I saw this against Port……it looked like the top half was of the sections were full and lower was sparse……I was curious about this as well.
When selling the Gold Reserved Bay they never mentioned it was only the back half of the seating that you could use. I spoke to the attendant and he said that the front half was reserved for people with an actual designated seat.
It was OK for Port on a Thursday night but if we were winning and playing a decent side it would fill up pretty quickly.
Also there were Port Adelaide supporters in the same seating. How does that happen?
Happens all the bloody time. I think there must be a section of seats that the AFL owns and people purchase because it’s the same area with different opposition fans every week at my seat (level 2, bay 39) at Marvel.
It’s a Ticketmaster/Ticketek/AFL issue.
More often than not, the club members have a hold on certain areas up to a day or two before the game begins. If they aren’t taken up by then, it gets opened up to others wanting the seats.
It’s supposedly the same deal with the ‘seat return’ thing. Those seats are held to go to club members first, but at a particular time, it goes to anyone wanting them.
I’m sure there are times when these seats get to opposition members before time period. There are other avenues to ‘on sell’ your reserved seat.
We also restricted new reserved seat members. It’s now a wait list. So those members that actually dropped off as members altogether or went from reserved seat to just general admin last year, means they were seats that effectively went back to ‘general public’ sales.
It’s the EFC member seat return program. Members can return their seat, redeem $25 off next years membership and club get to offer that seat on market via ticket agency. That’s why Oppo fans are sitting there.
LOL So ‘supporters’ that return their seat for whatever reason get a discounted membership the following year, but as a member that hasn’t missed a victorian based game in close to 30 years I get ■■■■ all.
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That’s not for all games is it?
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Kudos to you. That’s a crazy effort considering the product for 20 of those years.
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Hey? Club Members with a reserved member seat can return their seat to the club to resell if they aren’t attending. Each time they get $25 off next years membership. Theory being club wants to stop instance of sell out crowd but only 40,000 in attendance.
Yes it is. All home games.
And they resell seats for $100 plus
Sometimes even $200, especially HM seats. That’s why they’re reverting to seating ‘bays’ rather than having thousands of reserved seats sitting idle on the night.
Always about the money
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The 8 game Flexi is 50% off this week, until 9 April.
A little bit desperate?
They all are doing it. Essendon no more desperate than the others.
Yep it’s a fantastic idea. Last year sitting in my reserved members seat I had the pleasure of a nuffy Carlton supporter sitting next to me commentating the whole game and telling me the Carlton players on the ground could hear him from Level 4 and if he stopped we would come back and win. Forced me to go and stand half way during the 2md quarter because I couldn’t deal with it anymore.
Solution is reserved seating bays. This solves that problem and ensures all seats can be filled.