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John Wren 
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Nick - Pie Man
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| David wrote: | Not sure if supply and demand works here. Surely there's sufficient demand for tickets from the supporters of the teams alone, let alone all the hangers on from other clubs and people who've never watched a game of football in their life.
I think what this is more evidence of is not supply and demand, but monopoly. There's no 'competition', so the AFL can inflate the prices pretty much as high as they like in the knowledge that some people will be desperate enough to pay whatever's on offer and the corporates get a fistful of free tickets to share with their mates. It's a bit of a rort, really. |
What stui said.
Moreover the AFL is a monopoly only because the football fans made them so. You have VFL, you have VFA, you have TAC whatever that is. The reason why these are second tier competitions is that nobody bothers to go watch them, they don't have much money, and can't afford decent players.
It is the spectators that gave the AFL so much power. |
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| Culprit wrote: | I still chuckle at the "Free Entry to VFL Home Games". Of course there is free entry it's an open venue FFS.  |
Why do you still try and sneak in though??
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stui magpie 
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| Brenny wrote: | There was an article the other day that spoke about concert ticket prices and showed the breakdown of the prices... insurance and so on.
I'd like to see the same for the AFL grand final ticket.
The NRL grand final was about half the cost of the AFL and the AFL still outsold the NRL.
I'd be aligning with Stui on the supply and demand side of it more than the monopoly side of it.
The College system in the USA says players are not allowed to get paid or receive gifts for their playing skills. An american friend of mine told me that's why it's so popular, because it's so raw. |
Surely there's a few other things to it than that?
There's the tribal rivalry between colleges and communities built up over generations, compared to the NFL teams being moved locations
They're adults playing, not kids and the scholarship system and the fact that most of the kids drafted would come from the college system means it's a high standard.
It's also the official second tier comp isn't it? There are no legit competitions like the SANFL or local leagues where players can go if they don't get drafted, unless they go to Canada?
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Brenny
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^ All you mentioned.
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