Essendon Home Games-how does seating work?

[Gasometer]

Is it fact that all Docklands Home Games every member gets a Reserve Seat on both wings regardless?

 

[Donakebab]

Why not ask on the Essendon board?

A large proportion of seats are allocated to those who have paid for a reserved seat membership. The higher the level of membership, the greater access members have to better seats. Wing seats tend to be silver and up and many members hold the same seat in successive seasons, even if better seats open up. Members can on sell their seats if they know they will be unable to attend a match, so seats definitely open up to non seat holding members and opposition supporters each week.

 

[falcons2]

Only saw a few highlights but the plan seems to be leave the good seats empty?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Is it fact that all Docklands Home Games every member gets a Reserve Seat on both wings regardless?

City side is EFC silver members. Docks side is AFL members, EFC silver members and club seats (players / officials / families etc)

 

[Gasometer]

Well for North G.A entry yesterday it was a total schmooze.

Level 3 crammed in like sardines with all these empty seats around us that we were forbidden to sit in.

Had the 'fortune' of sitting in the very last row for the first time since the joint opened.

 

[Donakebab]

Well for North G.A entry yesterday it was a total schmooze.

Level 3 crammed in like sardines with all these empty seats around us that we were forbidden to sit in.

Had the 'fortune' of sitting in the very last row for the first time since the joint opened.

Really expect much when you're only willing to fork out for GA seats?

 

[Oliver09]

Only saw a few highlights but the plan seems to be leave the good seats empty?

Ever seen the southern stand at a Hawthorn game?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Well for North G.A entry yesterday it was a total schmooze.

Level 3 crammed in like sardines with all these empty seats around us that we were forbidden to sit in.

Had the 'fortune' of sitting in the very last row for the first time since the joint opened.

Welcome to every game at Docklands ever.

There's never GA on levels 1 and 2. Seats are always empty.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Within white on level 3 is GA

 

[pazza]

Within white on level 3 is GA

Yep.

Hence me getting 2 x GA seats next to the North race yesterday on the fence. Sweet!

 

[Gasometer]

Welcome to every game at Docklands ever.

There's never GA on levels 1 and 2. Seats are always empty.

The seats were empty up and down both wings on Level 3.

Meanwhile 3000 people were crammed into the top bays of Northern end and 3000 into the Southern end.

 

[Donakebab]

The seats were empty up and down both wings on Level 3.

Meanwhile 3000 people were crammed into the top bays of Northern end and 3000 into the Southern end.

So pay for better seats.

 

[Gasometer]

So pay for better seats.

Why don't you offer them up if they aren't being used?

 

[Lance Uppercut]

exactly. Just pony up for better seats if it's such an issue.

The simple fact is, big clubs with lots of supporters causes a supply/demand equation which is solved like all market based issues, by price differentiation. It may not be like that for North home matches but don't blame Essendon for basic economic theory

 

[Donakebab]

Why don't you offer them up if they aren't being used?

When I'm not using it I do offer them up either to friends of the people I sit with or for others to buy.

 

[Gasometer]

When I'm not using it I do offer them up either to friends of the people I sit with or for others to buy.

Not you per se...the Club.

Wats worse is that BT then gets all high and mighty on MMM bitching about US not turning up and look at the empty seats on Level 3...when its not our Home game...they were your empty seats...and the general public are stacked to the rafters behind two goals.

It was better when North and Dons was fully ticketed.

 

[Scotland]

Not you per se...the Club.

Wats worse is that BT then gets all high and mighty on MMM bitching about US not turning up and look at the empty seats on Level 3...when its not our Home game...they were your empty seats...and the general public are stacked to the rafters behind two goals.

It was better when North and Dons was fully ticketed.

Were the empty seats available for you to buy, Y/N?

 

[Great8]

Why don't you offer them up if they aren't being used?

I pay $3k a year for our seats and we travel over for maybe 7 or 8 games a year tops. I offer my tickets to mates if they head over there and big games I can't attend I sell them back to the club

 

[Gasometer]

Were the empty seats available for you to buy, Y/N?

No. We were told by Attendants on Level 3 that GA is between here and there...the wings are not available. The attendants were manning the entrance to the Level 3 wings and GA was told to move out of seats to up behind the goals.

 

[Scotland]

No. We were told by Attendants on Level 3 that GA is between here and there...the wings are not available. The attendants were manning the entrance to the Level 3 wings and GA was told to move out of seats to up behind the goals.

You didn't answer my question.

 

[Donakebab]

Not you per se...the Club.

Wats worse is that BT then gets all high and mighty on MMM bitching about US not turning up and look at the empty seats on Level 3...when its not our Home game...they were your empty seats...and the general public are stacked to the rafters behind two goals.

It was better when North and Dons was fully ticketed.

Should you be allowed to sit in the Medallion club despite not paying for the appropriate tickets? Why should this be any different?

No. We were told by Attendants on Level 3 that GA is between here and there...the wings are not available. The attendants were manning the entrance to the Level 3 wings and GA was told to move out of seats to up behind the goals.

That doesn't answer the question. If you were told by attendants on level 3 that meant you were already inside the ground. You could have chosen to pay the extra few bucks to upgrade to a reserved seat on the wing, instead you decided to stay with GA and were told to sit in the appropriate area.

 

[Gasometer]

I pay $3k a year for our seats and we travel over for maybe 7 or 8 games a year tops. I offer my tickets to mates if they head over there and big games I can't attend I sell them back to the club

...that doesn't really assist in the thousands of other vacant seats yesterday...and to clarify, I mean as a Club.

 

[Gasometer]

Should you be allowed to sit in the Medallion club despite not paying for the appropriate tickets? Why should this be any different?



That doesn't answer the question. If you were told by attendants on level 3 that meant you were already inside the ground. You could have chosen to pay the extra few bucks to upgrade to a reserved seat on the wing, instead you decided to stay with GA and were told to sit in the appropriate area.

The Medallion Club is not GA.

The appropriate area was inappropriate because it had thousands of empty seats on Level 3 that weren't the top row of Level 3.

 

[Gasometer]

You didn't answer my question.

Are you reading the thread ^ check above. Can I buy these seats Bomber fans?

A large proportion of seats are allocated to those who have paid for a reserved seat membership. The higher the level of membership, the greater access members have to better seats. Wing seats tend to be silver and up and many members hold the same seat in successive seasons, even if better seats open up. Members can on sell their seats if they know they will be unable to attend a match, so seats definitely open up to non seat holding members and opposition supporters each week.

 

[Elvis]

Essendon members (and I am sure other teams do this too) have the option of releasing and selling their reserved seats if they cant attend by notifying a system by SMS. But it requires someone to actually purchase those seats for them to be filled. I tried it once on a game I was overseas for that was going to be a big crowd, but no one purchased my seat.

It's not assumed that just cos someone rocks up with a GA ticket and has to sit in the nosebleeds, that they can just be moved down to where the empty seats are. It's a reserved seat stadium