They haven't opened up the full arena yet so I'd say around 7k at the moment.

tickets have now gone to a reseller - best way to snatch last minute tickets??

It's obviously not sold out tomorrow.

I just got a text message encouraging me to buy tickets. Which I already have...

I understand theres a big issue with clashing with VJBL, however its a frigging grand final. Anything less than 7000 people there and Melbourne should hand back its 'sporting capital of the world' brag.

What about all the other people of Melbourne who dont have junior basketball obligations? Not interested? Melbourne's first NBL grand final appearance since 2009. This is a joke if its not over 7000.

I wonder what percentage of attendees at the average United game have VJBL commitments of some sort on a Friday night.

It wouldn't be huge, but it wouldn't be negligible either.

And the thing is, it's a huge missed opportunity. This is your target market. They're a captive audience- they're in basketball stadiums regularly. So what do you do? You put up your Melbourne United posters. You run school holiday programs. You offer discounted memberships to the association.

United has been doing all the right things....and now this. BOTH games 1 AND 3 on a Friday. It is a monumental stuff up that really takes the shine off so much of the good work they've done for the past 4 years.

This was the whole point of switching from the Tigers! The was a huge part of the rationale- that those from the burbs, those connected with either defunct NBL clubs or opposing VJBL clubs or both, wouldn't support the Tigers. And now they aren't being given the opportunity to support United either.

I do think there will be at least 9,000 people there tomorrow night though.

You can see on Ticketek that they've opened up the top section. And the rest- the parts that were open for Semi Game 1, are basically sold out- only individual seats available.

Prices are a bit high though.

For a Bronze seat- nosebleed on the baselines, you're talking $51.

For people with a mortgage, kids and all the rest of it, that's a big outlay.

You could spend $40 on a pub meal and a couple of beers, and watch it on a big screen.

United have also managed to schedule VJBL games at Hisense throughout the week, freeing those families to attend the grand final. They're clearly aware of the situation and working with it as best they can.

Yeah it is tough to schedule.

At the end of the day United had to have game 1. Unless LK wanted to pull rank and switch to it AHHAH. Which wouldn't happen.

So perhaps monumental "stuff up" was a bit harsh. It's more just disappointing.

Extremely sad and disgraceful for what they call themselves 'The Sporting Capital of Australia' with a population of 5.8 million and with one pro basketball team, what can one say... SA, 1.6 million and geographically much larger than Victoria, game sells out in under 3 days and looking at the same number of around 8000 people.

Don't underestimate the impact of the VJBL being played on Friday. It is Round 1 for the majority of teams!

Not to defend Melbourne's atrocious ticket sales, but Adelaide's game isn't sold out. The tickets held aside for Melbourne fans were released last night and some are still available.

AFAIK, there are only about 20 single seats left for Sunday's game?

Yes, is now. When I wrote that there was more. The 30 minutes they were snapped up in is testament to Adelaide's sales.