Resource 2025 Finals Ticket Discussion - Grand Final ticket discussion

[Tony Barber]

Anyone remember 92' when the AFL members just went stupid?
I can't remember how many guest passes you could get but I think it was 4.

I borrowed an AFL membership, lined up at the MCG and bought 3.
It was ridiculous. People were sitting on the stairs in the aisles because there were no seats. Ha ha.

 

[AWOL]

That is a good point.
Maybe the members who attend the finals games that year?

Also not entirely fair. I had to sacrifice Friday night at work in order to get next Saturday off.

 

[Hamingja]

Thanks - you mean line up in-person? I've only heard about an allocation being released online to restricted members, and that the in-person GA to the MCC reserve was for full members only? But if not that could add another angle to it...

I never tried as a restricted member. I presumed it was a queue as in 2022 I rocked up and they put over the loud speaker as I got there that they were letting restricted members in and there was a stampede around me. Maybe it is online now and that is how they disperse the odd tickets.

 

[Commando]

Also not entirely fair. I had to sacrifice Friday night at work in order to get next Saturday off.

Same
I was all eggs in the GF basket!

 

[Alex Matt]

Does anyone have any experience getting 'leftover' MCC tickets as a restricted (or full) member on the morning of the game? First year as a restricted member so not sure what my odds are here.

I know they released a batch last year at 10:30, but I'm not sure how many or how likely it will be I can snare one.... don't want to get my hopes up. For those of us still trying to get tickets by other means I think it works in our favour that both teams have recently won one, and this is Brisbane's third GF in a row...

Might be easier this year with a Cats v Interstate team - potentially less full members in attendance so the MCC will likely open it up to more restricted members. I never tried as a restricted member but have full now, so will be hoping to get a seat in the seat re-sale on Thursday.

 

[The_Todd07]

Problem with that is the same people always go
The new members disengage and membership revenue falls

But I don't have the answers, its a hard one

Maybe a lottery system like the NBA draft where the longer you have been a member, the greater your chances but snagging one in year 1 is still possible.

 

[catstorm]

Maybe a lottery system like the NBA draft where the longer you have been a member, the greater your chances but snagging one in year 1 is still possible.

Part of the problem is the ridiculous allocation of what constitutes Priority 2.

Priority 2: Home, Home & Away, Corporate, Interstate, Flexi, 3 Game Reserved Seat, 3 Game 1859.

Like seriously in what world is a reserved seat home and away membership equal to 3 game reserved seat?

Or a flexi 6 game that costs $175 for the year or an interstate that cost $165?

This isn't sour grapes on my part, I got my seats. But the allocation to what priority people are in is just idiotic.

 

[Hamingja]

Maybe a lottery system like the NBA draft where the longer you have been a member, the greater your chances but snagging one in year 1 is still possible.

In the UK for football they have schemes whereby you accrue points for attending matches which gets you priority for cup final tickets etc. There is no fair way of doing it, and plenty of people would complain doing it that way, however the true die hards that are there every single week get preference. I live interstate so would be penalised by something like that but I would still say a better system than the current one.

 

[magic_johnson!]

Looks like the ballot hasn’t been nice to me so may as well throw my hat in the ring… looking for a ticket, standing or seated.

 

[iameviljez]

The allocations should go to the longest serving members first.
Bit unfair if someone is a member for 1 year and snags a ticket.
And someone who’s been a member for 20 years misses out.

On one condition and one only: that as soon as you have seen a premiership, you go back with the rest of the membership pool.

In all seriousness though, and I say this as someone who has been a member for a pretty long time, I prefer the random ballot. You pay the same price, you get the same product.

 

[iameviljez]

In the UK for football they have schemes whereby you accrue points for attending matches which gets you priority for cup final tickets etc. There is no fair way of doing it, and plenty of people would complain doing it that way, however the true die hards that are there every single week get preference. I live interstate so would be penalised by something like that but I would still say a better system than the current one.

I think it works in the UK because the distances are so small and travel for most games is no longer than 90 minutes.

But as a fellow interstater, if they did that, I'd probably drop the membership. There would be no material value in having it, not when the 'partner ticket' for my one free game in-state is as expensive as 2 x GA tickets anyway.

 

[iameviljez]

That is a good point.
Maybe the members who attend the finals games that year?

It is harsh on those who work weekends, live interstate, have young kids etc. I have done two of those already and I'm about to do the third, and it kills your ability to attend weekly footy stone dead.

No easy answer though, they are all varying degrees of imperfect.

 

[iameviljez]

If I were Very Much In Charge, the one change I would make is that I would give P2 memberships higher weighting if you had been unsuccessful in at least one previous ballot, with no success.

It does rankle that one p2 member lucks out and gets to see three or four, but the next falls short every time.

 

[RoosterWedgie]

Can't believe some people are whinging about the system, at the end of the day for less than a cup of coffee a week over 10 months you can be assured of a GF ticket which is awesome value for Cats fans as they make it every 3rd year this century. Maybe not so good value for an Essendon fan.
If you can't afford to have one less cup of coffee a week then enjoy watching the game on TV.

 

[iameviljez]

Can't believe some people are whinging about the system, at the end of the day for less than a cup of coffee a week over 10 months you can be assured of a GF ticket which is awesome value for Cats fans as they make it every 3rd year this century. Maybe not so good value for an Essendon fan.
If you can't afford to have one less cup of coffee a week then enjoy watching the game on TV.
Speech.

Looked at another way: it is $220 per year for an investment that should pay off once every nine. For some, that is a lot of money and trivialising it as a “coffee” does it a disservice.

 

[MYOB]

Looked at another way: it is $220 per year for an investment that should pay off once every nine. For some, that is a lot of money and trivialising it as a “coffee” does it a disservice.

I've always told my bulldog supporting side of the family to think of it as a $220 insurance policy. Clearly we wouldn't have has the benefit of it like Cats supporters, but it was the best money they ever spent in 2016

 

[Seeds]

The allocations should go to the longest serving members first.
Bit unfair if someone is a member for 1 year and snags a ticket.
And someone who’s been a member for 20 years misses out.

So only old people can go and not take their kids?

 

[Seeds]

Can't believe some people are whinging about the system, at the end of the day for less than a cup of coffee a week over 10 months you can be assured of a GF ticket which is awesome value for Cats fans as they make it every 3rd year this century. Maybe not so good value for an Essendon fan.
If you can't afford to have one less cup of coffee a week then enjoy watching the game on TV.
Speech.

But im already giving up 5 coffees a week on a mortgage, another 3 coffees a week to save on groceries and now a coffee a week to save on a one in nine year probability of being able to buy tickets to see my team play in a grand final.

Its a lot of coffees a week to give up.

Especially for someone who doesnt even drink coffee!

 

[Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever]

Can't believe some people are whinging about the system, at the end of the day for less than a cup of coffee a week over 10 months you can be assured of a GF ticket which is awesome value for Cats fans as they make it every 3rd year this century. Maybe not so good value for an Essendon fan.
If you can't afford to have one less cup of coffee a week then enjoy watching the game on TV.

Well actually some of us are on a pension and can’t afford to even move out of home let alone spare a couple of hundred dollars to guarantee a GF ticket. I’m happy that other ppl got tickets this yr and I didn’t I wasn’t going anyway and am happy for other ppl to get a go as I was lucky as a P2 member last Grand Final to score tickets. Ppl that get them every time that’s their luck I’m talking P2, I’m not as lucky as that I’m just happy enough to see my team play in another GF some teams never see their team get there let alone win and I’ve seen two live premiership wins.

Plus I just can’t afford to spend a couple hundred on that on top of what I pay for a reserved seat at Geelong every yr. I don’t even drink coffee and can’t afford it.

 

[Die Hard Hoops Fan]

1 x standing room ticket - keen to swap for a seat anywhere. Will pay the difference in price. DM me.

 

[catempire]

Looked at another way: it is $220 per year for an investment that should pay off once every nine. For some, that is a lot of money and trivialising it as a “coffee” does it a disservice.

It’s worse value than that too. I don’t pay it and have been successful in the ballot three out of the last three times.

 

[darrenmorgan]

Tickets are in the Ticketek App now...

P1, front q57 (row J)

 

[woodyman]

p1 - front q56 row a - 2 tickets

 

[Boxhead_31]

Tickets are in the Ticketek App now...

Just checked seating details are there but ticket itself isn't in app yet

 

[Strange Cat]

Tickets are in the Ticketek App now...

Nice to know where I’m sitting level 1 row C