FearTheBeard

23 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

just visually, last week the southern stand seating area on lvl2 seemed to have the most spare seats

would these be corporate no shows?

Level 2a P15-P20 are medallion club and they were half full at most.

1 minute ago, Wodjathefirst said:

I’m picking up on the vibe that we may get less supporters turning up this Friday than last week. I hope this is not the case. If this did happen, it would be shameful. 

Pretty much all of us have waited a lifetime to see the Mighty Dees being up there as a seriously competitive team. For obvious reasons most of us did not get a chance to actually be in WA to see them win the premiership.

Then all the talk that followed was that the faithful wanted to experience seeing us get a flag at the G. Since then we have been a top four side. That in itself is a pretty good effort. Right now we are still a chance.  It’s going to be tough and the odds are against us. I get it. 

If we get vastly outnumbered on Friday and the crowd get Carlton over the line, what then? How will we feel? We will certainly deserve the tag that we are soft fair weather supporters.  I seriously do not want to experience the shame, to face up to the truth of the perception that the rest of the football world has about our softness of our supporter base.

The reality is this. All the chatter on this forum (and elsewhere) about how good or bad we are, what we could / should do really is just that, chatter. Membership numbers are just numbers. It is bums on seats that count.

The only real way we can tangibly help our team is to turn up to the game and actually show our support. Everything else is just talk. We need to be loud and proud. 

It will be interesting to see what happens this Friday.

 

 

We are going to be outnumbered at least 60,000 to 30,000 only saved by the 15K of us in the MCC

AFL reserve down to standing room only already.

3 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Hey FTB. Great work as per usual.

Is there a source online where you can tell if your seat is an aisle seat, aside from the 3D views provided by the MCG.

For example is row V seat 23 in Q1-2 an aisle seat?

You can jump onto the virtual venue: https://mcg.io-media.com/web/index.html

Select your bay and closest row and then find the row you are in and count the seats :).

Having just looked for you, there are 23 seats in that bay at row V, However, Q1 has a tiny one seat section next to it, so you may be one seat off the aisle.

1 minute ago, daisycutter said:

after about 1 hour wait i finally got in

3 seats Q2-2 row U

question for the beard. what's the -2 after Q2?

They split the bays on level 4 into 3 sections.

In the southern stand it would be (using Q2 as an examples):

• Q2 - Rows A-J
• Q2-1 Rows K-T
• Q2-2 Rows U-DD

They essentially reflect the categories of the tickets, so Q2-2 I think is category 7?

7 minutes ago, Jerry Lundergard said:

So is Level 1 considered Premium allocation for these finals?

Have a look a the pictures I posted a few pages back, it shows the normal allocation and the second picture is the premium allocation.

11 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

We're all in M55 on an aisle this week. It would be nice to know if any Demonlanders have seats in the adjacent M54 just so we know were not sitting next to a Carlton bay. It was hideous being next to those dirty masses last week. 

Half of M54 is now a Melbourne bay

1 minute ago, Left Foot Snap said:

I was in after 25 minutes and I couldn't get 2x category 1 seats. Only cat 2. So I'm not sure your logic is sound. Seems more like flaws in their system.

It is sound, the Premium allocation category 1 seats were available until 11am

2 minutes ago, Jerry Lundergard said:

Can't understand how you can have Priority 1 access, but only seats available are on Level 1.  

There should be some advantages to finishing above Carlton and it technically being our home game, but I presume they get allocated just as many premium seats.  It's rubbish.

We had more level 2 and level 2A seats than they did in the Southern stand, they all went first.

1 minute ago, Bonkers said:

Ok, I looked at trying to get anything in N48-55 in doubles, no luck. Didn't seem to be much of an option there 30 minutes ago, so settled for M51. 

N54 and N55 would have been our two most popular bays, likely the Trident members that want to sit where they normally sit.

1 minute ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

We're all in M55 on an aisle this week. It would be nice to know if any Demonlanders have seats in the adjacent M54 just so we know were not sitting next to a Carlton bay. It was hideous being next to those dirty masses last week. 

M52-M54 are Carlton bays. M56 is mixed.

Just now, The heart beats true said:

Do you work for Ticketek? Are you part of the global conspiracy to deny me good finals tickets?! 😂

No I work for EY lol, maybe being an auditor is worse and probably drives my passion for working out all of Ticketek's dirty secrets..

I would have said that M12 is alright tho?

2 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

Not for me it wasn't. I have priority access and could only get 3 tickets in M12. What's left in M50 are singles.

Right but you got in after an our, and category 1 seats were still available. That's why our bays are being re-allocated.

4 minutes ago, Bonkers said:

N14-21 All corporate, N48-53 the same?

Nearly. N15-N22 and N26-N28 is Medallion Club, N23-N25 is AFL reserve (dining/Platinum allocation)

N52-N57 is club members, N49-N51 is a mix of dining bays and corporates. N48 is MCC.

Just now, Jaded No More said:

But look this thread alone, people still can't get in!

So the system can't possibly know that Melbourne fans won't turn up 50 minutes after tickets have gone on sale.

People cant get in yet, fine. But we are an hour in and the best level 1 bay in our allocation (M50) is still available.

For what its worth, the Carlton allocation has sold much faster than Collingwood's did. Remember what it was like for us in 2018, its what they are going through now.

Just now, Jaded No More said:

Pathetic.

I am sorry but given the 50/50 allocation they should be made to WAIT until the end of the members pre-sale period to re-allocate tickets.

 

Nope I agree with it, if our supporters are so fickle and don't want to go then it should be a big [censored] you to the club about the way we play.

1 minute ago, Jaded No More said:

WTF how can they allocate our section to Carlton when members pre sale doesn't finish before 2pm?

Do they not know how long it takes to get in just to purchase tickets? It's only 10:40 ffs

I have no idea what their basis is, but it will be something to do with the amount of tickets that have been purchased in each allocation. Unfortunately ours have been really slow, even if you get in now there is plenty available in M50 and M13.

Imagine there will be a big drop off of our members after 3 finals losses in a row at the G unfortunately. No doubt theyd all be begging for a GF ticket if we made it.

In 2018 the same thing happened where we were reallocated many Geelong bays.

Just now, KysaiahMessiah said:

Im M13, dees member, doesnt seem to be on your map?

Sure is, look at the second picture

2 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

How can they do that when we are still waiting in the 'queue'!!!

4 minutes ago, The Stewster said:

getting nervous, still nothing

4 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

Meanwhile I can't get through!

Dont worry, our allocation has barely been touched

1 minute ago, daisycutter said:

how can you keep getting on and looking around when i can't even get past the queue

wifi speed/ticketek not being a real queue/maybe it just likes my pc?

Ticket sales look horrific for us, they  have started re-allocating our bays to Carlton already. 3 bays on level 1 that were ours are now theirs.

1 minute ago, Demons11 said:

What areas are the Dees sections this week? 

Look at the pictures I posted on the previous page

For those curious, this is our allocation as well as M3 which is cheersquad:

Second pic is the premium seats

1 minute ago, inanunda said:

MCC visitor tickets not even an option. Pathetic system for a dad to take his daughter to the game.

They were an option but they sold out very quickly against Collingwood and would have again today 

21 minutes ago, OhMyDees said:

Love Ticketek saying anywhere on Level 2 MCC full and no 3 seats.

Then go to seat change and put in the N42 option and bam got three. Nearly gave up and went for Level 4! 

Best of luck to all you other Demonlanders today! 

You must have had a 50 year member barcode? I got the same and visitor tickets in N42 as well as 11 in N41. Was a successful morning.