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It was reported in the paper this morning that just over 14,000 tickets will be made available to Fremantle members next week should they qualify for the AFL grand final. The same number of tickets will be made available to the other competing club. So thats just under 30000 of the nearly 100,000 capacity. So who gets the other 70,000? There are MCC members, not sure how many of those there are. I think that the non competing clubs also get allocations. You can bet your bottom dollar though that a significant number of these seats are taken up by Corporate bottom feeders whose company has paid the AFL mountains of money for the privilege. Surely the competing clubs should be allocated at least half of the tickets (i.e. 25000). Then if they don't use all of them, hand them to others.

Unfortunately the AFL Grand Final is no longer for the real footy fans of this world and I feel sorry for about 5000 Fremantle supporters, many of whom have followed the club through their dark days, who may now be deprived of an opportunity to be present at their club's first grand final because of the insatiable greed of the AFL. The reality is that footy at the highest level is no longer a sport but a business. I guess we probably all know that though

In 2006 I took my father for his 60th to the GF mikeh....at the halfway mark of season I made the decision to go. Rather than buy a package and be charged stupidly for the privilege I made what turned out to be a very wise decision to utilise my contacts in the liquor industry to secure tickets. All worked out for me and the 1 point win put a smile on the old blokes face I had never seen previously but the point here, I had to utilise the corporate world to get in. You are completely right in what you've said here and even though personally I may have benefitted from it once upon a time, I still think its a disgrace. Members of competing clubs should in the very least get first option. Freo foundation members should be given free tickets to the game for what they've had to endure over the years. If the Labor party can throw $900 to every citizen of Aust then surely the AFL could offer these guys a break too!!!

It is a rort, however many more than 14000 fans for each will be there as many will pay the $1495 minimum package deal.
The general feeling is that the prelims have now become the game for the fans.
So definitely make sure you get to that one.
It must have been nice for the Pies and perhaps the Saints with the replay as Dimitriou allocated about 80k seats in 2010.

Once again fellas it is a business. They give 30,000 to the competing teams and then flog the others off to make a heap more money. That is either to big corporate deals (to get more sponsorship etc) or by their overpriced grand final packages.

Always going to be unlucky fans who miss out. Which sucks because you may only get the chance to go see your team win a flag once in your lifetime, or you can be lucky and get a few chances.

Their is really only a couple of ways around it:

- Get your head into door corporate wise (ie pay your way)
- or book early in the season and hope you team makes it.