Membership Tally 2020

[george_on_the_outer 6,992]

Membership
Year	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011
1st game	22/3 A	23/3 H	25/3 H	25/3  A	25/3 H	4/4 H	22/3 A	31/3 H	31/3 H	27/3 H
Oct week 3		19,068 21	15,211 20	21,980   22	19,026    26	16,654 22	17,625   25
Nov week 3		20,215  21	25,028 22	26,064  18	23,037    26	20,509  26	20,223   25	-	16,287	11,922
Dec week 1	28,005 7	30,096   7	28,354 07	27,914    9	24,402   4	22,433   3	22,105   11	18,217   3	18,747 2	17,541   3
Dec week 3	28,441 21	31,759   21	29,053 22	29,426  23	26,217     22	24,097   23	23,542   25		20,623	20,166
Jan week 3	29,764 21	33,226   21	30,068 19	30,200  20	27,027  19	25,112  23	24,558  21	21,873	22,402	22,396
Feb week 1	31,519 7	34,327 7	30,577 2	31,141  3	28,013     3	25,647   1	25,416   4	22,962  8	23,422	23,457
Feb week 2	32,157 14	35,148   14	31,310 14	31,537   10	28,759    17	26,290   12	26,039   12	23,650  12	21,448  12
Feb week 3	32,735 21	36,070   21	32,075 21	32,137  17	29,217  24	26,639  18	26,641   17	23,650   18	24,195 16	25,253  17
Feb week 4	32,985 28	36,973   28	32,948 28	32,679   24	29,450  26	27,066  26	27,736   26	-	25,277
Mar week 1	35,726 7	37,979  7	34,034   7	33,520    3	30,524       7	27,619    4	28,582    4	24,801    5	26,023	27,806
Mar week 2	36,063 14	39,537  14	34,691   14	35,080  16	32,623     16	29,510  16	30,421   15	26,751   14	26,791   14	28,068
Mar week 3	37,571 21	41,513   21	36,513   21	35,756   21	33,146   21	30,257   21	-	-
Mar week 4	37,888 28	44,008   28	38,089  28	37,025  28	35,117  26	31,035   26	32,324   28	-	29,588	31,087
Apr week 1	38,115 7	45,537   7	39,402    7	38,554    7	35,535    1	32,001    1	-	-	32,235	33,359
Apr week 2	38,246 14	46,133 14	40,160  14	39,005  14	36,157   8	33,301    9	33,175  14	-	-	33,753  10
Apr week 3	38,286 21	47,174   21	40,557  21	39,281    21	36,731  20	-				34,548 20
Apr week 4	38,431 28	48,080   28	40,636   28	39,634   28	37,597  30	34,068   29
May week 1	38,521 7	49,837   7	41,640   7	40,083   7	37,766   6	34,352  7	35,205   5	-	34,489	35,205
May week 2	38,591 14	50,107 14	41,825  14	40,380   14	38,102  13	-	-	-	34,961
May week 3	38,673 21	50,422  21	42,057 21	40,549  21	38,327   23	34,871 20
May week 4	38,673 28	50,520  28	42,352   28	40,749   28	38,479  31	35,017  22
June week 1	38,766 7	51,770   7	43,593   7	40,934    7	38,547  6
Jun Week 2	38,985 14	51,770 14	43,791 14	41,022 14	38,653   14	-		-	35,403
Final July 30	39,774	52,405	44,191	42,102	39,211	35,953	35,911	33,177	35,345	36,937
Post 31 July	40,531	52,446	45,178	42,233

2020 Progressive total in Red

Actual dates in Blue

Date of first game of season Home or Away

Edited September 11, 2020 by george_on_the_outer

[faultydet 7,593]

The people who signed up in March and April are legends. Well done people.

 

Every member is solid gold for the survival of the club. (appreciate that many are losing their jobs and can't afford to continue)

Very proud of our supporters.

 

[ding 5,126]

So at this stage we are 10k members down on this time last year.

I know we couldnt have predicted it, but last year was the worst season possible to have a shocker.

Lucky to be where we are tbh

[dees189227 10,808]

I'm actually trying to get a membership to keep my consecutive years going and obviously contribute to the club, but it didn't work online and I'm guessing nobody is at the club. 

[praha 10,285]

3 hours ago, ding said:

So at this stage we are 10k members down on this time last year.

I know we couldnt have predicted it, but last year was the worst season possible to have a shocker.

Lucky to be where we are tbh

I know we could never in a million years have predicted this happening but we quite literally couldn't afford last year happening the way it did. Make finals and we have 50k members before January. Some here treated last year as an aberration. It may have been. But good clubs just don't let it happen. And now we are feeling it.

[ding 5,126]

4 hours ago, praha said:

I know we could never in a million years have predicted this happening but we quite literally couldn't afford last year happening the way it did. Make finals and we have 50k members before January. Some here treated last year as an aberration. It may have been. But good clubs just don't let it happen. And now we are feeling it.

That, and to play our only game so far EXACTLY the same way we did all last year.... Bomb long to nobody.

Extremely small sample size, but the only evidence we have is that MFC havent learned a thing.

Like i said, we are lucky to have only suffered a 10k drop in membership.

[deebug 1,754]

I was going to re-new my membership when we played our home game at the G?

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[Satyriconhome 9,983]

22 hours ago, ding said:

That, and to play our only game so far EXACTLY the same way we did all last year.... Bomb long to nobody.

Extremely small sample size, but the only evidence we have is that MFC havent learned a thing.

Like i said, we are lucky to have only suffered a 10k drop in membership.

The drop off is because there are about 30000 rusted on members, the rest wait for results and then get on the bandwagon, if it is rolling forward

[58er 5,608]

On 4/24/2020 at 6:16 PM, dees189227 said:

I'm actually trying to get a membership to keep my consecutive years going and obviously contribute to the club, but it didn't work online and I'm guessing nobody is at the club. 

Ring them or email others have bought recently following Gawnies letter.

[Deemania since 56 6,165]

5 hours ago, 58er said:

Ring them or email others have bought recently following Gawnies letter.

In relation to Gawny's letter, the player phone calls to Members, the Club correspondence and now, player-selected free music preferences online, the Club is doing well with regard to the 'rusted-on' Members. Many people are 'chuffed' that they bothered and did so at the personal level. My wife's adoration of Nev has now reached fever-pitch, for example. (He was just her favourite player once.)

[58er 5,608]

2 hours ago, Deemania since 56 said:

In relation to Gawny's letter, the player phone calls to Members, the Club correspondence and now, player-selected free music preferences online, the Club is doing well with regard to the 'rusted-on' Members. Many people are 'chuffed' that they bothered and did so at the personal level. My wife's adoration of Nev has now reached fever-pitch, for example. (He was just her favourite player once.)

Thanks Dee 56 yes we are all in this together and it is teamwork that will get our team back on top. 

[Dee Dee 1,046]

On 4/24/2020 at 6:16 PM, dees189227 said:

I'm actually trying to get a membership to keep my consecutive years going and obviously contribute to the club, but it didn't work online and I'm guessing nobody is at the club. 

I had real trouble trying on line a couple of weeks ago so in hope I phoned the club and got through to membership: so they are there just waiting to hear from you (and you and you and you also)!

[Ethan Tremblay 28,428]

Any updates to the tally? I recently purchased four extra armchair memberships in an attempt to assist the club. The reasons are obvious as to why we’ve dropped so far from last year but seeing just how much, it’s still hard to swallow. 

[daisycutter 28,589]

2 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Any updates to the tally? I recently purchased four extra armchair memberships in an attempt to assist the club. The reasons are obvious as to why we’ve dropped so far from last year but seeing just how much, it’s still hard to swallow. 

there isn't now even any membership link on the mfc home page

[george_on_the_outer 6,992]

7 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

there isn't now even any membership link on the mfc home page

It varies from day to day on the main page or not, but it is always at the menu to the top right next to the query icon, under the Jaguar symbol.  Since the AFL run the web page, it is the same for all clubs...pathetic!

Anyhow we have had another 220 people sign up this week, which brings the total to 38,985

[daisycutter 28,589]

7 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

It varies from day to day on the main page or not, but it is always at the menu to the top right next to the query icon, under the Jaguar symbol.  Since the AFL run the web page, it is the same for all clubs...pathetic!

Anyhow we have had another 220 people sign up this week, which brings the total to 38,985

thanks george. Found it. have to click the three horizontal bars under jag logo and a drop down menu appears. weird. there are now 2 menu bars, one visible, one hidden.......no doubt the geniuses at telstra

[Dr. Gonzo 22,493]

Jesus its gonna be really disappointing if we can't even crack 40k

[Dr. Gonzo 22,493]

When is the cutoff this year? I'm thinking of buying an additional membership to try and get us up to 40k

[george_on_the_outer 6,992]

1 hour ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

When is the cutoff this year? I'm thinking of buying an additional membership to try and get us up to 40k

31 July has been the traditional cut off point for recording the memberships for all the clubs, but each club will then report higher numbers in their annual report i.e. generally up to end Ocotober. 

So in the table above you can see both numbers that we have kept track of over the years....

[Ethan Tremblay 28,428]

I’m even more depressed about our membership number after hearing St Kilda  just reached a record amount of members at 46k. We’re still more than 12k down on last season. 

Edited July 26, 2020 by Ethan Tremblay

[Bitter but optimistic 21,300]

5 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I’m even more depressed about our membership number after hearing St Kilda  just reached a record amount of members at 46k. We’re still more than 12k down on last season. 

I wonder how many our insipid “déjà vu “ effort in Perth cost us

[Ethan Tremblay 28,428]

1 hour ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

I wonder how many our insipid “déjà vu “ effort in Perth cost us

It’s a good question. After our disastrous 2019 season I know quite a few disgruntled supporters who were waiting to see how we went early on before re-signing. Fair to say we didn’t set the world on fire and it’s reflected in our membership numbers. Hopefully we can win a few more games and get some more supporters to jump on the wagon. 

[YesitwasaWin4theAges 5,821]

I emailed the club and i recieved an automated msg back stating someone from the club will be in contact in 3-5 working days.

Are interstate members still guaranteed a ticket to 1 interstate game e.g game against the Crows on the 5th of August?

[george_on_the_outer 6,992]

Finally over 40K!.......40,005

[Bitter but optimistic 21,300]

If our loss to the Swans costs us a place in the finals ( and it likely will ) then I reckon our 2021 membership could take a nasty whack!

Footy back in Victoria and the ability to attend might mitigate this to some extent but , that is a big unknown at this stage

Possible disaster warning!!