How To Get Grand Final Tickets

[robbieando]

FULL MEMBERS
Tickets go on Sale at 8am until 5pm Sunday 21st of September at the following locations

Sydney Box Office
Ticketmaster7 SCG Box Office. Entry via the Members Entrance on Driver Ave from 7am.
To be allowed to enter the SCG via the Members Entrance on the Sunday you need to have a Queue Tickets, which are available from a Place outside/near the Sydney Superdome from 10 minutes after the end of the Preliminary Final if the Swans are successful. To obtain a ?Queue Ticket? you need to have a valid membership card which is a FULL MEMBER. GF PREFERENCE. Each person can only have 1 Queue Ticket.

After obtaining your queue ticket, you can go home and relax until 7am

The number on your Queue Ticket represents your position in the queue. Each queue position can then buy a maximum of eight tickets. But you must have the same number of bar-coded letters with you on Sunday morning.

If you turn up late and miss your turn you go to the back of the queue and if you don?t have a queue ticket, you will be given the next one available. If you get to the ticket outlet and don?t have either or both you bar-code or membership card you WON?T be sold a ticket.

QUEUE TICKETS DO NOT GUARANTEE YOU A GRAND FINAL TICKET

Melbourne Box Office
Gate 8, Great Southern Stand at the MCG
There will be no Queue Tickets and the Queue will be first come, first served. However to buy a ticket you will need to have a Full Club or Combined Club Membership card with you. You will only be allowed to start queuing after a certain time (normally 5am)

Limit 8 tickets per customer, but must have 8 different membership cards.

Phone
Phone Sales via Ticketmaster7 on 1300 136 122 between 8am and 5pm
If booking by Phone you must quote the bar-code number featured on your membership card. 1 ticket per membership card and you can buy 8 tickets provided you have 8 bar-code numbers.

MELBOURNE MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE.
If in Sydney on Sunday Morning and you decide to buy your tickets at the SCG Box Office, you MUST have a queue ticket.

REDBACK MEMBERS
Have to order tickets by 4pm on Friday 19th and will get best available in the ticket category they choose. Order will be processed following the result of the preliminary final. Tickets have to be collected from the Swans Office at Moore park on Wednesday 24th September.

CHEER SQUAD MEMBERS
Melbourne Base
Cheer Squad members in Melbourne must ring the Melbourne Office between Monday 22ND 9am and Tuesday 23rd 12pm (during business hours) and book their tickets. Now payment is required in full at the time of booking tickets, so make sure you have access to a Credit Card. Details of when to pick up tickets will be given when booking is made. Collection will be at the Melbourne Office.

Sydney Base
More details when they come to hand.

FULL CLUB AND COMBINED CLUB MEMBERS LIVING INTERSTATE
WA, SA, NT, TAS, ACT and QLD
If not in Melbourne or Sydney on Sunday Morning can only purchase tickets over the phone by ringing Ticketmaster7 on 1300 136 122 from 8am on Sunday 21st and quoting the bar-code number on your membership card.

UNSOLD GRAND FINAL TICKETS
Any remaining tickets will be available to purchase on Monday 22nd September from 9am to all other Membership Categories (except Swans Supporter Members and JAM Members who aren?t already junior members) Remaining tickets will ONLY be available by Phone from Ticketmaster7 on 1300 136 122.

CONCESSION/JUNIOR TICKETS
All Full Club Concession and Junior Barcodes will only permit the purchase of a Concession Grand Final ticket. You may be required to provide proof of age or your student/pensioner status at the MCG on Grand Final Day.

PLEASE NOTE
That an appropriate distribution of tickets will be allocated to the SCG queue, the MCG queue and Ticketmaster7 Phone Lines.

Please remember that the AFL and Ticketmaster7 control the selling procedure, not the Sydney Swans

ALL OF THE ABOVE IS SUBJECT TO AVAILABILTY

[Ajn]

to bad if your on the bus back to Melbourne, while the queue opens up

[robbieando]

I'm on a plane at that time, lucky I'm in the Cheer Squad and don't have to worry about it.

[DST]

Originally posted by Ajn
to bad if your on the bus back to Melbourne, while the queue opens up

While I would love to be in Sydney for the game on Saturday night, this was main reason I did not come up.

Hard enough to get GF tickets if we get through without having to juggle travel requirements.

Will watch the game at my place with 6 other members then walk the lazy 800 meters to the "G" to line up straight away after the game to ensure my place next week.

DST

[Cher]

Originally posted by Ajn
to bad if your on the bus back to Melbourne, while the queue opens up

I think its bad that they didn't take this into account.

You had better make sure you have access to a mobile phone and hope that you have phone connection at 8am.

[DST]

Originally posted by Cher
I think its bad that they didn't take this into account.

You had better make sure you have access to a mobile phone and hope that you have phone connection at 8am.

Cher,

To be as equitable as possible it has to be done on the Sunday.

Too many people have to work on Monday to line-up for 3 or 4 hours to get tickets.

DST

[Cher]

Originally posted by DST
Cher,

To be as equitable as possible it has to be done on the Sunday.

Too many people have to work on Monday to line-up for 3 or 4 hours to get tickets.

DST

In 96 they were sold on a Monday and people queued up for well over 24 hours - I was fourth in the line and bought my tickets when they went on sale at 9am and I was at work by 9.20am - just to tell everyone I had tickets, I then went home to sleep!

In those days both teams went on sale on the same day.

[DST]

Originally posted by Cher
In 96 they were sold on a Monday and people queued up for well over 24 hours - I was fourth in the line and bought my tickets when they went on sale at 9am and I was at work by 9.20am - just to tell everyone I had tickets, I then went home to sleep!

In those days both teams went on sale on the same day.

I too queued for tickets in 1996, but due to the stuff up that year the AFL has never sold tickets to the GF like it since. With all the BASS shops selling tickets it meant that you were served within an hour or two and did not need the day off to do so.

With the outlets restricted now to two spots (both with pre allocated amounts of tickets) and a limited amount of tickets on the phones you will be in line on Sunday for at least 4 hours if you are anywhere near the middle to back of the queue. Far too long for a Monday.

I for one are very happy with the way they distribute tickets now, in 96 BASS sold more than 1,000 tickets to Melbourne based Swans supporters than there were members in Melbourne. This meant that many members missed out on tickets and they went to scalpers instead.

Now the AFL control the sale very tightly and make sure what little tcikets they sell to the competing clubs get to them.

DST