Still stunned at this....
Looked up my tickets from last year. We bought 8 x Gold tickets for $1160 (2 x $580 family passes). Went with my wife, dad, a couple of my nieces, and some family friends who were dogs fans.
Where those seats were would be classified as platinum this year, which has no family passes. So to take the same 8 people to the game in 2013 will cost us $2280, almost double the price in 1 goddamned year!
Hell even if we just bought our 2 x gold family passes again we'd still be paying a $130 premium to sit in worse seats.
I'll still go as I am a tragic, but can't see any way that my sister and her husband will be able to justify such an exorbitant cost to take my souths loving niece to the game. They were already scraping their pennies together for the past 6 weeks saving up to buy a family pass, now they are f**ked. Absolutely zero point sitting behind the goal posts or even worse sitting right up the back of level 6 so no grand final for them.
I understand them wanting to charge a premium for some grand final tickets. I do. But what absolutely kills me is the sheer amount of members and corporate tickets wasted for this game. Must be half the stadium on those 2 alone. ANZ has I believe over 20,000 members, and the corporate seats look to take up a good 10,000 of their own.
In 5 years time this is going to be a corporate only affair like the superbowl, which is a damned shame
