FearTheBeard

First quarters against good teams have been a lingering problem now, Kings Birthday last year we gave up a 20-point headstart, against Port last year we didnt kick a goal from open play in the first quarter, round 22 against Carlton last year we gave up 25-4 inside 50s at the start of the game, the QF against the Pies we give them a 13-point start in a game where only 110 points are kicked, Port this year we give a 20-point head-start, Carlton was 36 points 2 weeks ago, even North last year in Hobart had a 30-point lead.

Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere and if so please remove. Much gets made of our forward line, the reality is that much needs to be made of our general scoring in first halves. We are essentially on average, a 3 goal better team in second halves than we are in first halves. Just a fun stat, but one that desperately needs to be recitified.

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As ****ty as it is (and a lot of us still remember the days where we played in front of 19k at the g against interstate sides and a max of 45k against bigger Melbourne teams) it is the price we have to pay of being involved in a game that is on track to draw 88k+ people. It does also say in the terms and conditions: Additional fees and charges may apply with match access. Entry is subject to capacity and may not be guaranteed.

So wait for all seats to sell out. Will be end of the week and then they will put restricted view seats on sale. Buy one of those (will be very cheap) and just stand

If anyone needs help with tickets and would like MCC visitor tickets or AFL guest passes (would highly recommend you dont go in the AFL for this game) DM me and I'd be happy to help out.

Well not the Essendon and other Collingwood game because they are our home games and if you have premium membership I assume you have a reserved seat.

Can’t wait to get roasted when we draw “disappointing Crowds” against GWS and Port on Saturday nights which are dreadful for drawing big crowds. Massive bonus to have the Suns game as a day game and avoid the dewy slippery games we normally have up there.

There’s no level 1 availability, those two bays have wheelchair accessibility which is why they show up as available. a thread was made weeks ago that this game was going to be sold out shortly.

Fixture has been loaded into The Age early again: Round 16: Brisbane V Melbourne, Friday 28 June, 7:40pm, GABBA Round 17: Melbourne v West Coast, Sunday 7 July, 1:10pm, MCG (WOO A RED BALL GAME AT THE G) Round 18: Melbourne v Essendon, Saturday 13 July, 7:30pm MCG Round 19: Fremantle v Melbourne, Sunday 21 July, 1:20pm Perth time (3:20pm AEDT), Optus Round 20: Melbourne v GWS, Saturday 27 July, 7:30pm, MCG Round 21: Western Bulldogs v Melbourne, Friday 2 August, 7:15pm, Marvel Round 22: Melbourne v Port Adelaide, Saturday 10 August, 7:30pm MCG Round 23: Gold Coast v Melbourne, Saturday 17 August, 1:45pm, HB WTF Saturday nights against interstate sides.

I was very much under the impression that it is still 2 for this year.

We’ve had 2, can’t have any more.

Normally I would say that the Pies would get the Friday night slot, but I suspect it may be given the Saturday 4:35 because that's the new AFL favourite slot (after 1 game fml) and allows people from Geelong to get to the game.

Yep but he has gone the early crow with tomorrow, other sources are saying the fixture won't be out before Thursday. One other thing that is almost certain is that the Dogs game at Marvel in round 21 will be a Friday night because there are three marvel games that week and the other two involve st kilda and brisbane and Richmond and north. Expect the pies game in round 24 to be a Friday night but only released in July. Hoping that the games against West Coast, Ports and GWS at the G are a Saturday 2:10 or Sunday 1:10 so that we finally get some red ball footy at the G.

Love how he goes on AFL360 and tells us how hard his job is and then pleads for umpires to not be abused, yet is absolutely derelict in his duty when he has to make any important calls.

Ye, I think its a dangerous thing to say "if JVR isn't penalised we win the game," we would still be 2 goals down and it negates anything that actually happened after.

Umpiring was seriously poor but it has no bearing on the game. We win the game 76-41 after giving up a 36-point Head Start. Don't give them the head start and you win by 6 goals and aren't blowing up over the umpiring.

For those wanting to sit behind the Cheersquad, M33 has just gone on sale on ticketek.

Have to be really careful with the non free kicks point in the midfield because we get away with as much as anyone. Carlton will say the same thing about Oliver and petracca. Christian in particular gets away with a lot. Forwards are a different case because you wouldn’t dare lay a finger on poor Charlie and Harry.

No GA on level 1 anywhere in the ground. level 4 ga is: Q1-Q11 all rows Q12-Q15 rows K-MM Q29-Q36 all rows Q49-Q55 rows M-MM

Melbourne cheer squad will be in M33 but all of level 1 around it is reserved. You can still upgrade into M32 or M33 or even back of M33 should still go on sale.

Nope, thats the final crowd figure, very easy to obtain that seeing as the stadiums tweets the crowd figures with 5 minutes to go in the game and they flash them on scoreboards. What we are talking about is that the MCC used to put up a pre-match estimated crowd figure on the MCG website for all games on the Thursday before the round started.

Stopped after Covid, 2019 was the last year they did it.

miss the days where they used to put the estimated crowd on their website. Do you have a source in the MCC?

GA areas are near identical (5% less reserved seat areas this year) to the game in round 22 last year which drew 68.5K. Differences are the AFL is about 5% ahead on level 4 and the MCC is about 10% behind on level 4. Personally, Im expecting 61K with my range of 58-65, given its a Thursday and they are coming off a loss where their reserved seat holders all showed up so am expecting a small drop off their. If it were a Friday Night (thanks afl) and had they have won last week I would have said 75K.