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Neil Appleby
Joined: 11 Feb 1998 Location: Melbourne
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Post subject: Variable Ticket Pricing and Collingwood | |
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This week we've witnessed the complete breakdown in communication between the supporters and the AFL err....umm....media department. Variable ticketing pricing will go down as one of the great jokes of AFL recent decision making. Does anybody understand it? Is it a great idea to change the game status and pricing four hours prior to the game starting? Well yes, if you happen to be the AFL's chief-gobbledegook-in-a-suit!
A complete shambles is what it is and Darren Birch should be demoted immediately; he has no feel for the game, cannot explain his ideas and gets all huffy when challenged. Heh, wait a minute, let's promote him instead. Forget Gillon McLachlan as CEO, we've got enough toffy-nosed, Adelaide private school boys on the AFL Commission already. Let's promote Darren Birch to the top job.
But I digress, what I meant to say is this and it's a genuine question: if ticket pricing is meant to fluctuate with the demand for tickets, won't Collingwood supporters always be paying through the nose? Am I missing something here?
Of course it won't just be Collingwood supporters who will be slugged; it will be Essendon, Hawthorn, West Coast and Adelaide supporters too. In fact, any club that makes large profits will end up disadvantaging its supporters under this new AFL ticketing system because these games will be in high demand. Collingwood logically, as the biggest drawing club over the last 20 -30 years will be super-penalised. Not only will supporters be slugged up to $30 a game for blockbuster matches (and that means just about all Collingwood games), but the AFL will then siphon this money off to the poorer clubs who can't run their businesses at a profit.
Sign Joffa's petition and let's get some teeth into the AFL Supporters' Association. _________________ After the epic draw comes the decisive knockout!
Collingwood rules the world again and Mick Malthouse fulfils his destiny with the twenty ten premiership and can you hear the people sing! |
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Rexy17
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Location: Ballarat
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Agree 100%
It is always going to hit the clubs that have the biggest membership base, and that is us. We are always going to be propping up the "weak" clubs. Watch our membership numbers drop off over the next few years if this continues. Oh and don't get me started on the fact that clubs get entry rights to away games because they play home games interstate. This must stop! _________________ B.U.M.S ROCK...That's Ballarat United Magpies Supporters.....Long trip but even longer hangovers! |
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King Monkey
Joined: 15 Apr 2009 Location: On a journey to seek the scriptures of enlightenment....
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Nice title!! Love it!!
And yes, agree wholeheartedly!!!! _________________ "I am a great sage, equal of heaven.
Grow stick, grow.
Fly cloud, fly.
Oh you are a dee-mon, I love to fiiight." |
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