The 2017 Membership Thread

[old dee 23,920]

Just now, Jaded said:

Win a few games early and we should smash 40k! 

Starting Saturday

[binman 44,198]

23 minutes ago, old dee said:

Part of the problem is that the cameras are in the on the northern side of the Ground and show the Seats on the southern side.

The members mostly sit on the northern side so are largely unseen on TV.

 

 

An intersting poing OD. I recall reading last year our average home attendances was 40k and more than the blues and collingwood (i think)

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

47 minutes ago, old dee said:

I got an email today asking members to attend as many home games as possible.

There are incentives for the number of games attended.

Are they under pressure to maintain our home games at the "G" ?

Or maybe they just want more people at the games?

[JackWhats? 12]

If anyone is particularly interested, this site provides a decent overview of how each club stacks up financially. You can also have a look at each club's annual report. For what it's worth, we are around the middle of the pack for membership revenue per member, above the likes of Essendon, Cartlon, Hawthorn, and North.

Some clubs account for different items in different ways (we include fundraising revenue in membership), but overall, we perform about where expected on most items, around the top of the bottom third.

http://www.footyindustry.com/?page_id=2946 

[old dee 23,920]

Just now, Clint Bizkit said:

Or maybe they just want more people at the games?

Quite often the simplest answer is the correct one CB

[JTR 2,868]

3 hours ago, old dee said:

I got an email today asking members to attend as many home games as possible.

There are incentives for the number of games attended.

Are they under pressure to maintain our home games at the "G" ?

I think they are just advertising something they already do.

In the back half of every season for several years now, I have received an email saying something along the lines of "because you are a loyal member who has attended xxxx number of games this year, please click on xxxx and do xxxx to get a free upgrade to a better seat at our next match"

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

3 hours ago, old dee said:

I got an email today asking members to attend as many home games as possible.

There are incentives for the number of games attended.

Are they under pressure to maintain our home games at the "G" ?

Just a guess OD but might be the FD model they've established during the Roos term. A leading premiership model with the facilities, recruiting staff, assistants, sports scientists , statisticians (read cast of thousands) etc? Probably leading edge or thereabouts for the first time In the modern era for us? It may also have a Sydney Swans style expense sheet underpinning it that requires a membership base of 50,000 plus to be viable in the medium to long term and keep Gill happy. If we can't get the 50,000 immediately, and we won't, maybe the club is going for the smoke n mirrors trick. We might have no choice but to make regular finals appearances from here on! ? ??

 

Edited March 22, 2017 by Rusty Nails

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

3 hours ago, old dee said:

Part of the problem is that the cameras are in the on the northern side of the Ground and show the Seats on the southern side.

The members mostly sit on the northern side so are largely unseen on TV.

 

 

Write to the board and ask to switch the members to southern stand OD! How much would 35,000 pairs of red & blue sunglasses cost I wonder? ?

[old dee 23,920]

26 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Write to the board and ask to switch the members to southern stand OD! How much would 35,000 pairs of red & blue sunglasses cost I wonder? ?

No thanks RN I prefer the sun behind me. We can easily live with what the cameras see.

Seeing 30 000 supporters from other teams crying always does my soul a lot of good.

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

9 hours ago, old dee said:

No thanks RN I prefer the sun behind me. We can easily live with what the cameras see.

Seeing 30 000 supporters from other teams crying always does my soul a lot of good.

Not even if they were 3 D sunnies? Those tears would be like a bursting damn OD, even from the other side! ?

[Eelesie 217]

36495

MEMBERS SIGNED UP FOR 2017

So This is probably the final update on the website that won't contain round 1 membership sales, so it will be interesting over next week to see how many come in... Hopefully between this and next weeks first home game at the 'G we can manage at least 2k in sign ups.

 

[pineapple dee 2,892]

I put 3 memberships into that total yesterday at the clubs office at the G. The only entity in our house not now currently a member is the cat.

I think the cat is for the high jump !!

Emma, the membership girl at the club is confident we will get 40,000.

[Cards13 9,117]

I have a kiwi mate who was a loose Tigs fan due to some other friends. He is now a Dee and is coming to rnd 1. I will have to buy him a membership to push our numbers up.

[daisycutter 29,797]

36,752

[Oliver Sholem 17]

Interesting to see the figures after the win and what happens before our first home game next Sunday.

[Gorgoroth 13,135]

 Should be at 38k on Friday and 40 the week after. People would have seen that game and decided to get a membership. 

[daisycutter 29,797]

36,887

[Gorgoroth 13,135]

Only 135 sold over the weekend. Woukd have guessed double that flr an away game but first round. 

[daisycutter 29,797]

11 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

Only 135 sold over the weekend. Woukd have guessed double that flr an away game but first round. 

this week and on game day at the g should be huge. will go close to the 40k mark

[old dee 23,920]

9 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

this week and on game day at the g should be huge. will go close to the 40k mark

Hope you are right dc but we are approaching what I consider the limit so I will be surprised if it increases massively.

We are getting close to the  limit of fallen out members.

IMO above 40K will only come with converts to the Dees, we need to win 80% of the first eight matches to get much above 40K.

Edited March 27, 2017 by old dee

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,950]

16 minutes ago, old dee said:

Hope you are right dc but we are approaching what I consider the limit so I will be surprised if it increases massively.

We are getting close to the  limit of fallen out members.

IMO above 40K will only come with converts to the Dees, we need to win 80% of the first eight matches to get much above 40K.

That's an interesting mathematical challenge, OD.

[Dr. Gonzo 24,368]

17 minutes ago, old dee said:

Hope you are right dc but we are approaching what I consider the limit so I will be surprised if it increases massively.

We are getting close to the  limit of fallen out members.

IMO above 40K will only come with converts to the Dees, we need to win 80% of the first eight matches to get much above 40K.

Pretty sure if you tallied our members over the last 5 years or so we would have close to 50k unique members so I don't think we're near our capacity yet.

[old dee 23,920]

1 minute ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Pretty sure if you tallied our members over the last 5 years or so we would have close to 50k unique members so I don't think we're near our capacity yet.

There would need to be a large number of churn Dr. We have different opinions on what that number is.

[old dee 23,920]

5 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

That's an interesting mathematical challenge, OD.

Win six and draw one will get close LDC

However how about win seven of the eight?

Edited March 27, 2017 by old dee

[DubDee 26,191]

39 minutes ago, old dee said:

Hope you are right dc but we are approaching what I consider the limit so I will be surprised if it increases massively.

We are getting close to the  limit of fallen out members.

IMO above 40K will only come with converts to the Dees, we need to win 80% of the first eight matches to get much above 40K.

we increased by 4-5 thousand in the months after round 1 last year even considering the performance against the bombers so we will easily get to 42K performances will dictate if we push 45K

new members will come from the more casual fans that want to see a decent team play and not get hammered each week