Don't change your story. We all know MCC has walk up seats. There are no more tickets on sale.
I'm not changing any story, I've been telling you the same thing all along, you've assumed the GA Public, AFL and Clubs means "everybody"!
btw., The MCC Unreserved and Standing Room aren't necessarily walk up seats, if they don't sellout they are, MCC Full and Restricted Members can reserve them as well as guest passes online today from 9am, then collect them at the gates before entering the MCC Reserve. If a member changes mind they can unreserve them for sale at the gate on the day, they do not even have to be paid for until collected.
It's a long standing point of contention between the MCC and it's Members, and the primary cause of "Sellouts" having heaps of vacant seats everywhere in the MCC reserve. Members reserve seats, never collect or never release them, and just don't turn up leaving them unsold.
Regardless of what the AFL, Media and ticket vendors tell you, it won't be a sellout until they are all gone, that's just a hard fact. The resellers have run out of seats, not the MCG!
My old man was a huge fan of the old TV RIngside days. He absolutely loved Tony Mundine the boxer. He went on to be an even better person who fought the good fight for his people.
Same here, my father had a bit to do with Tony Mundine on the issues of indigenous housing and domestic violence, this would have been back in the 70s or 80s, had nothing but praise for him. Dad said he was quite quietly spoken, almost a bit shy, but when he spoke people listened and that could get things done.
Full and Restricted members, and Annual Guest Card holders, who have not reserved a seat will still be able to access unreserved seating and standing room in the MCC Members’ Reserve by scanning their membership card at Gate 2, subject to capacity.
The MCC unreserved seating and standing room tickets can be purchased online today from 9am today by Full or Restricted MCC Members.
These are the seats in the bays behind the benches that you see people queuing up at the gate to get their preferred seat, they are always unreserved because they are not undercover and a couple of rows suffer the drip line from the stands above. It's been the same procedure for nearly 20 years. When they go it is officially a sellout, not when the AFL or Public seating sells out.
FWIW, I've just watched highlights of the previous Geelong clash and highlights of last Saturday.
In both games Byrne set a tone with tackles and bumps on bigger and heavier opponents. In Rnd 12 he smashed Blicsav's, on Saturday he had two significant momentum changing tackles and a big physical contest in our D50, how the stats claim otherwise is bizarre as they just cannot be missed. You can't find that sort of contest or create it easily, it's something that gives to the team and it is contagious.
The bump on Sharp in particular left the opponent wondering WFT, you know that is the response when they get up and look around to see who it was, Byrne had long moved on!
Pitto or Cripps stopping someone in their tracks goes largely unnoticed, Byrne or Evans doing it sets a tone.
i am not really confident about this game ,we finally meet a team at full strength and a week off ,we need to go to another level lets hope so
The start will be critical, getting the right balance between attack and defence, momentum control, we gave them a head start last time we played, just like last Saturday, we can't do that repeatedly and expect to win, especially in finals.
I suspect Scott the Elder will have his team try on the Berserker tactic early, to take the run out of our legs.
Last time they didn't ruck Blicsav much, they tried Neale, this time I expect they will split the ruck more evenly between Edwards and Blicsav unless Blicsav is carrying some injury we don't know about.
Acres will want to be in form and making them hurt with deep running both ways.
They will have lost Holmes who played well against us, and we have Hewett back.
I thought in the previous game our D50 was down, basically a one man show under Weiters, but we got hold of them from the ruck. Also if I recall, our DE was horrendous, much like last weekends 1st-Qtr. I'm pretty sure we got the mix wrong, we had Ison, Young, Byrnes and Evans all in, and Evans not yet in form. With the pill exiting our F50 like a bullet train, and Bailey Smith hitting up targets inside our D50, our D50 struggled to cover the options, yet we won courtesy of Walsh et. al!
Byrne did get involved a bit, but dropped 2-3 easy marks (he wasn't alone in that) and also appeared quite fumbly and nervous with ball in hand - finals nerves but he wasn't alone. Haywood for Young makes good sense too, as you say it just depends which way they want to go, and if haynes gets up or not.
It's the unwillingness to ruck Cameron anywhere on the ground that makes the situation interesting. I understand avoiding the center square, but I've never really understood why they do not have him take stoppages inside the arc, it just doesn't make sense.
Last time we played you may recall they rucked Neale and he came off lame.
The latest forecast I've seen is rain late Friday evening after 10pm, or early Saturday.
If Haynes is an out, can Derksen and Hayward both come in, it could give us the necessary freshness to keep us competitive?
I presume as everyone will, if Hayward is fit then he is a given. Geelong's lack of ruck stocks makes it interesting about the 2nd ruck role. I'm dead set curious which direction Fraser takes, but I think we have no better coach to assess this issue.
If I recall correctly, last time we played, it wasn't a great night for rucks from either side.
Expect another Dangflog human missile effort, it's been his trend in recent times but he's generally pretty much cooked early in finals now. Will he again be able to torpedo opponent legs without being penalized?
