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    Re: Final 1 - who’s going?

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Apparently 8000 tickets still available
    How many fit at the ground? Is that only two thirds full for a final.
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    Re: Final 1 - who’s going?

    Quote Originally Posted by Hotdog60 View Post
    How many fit at the ground? Is that only two thirds full for a final.
    24,000 is capacity.
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    Getting a lift with the boys

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    Re: Final 1 - who’s going?

    Quote Originally Posted by Hotdog60 View Post
    How many fit at the ground? Is that only two thirds full for a final.
    Couldn’t fill it for the prelim. Imagine they’ll fudge the numbers to say there is 20k but it will be closer to 15k
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    Re: Final 1 - who’s going?

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Section 253 for me too, row n
    We are 253 too
    I bleed Red,White & Blue

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    Western Bulldogs members have snapped up more tickets than GWS members for elimination final

    GWS players were booed on their home turf the last time they played the Western Bulldogs in a final but the Giants are confident their fans will turn up in force despite a discrepancy in early ticket sales.

    The Dogs are barking that another southern invasion is on the cards on Saturday, but GWS is confident of repelling it.

    Three buses will depart Footscray at 1am on the morning of the elimination final, as part of an army of 4000 Western Bulldogs members taking to the highways and airways bound for Giants Stadium.

    In comparison, 2600 Giants members have so far purchased tickets for Saturday’s do-or-die battle, inviting *!questions over the possibility of a repeat of the 2016 *!preliminary final between the two sides at the same venue, when GWS players were booed onto the field at their own home ground.

    However, passionate GWS supporters took to the skies on Thursday to declare the city belongs to them — superstar Jeremy Cameron caught completely by surprise when he looked up from a spot of fishing to see his name being branded high up across Sydney.

    Despite the discrepancy in member sales favouring the Bulldogs, 57 per cent of the remaining fans to have purchased tickets have also purchased for previous Giants games, suggesting a greater representation of orange in the stands than there was in 2016, when only 39 per cent of non-members tickets had prior history with GWS.

    So far an estimated 16,500 tickets have been snapped up, leaving 6000 still available.

    Even a neutral crowd could be uncomfortable for the hosts, but Giants chief David Matthews is convinced GWS fans will ensure the Sydney *!Olympic fortress is not turned into a kennel.

    “Sometimes it’s not a direct correlation between the ticket purchases being members or not (and the overall crowd). What I do think and expect is there will be more Giants supports this weekend than there are Bulldogs supporters,” Matthews told The Daily Telegraph.

    “That’s what you’d hope for, but at the same time the Bulldogs fans are very passionate and they travel.

    “You want to see as much orange as you possibly can in the crowd and that’s what we’re expecting. A lot has changed in three years.

    “Our membership has doubled. Our crowd is a lot more vocal now. But we need our Giants fans to give the Bulldogs a very warm welcome.

    “It’s a very, very family-friendly timeslot. It’s the right timeslot for us at Giants Stadium and that’ll lend itself to … quite a few walk-ups and ticket purchases over the next 24-48 hours as we build towards the game. All those indicators are positive. It’ll be a spectacle.”

    Matthews said it was no surprise the Bulldogs fans came out in force and made themselves heard at the 2016 preliminary final, given the fairytale that club was chasing and the fact GWS were still well in their infancy.

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    Re: Final 1 - who’s going?

    Quote Originally Posted by Max469 View Post
    We are 253 too
    Can't wait
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    Re: Final 1 - who’s going?

    Quote Originally Posted by Axe Man View Post
    Western Bulldogs members have snapped up more tickets than GWS members for elimination final

    However, passionate GWS supporters took to the skies on Thursday to declare the city belongs to them — superstar Jeremy Cameron caught completely by surprise when he learned there were passionate GWS supporters.
    Article had an error so I've just fixed it

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    Membership has doubled yet less tickets have been sold to their members than ours. Just goes to show what BS membership numbers really are. Easy to double your numbers when you’re giving them out on street corners.
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    Lets BOOOOOOO them again as they run out
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    Anyone else here on the Bonti Express tonight?
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    Re: Final 1 - who’s going?

    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    Membership has doubled yet less tickets have been sold to their members than ours. Just goes to show what BS membership numbers really are. Easy to double your numbers when you’re giving them out on street corners.
    Wonder how many orange scarves, caps and flags there will be there Saturday still with the tags on them.
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    starting to get pumped

    colours are packed & soon to take off
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    I am up there in the morning and meeting at the Brewery Pub - can't wait and quietly confident
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    It's going to be seriously windy in the morning (near gale force). I'm seriously concerned about possible flight delays. Fingers crossed.

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