How will this affect our gate receipts for this game?

"Hawthorn members will get access to the season opener against Melbourne as 2010 member replacement games were released by the Club today. Members with replacement game access can scan their barcode at the MCG turnstiles and access any general-admission allocation."

If ALL Dork members turn up, there will be 50,000 non paying customers at the MCG, along with 35,000 MFC members.

Not much cash for the day!!!

How will this affect our gate receipts for this game?

"Hawthorn members will get access to the season opener against Melbourne as 2010 member replacement games were released by the Club today. Members with replacement game access can scan their barcode at the MCG turnstiles and access any general-admission allocation."

If ALL Dork members turn up, there will be 50,000 non paying customers at the MCG, along with 35,000 MFC members.

Not much cash for the day!!!

Surely MFC would be awake to this and there will be compensation provided per hawthorn member entry. It would not be like the AFL to be unfair to a club.

one things for sure, it will be a massive crowd.

What's the replacement for? Home game in Tassie or something?

It would be assumed they wouldn't get their reserved seats as per normal, entry only - it's just the same deal we've had the previous few years as compensation for a Home-'Away' game. One of which I know was a Hawks game because I went to it and sat up in the gods, god it was crap up there. Love my reserved seat waaayyy too much.

Surely there would be compenastion for the home team in this situation... It's nothing new.

Nothing new, but Round One seems an odd game to implement it.

There is usually compensation paid to the home club

Hawthorn is responsible for footing the bill for the cost of entry of their members, just as we would be when we have a replacement game for one of our home matches in NT, or Carrara in the past.

Nothing to worry about, we will be reimbursed.

Hawthorn is responsible for footing the bill for the cost of entry of their members, just as we would be when we have a replacement game for one of our home matches in NT, or Carrara in the past.

Nothing to worry about, we will be reimbursed.

Exactly. And given that the game is "free" for them, more will turn up, as opposed to a normal away game.

For us that means more "reimbursement" and a bigger crowd overall, especially being the first game of the season.

Melbourne get given a list of Hawks members who attend and forward Hawthorn an invoice.

Nothing lost. Lots gained.

plus the bigger the crowd the bigger the $$$ it's all about pies and beer sales aint it?

The way I see it it's a good thing. Hawk members get in for free will increase the size of the crowd, it will be a great way to start the year financially

Good for the club financially, although, I seem to remember a similar situation a few year ago, although it was the alternative then. A Hawthorn home game that Melbourne members can attend.

Hawthorn is responsible for footing the bill for the cost of entry of their members, just as we would be when we have a replacement game for one of our home matches in NT, or Carrara in the past.

Nothing to worry about, we will be reimbursed.

Are you sure of this? I reckon there would have to be some sort of compensation to our club, but there has never been some sort of official announcement about how this type of compensation works.

None of the clubs that Hawthorn has named as "free to members" seem to be arcing up therefore, there HAS to be some sort of compensation.

I was just after some official responses on how this works.

You might find our replacement game will be against Hawthorn late in the season. They do have to pay us something, but it is more important that we start to lift our crowd averages so we can get better drawing games and time slots. We need to start averaging 45K+ per home game at the MCG.