MCG Open Day on 1st Oct 2017. Free entry, though "Exclusive offer only to registered Open Day visitors:
All registrants will go into the draw to win a Melbourne Stars BBL|06 signed team print, and receive an e-voucher to have their photo taken with the 2017 AFL Replica Premiership Cup for only $5 on Open Day. Simply show the voucher in your registration email or print it out to receive 50% off the normal price for all unregistered patrons who will be charged $10 on the day"
Please note: Open Day registered attendees will not need to bring a physical entry ticket with them on the day - access is free and via Gate 2. "
Been to this in years past, good day out for free BUT…. every time I've been there the crowd is a mix of families. Everyone wants to go out onto the famous MCG turf. Most of the families with kids or young adults want to either bowl a cricket ball or kick a footy on the MCG. The accompanying toddlers, mums and grandparents want to sit on the grass and have a chat. Not unsurprisingly when the many hundreds of badly kicked footys and badly thrown cricket balls come into contact with seated grandparents or little toddlers get flattened by a full-size footy kicked off the side of somebody's boot 40 meters away, tempers get flared. The goal-squares at both ends of the ground are like nothing I've seen before. You are a better chance of being hit and wiped out than you would be streaking down the main street of Mosul! There is a constant barrage of footys landing in the goal-square! Even sitting on the wing there are loads of dads and kids playing 'kick to kick' with most of them kicking very badly and unpredictably! My advice would be that, if you want to go, and it is a good free day out you can go into the changerooms and the media area where they do the press conferences etc, dont sit and have a erlax in the middle of the field. If you do, do it expecting that when you least expect it you and/or your little toddler are going to be belted with a footy kicked full strength form a random direction. Most of the grandstands are open and empty, sit in the 1st row of the stand on a seat and watch your kids go out into the barrage to randomly kick their footy at those less intelligent than yourself.