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I have a reserved seat and I am unable to get there (the richmond game), is there anyway that I can "give' the reserved seat to the Club? its a concession membership so I cant onsell it through ticketmaster.

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2 hours ago, FarNorthernD said:

Play nice Luci, Collingwood hasn’t made finals in donkeys so Anzac Day is their Grand Final

I thought Queens Birthday was !!   

 
3 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

Don't get too excited folks.....the Saints have more members than us at 40,323....and that was a week ago.

 

Quality not quantity applies here

5 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

Don't get too excited folks.....the Saints have more members than us at 40,323....and that was a week ago.

 

Sometimes the pure membership number doesn't mean a heap, some clubs include 3 game, dog memberships etc. Be interested to see the breakdown of our membership compared to other clubs, naturally I'd think we'd have a higher MCC crossover membership.


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40 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

Don't get too excited folks.....the Saints have more members than us at 40,323....and that was a week ago.

 

Not if we subtract the number of Saints members that have handed back their memberships :o ...want their money back!:lol:

 

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1 hour ago, george_on_the_outer said:

Don't get too excited folks.....the Saints have more members than us at 40,323....and that was a week ago.

 

We need to get to a baseline of 50k hopefully finals this year will help that.

45 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Not if we subtract the number of Saints members that have handed back their memberships :o ...want their money back!:lol:

 

 

 

Genius holds melting plastic over his socks-clad feet. He deserves to barrack for St Kilda.

At least a Pies fan would never do that. They're scared of fire.

5 hours ago, george_on_the_outer said:

Don't get too excited folks.....the Saints have more members than us at 40,323....and that was a week ago.

 

I'll bet you 20% of their members are cats and dogs. Your typical Saints member would be called Fluffy Smith or Spot Jones.


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...and the Pies have gone all quiet  "The club is the only one in the AFL yet to reveal its numbers publicly this year... Collingwood recorded 75,000 members last year but is now believed to be trailing that by around 10,000 "!!

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/collingwood-may-be-keeping-2018-membership-total-secret-due-to-sliding-numbers-says-garry-lyon/news-story/ee7a5db72ccc18a248217924fcc9f4b2

Not sure Eddie's ego could cope for his club to go from the biggest to the 4th biggest...

 

19 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

...and the Pies have gone all quiet  "The club is the only one in the AFL yet to reveal its numbers publicly this year... Collingwood recorded 75,000 members last year but is now believed to be trailing that by around 10,000 "!!

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/collingwood-may-be-keeping-2018-membership-total-secret-due-to-sliding-numbers-says-garry-lyon/news-story/ee7a5db72ccc18a248217924fcc9f4b2

Not sure Eddie's ego could cope for his club to go from the biggest to the 4th biggest...

 

 

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And next ... as inevitable as the sun rising ... Eddie's personal attack on Lyon.

Lyon's part of a loser club ... Lyon's radio show has low ratings ... Lyon's TV show (I'm guessing he's on one somewhere) has low ratings / is boring ... or just generally a rant against Lyon. His mother wears army boots, maybe.

Eddie can't help himself.


1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

And next ... as inevitable as the sun rising ... Eddie's personal attack on Lyon.

Lyon's part of a loser club ... Lyon's radio show has low ratings ... Lyon's TV show (I'm guessing he's on one somewhere) has low ratings / is boring ... or just generally a rant against Lyon. His mother wears army boots, maybe.

Eddie can't help himself.

trumpesque

I'm not in favour of "term limits" for club Presidents. As long as Glen Bartlett continues to show he's an effective President and wishes to be re-elected, he has my vote. But for all the talk about Nathan Buckley's tenure, how does McGuire's position as President of the Pies not face scrutiny? I don't deny that he has done a lot for that club, but given the ongoing on-field poor performance, what appears to be a declining membership and frankly, declining relevance, where is the anguish among Collingwood supporters for renewal? I find it all quite strange. 

From this point last year to the close of memberships we increased by only another 3,000. At the moment we are tracking about 1,000 more members than last year. Although it sounds great to have reached the 40,000 nearly a month earlier than last year it looks like we'll end up around 43,200. No doubt wins in the next two weeks would push that a bit more but even so unfortunately looks like 45,000 won't be reached this year. 

Wonder what the Club has to do to get to 50,000. Obviously finals will help but I wonder what else. 

11 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I'm not in favour of "term limits" for club Presidents. As long as Glen Bartlett continues to show he's an effective President and wishes to be re-elected, he has my vote. But for all the talk about Nathan Buckley's tenure, how does McGuire's position as President of the Pies not face scrutiny? I don't deny that he has done a lot for that club, but given the ongoing on-field poor performance, what appears to be a declining membership and frankly, declining relevance, where is the anguish among Collingwood supporters for renewal? I find it all quite strange. 

It’s great. They haven’t got the balls to change. 

The Club has been in decline since Malthouse was shoved. 

Mick was a real coach

Buckley is a nice guy, and Eddie has made a monumental blunder. But he will only say that 10 years from now, or maybe 15

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

But for all the talk about Nathan Buckley's tenure, how does McGuire's position as President of the Pies not face scrutiny? I don't deny that he has done a lot for that club, but given the ongoing on-field poor performance, what appears to be a declining membership and frankly, declining relevance, where is the anguish among Collingwood supporters for renewal? I find it all quite strange. 

It does face scrutiny. But the scrutiny gets pushback from two places.

One, fanbois who shout down any criticism of Dear Leader. "Eddie single handedly saved our club from certain destruction 20 years ago. No one else could have done it then and no one else can do it now." And, "If you can't name a viable alternative candidate right now then obviously there are no viable candidates, so Eddie has to continue." And "Side by side! It's in our song so we can't possibly make any criticism, even constructive ones."

Two, Eddie, who uses his media platform to assassinate and head off at the pass anyone who puts sticks their hand up. Although the last one who tried that got awarded the cushy job of conducting a review of the CFC. Brought inside the tent. I think a few before that copped some media attention (of the wrong kind) and decided it wasn't worth it.

Things will have to get a lot worse there before they get better. Delicious!!! Long may it continue.


1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

 Eddie has made a monumental blunder. But he will only say that 10 years from now, or maybe 15

Eddie won't admit to anything until they've put up his statue at the Insert Name Here Centre.

And then it will only be that he deserves that statue.

Richmond are complaining that they will not get $1 out the funds announced to be spent by the government this morning but the MFC will. I have not had time examine the detail but does anyone know what we are getting?

 
5 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Richmond today announced 90,000 members

Together with the reserved seat revenue they must be swimming in cash

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-04-12/tigers-smash-alltime-membership-record

If the Dees had 90K members I would not buy one. Why would you buy a membership there is no game that 90k can get into all at once and the chance of a GF ticket are next to none if you hold the lowest level membership. Better to buy a GWS membership that way you can get finals tickets at this point. At 90K membership the game becomes a TV game for me.

6 minutes ago, old dee said:

If the Dees had 90K members I would not buy one. Why would you buy a membership there is no game that 90k can get into all at once and the chance of a GF ticket are next to none if you hold the lowest level membership. Better to buy a GWS membership that way you can get finals tickets at this point. At 90K membership the game becomes a TV game for me.

Yep, much rather have a coronary at home surrounded by empty stubbies and friends than full idiots and uncomfortable noise.........


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