MFC 2016 Membership - Record Broken. Next stop: 40,000

[old dee 22,875]

39 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Actually, never went to Windy Hill. 

And just for balance, the ground which I thought was the friendliest (ie, the attitude of the supporters was most friendly) was Glenferrie Oval.

 

Imagine subjecting todays supporters to Glenferrie oval. most would die in the conditions. But you are correct attitude was good but that was before they become a decades long power house. The only old surburban ground i never went to was St. Kilda playing at the Junction. Saw plenty of Fitzroy games there but never St. Kilda.

[Middymalt 244]

We just havnt got the supporter base , this crop of kids is our last chance , Hogan smashes 65 goals this year you will have 3,000 primary school kids wanting his jumper, the games about stars they put bums on seats who knows Petrecca could be anything  viney could be our Jordan Lewis , Salim could be anything as well but this is the last roll of the dice people hanging [censored] on GC and GWS there not that far behind us , the amount of kids that go to school with Franklins jumper when he was at the hawks was incredible at my twins primary school and believe me a lot of there parents followed other clubs.

Edited February 23, 2016 by Middymalt

[Its Time for Another 4,054]

29,450 today

26/2/15 - 27,066

26/2/14 - 27,736

So hovering around the same increase on last year. The rate of increase since 17 feb is actually up about 40% on last year which is only a couple of hundred more but still anything is good. Hopefully a big jump after the fan day on Sunday.

Edited February 26, 2016 by It's Time

[Steve13 457]

We have cracked 30,000

[Dee Gee 148]

Do Pet Memberships count towards the overall tally? If they do I'm signing my small dog up.

[Ethan Tremblay 28,423]

1 hour ago, Dee Gee said:

Do Pet Memberships count towards the overall tally? If they do I'm signing my small dog up.

Nope. 

[Bluey's Dad 3,419]

3 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Nope. 

What about large dogs then?

[Dee Gee 148]

11 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Nope. 

I wonder then, apart from financially supporting the club, what the point is?

Side note, the MFC dog collars you can buy are only for large dogs. How else can my small pet show that his heart beats true!

[Sir Why You Little 34,529]

On 1 March 2016 at 5:03 PM, Steve13 said:

We have cracked 30,000

Fantastic

10k more to go....

[old dee 22,875]

5 minutes ago, Dee Gee said:

I wonder then, apart from financially supporting the club, what the point is?

Side note, the MFC dog collars you can buy are only for large dogs. How else can my small pet show that his heart beats true!

Dye him red and blue?

[Dee Gee 148]

4 minutes ago, old dee said:

Dye him red and blue?

RSPCA would love that

[old dee 22,875]

3 hours ago, Dee Gee said:

RSPCA would love that

 

3 hours ago, Dee Gee said:

RSPCA would love that

You did ask Dee Gee  I was just giving an alternative.

[Bring-Back-Powell 13,231]

On 1 March 2016 at 5:03 PM, Steve13 said:

We have cracked 30,000

That's good but St Kilda have 32k.

i don't know about you guys but we should be striving to have more members than them.

Once we start playing finals again, I'd hope we'd be ahead of North, St Kilda, Bulldogs and even Carlton in the membership tally.

[Sir Why You Little 34,529]

2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

That's good but St Kilda have 32k.

i don't know about you guys but we should be striving to have more members than them.

Once we start playing finals again, I'd hope we'd be ahead of North, St Kilda, Bulldogs and even Carlton in the membership tally.

30k after the decade we have had is fantastic in March

it will grow with results..

[Bombay Airconditioning 5,930]

On 1 March 2016 at 10:50 AM, Choke said:

What about large dogs then?

At Collingwood they do.

[FarNorthernD 5,842]

53 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

30k after the decade we have had is fantastic in March

it will grow with results..

Absolutely. It is a credit to Melbourne supporters that there are still so many of us.

It annoys me no end that we are painted, by the media, as fair weather, "go no. 2" type supporters.

I doubt there is a more passionate, rusted on and more knowledgable group of supporters in the league. 

[Its Time for Another 4,054]

3/3/16 -    30,160

4/3/15 -    27,619

4/3/14 -    28,582

5/3/13-     24,801

WE continue to track about 2,500 ahead of last season. If it stays like that we'll be around 38,500 for the year. Only got about 600 after the great win on Saturday and the fan day straight after on Sunday. I'm guessing a lot of them had already signed up. 

With a few more good showings pre season and maybe the first two rounds I would expect a bigger increase at the end than just 2,500 more than last year. Be interesting to know how many of the 30,000 are renewals, how many are new and how many haven't renewed yet. 

[Lucifers Hero 37,079]

30,524 today which would include most of Family Day.   Looks ok vs same time last year - Mar 6 2015 was 28,157.  Improvement: 2,367

But last year the Family Day wasn't until mid March so that 2,367 may be whittled away by end of March when the comparisons will be apples and apples.

That we have signed up only 4,307 members in the 10 weeks since Christmas is quite disappointing.  Maybe only DL's are noticing the improved list, training and NAB wins. 

40,000 goal not looking good.  Not good for our financials.  We seriously need early season wins.

And we seriously need our better OOC players to sign up sooner rather than later.  Its not encouraging for potential members to hear players eg Tom Mc and Hogan have deferred contract talks.  It will not help memberships one iota if Jack Watts comes out and says he is also deferring talks.

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,443]

11 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

30,524 today which would include most of Family Day.   Looks ok vs same time last year - Mar 6 2015 was 28,157.  Improvement: 2,367

But last year the Family Day wasn't until mid March so that 2,367 may be whittled away by end of March when the comparisons will be apples and apples.

That we have signed up only 4,307 members in the 10 weeks since Christmas is quite disappointing.  Maybe only DL's are noticing the improved list, training and NAB wins. 

40,000 goal not looking good.  Not good for our financials.  We seriously need early season wins.

And we seriously need our better OOC players to sign up sooner rather than later.  Its not encouraging for potential members to hear players eg Tom Mc and Hogan have deferred contract talks.  It will not help memberships one iota if Jack Watts comes out and says he is also deferring talks.

Reasons why Jack Watts might defer contract talks: (1) waiting for new collective bargaining agreement to be signed; (2) waiting to be offered something by the club; (3) waiting to see whether his NAB challenge form turns into real form thereby making him more valuable.

Reasons why Jack Watts might re-sign quickly: (1) get in early before Hogan steals all the cookies from the jar.

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

Winning can only help, imagine if we beat St Kilda next weekend then start the season 2-0, that will really help the membership numbers.

[Lucifers Hero 37,079]

16 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Reasons why Jack Watts might defer contract talks: (1) waiting for new collective bargaining agreement to be signed; (2) waiting to be offered something by the club; (3) waiting to see whether his NAB challenge form turns into real form thereby making him more valuable.

Reasons why Jack Watts might re-sign quickly: (1) get in early before Hogan steals all the cookies from the jar.

I know all the reasons why Jack (or any other player) might defer talks. 

My point was we need OOC players to sign up to encourage members to sign up!

Reasons why Jack Watts might re-sign quickly: (1) because he believes in MFC and what he and what his teammates can achieve!

[Allen Jakovich 516]

47 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

30,524 today which would include most of Family Day.   Looks ok vs same time last year - Mar 6 2015 was 28,157.  Improvement: 2,367

But last year the Family Day wasn't until mid March so that 2,367 may be whittled away by end of March when the comparisons will be apples and apples.

That we have signed up only 4,307 members in the 10 weeks since Christmas is quite disappointing.  Maybe only DL's are noticing the improved list, training and NAB wins. 

40,000 goal not looking good.  Not good for our financials.  We seriously need early season wins.

And we seriously need our better OOC players to sign up sooner rather than later.  Its not encouraging for potential members to hear players eg Tom Mc and Hogan have deferred contract talks.  It will not help memberships one iota if Jack Watts comes out and says he is also deferring talks.

Around 100-150 memberships were sold on family day fyi (can't remember exact number). Was surprised how little, but person from the club who told me thought that was pretty good.

[Leoncelli_36 2,264]

They have done the call around this year? When is that due to take place? Usually they have a membership drive and get players to call people. I have to say that our membership staff at the game and on family day were pretty slack. They sit there in their tent waiting for people to co e to them. Wouldnt hurt to go and make contact with the people in line. I mean on saturday the line was a mile long. It was 15 bucks to get in without a membership, surely you go 'sell' those waiting the benefits of a membership. Slack.

[Leoncelli_36 2,264]

They have done the call around this year? When is that due to take place? Usually they have a membership drive and get players to call people. I have to say that our membership staff at the game and on family day were pretty slack. They sit there in their tent waiting for people to co e to them. Wouldnt hurt to go and make contact with the people in line. I mean on saturday the line was a mile long. It was 15 bucks to get in without a membership, surely you go 'sell' those waiting the benefits of a membership. Slack.

Also they pack it all up before the end of the game. Why notopen up at the end and get people who are in a good mood after a win. 

 

 

Edited March 7, 2016 by Leoncelli_36
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[Leoncelli_36 2,264]

They have done the call around this year? When is that due to take place? Usually they have a membership drive and get players to call people. I have to say that our membership staff at the game and on family day were pretty slack. They sit there in their tent waiting for people to co e to them. Wouldnt hurt to go and make contact with the people in line. I mean on saturday the line was a mile long. It was 15 bucks to get in without a membership, surely you go 'sell' those waiting the benefits of a membership. Slack.

Also they pack it all up before the end of the game. Why notopen up at the end and get people who are in a good mood after a win.