The stunner  ONE wonders whether, at AFL HQ, they have some
scruffy little guy in there who periodically says, “I have a
very cunning plan”. Shrewdly noting a lack of currently extent
controversy that no one else had detected, the AFL announces
higher ticket prices for some matches. Indeed, with its usual
care and attention to detail, the league leprechauns are
reportedly happy to bring this in starting, err, now, in season
2013, after no due discussion with, or consideration toward, the
general public, and apparently because they can. The scheme will
be “trialled” (meaning to be inevitably adopted the following
year), on some games that haven't quite been worked out yet, via
a system known as “variable pricing” (i.e. they can set the
tariff at whatever they like for certain games that haven't been
worked out yet), or another known as “dynamic pricing” (they can
change the prices on a whim for any games they like on a weekly
basis – perhaps according to how things go at Thursday work
drinks – and there are no