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I think a few here saying that 'Don't use $75 as an excuse, you could go for $45' are missing the point.
Of the 19K who were there on Saturday night, I reckon 18K of them would have been there if every seat in the house was $100. It's our religion, our passion, our love, our reason for living over the winter months and we just had to be there, regardless of price. We'd have screamed blue bloody murder, but we'd have still been there.
BUT, the prices made it very difficult, no, impossible, to interest friends and work colleagues who often tag along once or twice a year. Also the general populace who would go and have a squiz because it was a final and an event were not prepared to fork out the money. The weather certainly didn't help.
I remember vividly discussing the same issue with Doctor J in 2006 at the Freo final. We had 61K there and I said the AFL should just have sold the bleachers at bargain basement prices to fill them.
There is little doubt that AFL fails to come up that great on TV. Almost every person to a man has said they picked up things when they went to their first game that were not evident on TV and all agree it is a much superior product live.
With that in mind, I cannot believe the AFL did not take the opportunity to just about give tickets away for this match to setup the coming second Sydney side. To get the people there, especially to see a game in a finals atmosphere would be 1000 x better than all the TV ads in the world to convince people to get on board.
Mind you, the weather may have thwarted the AFL if they did go with the idea, but they didn't even try. In fact they went the other way and made it damn near impossible to entice people to come and 'have a look'.
Idiots.
Of the 19K who were there on Saturday night, I reckon 18K of them would have been there if every seat in the house was $100. It's our religion, our passion, our love, our reason for living over the winter months and we just had to be there, regardless of price. We'd have screamed blue bloody murder, but we'd have still been there.
BUT, the prices made it very difficult, no, impossible, to interest friends and work colleagues who often tag along once or twice a year. Also the general populace who would go and have a squiz because it was a final and an event were not prepared to fork out the money. The weather certainly didn't help.
I remember vividly discussing the same issue with Doctor J in 2006 at the Freo final. We had 61K there and I said the AFL should just have sold the bleachers at bargain basement prices to fill them.
There is little doubt that AFL fails to come up that great on TV. Almost every person to a man has said they picked up things when they went to their first game that were not evident on TV and all agree it is a much superior product live.
With that in mind, I cannot believe the AFL did not take the opportunity to just about give tickets away for this match to setup the coming second Sydney side. To get the people there, especially to see a game in a finals atmosphere would be 1000 x better than all the TV ads in the world to convince people to get on board.
Mind you, the weather may have thwarted the AFL if they did go with the idea, but they didn't even try. In fact they went the other way and made it damn near impossible to entice people to come and 'have a look'.
Idiots.
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