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Membership Growing

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Fantastic to see! Is 35,000 too many to aim for next year?

 

Great effort.

QUESTION:

People keep saying how impressive it is that our membership is so high considering we are struggling on and off the field.

However I would contest that logic.

Perhaps supporters are even MORE likely to buy a membership when the club in struggling because they perceive our situation as dire. Thus, when MFC gets financially back on track, and starts playing finals again, they might see the club as in a good state of health and doesn't really require their support anymore. This might see a drop in membership even.

Though we aren't the same as the kangas, their drop in membership this year compared to 2008 suggests that this logic might have some credibility.

Is that logic way off? I'm really not sure.

You could have something, Sylvinator. But I think it's more than likely with the promise in our young list, over the next two or three years, it can really only go up. Especially, if everything within the boardroom stays the same and the MFC continue to produce positive, yet daring plans and proposals to improve the club and of course implement them. Everywhere I look, the club seems to be getting more professional. With a lot of hard work and correct decision making, hopefully in five years, we find ourselves in a similar position to Hawthorn. With 40,000 members and the club becoming a financial powerhouse. We can all dream. :D Let's hope it happens!

 

I think the way we have been playing has been a massive reason why people have been jumping on, you can defiantly see that we are moving in the right direction and the game plan looks like it will be a good one.

Though we aren't the same as the kangas, their drop in membership this year compared to 2008 suggests that this logic might have some credibility.

The Kangas had such a high membership last year because it came after their decision to stay in Melbourne. They virtually pleaded with the entire AFL community to buy a membership. So you had lots of non-North Melbourne supporters taking out memberships as a means of supporting their decision. This year, those people don't want to spend the money again.


North's membership hasn't dropped that far.

I'm not sure if it's 100% Sylv, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has some credence. I remember continually thinking in the early to mid Naughties that our membership was bound to increase to soaring heights because of our "success" and yet it never really came - ironically enough it has now come in one wooden spoon year and one dire year.

Fantastic 31,000 members in a another gone and out season is a great effort and its all because of one man. Jimmy stynes.

 
Fantastic to see! Is 35,000 too many to aim for next year?

Just a bit ambitious. I think 32,500, or 33k would be a decent target for next year, when we've got some great young players putting their improved skills on show to the world.

Did we budget for 30 or 32?


Well, the target was 30,000, so I'd say they wouldn't risk over estimating on the budget.

tbh, i hope that they budgeted for less than the target, i.e. last years membership.

tbh, i hope that they budgeted for less than the target, i.e. last years membership.

Yeah, ditto.

Noticed in the record in the 'club history' under club membership the 2008 total is 32,600. Is that correct or an error? Pretty sure the total was 29K something.... The club has come a fair way from 1995 membership total of just 9,544.

Yeah, we reached 29,619 last season.


Noticed in the record in the 'club history' under club membership the 2008 total is 32,600. Is that correct or an error? Pretty sure the total was 29K something.... The club has come a fair way from 1995 membership total of just 9,544.

Yeah the record's full of mistakes. I think it's missing one of our wooden spoons (1997 or 2008, one of those).

With Watts playing Monday, we get a few hundred?(thousand if we are lucky) more new members signing up

With Watts playing Monday, we get a few hundred?(thousand if we are lucky) more new members signing up

That will be interesting Satan. Hopefully it pushes us back in front of the Saints tally.

31,032^

The sleeping giant is stirring. :D

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I don't think we'll get many more. I hope you're right though, condemned!

 

This weekend with JW in just may bring in a few more!


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