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Membership Tally 2012


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Tigers - 25 664

Melbourne - 20 623

Dogs - 17 965

Port - 15 217

Norf - 15 041

Saints - 14 390

Lions - 10 215

Gold Coast - 7 981

wow look at the Aints numbers. That is terrible. They have a huge supporter base. Maybe moving from moorabbin and all that happened this year has finally tipped them.

I have heard many negative rumbles about the seaford move.

Scott Watters has a big job like Neeld. They both sound very alike when interviewed interestingly. But to have only 14k membership at this stage after launching the 2012.campaign is not great, stiff [censored]. Go Demons!!

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wow look at the Aints numbers. That is terrible. They have a huge supporter base. Maybe moving from moorabbin and all that happened this year has finally tipped them.

I have heard many negative rumbles about the seaford move.

Scott Watters has a big job like Neeld. They both sound very alike when interviewed interestingly. But to have only 14k membership at this stage after launching the 2012.campaign is not great, stiff [censored]. Go Demons!!

Saints and dogs could struggle big time in the coming years...... they barley had 40 and 35K respectively when playing off in prelims for years and years.....lets see them when they are sitting 15-18, not good times one feels

If we can get 40K after what happened last year, then we can legitimately expect 50K imo if we ever go top 2-4 again with this list

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Lack of self-awareness here by Dees supporters talking about members, supporters, and survival.

Yeh people in glass houses etc, etc. However we have been rubbish for the past how many years...? Saints have played in GFs and been a dominant side during that time. As far as memberships, they should be aiming to compete with the bigger clubs as opposed to clubs like us, north and the doggies.

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Looks like Hawthorn have hit the 40,000 mark already - fair effort......

Don't go quoting Hawthorn Memberships. How many memberships sold does not equate to B$%S on seats. They have a history of buying loads of the cheapest members tickets and leaving them in their desk drawers. Also they have several thousand Taswegians buying 3 game tickets also included.

It would be interesting to see what percentage of memberships sold, actually go to games.

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After all the Scully [censored] saga, we seem to have had a dream run of club action and media publicity relative to probably all other clubs covered in the Melbourne press. So it seems a little disappointing that we are not much ahead of last year. Or was last year an unusually high membership enrolment year, built on the hopes of a very promising young team coming into a window of high performance from the 2011 season (cough cough)? I know last year I was feeling a lot more excited about our prospects than I had for many years.

So, can anyone advise how the trend of membership enrolments normally runs? I mean, can someone do a mathematical analysis of the trends? Anyone here with a stats bent - this is a call to get your rocks off on this question.

Do we see a steady rate of uptake from the start of pre-season up till (say) game 5 or 10? Or is it characterised by faster and slower periods?

I remember in particular the gut-wrenching feel of the WCE game around round 5-6(?) this year (corrections welcome), and posting that I thought it would have a big impact on the trend of membership uptakes from then on. But I have no idea how it panned out.

And if there is a heterogeneous rate of uptake, when or what do you think will be a major catalyst to cause an uptick (or downslide) in the rate of membership enrolments between now and when they call stumps on membership nos. for the 2012 season?

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And if there is a heterogeneous rate of uptake, when or what do you think will be a major catalyst to cause an uptick (or downslide) in the rate of membership enrolments between now and when they call stumps on membership nos. for the 2012 season?

The imminent start of the season.

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Just noticed updated membership at 21927. At 24 Jan 2011 we were 22396. Given all the changes (for the good- hopefully) I would have thought this years membership would have been ahead of the tally for 2011. Surely this is disappointing.

We're not at 24th of Jan yet.

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Just noticed updated membership at 21927. At 24 Jan 2011 we were 22396. Given all the changes (for the good- hopefully) I would have thought this years membership would have been ahead of the tally for 2011. Surely this is disappointing.

yeah it is dissapointing, l thought we would be 25,000 by now. We started off strongly but have really slowed down over the last month.

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Nit picker

Ho hum. You're the one who said it was disappointing, yet we may be slightly in front. Which in fact, was the case just before Christmas observing the timeline comparisons. Any "really slowed down over the last month" barbs aren't really as accurate as some might believe.

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Just noticed updated membership at 21927. At 24 Jan 2011 we were 22396. Given all the changes (for the good- hopefully) I would have thought this years membership would have been ahead of the tally for 2011. Surely this is disappointing.

Maybe, just maybe if they sent out the forms that some asked for to change their membership when asked 4 times and started the AP incorrectly when I had already sent back the form to stop it, they might get more members.

At this rate they won't be getting my money

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Maybe, just maybe if they sent out the forms that some asked for to change their membership when asked 4 times and started the AP incorrectly when I had already sent back the form to stop it, they might get more members.

At this rate they won't be getting my money

this is a serious problem that needs attention. If the club are direct debiting accounts they must get it right first time, nobody likes money going to the wrong place. I would go into the club and speak directly, unless of course you live ina different city. Good luck
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Maybe, just maybe if they sent out the forms that some asked for to change their membership when asked 4 times and started the AP incorrectly when I had already sent back the form to stop it, they might get more members.

At this rate they won't be getting my money

I understand the frustration but aren't the memberships all sold out of a central AFL office (I could be wrong). Don't punish the club for the incompetence of some office temps.

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Comparative Update:

24th Jan 2011 - 22,396.

24th Jan 2012 - 22,195.

- 201 on same time last year.

Down on last year but still seems like a respectable total.

Leading up to the season in 2011 we were coming off a promising year and hoping to build on that and play finals.

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