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The 2017 Membership Thread

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pretty confident we'll get there now.

43k ??   too much ? :rolleyes:

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    40 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    So let's call it a nice round 50,000 then.

    That's a bit of a Billy...

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    We made it!!

    42,102

    With 102 over!

    That is a whopping 20% increase on 2015!

    Major, major accolades to the Club and the 3,000 extra that have jumped on board this year.

    I'm sure Jackson and co will be absolutely rapt!!

    Make finals and we should get off to a great start for next year.

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    58 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    We made it!!

    42,102

    With 102 over!

    That is a whopping 20% increase on 2015!

     

    or......7.4% over last year. still a respectable increase

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    Great for the Club, its supporters and sponsors. Great for the players too knowing that there are more and more of us wanting to get involved and wanting to watch their exciting development. Fantastic.

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    We reached 42,102 by midday yesterday. I wonder what the figure was at close of business (which I presume is when the final tally applied)? ?

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    Thats a lot of extra revenue.

    Can we please scrap the NT games now, effective immediately?

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    9 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

    Thats a lot of extra revenue.

    Can we please scrap the NT games now, effective immediately?

     We won't.  We would need 55- 60k members to make it worth it.

    Of we hit 50k I'd love to stop the Darwin half of it. Alice with the bye after is fine.

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    4 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

     We won't.  We would need 55- 60k members to make it worth it.

    Of we hit 50k I'd love to stop the Darwin half of it. Alice with the bye after is fine.

    Frankly I would rather keep the NT games (& the money) and turn it into a fortress that other teams dread (much as North and Hawthorn have achieved in Tassie)! 

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    32 minutes ago, CBDees said:

    Frankly I would rather keep the NT games (& the money) and turn it into a fortress that other teams dread (much as North and Hawthorn have achieved in Tassie)! 

    problem is it will never be those teams playing there

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    3 hours ago, CBDees said:

    Frankly I would rather keep the NT games (& the money) and turn it into a fortress that other teams dread (much as North and Hawthorn have achieved in Tassie)! 

     

    2 hours ago, beelzebub said:

    problem is it will never be those teams playing there

    Huh? Whats the relevance?

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    9 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

     We won't.  We would need 55- 60k members to make it worth it.

    Of we hit 50k I'd love to stop the Darwin half of it. Alice with the bye after is fine.

    Agree. Alice is fine as no heat/humidity related fatigue the following week, just travel, which is no different that flying to Brisbane or perth

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    4 hours ago, CBDees said:

    Frankly I would rather keep the NT games (& the money) and turn it into a fortress that other teams dread (much as North and Hawthorn have achieved in Tassie)! 

    Would need to play their more often to do that, as it's hard to get used to the conditions when playing their once or twice per year. Playing against different teams their is important also as when you play the same team they get used to conditions at same rate as you.

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    11 hours ago, --coach-- said:

    Would need to play their more often to do that, as it's hard to get used to the conditions when playing their once or twice per year. Playing against different teams their is important also as when you play the same team they get used to conditions at same rate as you.

    Perhaps having our pre-season training up there as in the past and a guaranteed bye after Darwin would work. It is the six day breaks combined with travelling that has been the killer moreso than the conditions on the day.

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    • 2 weeks later...
     

    Club Membership Numbers are out

    http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-08-16/afl-club-membership-tally-hits-new-high

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    Observations:

    • The increase for the Bulldogs is understandable given their premiership. 
    • Geelong has a new stadium so can sell more. 
    • Not sure about StK increase; I recall they sold a lot of $1 memberships. 
    • GWS is a surprise and have genuinely grown quickly. 
    • As for Essendon - what can one say!
    • Big loser is North - guess they didn't like how they dumped their champs last year!  There is a good case to merge North and GCS!

    As for the Dees, we have had approx 25% increase since the PJ/Roos era started.  And going on the Bulldogs experience, a premiership would take us well over the 50,000 mark!  That may be a few years away but I would expect another leap in our membership next year.

     

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    Edit:  For some reason the second table won't delete, so ignore...

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