FearTheBeard

why dont the fools just reduce prices and entice another 5000 people to attend. Now you end up with people that have been shafted by paying full price and it really isnt fair.

Against the Hawks in 2018 there were at least 35K of them there and probabaly 50 of us. Against the cats id still say 55K of us 25K them and 10K neutrals because it was the finals series ticket game.

A standing room ticket is not category 7. Category 7 are the two cheer squad bays because they are dry bays (M3 and M33) and the very back of the Southern stand (Q1-Q7 rows U-DD). Standing room only goes on sale when they are about to sell out all seated areas. For a prelim where it is expected that we will get 90K+ the standing room tickets will go on sale when the club members on sale areas become exhausted.

Lol, no I do not work for Ticketek but I also believe that people make lives more difficult than it needs to be for themselves. I found that logging on too early means you never actually get in. I log on with one device at 11:49 another at 11:53 and another at 11:55 and one of them (usually the 55) gets in just before 12. The queue is bs which we all know, its pot luck which is not fair.

Once upon a time I tried to calculate what each level holds but it is really difficult because each of the 57 bays on level 1 and 4 are slightly differnt with seats. But I gave a rough estimate that it was: 36K level 1 8K level 2 4K Level 2A/3 45-47K level 4 5-7K standing room Im probably off by around 5% per level but it gives a good guide and its why I think 55K-58K will be this weeks crowd

I have a psychotic problem for crowd sizes lol. I am an AFL member with Melbourne club support so I could see what was sold in the club members on sale originally and the AFL on sale. I am also an MCC member so I can see what was available there even though I hate sitting there for AFL games coz I cant lose my [censored] with Melbourne without getting thrown out the joint, Then I follow what has gone on sale in general public areas about 3 times a day. I thought last week would be 77K so wasn't too far off,

I think that there were around 55K of us against Sydney and it was probably the biggest Melbourne turnout I have ever seen. Probably 15K of them and 5K neutrals. So realistically, even if there are 45K of us there on Friday, brisbane only bought 3,900 tickets on Monday which may mean there will be a max of 8K of them on the night. I think anything over 55K is a god effort. We are not a big club and we know that. Take into account that your 10K extremely fair weather fans wont go to a semi but will be there for a QF or prelim.

Just going based on ticket sales and it isnt great. Level 1 sold out except M35 and M36 (single seats available in M57). Level 2 and 2A will be sold out. But level 4 is not great. Q1-Q2 Rows A-J Sold Q3-Q10 Rows A-T will be sold Q11-Q15 Rows A-J will be sold Q15-Q24 (Afl Reserve) Rows A-J will be sold Q25-Q36 (Afl Reserve and Ponsford) Shut Q37-Q48 (MCC) Sold out but some people will walk up on the night Q49-Q53 Rows A-J on sale but wont sell out Q54-Q57 Rows A-J will go on sale but barely touched. Remember level 4 goes up to either Row DD or MM and we are talking about row J in most cases. That gives you about a 25% capacity on level 4, compared to 80% last week. So we lose at least 15K-20K on level 4 from a 78K crowd. Just cannot see 60K happening

It was 28,000 Public Tickets sold on Monday which included the AFL member figures. Plus 14K MCC reserved seats sold and maybe 6K walk ups on the nights gets you to 48K. Reckon there would be 5K more Public/AFL tickets sold since Monday and you are looking at 53K. I think it could be as high as 58 but as low as 45. 65K is wishful thinking imo.

All 4 teams that make a prelim go into a GF ballot before the prelim, was the same for us in 2018.

Based on current ticket sales vs last week. Level 1,2 and 2A will all be full come game day which is about 45K. Level 4 is not even close to what it was last week. Maybe 10K sold as of now. Ponsford full last week, will be shut this week most likely. Reckon crowd maxes out at 58K

they already sold Q15-Q20 first ten rows but haven't put anything else up.

Very happy with P21, got 6 tickets too woo

For all the people annoyed about level 2 being sold out so soon, there are 2 bays that go on sale as reserved seating on level 2. Level 2 will give you N40 and a couple rows at the front of N37-N39 and No alcohol will give you N41. N43-N48 are all walk up areas on the day and 80% of N37-N39 are dining room seats. Also, if you select level 4 and it gives you row MM it is because they sell one bay at a time front to back, I got Q42 row A when I checked because they had just put that bay on sale.

But worried about the crowd this week. Semis against interstate teams (excluding the Collingwood Giants 72K in 2018) haven’t drawn well over the last few years pre covid. believe they have all been geelong games with 55, 52 and 44k there. hoping for above 60 but not confident

They were always going to eventually put the back of Q49-Q55 on sale at some point. The other areas of the ground that they have release have about 30 tickets available for purchase. It will still be north of 75K.

Has FTB gotten extremely drunk last night? Yes he did. Is FTB suffering from a morbid hangover in the office this morning? Yes he is. Is FTB wearing his scarf and Melbourne gear in the office? Of course he is. Will FTB get extremely drunk tonight? Yes he will. Will FTB barrack the loudest he ever has for this football club. YES HE [censored] WILL. Hope we have a particularly loud and feral (by Melbourne standards) fan base tonight, suspect there will be close to 55K of us tonight.

nearly but not quite. Q49-Q55 rows CC-MM never went on sale. AFL reserve level 4 will be about 30% full. Reckon 75-80 is a good bet,

All the unused Corporate allocations have gone on sale in the AFL Reserve and Public Reserve which are about 150 tickets to be sold mainly in category 1. These will all sell out by tonight hopefully which leaves: Level 1, 2 and 2A hopefully all sold out again by tonight Level 4: Q1-Q6 Rows A-Y Sold (Z-DD on Sale) Q7-Q15 1/2 Sold Out Q15 1/2-Q21 Rows A-T sold (Afl Reserve) Q22-Q27 Rows A-J Sold (Afl Reserve) Q28-Q30 Sold Out Q31-Q34 Rows A-KK Sold (LL-MM on Sale) Q35-Q48 Sold Out Q49-Q55 Rows A-BB Sold (CC-MM not on sale but I could be mistaken here) Q56-Q57 Sold Out Still think it will be high 70s but hoping to be wrong and it gets to 80.

You will be able to walk up, as a full member you will have walk up access to all of level 3, most of level 2 which is walk up and the level 1 walk up sections. Queues will probabaly start quite early so if you want to sit on one of the balconies you’d best get there quite early. seating plan for finals in MCC is below

For anyone interested that didn’t get in the on sale some unused corporate allocation in category 1 and 2 have just gone on sale. bays N7, N8 and P14.

The club was hoping for 85-90 against Collingwood and that ended up being 70. There are too many areas of the ground with large amounts of unsold seats for it to get to 84K imo. AFL reserve will have 4K unsold seats on Level 4, Northern stand has 1.75K seats not on sale, Ponsford has 864 seats not sold and Southern has 1512 that havent been sold. That already gets us to over 8K empty areas. Then there are the MCC double dippers which will reduce the MCC capacity by 2K at least and standing room all up of about 5K not used. That gives me a max attendance of 83.5K and that assumes that everybody who has a ticket attends and corporate/medallion club allocations are all used up. Of course there will be more sales which hopefully mean another 500+ tickets are sold. I reckon it will be 75K which would still be an incredible crowd but will secretly be hoping for 80K+

There is the chance they are playing funny buggers with which rows go on sale (ie every second row to make it look more full) but it appears they are selling every row so this is what has been sold: Level 1 - All Sold (Afl Reserve, General Public, Expected MCC full Level 1) Level 2 and 2A Sold out (Afl Reserve and General Public, Expect MCC to be full there) Level 4: MCC sold out Q35-Q48 Ponsford Q29-Q30 Sold Out Ponsford Q31-Q34 rows A-BB Sold (CC-MM not on sale) Northern Q49-Q55 rows A-BB Sold (CC-MM not on Sale) Northern Q56-Q57 Sold out Southern Q11-Q15 Sold out Southern Q7-Q10 Rows A-BB Sold (CC-DD will be sold out by tonight) Southern Q1-Q6 Rows A-T sold (U-DD on sale but untouched) AFL Reserve Q15-Q19 Rows A-U Sold AFL Reserve Q20-Q27 Rows A-J Sold Q28 Sold out Reckon Level 4 is overall about 60% sold so: 35K level 1 + 10K level 2/2A + 25K Level 4 gets you to 70K I think its going to surprise people how big our crowd is (possibly north of 75K). Also people should have a look at the Bulldogs V Crows 2015 final which had 60K and the MCC was empty and most of level 4 was empty. We have sold heaps more than that game.

The MCC informs the Afl/Ticketek which bays are to go on sale and they are the bays in that map. It is not generic it is specific to the 2022 finals series weeks 1-3.

When I was on, the green shaded area was for all the bays rows A-MM, except Q47 and Q48 because rows A-H are dry bays and are sold separately so that is what you may have seen? This is per the MCC website for our game: "A dedicated amount of walk up seating will be available on Levels 1, 2 and 3 the Members’ Reserve. Reserved seats will be sold on demand. Any unsold seats will become additional walk -up areas. To view the Members’ Reserve seating map, please click here." No mention of level 4 and the reserved seating map expects level 4 to all be reserved seating. They used to have half of level 4 as walk top but that was from rows Z-MM not the other way round which would just be stupid. We will see next Thursday when they post their walk up areas but I suspect you are wrong.