The AFL and Finals ticket prices

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Agree with the OP unlike many others. Club members are absolutely gouged by the AFL and clubs at finals time.

The cost of 3 or 4 games in the finals can be beyond what a basic membership for a whole season costs.

Some people can't afford it... the fact that plenty of others actually want to attack them for that is pathetic.

They don't even need to do it. The game makes huge money, particularly from TV. The ticket revenue gets lost in the rounding anyway.

So what if other sports do it? Those sports have massive problems and long ago stopped being "people's" games.

Why many think footy should copy it is absolutely mystifying. Talk about dumb sheep, absolutely swallowing propaganda just like they're told to.
 

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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.
Yeah I've been bled much worse at other sports that's for sure, so much so this seems cheap LOL.
 

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Agree with the OP unlike many others. Club members are absolutely gouged by the AFL and clubs at finals time.

The cost of 3 or 4 games in the finals can be beyond what a basic membership for a whole season costs.

Some people can't afford it... the fact that plenty of others actually want to attack them for that is pathetic.

They don't even need to do it. The game makes huge money, particularly from TV. The ticket revenue gets lost in the rounding anyway.

So what if other sports do it? Those sports have massive problems and long ago stopped being "people's" games.

Why many think footy should copy it is absolutely mystifying. Talk about dumb sheep, absolutely swallowing propaganda just like they're told to.
Spot on. You could understand it if the AFL was a for-profit tax paying company, but it's tax exempt supposedly because it's run for the development and betterment of the sport. How is gouging fans better for the sport?
 

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Agree with the OP unlike many others. Club members are absolutely gouged by the AFL and clubs at finals time.

The cost of 3 or 4 games in the finals can be beyond what a basic membership for a whole season costs.

Some people can't afford it... the fact that plenty of others actually want to attack them for that is pathetic.

They don't even need to do it. The game makes huge money, particularly from TV. The ticket revenue gets lost in the rounding anyway.

So what if other sports do it? Those sports have massive problems and long ago stopped being "people's" games.

Why many think footy should copy it is absolutely mystifying. Talk about dumb sheep, absolutely swallowing propaganda just like they're told to.
Great post
 
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It's not about the fans, it's about being a profitable business.

Sure, we like to think it's the "people's game" at the "people's ground," but that's just a romantic notion.

It's (AFL) a corporate game, a business masquerading as a recreational pastime.

If you want the "people's game," head down to the local footy, where players play for the jumper, not profit.
 

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Agree with the OP unlike many others. Club members are absolutely gouged by the AFL and clubs at finals time.

The cost of 3 or 4 games in the finals can be beyond what a basic membership for a whole season costs.

Some people can't afford it... the fact that plenty of others actually want to attack them for that is pathetic.

They don't even need to do it. The game makes huge money, particularly from TV. The ticket revenue gets lost in the rounding anyway.

So what if other sports do it? Those sports have massive problems and long ago stopped being "people's" games.

Why many think footy should copy it is absolutely mystifying. Talk about dumb sheep, absolutely swallowing propaganda just like they're told to.
Exactly, club members should get discounted prices over GA. Especially when AFL/MCC get in for nothing.
 

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It's not about the fans, it's about being a profitable business.

Sure, we like to think it's the "people's game" at the "people's ground," but that's just a romantic notion.

It's (AFL) a corporate game, a business masquerading as a recreational pastime.

If you want the "people's game," head down to the local footy, where players play for the jumper, not profit.
Not at all - at stadiums where there's spare capacity such as the G, you can go to the footy during the season by rocking up and paying an extremely reasonable price compared to many other sports.

Footy does some things which seperate it from others. Let's be clear: this is a very, very good thing.

The soul of the game will die when it goes completely down the path of the EPL or NBA, as so many want it to by the looks of this thread. Again, its mystifying.

There's simply no need for this blatant gouging at finals time. It's hawkish profiteering from those who make the game.
 

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Agree with the OP unlike many others. Club members are absolutely gouged by the AFL and clubs at finals time.

The cost of 3 or 4 games in the finals can be beyond what a basic membership for a whole season costs.

Some people can't afford it... the fact that plenty of others actually want to attack them for that is pathetic.

They don't even need to do it. The game makes huge money, particularly from TV. The ticket revenue gets lost in the rounding anyway.

So what if other sports do it? Those sports have massive problems and long ago stopped being "people's" games.

Why many think footy should copy it is absolutely mystifying. Talk about dumb sheep, absolutely swallowing propaganda just like they're told to.
Thanks and well said.
 

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Missed out on membership tickets because I'll have group of people coming (5). Ended up going to viagogo after the public allocation was virtually non-existent due to the take up of Tigers members earlier... paid $200 a ticket for level 4 seats. That $40 booking and handling fee is a real kick in the balls.

At this point I'm pretty happy I've missed out on this fun since 2001 :$
 

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Will still sell out. Business 101. Can't afford to go to a final. Don't go. Our sport is still cheaper to go to than many. Try going to an NBA or NFL final.
 

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Will still sell out. Business 101. Can't afford to go to a final. Don't go. Our sport is still cheaper to go to than many. Try going to an NBA or NFL final.
It's not that I can't afford to go, it's just that I'd like to complain about the scalping of finals tickets in the finals tickets thread.

Thanks for your time.
 
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