Denies that all he wants is to pay fk all for the best seats, suggests $5 as the fee to upgrade to Level 2. Haha yeah alright mate.
If you're happy getting shafted so be it. The best thing for Melbourne would be the dogs, saints or North folding.
If I had to go week in week out to Etihad and sit on the 3rd level because the gap between 3rd and 2nd level ticket prices is about $40 I'd be pretty sick of it. It sounds to me like you are just conditioned like a good little bulldogs to getting screwed by a stadium.
I'm not talking big games where it's full but small games where there are seats galore. I'd probably get 10 or so mates and just go sit in those seats after quarter time and test the mettle of the stadium staff in wanting to kick us out.
I'm suggesting something like 1000 or 2000 of the level 2 seats are freed up for general admission to the same price as 1st or just more than 3rd level as start and are then filled with passionate fans. It will be first in best dressed and therefore people will get to the game earlier and spend more on food and drink = Etihad makes the money back anyway. Atmosphere at the game then improves as more people are closer to the play. Less people sit high on the third level (low third level seats are good, high ones not so much). More people enjoy seeing the intimate sights of a footy match and more importantly hearing the intimate sounds - the whistles, the body contact plus the crowd noise.
I'm talking small changes that are good for the clubs involved, good for Etihad and good for the game in general. The second level shows up on TV. At least filling a section of it and you'd pick a strategic area also helps the TV broadcast. Nothing worse than a dull game and whatever crowd is there doesn't even show up on TV.