FINALS TICKETING- Next game GRAND FINAL Sept 26th 2.30

[saintbrat]

the club has added a page for information on dates and ticketing
http://www.saints.com.au/afl%20finals%2 ... fault.aspx

AFL Finals: Weeks 1 - 3
As a member of a club participating in the finals you will receive priority access (prior to the general public) to purchase one ticket per membership card with barcode for any final in which St Kilda participates in weeks 1, 2 and 3.

questions and answers
http://www.saints.com.au/afl%20finals%2 ... fault.aspx

and Grand final
http://www.saints.com.au/grand%20final% ... fault.aspx

[saintbrat]

I have yet to find a list of ticket prices for the 2009 finals

but for referance ( they wont be less than) here are the 2008 prices

http://afl.com.au/Portals/0/afl_docs/20 ... Prices.pdf

[i_luv_nick_riewoldt]

Why is it so much dearer to buy any tickets in week 3 for NSW than for VIC? Surely VIC would rather a higher price?

[saint66au]

There'll be more on this in the weeks to come I'm sure, but can I just offer one bit of advice for purchasing especially Week 1 tickets

DONT PANIC BUY AT 9.05...THE BEST SEATS ARE NOT SOLD THEN

Week 1 games never sell out..I mean never...even if we played Collingwood they wouldnt..thre are alwyas tens of thousands of seats available when the public allocation starts on Wednesday
Last year I went online at 9.00 and the only mid-price tickets they were selling were at the front of the TOP deck of the Northern Stand. Our preferred seats on the bottom deck of the GSS werent even put on sale til well after lunch..

So dont get sucked in thinking that the best seats are the first ones you see...be patient... you wont miss out

Oh and one other tip..you cant (well you couldnt on TM last year) copy and paste the barcode numbers from a word doc or text file. They wont be recognised..you have to type them from scratch. Save them then by all means in case you need to log out and start again for whatever reason.

[mullet]

This is really good advice can I suggest you make it a post of its own and make it stay at the top of the first page ( I dont know the tech term for this) because in a few weeks we will all be frantic and will forget this good advice. I fall for it every year jump on quick and too scared to say no. Mind you when you have to get 8 tickets its pretty nerve racking

[saint66au]

We will sticky it leading up to Round 22..there are tooo many there atm..membership ones will come down shortly

[mullet]

We will sticky it leading up to Round 22..there are tooo many there atm..membership ones will come down shortly

ahhh sticky thats the tech term

[lendog heaven]

Oh and one other tip..you cant (well you couldnt on TM last year) copy and paste the barcode numbers from a word doc or text file. They wont be recognised..you have to type them from scratch. Save them then by all means in case you need to log out and start again for whatever reason.

I've been pasting barcodes from a word doc all year (just did again for ess and nth tx) with no probs - hopefully that will still be the case for finals..........good luck!

[Bernard Shakey]

Why is it so much dearer to buy any tickets in week 3 for NSW than for VIC? Surely VIC would rather a higher price?

Tickets are dearer for NSW finals because they don't have the capacity of the MCG. It's all about dollars.

Brissy and Adelaide cheaper because they won't go if it's expensive.

[benengel14]

Oh and one other tip..you cant (well you couldnt on TM last year) copy and paste the barcode numbers from a word doc or text file. They wont be recognised..you have to type them from scratch. Save them then by all means in case you need to log out and start again for whatever reason.

I've been pasting barcodes from a word doc all year (just did again for ess and nth tx) with no probs - hopefully that will still be the case for finals..........good luck!

Some browsers behave differently than others.
I find with firefox, you can cut and paste the text, but in order for ticketmaster to "accept" it, I just delete one of the digits and type it in again
i.e Cut and paste 11111112, delete the 2, and then type it again.
- should save you time.

This is the first year where final series have been done through Ticketek not ticketmaster (presuming our finals are held at MCG). So maybe the system/pattern of how they release blocks at one time will be different.

Has anyone had to use ticketek this year to book tickets as soon as they were released for a busy MCG game? Notice anything of note in regards to the way seats are released?

[matrix]

good call on the panic buying too
i can remember last year alot of the tickets that people wanted just werent avl till later.

i go on and just keep refreshing until it gives me something i like

last year for the hawks game i managed to get level two row A behind and to a slight angle of a goal.
was well chuffed and purchased that baby.
but yeah...a lot of the 'good' areas get left back ans they seem to sell in blocks.
in all honesty as long as ya with sainters id sit on the friggin steps if i had too

[Superboot]

Good call on panic buying.

I got in early for that final against Melbourne a few years back. Was sitting in a big block of Saints members but with possibly the worst seats in the MCG.

On the Thursday before the game they started selling seats on the 2nd level HFF, four rows from the front. Infuriating.

Raises the question as to who decides where those blocks of members seats are going to be.

[Iceman234]

I was just trying to get on Ticketek for something else.

I have an account but I couldn't even get to the Login screen for the last 30 minutes at least.

Hope that improves before the finals...

edit : I kenw that as soon as I typed it, it would let me in...

[golden hawk]

good call on the panic buying too
i can remember last year alot of the tickets that people wanted just werent avl till later.

i go on and just keep refreshing until it gives me something i like

last year for the hawks game i managed to get level two row A behind and to a slight angle of a goal.
was well chuffed and purchased that baby.
but yeah...a lot of the 'good' areas get left back ans they seem to sell in blocks.
in all honesty as long as ya with sainters id sit on the friggin steps if i had too

hate that why not just sell what people want happened to me wanting tickets in tassie last year ! got gunners stand did not mind but i wanted sounthern terrence a friend got theirs there week or 2 before the game

[Bernard Shakey]

good call on the panic buying too
i can remember last year alot of the tickets that people wanted just werent avl till later.

i go on and just keep refreshing until it gives me something i like

last year for the hawks game i managed to get level two row A behind and to a slight angle of a goal.
was well chuffed and purchased that baby.
but yeah...a lot of the 'good' areas get left back ans they seem to sell in blocks.
in all honesty as long as ya with sainters id sit on the friggin steps if i had too

hate that why not just sell what people want happened to me wanting tickets in tassie last year ! got gunners stand did not mind but i wanted sounthern terrence a friend got theirs there week or 2 before the game :cry:

Are finals played in Tassie now?

[golden hawk]

good call on the panic buying too
i can remember last year alot of the tickets that people wanted just werent avl till later.

i go on and just keep refreshing until it gives me something i like

last year for the hawks game i managed to get level two row A behind and to a slight angle of a goal.
was well chuffed and purchased that baby.
but yeah...a lot of the 'good' areas get left back ans they seem to sell in blocks.
in all honesty as long as ya with sainters id sit on the friggin steps if i had too

hate that why not just sell what people want happened to me wanting tickets in tassie last year ! got gunners stand did not mind but i wanted sounthern terrence a friend got theirs there week or 2 before the game

Are finals played in Tassie now?

i was referring how they sell in blocks of seats i hate it but that is how they do it tassie was just an example picky little person you are

[Bernard Shakey]

Just wondering why a pic of an ex Dork keeps appearing on a Saints fan site?

Are you thing of changing over to the dark side?

[golden hawk]

Just wondering why a pic of an ex Dork keeps appearing on a Saints fan site?

Are you thing of changing over to the dark side?

no i am a hawk that has posted here for a long time and have friends here ! i am tolerated cause i do not cause any trouble and i am friendly if i trolled and was not friendly i am sure i would be booted off , and all know i give Fraser Gehrig chrissy cards have done for at least 4 years now

[benengel14]

We will sticky it leading up to Round 22..there are tooo many there atm..membership ones will come down shortly

Any chance you could make 1 Sponsorship thread, and just put links into them.
IF we only had 1/2 stickies, it would actually be something people would notice...

[Iceman234]

Just wondering why a pic of an ex Dork keeps appearing on a Saints fan site?

Are you thing of changing over to the dark side?

no i am a hawk that has posted here for a long time and have friends here ! i am tolerated cause i do not cause any trouble and i am friendly if i trolled and was not friendly i am sure i would be booted off , and all know i give Fraser Gehrig chrissy cards have done for at least 4 years now

Fair call too golden hawk, never found you unreasonable at all, always posted well and copped a bit back, as expected.

No reason whatsoever why you can't post here, but a few grumpy old s***s can't handle anyone else's opinions, let alone seeing an AFL/Hawk legend when they open up their grumpy old computer. It's just too much...

This one in particular is quickly becoming the grumpiest, most argumentative one currently going around...

[golden hawk]

Just wondering why a pic of an ex Dork keeps appearing on a Saints fan site?

Are you thing of changing over to the dark side?

no i am a hawk that has posted here for a long time and have friends here ! i am tolerated cause i do not cause any trouble and i am friendly if i trolled and was not friendly i am sure i would be booted off , and all know i give Fraser Gehrig chrissy cards have done for at least 4 years now

Fair call too golden hawk, never found you unreasonable at all, always posted well and copped a bit back, as expected.

No reason whatsoever why you can't post here, but a few grumpy old s***s can't handle anyone else's opinions, let alone seeing an AFL/Hawk legend when they open up their grumpy old computer. It's just too much...

This one in particular is quickly becoming the grumpiest, most argumentative one currently going around...

thanks
you get grumpy ones in all teams i have told off acouple hawk supporters that tried to give saintdooley a hard time on mighty hawks all the rest are fine with him he is not causing trouble there so i can not see why any hawk should give him a hard time

[saintbrat]

Prices released this afternoon- not yet online

But most stay at 2008 levels.

[saint66au]

Prices released this afternoon- not yet online

But most stay at 2008 levels.

Most actually will rise

"Standard" seats are the dregs of the available seating..and are the only ones to rise

Of course the AFL dont put a map of what seats are what category when they annouunce these things

[howlinwolf]

Is there any site where it's esy to see where the standard,premium etc seats are at the MCG ?

Or do these change every year ?

I'd like to see exactly where the best value for money seats are considering how much it will be to take a family ?

[saintbrat]

Reminder- You register the week before
YOU COuld last year elect NOT to be offered standing room
but then you are just offered a ticket- so could pay any price or sit anywhere.

link for ticket prices.
http://www.afl.com.au/tickets/2009toyot ... fault.aspx

No family tickets after week 2
week 1 adult 43.00 52.50 63.50 restricted 38.50 standing 38.50
concession and junior and family various

week 2 adult 47.00 , 57.00 69.50 res 42.00 stand 42.00
concession and junior and family various

week 3
adult 76.00 93.50 112.00 rest 68.50 stand 68.50
concession and junior available NO family

week 4- Grand FInal
adult - 161.00, 213.50 245.00 rest 142.50 stand 142.50
concession available- NO junior or family