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

[daisycutter 29,604]

3 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

I'd say playing in Tassie has bumped that number up by a few thousand.

 

bound to, as they have all of hobart to themselves with dorks in launceston. Hobart about 3 times the size. hobartians don't like to drive to launceston for a footy game

[Demon Disciple 12,068]

2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

bound to, as they have all of hobart to themselves with dorks in launceston. Hobart about 3 times the size. hobartians don't like to drive to launceston for a footy game

Hobartians don't like Launceston's period

[daisycutter 29,604]

Just now, Demon Disciple said:

Hobartians don't like Launceston's period

it's not quite that bad, bit of rivalry is natural, but not many would travel the 200km (2.5 hrs) each way

[Bitter but optimistic 22,219]

2 hours ago, AdamFarr said:

North have 42,000 members? Wow. I wouldn't have thought there'd be more than 35,000 North, even in years that they've been playing finals.

They are dumb [censored] and many of them probably pay twice.

[Sir Why You Little 36,985]

Those 42,000 Nought Members is the sum total of all their supporter base in the known universe..

that is it. As the city of Melbourne increases in population Nought should get smaller. 

We represent Melbourne...

[daisycutter 29,604]

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[CBDees 3,167]

24 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

38,172

Hard to, imagine what it might be had we beaten the Dogs. Alas I fear that, even if we annihilate the Lions it will have negligible impact by comparison. We need to beat the form sides (such as a repeat of crushing the Cats at Skilled Stadium)!

[george_on_the_outer 7,577]

On 5/14/2016 at 4:51 PM, Wiseblood said:

I'd say playing in Tassie has bumped that number up by a few thousand.

 

Exactly. Blundstone arena ( Hobart) capacity 16K.  Aurora stadium ( Launceston) capacity 21K.

If you are a Tasmanian who wants to see AFL in your home town, you will buy a membership to North or Hawthorn to guarantee you will get in the gate.

[Cards13 9,117]

On 14 May 2016 at 4:41 PM, AdamFarr said:

North have 42,000 members? Wow. I wouldn't have thought there'd be more than 35,000 North, even in years that they've been playing finals.

They are aiming for 45k at Norf, seriously they are doing an amazing job pokies free. They will have debt down to around $1m if they can hit 45k. They have a relatively new Arden st, a Norf community venue and playing deep into finals. Something to aspire to.

[DEE fence 5,004]

Just signed a colleague in Rome up, basically she couldn't back out after the Richmond win. (She started the season saying MFCSS, but admitting any sort of love for the club was a mistake, I have hounded her since (and inferred that her contract renewal depended on it.)) I have a couple of seppos in BKK I'm working on too.

[daisycutter 29,604]

still ticking along - another 64 overnight

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[M_9 2,081]

Related: The Demon shop was chockers on Sunday with the queue to pay snaking right around the perimeter.

[hardtack 10,514]

26 minutes ago, M_9 said:

Related: The Demon shop was chockers on Sunday with the queue to pay snaking right around the perimeter.

Was that before or after the game? ;-)

[H_T 3,043]

On 5/14/2016 at 4:41 PM, AdamFarr said:

North have 42,000 members? Wow. I wouldn't have thought there'd be more than 35,000 North, even in years that they've been playing finals.

I think they have over 5,000 in Tassie.

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

7 minutes ago, H_T said:

I think they have over 5,000 in Tassie.

Technically that number is 2,500.

[Its Time for Another 4,196]

38,666

Wow, I wasn't expecting that. Club must be working the phones.  That's an increase of 564 in the past week. The previous week's increase was only 336.

We will definitely crack 39,000 now. The question is how close to 40,000 we are going to get.

Go Dees. 

 

[What 18,810]

19 minutes ago, It's Time said:

38,666

Wow, I wasn't expecting that. Club must be working the phones.  That's an increase of 564 in the past week. The previous week's increase was only 336.

We will definitely crack 39,000 now. The question is how close to 40,000 we are going to get.

Go Dees. 

 

Geez thats a fair effort

Will go past 39k easily on Monday, maybe even Sunday.  Assuming we win of course. 40k is still a possiblity.

[beelzebub 23,313]

666

[old dee 23,781]

Just now, beelzebub said:

666

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[Wiseblood 24,637]

Just now, old dee said:

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Number of the Beast... Satan... Demon.... Demons...

[old dee 23,781]

1 minute ago, Wiseblood said:

Number of the Beast... Satan... Demon.... Demons...

Thank you.

[beelzebub 23,313]

6 minutes ago, old dee said:

Thank you.

Im disappointed in you OD

[old dee 23,781]

8 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Im disappointed in you OD

Some days are diamond some days are stone bb.

[beelzebub 23,313]

1 minute ago, old dee said:

Some days are diamond some days are stone bb.

talking about the backline ?

[Dr. Gonzo 24,192]

53 minutes ago, It's Time said:

38,666

Wow, I wasn't expecting that. Club must be working the phones.  That's an increase of 564 in the past week. The previous week's increase was only 336.

We will definitely crack 39,000 now. The question is how close to 40,000 we are going to get.

Go Dees. 

 

If they start stalling in the race to hit 40k I'll be buying an additional membership to add to the numbers (digital membership maybe?) It's more of a psychological barrier than anything else, to be able to say you've tipped over 40k is an achievement, looks better when marketing yourself to sponsors and gets more people thinking they'll jump on to join the ride. All going well if we start to hit our straps over the next few years I can't see any reason why we wouldn't be able to use this as a base and target 50k members which would be a massive achievement for the club.

Nb. Does anyone know whether they break it down to "unique" members? For instance if I buy 3 memberships, when going out to sponsors they obviously won't care if we've got 40k members if it's only 30k unique members.