Buying tickets to the A-League game

The Canberra Times this morning reports only 300 tickets have been sold. Give Ivan Slavich a ring – he’ll sort out free tickets for you, your extended family, your neighbours and everyone else you know.

Astrojax, I do think that there will be a Canberra A-League team and although I’m no fan of football, I hope that they will make a go of it. If everyone who’s been signing petitions and making noise about Canberra United’s bid gets behind them and purchases a membership, and then stays a member (regardless of performance) they should get off to a great start.

They’ll probably need either big corporate sponsorship, big A-League contributions, or a few licensed clubs behind them, though. The Raiders (like nearly all NRL teams) are basically kept afloat by contributions from their network of clubs, and even with all the Brumbies’ members they struggle to remain viable.

I understand today is the day for a decision on Canberra’s A-League status. I dare say the outcome there will have a bit to do with ticket sales for the match in question in this thread.

an a-league team, should one be based in canberra, will have the same sort of longevity that the brumbies, the raiders and indeed all the other a-league teams have because the national league won’t allow it to fail. and i do think canberra will have an a-league team in the next 4-8 years, hopefully at the short end of that scale, even sooner… it would be a necessary move for the ffa to include the nation’s capital, and winning the WC (or at least the bid to host it!) would accelerate the impetus to have a team here.

and they’d be known as the canberra astrojax, of course!

i am of course otherwise deliberately stirring suggesting a raiders team might fall over, but the rugby league itself may if the off-field antics continue and then start alienating families and fans, and if the cross-over between rugger and league continues and we end up not being able to tell one game from the other… the time frame is perhaps very pessimistic, but i have genuine doubts as to the longevity of both those codes.

astrojax said :

you wish, greeneyed; let’s see what you are saying about the beautiful game here in four or five years time… (and i’d love to hear what you your eulogy to the raiders was by then, too…)

What people were saying when we had the same reaction 4 or 5 years ago. You know, the old ‘now Australia’s made the World Cup (Germany) that’s the end of all the other codes’.

The Raiders will still be here in 4 or 5 years but Canberra won’t have an A-League team. I’d love them to, but the reality is it will go the way of the Arrows and the Cosmos

you wish, greeneyed; let’s see what you are saying about the beautiful game here in four or five years time… (and i’d love to hear what you your eulogy to the raiders was by then, too…)

You’ll be there with half a dozen others, you won’t need to pre-book.

Turn up on the day. It will be far from a sell out

Get cheap seats and find better ones once the match starts, assuming its not a large crowd

Cat1404 said :

Thank you so much for that guys. Now, does anyone have any idea about the difference between the platinum, gold and general admin tickets? We’d obviously prefer seats close to the action but is it worth the extra money to get the gold or platinum ones?

not sure there are really many bad seats at the bruce stadium, so if cost is an issue, go the general admission. hopefully see you there!