GF, some may elect to rationalise football spending a little.

 

[Zacs_Magic_Tooth]

I know of P3s who got in this year so not sure what these new BF members are on about

 

[FFB1]

I know of P3s who got in this year so not sure what these new BF members are on about

Plenty of ‘I’m P2 and missed out’ posts on the Facebook pages. At least they aren’t dumb enough to say they were P1 and missed out.

 

[Section 5]

This was sent to me being a snippet from an article in the Financial Review.
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AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW 22 SEPTEMBER 2024 Robin Khuda, the migrant success story who just sold his business to a US private equity giant for $24 billion, will be among the 100,000 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday where he hopes to watch his beloved Sydney Swans win the AFL premiership for the first time in person
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Having just secured the deal of the year, Khuda’s ticket is secured. The National Australia Bank is hosting him with one of the around 8000 tickets allocated for corporates on Saturday.

The AFL froze the price of entry-level tickets at $185 this year, with the top-shelf tickets worth $493 including a pre-match performance by superstar Katy Perry.

AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon announced in July that an additional 1000 tickets would be allocated to the competing club members, providing them with 35,000 tickets (17,500 each). Members can pay extra – the Swans charge an extra $135 – to guarantee a seat to the grand final if their team make it but still run the gauntlet of a ballot.

More than 23,000 tickets are allocated to Melbourne Cricket Club members, another 15,500 for AFL members and other memberships, sponsors and contractual seats already allocated for the 100,000strong crowd.




The club presidents held a get-together with AFL chiefs on Sunday, before an official meeting on Monday, followed by the best-and-fairest player Brownlow Medal event on Monday night. And then there’s a week of events before the grand final parade and Victorian public holiday on Friday, expected to draw an influx of interstate visitors.

Pridham admits the battle for tickets has been intense, after a number of Sydney Cricket Ground members missed out on tickets for the preliminary final win against Port Adelaide on Friday.

“If you can help people, you do, you certainly give preference to members. But if they haven’t been to a game all year then, well, bad luck,” he says.

Flights, accommodation a battle too

“We had 500,000 people attend our games at the SCG this year, which is a record, averaging about 38,000. And at the prelim final we probably could have had 80,000.

” Wellington says the interest in the game up north is also growing strongly. “We had nine sell-outs at the Gabba this year and seven last year, so the interest is really healthy,” he says.

Qantas flights from Sydney and Brisbane to Melbourne were going for more than $700 on Sunday. The competition watchdog said there was nothing it could do.

“Some businesses increase their prices during periods of high demand,” the ACCC said in a statement. “This practice is not illegal, but businesses must provide clear and upfront information about the price consumers will pay.”

Hotel occupancy in Melbourne over last year’s grand final weekend peaked at 85 per cent when one interstate club, the Brisbane Lions, played and lost to Collingwood, according to Smith Travel Research.

Despite Pridham’s wish the grand final be played somewhere other than at the MCG, the current contract between the AFL and Victorian government provides that it remains there until at least 2059.

“Melbourne will always be the home of the grand final,” Victorian Minister for Tourism, Sport and Major Events Steve Dimopoulos said. He said major events injected $3.3 billion into the state’s economy each year.

“Last year more than 225,000 people attended the events over the Grand Final week, and this year we’ll be expecting even more with two interstate teams in the Grand Final.”

 

[Gleb]

Haven't had any luck with the tickets, if you have anyone looking to sell 2x tickets, will take standing or sitting. Please help a brother out! https://tixel.com/u/brodieg30

 

[Dalions]

I know of P3s who got in this year so not sure what these new BF members are on about

They are probably Sydney fans using fake Lions accounts

 

[PattyKwasagun]

I know of P3s who got in this year so not sure what these new BF members are on about

There are definitely plenty of P2s who missed out, and plenty of P3s who got tickets. Not sure how that works - maybe the P3s requested a smaller number of tickets?

At any rate, plenty more have missed out this year than did last year. So the bandwagon is growing!

 

[M Malice]

There are definitely plenty of P2s who missed out, and plenty of P3s who got tickets. Not sure how that works - maybe the P3s requested a smaller number of tickets?

At any rate, plenty more have missed out this year than did last year. So the bandwagon is growing!

Not sure whether to give a sad or happy reaction to that.