2017 Crowd Watch

[Disinterested third party]

Is there a reason, besides being Victorian trolls why the afl grand final crowd is being mentioned?

By all means mention the ridiculous prices. The fact that there are two out of town teams playing. But as soon as you troll out the afl you lose the last bit of credibility you have.

I was merely referencing the paid advert. Then two trolls studiously avoiding 2015 popped up.

 

[Jamberoo]

And not a single sellout of the ground amongst those either. Thanks for confirming. MCG capacity is 100,024. Rather defeats the purpose of the AFL puff piece, written by an AFL puff, we are talking about. Does it not?

Do you know what a sellout is? It is where all tickets are sold, and there are none available for purchase.
The MCG used to attract 110k - 122k in the 60s/70s/80s as standing room was pretty much unlimited. Since they rebuilt in 1992, each GF has been a sell out and unless you are a MCC, AFL or competing club member, you cannot attend. The only time a competing team did not sell their allocation and the opposition members bought all of those tickets. Even if GWS made it, the Crows members would have bought any left over tickets (30K Crows members applied for tickets, 17500 were available). The fact that between 6 and 500 people with a ticket don't attend can be due to illness, travel or other factors. The MCC has 62,000 full members with entry privilege (and 300,000 other members), they leave some spots un sold for last minute walk ups on the day as this has been an MCC tradition for over 100 years. Whether the crowd is 99,500 or 100,018 depend of how many to those last sports are filled at the last minute. The average price paid by those that miss out on a ticket by legal means is over $1,000. My wife paid $1200 to see Collingwood in 2010. Tickets to the NRL GF can be bought all year for $50. I thought I was clever snapping up a NRL GF family pass in July for $180, but now that tickets are even cheaper/free this week, I will not be doing that again.
Most Melbournians dream of attending an AFL GF as it is nearly impossible to get tickets. That is one of the reasons why SOO sells well here and so would the NRL GF. We have an attendance culture.
If you insist on comparing Sydney to Melbourne and AFL to NRL, get your facts right.

ps. As a Victorian I know I will be bagged for talking about AFL, but every third post by a Sydneysider talks about AFL, and most it it is wrong.
Also, as passionate RL fans, I assume that all of you Sydney posters will be there on Sunday?

 

[M2D2]

No. I sold my ticket already. Going to have a nice slow roast and get f**king drunk.
I also wish people would stop comparing us to AFL every second day. But with f**kheads like PR around. Its not going to stop.

 

[Disinterested third party]

Do you know what a sellout is? It is where all tickets are sold, and there are none available for purchase.
The MCG used to attract 110k - 122k in the 60s/70s/80s as standing room was pretty much unlimited. Since they rebuilt in 1992, each GF has been a sell out and unless you are a MCC, AFL or competing club member, you cannot attend. The only time a competing team did not sell their allocation and the opposition members bought all of those tickets. Even if GWS made it, the Crows members would have bought any left over tickets (30K Crows members applied for tickets, 17500 were available). The fact that between 6 and 500 people with a ticket don't attend can be due to illness, travel or other factors. The MCC has 62,000 full members with entry privilege (and 300,000 other members), they leave some spots un sold for last minute walk ups on the day as this has been an MCC tradition for over 100 years. Whether the crowd is 99,500 or 100,018 depend of how many to those last sports are filled at the last minute. The average price paid by those that miss out on a ticket by legal means is over $1,000. My wife paid $1200 to see Collingwood in 2010. Tickets to the NRL GF can be bought all year for $50. I thought I was clever snapping up a NRL GF family pass in July for $180, but now that tickets are even cheaper/free this week, I will not be doing that again.
Most Melbournians dream of attending an AFL GF as it is nearly impossible to get tickets. That is one of the reasons why SOO sells well here and so would the NRL GF. We have an attendance culture.
If you insist on comparing Sydney to Melbourne and AFL to NRL, get your facts right.

ps. As a Victorian I know I will be bagged for talking about AFL, but every third post by a Sydneysider talks about AFL, and most it it is wrong.
Also, as passionate RL fans, I assume that all of you Sydney posters will be there on Sunday?

So no 100,024 crowds hey? Thought so. Cheers

 

[Jizmos]

I signed up to this forum to read peoples thoughts and opinions on rugby league but all you f***wits ever talk about is AFL.

It sucks that we can't sell out our grand final but I have my ticket and will be enjoying the contest for what it is.

 

[Canard]

I signed up to this forum to read peoples thoughts and opinions on rugby league but all you f***wits ever talk about is AFL.

It sucks that we can't sell out our grand final but I have my ticket and will be enjoying the contest for what it is.

It will be a sell out or near as. For some reason we always let the Southern press write negative shit about our game.

Imagine the furore this week if an ex NRL superstar(say Gordon Tallis) king hit a semi pro player in a park football match??

It happened in Aussie Rules and it's basically, ho ho boys will be boys.

 

[El Diablo]

Oh to have 1 week, where we dont have to fret about a crowd disaster..

lol

the bloke who never goes to games sits at home on his fat arse fretting about crowds and jerking off to pics of Benny Frankston

 

[Jizmos]

It will be a sell out or near as. For some reason we always let the Southern press write negative shit about our game.

Imagine the furore this week if an ex NRL superstar(say Gordon Tallis) king hit a semi pro player in a park football match??

It happened in Aussie Rules and it's basically, ho ho boys will be boys.

It will be a full stadium like every year, I have no doubt about that but it can't be a sell out if headquarters are giving away 20k tickets but who cares.
The people that will be there will still no doubt enjoy themselves and for me that's what matters on the day.

Also I traveled to Victoria basically every week for a couple of years and I personally thought the League coverage for a non heartland state was extremely good and positive.
Always half or full page adverts for the Storm games and great write ups.

The rest of your post I have nfi what you're talking about.
It's that sort of shit I just have no idea how anyone can think belongs on a rugby league crowd thread FFS.

 

[Perth Red]

No. I sold my ticket already. Going to have a nice slow roast and get f**king drunk.
I also wish people would stop comparing us to AFL every second day. But with f**kheads like PR around. Its not going to stop.

Damn and there was me thinking Id buy you a beer and talk about the pros and cons of AFL and NRL lol!

Gonna be a great game of RL in front of a big crowd. Cant wait. Its a shame ticket prices are so high as to put off neutrals and create the need for give aways. Its not a great look for the games biggest day but NRL doesn't care, they still make many millions of $'s profit from 60k sold. Has Todd come out yet and said it will be better when ANZ is rebuilt?

Maybe this is why we don't have any expansion, more chance of a non Sydney team not being in the GF!

 

[Canard]

It will be a full stadium like every year, I have no doubt about that but it can't be a sell out if headquarters are giving away 20k tickets but who cares.
The people that will be there will still no doubt enjoy themselves and for me that's what matters on the day.

Also I traveled to Victoria basically every week for a couple of years and I personally thought the League coverage for a non heartland state was extremely good and positive.
Always half or full page adverts for the Storm games and great write ups.

The rest of your post I have nfi what you're talking about.
It's that sort of shit I just have no idea how anyone can think belongs on a rugby league crowd thread FFS.

There are not giving away 20k tickets IMO, that's fake news.

 

[Stallion]

Damn and there was me thinking Id buy you a beer and talk about the pros and cons of AFL and NRL lol!

Gonna be a great game of RL in front of a big crowd. Cant wait. Its a shame ticket prices are so high as to put off neutrals and create the need for give aways. Its not a great look for the games biggest day but NRL doesn't care, they still make many millions of $'s profit from 60k sold. Has Todd come out yet and said it will be better when ANZ is rebuilt?

Maybe this is why we don't have any expansion, more chance of a non Sydney team not being in the GF!

Expansion is not code for getting rid of Sydney clubs. Genuine expansion is with additional clubs which produces exponential growth!

 

[Brutus]

Do you know what a sellout is? It is where all tickets are sold, and there are none available for purchase.
The MCG used to attract 110k - 122k in the 60s/70s/80s as standing room was pretty much unlimited. Since they rebuilt in 1992, each GF has been a sell out and unless you are a MCC, AFL or competing club member, you cannot attend. The only time a competing team did not sell their allocation and the opposition members bought all of those tickets. Even if GWS made it, the Crows members would have bought any left over tickets (30K Crows members applied for tickets, 17500 were available). The fact that between 6 and 500 people with a ticket don't attend can be due to illness, travel or other factors. The MCC has 62,000 full members with entry privilege (and 300,000 other members), they leave some spots un sold for last minute walk ups on the day as this has been an MCC tradition for over 100 years. Whether the crowd is 99,500 or 100,018 depend of how many to those last sports are filled at the last minute. The average price paid by those that miss out on a ticket by legal means is over $1,000. My wife paid $1200 to see Collingwood in 2010. Tickets to the NRL GF can be bought all year for $50. I thought I was clever snapping up a NRL GF family pass in July for $180, but now that tickets are even cheaper/free this week, I will not be doing that again.
Most Melbournians dream of attending an AFL GF as it is nearly impossible to get tickets. That is one of the reasons why SOO sells well here and so would the NRL GF. We have an attendance culture.
If you insist on comparing Sydney to Melbourne and AFL to NRL, get your facts right.

ps. As a Victorian I know I will be bagged for talking about AFL, but every third post by a Sydneysider talks about AFL, and most it it is wrong.
Also, as passionate RL fans, I assume that all of you Sydney posters will be there on Sunday?

You seem to know a lot about AFL.

 

[moffla]

I signed up to this forum to read peoples thoughts and opinions on rugby league but all you f***wits ever talk about is AFL.

It sucks that we can't sell out our grand final but I have my ticket and will be enjoying the contest for what it is.

This. But this forum barely talks anything in relation to league

 

[Heritage XIII]

The media can just about write anything it wants about RL. The only injustice is that our governing body is too weak & not up to countering this crap.

 

[davi]

Gus Gould was asked about the Grand Final struggling to sell out on the podcast, he suggested it's a sign of the times. He said he would have moved the Grand Final to Brisbane if it was Storm vs Cowboys Grand Final. But if it had the Roosters in it he would have left it in Sydney.

I'm not sure moving it to Brisbane can be done on a drop of a hat though and it was acknowledge there would have be a strategy in place to do this . I know when they decided to move the Cowboys vs Broncos final to Townsville from Sydney in 2004 there was a big discussion from the NRL with sponsors to allow it to happen. Also with pre-sold tickets, entertainment, and agreements with the NSW state government it probably can't happen.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

I was merely referencing the paid advert. Then two trolls studiously avoiding 2015 popped up.

Wasn't referring to you sir.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Do you know what a sellout is? It is where all tickets are sold, and there are none available for purchase.
The MCG used to attract 110k - 122k in the 60s/70s/80s as standing room was pretty much unlimited. Since they rebuilt in 1992, each GF has been a sell out and unless you are a MCC, AFL or competing club member, you cannot attend. The only time a competing team did not sell their allocation and the opposition members bought all of those tickets. Even if GWS made it, the Crows members would have bought any left over tickets (30K Crows members applied for tickets, 17500 were available). The fact that between 6 and 500 people with a ticket don't attend can be due to illness, travel or other factors. The MCC has 62,000 full members with entry privilege (and 300,000 other members), they leave some spots un sold for last minute walk ups on the day as this has been an MCC tradition for over 100 years. Whether the crowd is 99,500 or 100,018 depend of how many to those last sports are filled at the last minute. The average price paid by those that miss out on a ticket by legal means is over $1,000. My wife paid $1200 to see Collingwood in 2010. Tickets to the NRL GF can be bought all year for $50. I thought I was clever snapping up a NRL GF family pass in July for $180, but now that tickets are even cheaper/free this week, I will not be doing that again.
Most Melbournians dream of attending an AFL GF as it is nearly impossible to get tickets. That is one of the reasons why SOO sells well here and so would the NRL GF. We have an attendance culture.
If you insist on comparing Sydney to Melbourne and AFL to NRL, get your facts right.

ps. As a Victorian I know I will be bagged for talking about AFL, but every third post by a Sydneysider talks about AFL, and most it it is wrong.
Also, as passionate RL fans, I assume that all of you Sydney posters will be there on Sunday?

A bit of a commute from alice springs as a neutral.

 

[Disinterested third party]

Wasn't referring to you sir.

Yeah all good, didn't think you were.

 

[axl rose]

Gus Gould was asked about the Grand Final struggling to sell out on the podcast,

I'm not sure moving it to Brisbane can be done on a drop of a hat .

There is no chance in hell they can just move a GF with 7 days notice. For all the smart things Gus says about the game he says just as many that are absolutely baffling.

 

[Disinterested third party]

His comments on Melbourne are as reliable as those Dennis Fitzgerald used to make - NFI.