Now that i've sat in my allocatyed seats I can categorically say I am extremely unhappy and in fact thinking, after 25 odd years as a season ticket holder to not renew for 2023.
For 20 or so years, my tickets at the old SFS were right on halfway on the western side, and were mostly (and after a move in 2000) completely under cover.
My new seats? Are on the 30 metre line at the Paddington end, and are so far towards the front of the bay, I'm completely at the mercy of any rain at all and now cannot clearly see the far side of the field. I'm too "flat".
I was so unhappy I e-mailed Membership expressing this from my seat on Friday evening. To me the principles they applied to seating allocation didn't work properly, as I suspect a lot of people who formed groups did sso with 1-2 people having 30 or more years membership and the rest with less than 10 (jsut as an example), which means those groups wouold have gotten higher preference seating before those in 1s and 2s (like me).
After all, these were the allocation principals (
source:
https://www.roosters.com.au/members...pJobID=1540615735&spReportId=MTU0MDYxNTczNQS2) -
How will the Club allocate reserved seats?
Once the deadline for Members to submit the ‘Allianz Stadium Seating Group Form’ has expired, the Sydney Roosters Membership team will commence the process of allocating Members into reserved seats at Allianz Stadium. The order of allocation will be determined by the following (as per order below):
- The Group Leader’s Membership tenure. For example, if the Group Leader has 20 years of consecutive Membership support, their entire group will be prioritised in the seat allocation process over a group of Members whose Group Leader has 19 years of consecutive Membership. This is where we recognise loyalty.
- In cases where there are multiple Group Leaders with the same Membership tenure, the order of allocation will be determined by the following (as per order below):
- The Group Leader’s 2022 Membership category ie. Current Gold Members seeking a Gold category seat at Allianz Stadium will be prioritised over current Bronze Members seeking an upgrade to a Gold category seat.
Where two Group Leaders share the same tenure and Membership category, we will calculate the average Membership tenure of the Group and prioritise the Group with the longest average tenure.
