That's almost unbelievable. And it's shaping as being a very bad look for the NRL, who will need a) a massive last minute surge in ticket sales or b) a giant giveaway to avoid the bad look of having giant blocks of seats empty on the sport's biggest day. There won't be anywhere for the NRL to hide, when the camera shots pan across the centre of the field and see nothing but vacant seats.
Before you say it's because of the fact that there's two non-Sydney teams playing, let me stop you there and counter with the news that, two years ago, when my team, Manly, advanced to face the Roosters, I was at first unable to go to the Grand Final, but my schedule opened up on the Wednesday before the game, and I was still able to get tickets in the second-best seating category - platinum in this year's scale.
The real problem is how expensive the tickets are. The top two pricing scales are both north of $300, and that's before you add on whatever fees Ticketek may charge. You don't find those out until you come to the payment screen. Diamond tickets would surely just about nudge the $400 range. For one ticket. How are families supposed to afford something like that?
Perhaps tellingly, a lot of the cheaper tickets are already gone. That's about the only price range families or two, three or four, can afford. Even then, it isn't a cheap experience. Not with food and drink and all the other incidentals. Suddenly, you're looking at hundreds of dollars for a football game. Not worth it, not when you can sit at home and watch from much closer on TV - albeit whilst having to listen to the inane Phil Gould.
High time the NRL examined their Grand Final prices.
No comments:
Post a Comment