FlashInThePan

What I saw today was not just a load problem. That site had about 3 different bugs going on. The load problem manifested in the massively long wait times to just get into the site. Besides that. Firstly, the wait page kept crashing and having to be reloaded. Secondly, once you were in and got to the purchase selection I couldn't actually buy anything. No matter what category or area I kept getting the message that not enough tickets were available even though it accepted my member barcode I could not select even one ticket. Thirdly, people who actually were able to select tickets were reporting being unable to check or send pay. They were bound back to the start with no tickets. Ticketek are the biggest bunch of IT amateurs I have ever seen. The only area they appear competent on is lying and ass covering. Their product is nothing but a slightly specialized shopping site. A child could code it and scaling it should be simple for virtually any number of buyers. This should not be happening even once much less year after year.

Scalable on demand web servers is a solved problem. This is just the rankest incompetence from Ticketek. It isn't even like thousands of people all wanting to buy tickets at once is an outlier for them, this is core business. The level of incompetence to not be able to manage this is really quite frightening. These people probably have problems doing up their shoe laces

Don't worry Mazer, this is exactly what I experienced. Apparently after the initial meltdown everything started to screw up. Tickets will go back up on sale again when they have sorted out the sh$^ They assure us they aren't sold out and they won't open to the public until we have had a chance to purchase. There is no way an elimination final is going to sellout without getting to publicly available tickets.

Ticketek just responded to me via twitter, nothing new though: Today's Competing Club Member on-sale is now on-hold, more information to come shortly. Thank you for your patience

Club members sale no longer available. I have been trying to get on the Ticketek site since 9am. Once I finally got through it was impossible to select any number of tickets in any area or category. You just couldn't purchase. Ticketek are a joke, this has been a very frustrating morning!

That was just a piece of soft media. I seem to recall that Judd was a Demon supporter as a kid (not sure where I heard that). He seems to really rate us and has backed us all year. The 'Celebrating too hard' was just trying to find a new media angle. I'm guessing they worked quite a while to find an angle that was different from other shows.

I'm sorry but stretch looks like a deer caught in the headlights when he gets the ball. Time and again he looks good at VFL and then fails miserably at AFL. I can't see the point in sinking more time into him.

Gaff is a power runner. Like ANB but with more experience and class. These kinds of players are increasingly valuable as powerful 2 way running is what allows us to cover structural gaps when there is a turnover. It also allows us to run in waves when we cause a turnover. I get pretty excited when I think of a team containing Tmac, Hogan, ANB and Gaff. I wouldn't sell the farm to recruit him as I think we're are growing something pretty special and we're need to look at the salary balance but i would have a red hot go

I'm in again DV. Team name: Demonators Thanks

Ummm, you must have missed the game a couple of Saturdays ago? I don’t think it was pretend, looked like the actual grand final to me... Just saying

Brayshaw is going to be a gun. Trading him would be insane. Why this forum needs to descend into cannibalizing our own list constantly is completely beyond me.