The AFL and Finals ticket prices

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This is just off the Crows website.

For the record yes I'm going, but I seriously feel for people who love their club but just can't afford a few hundred bucks for 2 people to go to 1 game. 2 adult and 2 concession category 2 tickets cost us just over $200 bucks for the Qualifying Final, they have doubled that for a prelim.

Fair or pure AFL theft?

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Supply and demand. Those clubs would probably have cheaper tickets.
Nah, it's pretty uniform around the league. The only cheeky thing the AFL do is that they reclassify seats so they suddenly become a higher category.. They did this at Subiaco a couple of years ago:



Seats behind the goals amazingly are cat 1. Maybe 20% of the ground is either cat 3 or cat 4.
 

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Nah, it's pretty uniform around the league. The only cheeky thing the AFL do is that they reclassify seats so they suddenly become a higher category.. They did this at Subiaco a couple of years ago:



Seats behind the goals amazingly are cat 1. Maybe 20% of the ground is either cat 3 or cat 4.
That's actually nowhere near as bad as it used to be at Subi for finals, iirc for the 2010 EF they threw a blanket over like 80%+ of the ground an labelled it all as premium.

edit - here's the map, lol at anywhere in the 3 tier stand being 'premium'.
 

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Yep, unfortunate reality of demand. If people stop going then you will see ticket prices lowered, even to the point the NRL is at where they have teamed up with Kelloggs to put tickets into cereal boxes.

I wwould ssuggest that people who cannot necessarily afford the expense plan ahead and try to put a little away each fortnight/month to cover their ticket costs for finals.
 

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The AFL actually has already been pretty good to members. For example they could easily just set GF ticket prices at $400/head and have a larger general admission allocation/get rid of the ballot (in favour of an 'auction') and I have no doubt they'd still sell out.
 

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That's actually nowhere near as bad as it used to be at Subi for finals, iirc for the 2010 EF they threw a blanket over like 80%+ of the ground an labelled it all as premium.

edit - here's the map, lol at anywhere in the 3 tier stand being 'premium'.
Buggered if I know how they could ever call the back rows of even the city end behind the goals as "Premium" it's just a money grab. But in places like a Perth and Adelaide you can get away with it, and they will with the Tigers at the MCG next week as well.
 

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The AFL actually has already been pretty good to members. For example they could easily just set GF ticket prices at $400/head and have a larger general admission allocation/get rid of the ballot (in favour of an 'auction') and I have no doubt they'd still sell out.
AFL finals tickets are decent by world standards. You can basically see the premium event of your sport for sub $300. You'd be paying thousands and thousands of dollars to see an equivalent final for a US or European sporting event.
 

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It's expensive but to be fair it's the the biggest sporting comp in Australia's 2nd biggest match for the whole season. If you are on a budget the hill is only $65 which isn't that much.
 

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Nah, it's pretty uniform around the league. The only cheeky thing the AFL do is that they reclassify seats so they suddenly become a higher category.. They did this at Subiaco a couple of years ago:



Seats behind the goals amazingly are cat 1. Maybe 20% of the ground is either cat 3 or cat 4.
If we had made the finals and played against an interstate side at the MCG I expect there would be some extremely good seats available around the ground at decent prices as most Melbourne supporters are MCC members.
 
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