FearTheBeard

He would learn a lot, but we would also concede a hell of a lot. JVR/May arent mobile enough to play on Cameron. No Key backs in the competition are. I'd put Tmac on him and tell him to run straight lines up the wing all night with him.

We arent even close to looking at 60K. If we look at things objectively, we bring 25-30K to a game like this, i can't see any more than 20K of them attending and its not going to be a big neutral turn out. MCC sales arent good enough for this to be a 60K which is what we rely on. Happy to be wrong, but we are looking at high 40s, low 50s.

Hard to gauge because we haven't had a game at the MCG where both teams are in the 8 in a non-covid year since Rd 1 2018 which drew 54K on a Sunny Sunday 3:20pm that was at the same time as the F1. AFL, MCC and public sales are way ahead of the round 1 game against the Dogs (44K). However, also have to consider that Saturday Nights never draw well, and it makes it hard for Cats fans to come up from Geelong. My guess is 48K but wouldn't be surprised if its as low as 40K or high as 55K.

I hate this lot, their colours make me ill. Just wanted people to know.

Im personally a big fan of the idea of folding Collingwood and calling the new team the Burnie Magpies

I’m doing the same, first time I’m not going in the AFL and choosing to go in the MCC for a Melbourne home and away game willingly in years. AFL is a zoo against the Pies, as expected considering they are animals and barely human beings.

Heads up for this one, General Public is going to sell out in the next week or two. AFL/MCC not on sale yet obviously.

From my understanding it happened in 2017 and 2023 when the GA areas in the Public reserve were full, usually just before the bounce. The AFL reserve general Admission areas for tonight are: Q15 1/2-Q23 Rows U-DD Q24-Q28 Rows K-DD They will basically let people sit anywhere in those AFL GA areas as long as its not yet full. But first have to exhaust the normal GA areas which I think are going to be extended to Q1-Q7 rows T-DD

So we always sit on 2A in the AFL, usually in P21 but if we are playing an interstate side or North/St Kilda we will sit in the unused medallion club P16-P20. I also have my Redlegs seats in P7 and since Covid i have been able to move in and out the AFL with no questions asked.

as an AFL member myself, I am completely fine with it if: Level 1, 2 and 2a are not diluted it is only opened up on the night if the rest of the ground is completely full They make it clear to AFL members that this is going to happen and if members want to revolt, they can. Its most likely a lot of Melbourne home/away access members are going to be the people that are let in Remember the MCC gives up Q37-Q40 to the Public for pretty much all non-Melbourne games these days

The MCC are predicting 78K. im a little less, weather this morning will turn a few away as well. Reckon 70-75 sort of range. Very much depends on how empty the Richmond reserved areas are.

For level 3 MCC I reckon you’ll be able to get a single seat an hour before the game easily.

GA areas are: Q1-Q3 rows T-DD. Yes, that is all. afl reserve is going to be opened up on the night

Updated expected GA areas for Wednesday: Ponsford: None Olympic: None Shane Warne: Q1-Q12 rows P-DD AFL Reserve: Q15 1/2-Q22 rows U-DD, Q23-Q28 rows K-DD (Expect this to be opened up to public on the night) MCC walk up areas: Usual level 1, 2 and 3 areas as well as as Q37-Q48 rows DD-MM (first time Anzac eve has had potential level 4 walkup in the MCC since 2017)

Ticket sales in the public reserve are doing really well now. Ponsford level 4 looks like it will be all sold out well before the game on Wednesday. MCC is a disaster, they sold out the available level 4 seats this morning, but because its the weekend they havent released any more and wont do so until Monday 8am. Wonder how many people are going to look to try reserve across the two day weekend in the lead up to the game. FWIW MCC level 4 is only around 65% sold.

My dad jumped the aisles after KB to attack three of them lipping off after they lost, had to give him a bear hug and drag him down or i was worried he'd be down for mass murder.

Level 4 Ponsford rows V-MM have gone on sale. But since you refuse to sit on level 4, there is a solitary seat that has gone on sale in M35 on level 1 behind the goals where our cheersquad will be.

Updated GA areas, they have now put all of the Ponsford level 4 on sale. GA to be Q1-Q7 and Q8-Q12 rows K-DD

Mate every time there is a ticketing thread you appear and tell us why you don’t want to attend the game. Why even bother.

must you always be so negative...

If you put your barcode in now, there are 2 single seats in P21 that just went on sale...

AFL and MCC are completely correct, this game has always relied on a massive GA turnout. On a side note WCW, and I reckon this would annoy you too, I did notice that M33 rows U-Back were on sale as a dry bay from the the original onsale, meaning Richmond still wont give the Demon Army the whole bay. Seems like every other team we are away against lets us have the whole of M33 or M3 if its a Collingwood home game.

Look i dont like having pot shots at other Demonland members but i also cant stand the thought of not going to a game because the other team is too feral or we have to sit on level 4. In the 2022 which was a Richmond home game there was a massive Melbourne turnout, probably the biggest of the year and it was our away game. It will be the same this year, the vast majority of public seats being sold will be Melbourne members that dont have access plus 95% of the MCC will be Melbourne. Im expecting 35K of them, 30K of us and 5K neutrals.

Really? It’s never been a fully ticketed game in the 8 years we’ve had it. Last year was 83.9k and the general public sales were worse than they are this year. It’s the MCC that is looking like a disaster considering it’s a category 1 game. Will still be around the 70k mark which is what queens birthday always was.

I posted those areas above, the mcg will formally name the ga areas the day before the game on their website