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- Oct 4, 2019
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Certain memberships are guaranteed grand final tickets. It mentions access because you still have to register to get the ticket. Any members who are priority 2 and then 3 are then in a ballot to see if they get a ticket. The clubs have to cap the number of guaranteed memberships.
Yes, and actually pay for it. If it just said guaranteed, people might expect it to turn up in their in-box on the Monday of grand final week.
Our levels of membership where you are guaranteed a GF ticket are not full - or at least they weren't leading into last year. Other clubs like Richmond are full at the guaranteed level, which can create confusion.
A friend's wife paid $400 to upgrade her Geelong membership late in the season for a "guaranteed" ticket. She then sat back after the prelim and did nothing and missed out. We used to have offers like this back when we were good, but it remains to be seen whether there would be much room to rely on this these days.