The Daily Telegraph reported this morning more than 50,000 are expected. Just checked out the Ticketek website and only platinum and gold tickets appear available for purchase of more than 1 ticket. Red Zone and Red Rookie, Silver showing as (Allocation exhausted). Opposition and Gold non-alcohol showing as single seats only. I wonder if all areas of the stadium have already been opened up for sale?
http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows...&p=ESSW2012835
Is a sellout possible?
On a side note, you'd think the game would be on the Ticketek homepage rather than having to seach for it. Way to go Ticketek.
Nope, I very much doubt all areas will be opened up. Unfortunately I don't think the Swans have been promoted very much this week. Nevertheless 50 000 is as big a crowd as we've had in a while so if we reach that figure it should please the club.
Anybody got a recent PAX number?
Ticketek is the worse ticketing site imaginable. I'm sure it loses 20% of potential ticket sales by being so difficult to navigate and flakey.
I imagine ANZ havent opened much of the level 6 stands yet. One may be completely closed still.
Anyway, 50,000 would be great. In todays daily tele they were talking record crowd (70K+) but seems unlikely with olympics dominating the news, city2surf the next day, and possible showers.
I have just looked at the Ticketek website and the general admission seats have been sold out. Not for one minute do I think this match will be anywhere near a sellout, considering the stadium capacity is around 83,000. If this crowd is not close to capacity, and I would guess we'll get somewhere around the 50-55k mark, it's an absolute disgrace that the only tickets available a few days out are the premium priced ones. I'll happily eat my words if we get a much bigger crowd, but I would guess that they haven't opened up the top bits of the stadiums and so we are nowhere near capacity yet. This is our biggest game of the year and I would have hoped they got the ticketing right and accessible, at a fair price, to those who want to go to the game.
I think ticket prices will impact crowd numbers which is a shame.
I'm from Melbs and coming up for the game. I bought a ticket on Sunday. Gold was the cheapest tickets left and ALOT of the tickets seem to be "Gold" in allocation. So it cost me $51 ($46 plus booking fee). Now this is fine for me, as I am a single man with a job who's passionate about the swans. But for families? Or people who aren't big fans but were thinking of coming? Or people with tight financial constraints? It's a shame that some will be turned off by this as it's a great opportunity to promote the game and the Swans.
PS. My PAC number is 44763.
Last edited by Gezball; 8th August 2012 at 10:51 AM.
The venue has undermined our reputation to new fans, no other reason. It is a terrible place to watch sport and a terrible precinct before/after the game. Every team that play there struggles to get a decent crowd.
The sooner we leave that catastrophe to gws the better
I was thinking 70k but with rain on the way, I think 65k will do.
Come on swans. Let's give the pies a good thrashing.
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Ok maybe I was a bit hasty - silver tickets are available for $29.50 which gets you seats in the top tier on the Eastern side - I just checked Ticketek and it pulled up tickets in Bay 609. Thats a good sign for a decent crowd - hopefully the weather cooperates. I'm a member anyway but I was just interested in how tickets are going.
Gee I wish they had a special caged-off areas for Pies supporters though. I would pay good money for (nice) seats nearby and a few buckets of rotten tomatoes. I'd even let them see my nice full set of teeth too.
Did I mention that I'm not too fond of Pies supporters? Oh thats for another thread - anyway looks like we'll have a decent crowd out there, and hopefully therefore a good atmosphere too.
Leaving about 10K people behind by trying to flog the expensive tickets.
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