Grand Final Ticket Allocation Idea - Feedback Wanted

tdesmaele · Joined: 23 May 2003

I would firstly like to congratulate the club for coming up with a random draw for club members who do not have reserved grand final tickets.
Even though I missed out on both ballots I believe this was a fairer way then the old line up for days routine.

However as an alternative how about these tickets are instead allocated to people based on the number of years they have been a member. This would definitely give people an incentive to sign up in times of gloom (lets hope that's not for a while yet) and is the fairest way I believe to allocate tickets. It's only fair that someone who has paid for a membership for say 10 years gets a ticket before someone who has paid up for only 1 or 2 years.

The software / database you use would need to handle this information. But with 6 years IT experience I can say that this wouldn't be too difficult to achieve.

Anyway that's something I have been thinking about for some time.
Feel free to discuss...

ConBigWig · Joined: 19 Aug 2003

Excellent idea tdesmaele.
Very fair and rewards people for their long term support!

magpie willow · Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Location: East Ivanhoe Melbourne

Yeah I reckon thats a good fair idea but why dont they just have all members from the 2 clubs get a seat and stuff al the bloody suits who get to go its so unfair i hate it its the members and fans who deserve to go and thats it!

mandy · Joined: 03 Jun 2001 Location: Glen Iris

I'd be more comfortable with a system that rewarded on recent commitment. You can have a lot of people that may pay their memberships, but never attend games. (Melb based members only.) The types who step in to "rightfully" (?) claim their finals tickets at the business end of the season.

In this day and age where everything is bar-coded and recorded, preference should go to the person who may only have been able to afford a membership in the last year or 2, but has attended all games possible over a 10 year member who's been twice.

It's not how long you've been a financial member (although it's very important), footy's about passion and commitment.

Give the ticket to the guy who's turned up rain, hail or shine, win, lose or draw week in, week out THIS year.

Just my opinion...

magpie willow · Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Location: East Ivanhoe Melbourne

Hey Mandy,

I reckon thats a sensational idea and the way to go good idea and if that was done i would be very happy and I know I would be gaurranteed a seat cos I never miss a game! Laughing

tdl · Joined: 20 Aug 2003

totally agree with previous post that it seems so unfair when all members of the competing clubs in the GF cannot secure GF tickets.

this is exactly the reason why I changed from CFC club membership to AFL membership with CFC club support because it's a ridiculous notion that I attend all Melb based games and cannot get a tick for the GF.

Joel · Joined: 23 Mar 1999 Location: Mornington Peninsula

Good points. In the GF, no clubs, apart from the participating clubs should receive tickets.

mandy · Joined: 03 Jun 2001 Location: Glen Iris

London Dave · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:03 pm

Rowdy26 · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:40 pm

Joel wrote:

Proud Pies · Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Location: Knox-ish

Bones · Joined: 04 Sep 1999 Location: western victoria

It will NEVER be solved until we get a stadium that can seat 150,000 plus.

There must be a reward system for those members and season ticket holders that attend games, some how.

Many teams rely on that extra income from the 1500 GF tickets. I'm sure the Doggies do.

Questions?

Are there limits to number of tickets bought on one membership? If not then 1 membership equals 2 GF tickets. I hate seeing these greedy bastards getting great fistfuls of 10-20. They think they are so smug.

I presume the 1500 allocated tickets are freebies. Are they? If they are then why can't the competing teams buy back minimum 500 from each club at face value. That would free up 7000.

God help the 2 teams that make it this year.

HotPies90 · Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Location: Melbourne

I also think the fairest system would be to give priority to those members that attend the most games, and I've posted that idea before (see the Olympic Park, the President's response thread). However what Proud Pies says is a fair point, just scanning membership cards means the system could be rorted.

The solution is simple: Photo ID. While this might make the process of getting a membership a bit more complicated, surely it would be worth it in the long run?

London Dave · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:33 pm

STOKA35 · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Mount Barker. South Australia

there are to many pro's and cons to this debate
If it goes on years as a member and they live intersstate or country it is not there fault they can't go to all the games if they lived in melbourne maybe they could go more often,so if you go by years as members people will still complain.Un fortunately having tickets fo the two teams involved won't work either because it is all about the $$ a grand final can raise.If my business was pumping dollars into the collingwood football club year after year and i only could see a few games a year and we made the grand final.I think from the clubs view they would have to look after the sponsor.