Open letter to the FFA - Free public transport to GF?

[badboywithboys]

Hi FFA,

I am living on the Central Coast and support the Mariners. If the Grand final cannot be played on the Central Coast or Newcastle and is played in Sydney, I feel the Grand final tickets should include free public transport. If this is not offered I cannot see a sell out final. It is also not fair to the local community and families who have to spend more money to support their team.

The AFL  have free public transport for Sydney Swans games and I have attended one or two of their games, even though I don't really support AFL .

The other concern is that if Sydney FC make the grand final and it is played in Sydney against Central Coast or Newcastle the game should be played at ANZ Staduim, same if it is Mariners V Jets. The only time it should be played at the SFS is if it is Mariners V QLD or Newcastle V QLD.

Regards
BadBoywithBoys

 

[Blackadder]

Free public transport has only applied to some events at Stadium Australia, so if it is at the SFS you can forget about it happening.
Only way that the final will be at Stadium Australia, is if Sydney FC are involved so no team has a "home ground advantage"

 

[Deej]

IMO they will need to decide on a venue after the semi finals as tickets go on sale to home supporters the next day don't they?

They won't know if Sydney will be involved until the week after.

 

[nero]

What concerns me is that if Townsville do eventually get into V4 or V5 or LOL Wellington have hosting rights to the grand final, then the FFA will have to give it too them. i.e rubbing it in our face.

They will have no other choice and will get a small capacity crowd for the A- league show piece. Could the FFA move the game to Brisbane a 1000Km away or to Sydney for Wellington 2000+Km? what would be the attendance?

Maybe in 20 years time when the league has depth, they can rotate the GF. I can't see that occuring for a very long time. I would like to see the AFL do it 1st as a trial for the A-League.

 

[nero]

My guess is it will be SFS. I would prefer ANZ, even if it is not a sellout.

 

[kevrenor]

My guess is it will be SFS. I would prefer ANZ, even if it is not a sellout.

I too say it should be the Olympic (without sponsors name gratuitously appended) Stadium so we all get seats, and they can run trains and buses. 

If it is SFS the first team in (us, no it will not be the Scum) and if Sydney make it - ha, ha - we should get the 25,000 seats and Bay 23, and Sydney the 8,000!

 

[brett]

IMO they will need to decide on a venue after the semi finals as tickets go on sale to home supporters the next day don't they?

They won't know if Sydney will be involved until the week after.

You wouldn't put it past the FFA to

a) Hold off letting the CCM or NUJ fans buy tickets until they see if Sydney gets in...then give the GF hosts only one day of preferential buying.

b) Move the game at the last minute, making life very difficult for all those who already bought tickets.

Good idea on the free transport though. We should get looked after.

 

[Sacko]

Not only should it be free transport - if it's Newcastle they should have trains that are express to Morriset for the Scummers and Woy Woy for the Champions after the game to avoid a blood bath!

 

[adz]

You wouldn't put it past the FFA to

a) Hold off letting the CCM or NUJ fans buy tickets until they see if Sydney gets in...then give the GF hosts only one day of preferential buying.

b) Move the game at the last minute, making life very difficult for all those who already bought tickets.

Good idea on the free transport though. We should get looked after.

Yeah remember season 1 and Sydney had a whole week to get tix before we even knew we were in it. Can't imagine Football Federation Sydney putting themselves in that situation... but they may surprise.

 

[BrisRecky]

Not only should it be free transport - if it's Newcastle they should have trains that are express to Morriset for the Scummers and Woy Woy for the Champions after the game to avoid a blood bath!

NOW thats an excellent piece of thinking.....can you imagine the mood those inbred F****rs would be in after getting belted mariner style....my god there would be carnage...they won 2-1 and kicked shite out of the train windows the other week...go figure 

 

[marinersman]

I really hope scum don't make the GF. I am very concerned about the behaviour of the toothless, inbred f**kers when they would lose to us.

The last thing we need is trouble at our show piece event. I hate to say it, but there would be big trouble from them if (or when) they lost to us in the GF. Same goes for the second leg at home. I hope Ivan and the boys are geared up for when they lose to us home and away.

It does bother me a lot.