CheersOriginally Posted by &1gest
Thanks for all the hard work JP
CheersThanks for all the hard work JP
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
Love it...
I wondered if anyone would spot thatLove it...
By "that" I mean more poor puntuation.
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
Literally the only stat that matters in any GF to date.
There were probably more than 25000 seats available for members: considering Newcastle members only, if a large amount of them bought even just 3-4 tix, it's not hard to imagine how many other members have potentially missed out. And then there are Victory members too... Also, the members pre-sale was cut short by 24 hours. Lots of stories on social media.
I am VERY frustrated, and if anything, this farce will not encourage me to support the club by becoming a member next year.
Ticketmaster: “The allocation of 10 tickets per member was maintained after discussions with Newcastle Jets management and is implemented to ensure that people can sit with their families and friends at the match and reduce their transactional costs.”
BULLSH*T: a membership should guarantee the right to buy a seat for the finals, no discussions about this. Families and friends - if they are not members, like the rest of the general public - should line up for their tickets, they didn't pay for the privilege. It should be easy for ticketb*stard to implement a platform to allow members to buy seats adjacent to other members, if that's the problem.
I know, I'm still dirty 24 hours after the "incident"... actually looking for a ticket, but not at ridiculous prices - and not from dodgy sources either: not hard to print out 50 copies from a pdf
Lawrie has come out on social media and mentioned the Jets members bought, on average, 3.2 tickets per member number. With 8000+ members it doesnt' go evenly into 20000.
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
I would have thought it would encourage you to become a member. Ultimately like any membership members have been provided first crack.
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For those that missed out i do feel for you. But it happens. Now go find a pub with a bunch of your mates and go get silly. The rest of newy will be pumping so go enjoy it. This will be a great moment
If you do the maths members were not guaranteed a ticket.
Members that did get tickets are also scalping them or got them for friends and family with no interest in the Jets other than being able to say "look where I am " on their snap chat or whatever.
I've been to grand finals with crowds over 100k so I don't need to go to this one to experience anything new.
But I feel for those that missed out on tickets who genuinely want to see their team in a grand final - which I seriously doubt is the case for a lot of those going who really have no interest in the jets or even football for that matter.
9000+ members for the Jest actually: x 3.2 it gives about 28000 !!!
This, plus the Victory members, easily explains why there were virtually NO tickets available to the general public...
What were they thinking...
This.
1 ticket per member would have meant around 15000+ tix reserved for members of both teams i.e. half the capacity of the stadium. This would've been fair.
This is giving ammunition to FFA not to hold GFs in smaller stadiums anymore.
it's got a higher capacity than AAMI Park or any of the other regular A-league stadiums beside SFS and Lang Park
listen gang.
the double eff aye wants a full stadium.
they got a full stadium.
trust me, blokes down there are getting their bonus' and backslaps they dont care 'who' is in the crowd, they care that there 'is' a crowd.
again, I'm not a member, and i tried getting tickets for Plague Jnr for him to go but missed out.
thats life.
there was a way around this and Members made decisions at the start of the year to be in that privileged position. If they (and their friends) are the main beneficiaries of Newy getting the GF then i think thats awesome. Because hopefully the Members friends then enjoy the moment enough to want to join themselves.
for some blow ins to complain then vow NOT to join up kind of strengthens the point of not tailoring the system to suit you.
you may or may not be a 'better' fan than the people who got tickets.
but you, and only you, made the decision not to become a member and forfeit the privilege of getting first crack.
deal with it, then take the advice of an esteemed foz poster. Get to a boozer, host a party, and make the most of the moment. I'll be in Melbourne and prob the only Jerks fan in a sea of Tards. Lemons and Lemonade and all that.
I think the problem is that the FFA are actually getting what they want from this and the fans are not.
The FFA don't even need to promote the game anymore this week as it's a sellout already. So I hardly think they'd have any negative feelings about the curent situation.
That members missed out on tickets I doubt they'd give a fark.
This. I just read some stupid statement on the ABC how some bloke reckoned the Football Family tickets offer were tickets priced 4 times the original face value. Who makes this shit up ?.
FMD all that is going to happen out of all this is like others have said, The peanuts at FFA will never hold a GF outside of a capital city again regardless of which clubs qualify.
Has any Jets member on here missed out, Just curious ?
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i agree with this
Disagree with this.for some blow ins to complain then vow NOT to join up kind of strengthens the point of not tailoring the system to suit you.
you may or may not be a 'better' fan than the people who got tickets.
As a non-member, I actually ended up forking out more than a member by attending almost all the home games.
This doesn't give me any privilege, and I know.
But members shouldn't have more privileges than what they paid for either
Members forked out their hard earned at the start of the season when we were wooden spoon holders with a glimmer of hope that maybe just maybe this year will be different. That's the difference they didn't start investing in the club cause they won a few games to start the year. That's the privilege they paid for when we were still 10th and this year they as they say in the classic 'the members this year have been kissed on the d**k by how it's panned out'i agree with this
Disagree with this.
As a non-member, I actually ended up forking out more than a member by attending almost all the home games.
This doesn't give me any privilege, and I know.
But members shouldn't have more privileges than what they paid for either
Missing our very own members's take on this. Surely he not still in the dog house.
from memory i got a bunch of tix in '08 first crack by being a member.
not sure if it was 10 (and granted it was a while ago and i was drunk the whole time).
but im sure Mrs Plague and I were the only members of our crew who were members and there were at least 12 others with us. Can anyone remember what the deal was?
for the record the following year 8 of them became members (and they've never forgiven me!!!!)
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