Apparently it’s going to be a packed house at the G on Boxing Day. A look on Ticketek has yielded only single seats in the platinum area ($145) which in isolation is not too bad but if you add in the $300 I dropped on Adelaide and drinks it makes for a very unhappy wife.
Obviously standing room will be the option but the view at the G is nowhere near as good as Adelaide from those areas which raises the question. “How early would we need to get there to get the last of the general admission seats?”
I think in retrospect we should have anticipated the popularity of tickets and planned ahead….
Give her $150 to go shopping at the Boxing Day sales in the City ... I'm all for compromise.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/fans-to-rush-for-last-remaining-boxing-day-test-tickets-20101220-1929q.html
ReplyDeleteLooks like 7am guys....
i do believe i said several months ago that given all the other organising i was doing, you guys could get the tix...cest la vie! i've told myself a million times not to mix metaphors and there is no righteousness in hindsight...or something like that!
ReplyDeletenever the less, it is, to quote a good mate, "Donkey Kong" for Boxing day. O'God o'clock will see me (hopefully) at the front of the queue for the 1000 standing room tickets.
Thanks to you Nos for ensuring i won't be alone, Paul is good for the crack o'farg start too.
after nearly a 1/4 of a century without missing a b-day, i would certainly shattered to miss a potentially world record crowd, so will 5am be early enough to be in the queue given no public transport will be running at that time? i hope so!
Lango, i like your appealling to the XX's primal drives... makes for a very expensive day though if we have to get primo seats.
ReplyDeleteEldest son and I try to get to Sydney every year for the whole Test. We rent a place and the missus goes out each day and puts on the Sydney toff. Spread over twelve months, it doesn't seem like much. The hard part is trying to do something of sufficient value to "earn" the trip each year! Once my imagination goes I'll be stuffed!
ReplyDeleteI certainly didnt expect it...a few years ago it was Warnies farewell and his 700th wicket match and they had 80 odd thousand. can't beleive there are more now!!! who said test cricket was dead.....pretty nervous right now.
ReplyDeleteHappy to be there at sparrows as well.
i'm stuffed now Lango, but luckily my boss understands Boxing day and what it means to me- well,at least i hope so, after 19 years of- what was that word- marital bliss- and 26 years of "going together", she is pretty (and) forgiving...luckily!
ReplyDeletewould love for us to catch up with you for the Sydeney test next time around as the Adelaide trip really whetted our appetite for seeing all the tests
Sledgey, call me tomorrow pls to work out times. as a dare- and because i need this= i want to know how early i can pick you up
ReplyDelete1 all going into the 4th equals mass interest. Fellas, at risk of dwelling on the past I too mentioned this weeks ago. Pretty disappointing.
ReplyDeleteApparently I won a competition.
ReplyDeleteI vaguely remember entering.
Dear Philip,
Congratulations you are a winner of the Wolf Blass Australian Cricket Family Promotion.
Your prize is the opportunity for you to play the “Wolf Blass Ultimate Cricket Test” game on Boxing Day 26/12/10 located next to Gate 1 of the MCG on Brunton Avenue in Melbourne, at a time to be confirmed upon your acceptance of this prize
At the “Wolf Blass Ultimate Cricket Test” game, you will play in a mechanical game of cricket to win a bottle of Wolf Blass wine.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/the-ashes/quicks-desperate-to-attack-englands-rattled-batsmen/story-fn67wltq-1225974361574
ReplyDeleteGood on him. It is a HOME series after all.
just thought i'd try buying 1 only gen ad ticket from ticketek, and got it, even though it says limited available, i am not able to do it again- maybe i'm locked out from further purchases.
ReplyDeletestill on for early queue of standing room, we will all get in. Blackie has just pulled out so we only need 5 more
Stoph - if you could then should I? I'd rather not lineup at dawn and then stand all day if it's avoidable. Sounds like Nos has his ticket sorted! If all of us individually just go on line and get a ticket we're sweet aren't we? Gen ad isn't allocated seating?
ReplyDeletei'd give it a go. i've been trying and although it says limited, when i go to buy it says unavailable but hasn't changed the status, i don't think gen ad is allocated
ReplyDeleteNah, can't get anything. Doesn't matter what type of ticket I try - even though it says 'limited' and not 'exhausted'. I'm trying to call them but it's engaged every time.
ReplyDeleteI've got through on the phone - sounds like a long wait time but if I can how many should I get? Assume there's a maximum of 5 though
ReplyDeleteI haven't got a ticket. Just a competition during the day. I am still there at dawn.
ReplyDeleteGot through but no tickets available at all
ReplyDeleteThe website says all public ticket are exhausted for day 1.
ReplyDeleteIt also says the Ticketek office opens at 6.30am at Gate 3