Grand Final tickets - exorbitant

[Timbo]

I bought a ticket to the first test of the Ashes at the Gabba yesterday - 60 bucks. Thats almost doubled in price from last time. Oh well, if you think about it - its just the price of a round of drinks!

Ashes tests are always more expensive than the norm. I think the silver seats I bought for the SCG this summer are the same price as the platinum ones I bought last summer for the Sri Lanka test. They will go down the following year.

NRL tickets just seem to get higher and higher though.

 

[Bumble]

FIFA World Cup tickets just got announced - and I can go to TWO group stage matches and sit on halfway for less than a grand final ticket will cost me?

Unbelievable...

 

[kdalymc]

And the word of the week is- exorbitant

 

[Mr Saab]

Blame the carbon tax, hey gotta blame something

 

[DC_fan]

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

Very well said Danish. Yes like the NFLs Super Bowl, soon only the rich will be able to afford a grand final ticket. And that will be a real shame. The true League supporter will no longer be able to attend to see his/hers team play.

The NRL will say the prices are a true indication of what the tickets are worth. That maybe the case but it will stop the real league fan from attending.

The grand final, just like the State of Origin is a big event. Big events attract people with money to spend even though they maybe not a true fan. It's like the Melbourne Cup which attracts huge numbers of people, many who are not real racing people.

 

[DC_fan]

http://www.nrl.com/grand-final-ticket-information/tabid/10874/newsid/70024/default.aspx

2012 Grand Final Ticket Prices


Grand Final Ticket Information

NRL.com
Sun 23rd September, 10:00am

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Tickets for the 2012 NRL Telstra Premiership Grand Final will go on sale to Ticketed Members of the Bulldogs and Storm from 10am-7pm tomorrow, Monday, September 24.

Approximately 14,000 tickets have been held back for sale to Ticketed Members of the two NRL Grand Final clubs. Ticketed Members can purchase two tickets per membership.

If there are any remaining tickets after the Ticketed Members sale, they will first be made available for online only sale to NRL.com members from 8pm Monday, September 24, to 8am Tuesday, September 25, then to the general public from 10am, Tuesday, September 25.

NRL Telstra Premiership Grand Final tickets will be available through Ticketek at www.ticketek.com.au/nrlgrandfinal, by calling 132 849 or at Ticketek outlets.

The 2012 NRL Telstra Premiership Grand Final will kick-off at 5pm on Sunday, September 30, at ANZ Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park.

Ticket Categories and Prices

Price Category
Adult
Concession
Junior
Family
1
$200.00
$180.00
$160.00
$580.00
2
$155.00
$140.00
$125.00
$450.00
3
$105.00
$95.00
$85.00
$305.00
4
$65.00
$60.00
$55.00
$190.00
* Concessions are available to full pensioners (Aged, War, TPI, Invalid & Disability)
* Juniors are 4-15 years inclusive. Children 3 years and under free when seating on parent’s knee. * Family passes consist of 2 adults and 2 juniors or 1 adult and 3 juniors only
* The NRL is affiliated with the Companion Card program. Patrons can contact the Ticketek Call Centre 132-849 or visit the Ticketek box office to book Tickets using a Companion Card.

 

[Dani]

I paid 65 last year i think? now they want 165

Same.

We waited to buy out tickets until we made it. So booking flights and accommodation at the last minute costs a packet as it is, now you have to chuck an extra $100 on top of your expenses, per person, for the tickets reserved for the teams that make it?

Stupid.

 

[Card Shark]

I understand the need to make $ as a business but it's just another way the NRL has lost touch with the true supporters of the game.

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

It would be good if someone like Weidler or one of those dickheads from the Telegraph stopped digging dirt on NRL players for 5 minutes and actually used some of their column / TV space to bring this to public attention and encourage some discussion about it. This is a ridiculous situation and an obvious price gouge by the NRL. It would be good if some of the so-called journalists covering the game actually went into bat for the punters for a change.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

It would be good if someone like Weidler or one of those dickheads from the Telegraph stopped digging dirt on NRL players for 5 minutes and actually used some of their column / TV space to bring this to public attention and encourage some discussion about it. This is a ridiculous situation and an obvious price gouge by the NRL. It would be good if some of the so-called journalists covering the game actually went into bat for the punters for a change.

Why would they? Journalists get in free.

 

[adamkungl]

Was $60 to sit behind the posts in 2010. Now it's $165? Get f**ked.

There has to be some balance between making money and making the game accessible to fans.

Was gonna buy tickets day 1. Now I'm really not sure.

 

[Card Shark]

Hope people vote with their feet, then come grand final time when there are a lot left, there is a big uproar about it.

 

[Juju]

Was $60 to sit behind the posts in 2010. Now it's $165? Get f**ked.

There has to be some balance between making money and making the game accessible to fans.

Was gonna buy tickets day 1. Now I'm really not sure.

I was gonna buy tickets day 1 too - but that increase is just crass.

 

[Raiderdave]

I think the bumbleball GF had a similar massive price Hike last year

this won't stop ours being a sellout & I'm talking nearly the lot available from Monday being gone within a few days (70,000)

a big increase in price won't stop this
It Is the biggest sporting event in Sydney annually , bigger then an Origin game in Sydney .... even a decider
Origin tickets take months to sell there
a GF usually only days

Its no longer just a game of Football
it is a must attend event.

 

[Raiderdave]

Hope people vote with their feet, then come grand final time when there are a lot left, there is a big uproar about it.

don't hold yr breath
this increase won't deter many .... only cheap arse whiners

for those saying they won't go
they'll be plenty who'll take their place.

 

[BunniesMan]

It's about supply and demand. There is only 80 odd thousand of the product, and much less goes on sale to the general public. There are many many many more willing buyers than there are products to sell. Obviously the price will go up.

In response to everyone complaining, I understand your complaints and agree with you BUT the only way prices will go down is if the GF doesn't sell out. And the chances of that are minimal.

 

[adamkungl]

don't hold yr breath
this increase won't deter many .... only cheap arse whiners

for those saying they won't go
they'll be plenty who'll take their place.

Basically anyone earning an average wage with real commitments in their life aside from football.

I have no kids or mortgage, I can afford to waste $200 on a football game if I feel like it. But dead set gotta feel sorry for your average family with a couple of kids, no chance.

This game will be a windfall for the NRL, obviously. But it already was. It is a business yes, but sport is a unique business. Giving something back to the fans should be a large priority, maybe moreso than just maximising profits.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

I hate to say this but: 'Won't someone think of the children'. Many a current first grader would cite going to watch a GF when they were a youngster as an inspiration to go on and make a career out of the game. How the f**k do parents take their kids to the game without having to put out a second mortgage on their house?

If the NRL wants to maximise $$$ from the GF then so be it, but as a compromise cut prices to other finals games to an absolute minimum so normal punters can go to those games without having to shell out the GDP of Nauru to do it.

 

[boonboon]

Stop with the wining people. The tickets should be at the maximum price the NRL can get for them and still sell out the ground. Given it will be a sell out easily then perhaps the prices are still a little too cheap. The more they earn from things like this the more that can be invested back in the game and its not like the grand final cant be watched on tv and I believe also their will be a giant live site out at the ground so people can feel part of the atmosphere without even going.

 

[effnic]

At the start of the year the nrl and refs got together and decided bunnies will make the grand final. Now they can charge whatever they want cause they know bunnies fans will fill it to the brim to see their first grand final in 2000 years.