HYPOTHETICALLY how early does one start?

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  • desredandwhite
    Click!
    • Jan 2003
    • 2498
    #1

    HYPOTHETICALLY how early does one start?

    I realise this is jumping the gun a bit, but I have an active imagination and not nearly enough medication.

    IF we won the preliminary final, how soon is early enough to start queuing up for tickets to the grand final? Sunday night? Sunday morning? Straight from the ground to the ticket office? SATURDAY morning? Now?

    Such a dilemma. I might have to set up some sort of interchange bench thing

    Just wondering aloud, you understand... Besides, this is one thing you HAVE to plan ahead.

    177th Senior AFL Match - Round 4, 2009 - Sydney vs Carlton, SCG. This is obviously out of date. I suppose I'll update it once I could be bothered sitting down with the fixture and working it out....
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    Tags: early, hypothetically, start, Swans, sydney
    • robbieando
      The King
      • Jan 2003
      • 2750
      #2
      I don't even think about it, because I know IF we make it I will have a ticket in the Cheer Squad. So from this board at least we will have.

      Myself
      Gemma
      JF
      Peter H
      Charlie
      Jixygirl
      Cher
      AnniSwan

      Plus Redback members in

      Bron
      Lizz

      No doubt most other should be able to get a ticket
      Once was, now elsewhere

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        • desredandwhite
          Click!
          • Jan 2003
          • 2498
          #3
          Well... I considered long and hard whether I wanted to join the cheersquad. While the membership fee for the CS was not an issue, I knew I would not want to spend every match in the CS - I prefer to watch the game high up on a wing. So to me, I was unwilling to get a CS membership for the benefits if I wasn't willing to put in the hours behind the goals. Damn my misplaced sense of pseudo-conscience

          Ah well, I DO love a good camp out (and there's no part of me that's wishing I won't have to do it!!)

          177th Senior AFL Match - Round 4, 2009 - Sydney vs Carlton, SCG. This is obviously out of date. I suppose I'll update it once I could be bothered sitting down with the fixture and working it out....
          Des' Weblog

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            • j s
              Think positive!
              • Jan 2003
              • 3303
              #4
              In 96 I got to the SCG about 8:30 PM Sunday night and was third in the queue. Peter H was first and a girl I don't know was second.

              With three ticket windows I was effectively first.

              The queue didn't really start to build until about 5 or 6am - can't really remember but probably about 40 overnighters (including one guy who had his father in the Swans queue while he waited in the St George queue 100 metres up Driver Av at the Hordern Pavillion. It was red and white finals w/e and he was planning on going to both games - MCG on Sat and SFS on Sunday. Now that's a serious fan!

              His father was really nice - loaned me the extra membership card I needed to get the necessary seats (two of my memberships had been bought just after the cut off date)

              My guess is the queues will build earlier this year and get longer. I suggest we get a group together and start queueing mid afternoon. Make a party of it. I will be there for sure!!

              Tickets will be strictly limited to 8 per transaction and one transaction per person so if you want more than eight you will need two peple to hold two queue positions.

              I am assuming that Ticketmaster will set up temporary shop at the SCG again (in the "Round House") but that will need to be confirmed.

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                • BAM_BAM
                  Support Staff
                  • Jun 2003
                  • 1820
                  #5
                  Maxfactor and I will be there. She promised me.
                  Here's my heart and you can break it
                  I need some release, release, release
                  We need
                  Love and peace

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                    • Cher
                      Born into the team
                      • Feb 2003
                      • 1474
                      #6
                      The rules on Grand final tickets are different now than what they were in 96.
                      Then you could go to any ticketmaster agency to buy your ticket.
                      People would go out of town in those days to somewhere where there might not be many people.
                      I arrived at the Arena in Geelong straight off the plane home from the Preliminary final at about midnight Sunday to que up with both Swans and North Supporters. Friends of mine had gone straight at about 10pm on the Sat night and were second in the que.
                      The AFL will nominate one place that we can buy tickets (hopefully two in our case) and I do believe you are given a numbered ticket to stop people queing up for weeks on end.

                      I have seen it across the road at Kardinia Park (Skilled Stadium) where people qued up for weeks and even bring tents, years ago.
                      Last edited by Cher; 8 September 2003, 09:32 PM.
                      CHER - Who has two types of blood cells "RED ones and WHITE ones"

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                        • dawson
                          Senior Player
                          • Mar 2003
                          • 1007
                          #7
                          Ask the Port Adelaide fans who bought their's last week. Don't think they need them anymore

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                            • adam_goodes_babe
                              On the Rookie List
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 761
                              #8
                              i really would loved to go

                              im going to try everything in my power to go to melbourne i would die if i couldent go
                              jude bolton and adam biggest fan ever

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                                • j s
                                  Think positive!
                                  • Jan 2003
                                  • 3303
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by dawson
                                  Ask the Port Adelaide fans who bought their's last week. Don't think they need them anymore
                                  How about the Bombers fans who booked flights to Sydney?

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                                    • no1swan
                                      On the Rookie List
                                      • Jun 2003
                                      • 102
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by dawson
                                      Ask the Port Adelaide fans who bought their's last week. Don't think they need them anymore
                                      There was a segment on the TV several weeks ago, with Port supporters lining up to reserve tickets for the Grand Final. @ $10 a pop, non-refundable......Money well spent

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