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Posted
2 hours ago, MT64 said:

The best thing fitting into the 71-80 bracket is that I have seen and been to 7 premierships inc last year as the only "seen". I consider myself f-ing lucky compared to a lot of Dee"s supporters. Fit as I am (thanks to the good folk at the Alfred/Sandy) I hope to see quite a few more.

Go Dee's.

Mal,  seeing that no one on Demonland is over 80  does that mean we fall over then or do the deed ourselves.

when you get there let me know,  so I can make other arrangements 

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Posted
6 hours ago, Demonstone said:

I am curious as to the age makeup of Demonlanders.  I suspect that, like our supporter base, it will skew towards the middle/top end.

Voters names will not be made public, so don't be shy!

 

How do you do a poll 'Stone? I tried to do one a couple of weeks ago and couldn't find the 'poll' option or any such thing.

Cheers,

Roger the Dense

 

Posted
19 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I'm guessing DL will be more skewed than our supporter base as I doubt anyone under 40 reads/posts on DL - to their loss.

They are more likely to be on a fb or bf fan forum, if on a fan forum at all.

I reckon you’re out by about a decade - it’ll be the under 30s under-represented. I installed this forum software two days before my 22nd birthday and this type of forum was very popular then, so I suspect there are a lot of posters in their mid-late 30s (like me) kicking around.

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Posted (edited)
55 minutes ago, Nasher said:

I reckon you’re out by about a decade - it’ll be the under 30s under-represented. I installed this forum software two days before my 22nd birthday and this type of forum was very popular then, so I suspect there are a lot of posters in their mid-late 30s (like me) kicking around.

 

20 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Under 40 may not age well, no pun intended - my first instinct was to say under 30.  The latter being the age group that grew up in a world with 'social media' like fb etc.

 

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Posted
20 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I'm guessing DL will be more skewed than our supporter base as I doubt anyone under 40 reads/posts on DL - to their loss.

They are more likely to be on a fb or bf fan forum, if on a fan forum at all.

So offended. I’m not that old thanks! 
 

Actually as one of the OG Demonlanders, I reckon you’d be surprised how many of us are, still, in our 30s. This forum started when forums were just at the start of becoming a really big thing and many of the original “testers” for this site were in their early 20s. 

Posted
50 minutes ago, Nasher said:

I reckon you’re out by about a decade - it’ll be the under 30s under-represented. I installed this forum software two days before my 22nd birthday and this type of forum was very popular then, so I suspect there are a lot of posters in their mid-late 30s (like me) kicking around.

In typical millennial behavior I did not read this post first before saying the exact same thing 😂 

Posted
5 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

So offended. I’m not that old thanks! 
 

Actually as one of the OG Demonlanders, I reckon you’d be surprised how many of us are, still, in our 30s. This forum started when forums were just at the start of becoming a really big thing and many of the original “testers” for this site were in their early 20s. 

 

20 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Under 40 may not age well, no pun intended - my first instinct was to say under 30.  The latter being the age group that grew up in a world with 'social media' like fb etc.

 


Posted
8 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

So offended. I’m not that old thanks! 
 

Actually as one of the OG Demonlanders, I reckon you’d be surprised how many of us are, still, in our 30s. This forum started when forums were just at the start of becoming a really big thing and many of the original “testers” for this site were in their early 20s. 

Yep, +1 over here. I was 15 when I started on DL with the old version. 

Posted

Jeez I feel like i am carrying  all of D/L on my rounding shoulders Come on you old plicks out there  help lift the average

 

 

Posted

I’m in the 60 plus bracket and only found out and joined Demonland this year. Where have I been???

What interests me was I did not realise how immature my emotional intelligence is when it comes to all things footy- and I’m loving it!  My wife of course, is not surprised at all (at my lack of intelligence), she thinks I need to get a hobby! 

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Posted (edited)

Suprised there was not more in the 51-60 category. 
Maybe they are still asleep..

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Posted

For me, there are two surprising facts the data reveals so far:

  • only three percent of 'Landers admit to being under 20 years of age, and
  • WCW hasn't declared her age publicly. 

Top line analysis:

  1. Given the nature of some of some the discussions, I would have thought people aged 12 would make up about 50 percent of 'Landers, and 
  2. WCW is way too self-effacing.

Love yous all, QD.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Wodjathefirst said:

I’m in the 60 plus bracket and only found out and joined Demonland this year. Where have I been???

What interests me was I did not realise how immature my emotional intelligence is when it comes to all things footy- and I’m loving it!  My wife of course, is not surprised at all (at my lack of intelligence), she thinks I need to get a hobby! 

One's hobby soon enough becomes 'Land.

Posted

Just on only 10% being under the age of 30 is a damning statistic.  How this compares with the age demographics of our actual membership would be interesting but the club would know

But if you put 100 demonlanders in a large room right now only about 10 of them would be aged 30 or under.  It'd be an old crowd

Not surprised but if you are looking for a loud supporter group, a club made up of primarily over 40's (60%+) aren't going to be the raucous types (as a general rule)

Most oldies don't do noise and aren't very loud themselves either ... they might be 'keep off the lawn types' but loud?  I don't think so

If a noisy crowd is needed then we need 10's of thousands of young supporters.  And that can only happen if we have sustained success

Posted
On 6/4/2022 at 12:38 PM, WalkingCivilWar said:

Must we tell the absolute truth?

asking for a friend 

I get so much value out of Demonland. Until today I had thought all truths, by definition, must be absolute.  But apparently not. There's all sorts of truths like this in Wikipedia, or this or even this.

Seems to me WCW, you can state you are whatever age you want and you'll be able to find a way to claim it's the truth.

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On 6/5/2022 at 8:45 AM, Nasher said:

I reckon you’re out by about a decade - it’ll be the under 30s under-represented. I installed this forum software two days before my 22nd birthday and this type of forum was very popular then, so I suspect there are a lot of posters in their mid-late 30s (like me) kicking around.

Another late 30s here, our age bracket loves/loved a forum, spent far too many hours on the Big Day Out Forum back in the day. 


Posted
21 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I get so much value out of Demonland. Until today I had thought all truths, by definition, must be absolute.  But apparently not. There's all sorts of truths like this in Wikipedia, or this or even this.

Seems to me WCW, you can state you are whatever age you want and you'll be able to find a way to claim it's the truth.

In that case, I’m 29 years old. 😁

Posted
On 6/5/2022 at 12:32 PM, Queanbeyan Demon said:

 

  • WCW hasn't declared her age publicly. 

 

I’m whatever age you want me to be, QD. As long as it’s 29 

Posted
3 hours ago, Macca said:

Just on only 10% being under the age of 30 is a damning statistic.

We've got some young supporters but they're on other sites like BigFooty, Facebook and AFL Reddit.

Posted (edited)
42 minutes ago, The Lobster Effect said:

We've got some young supporters but they're on other sites like BigFooty, Facebook and AFL Reddit.

I know we've got young supporters but how many? 

And how many in comparison to the other Victorian clubs?  Also, how many in proportion to our supporters aged over 40?

My guess is that our age demographics  are probably different to a lot of the other clubs

I've got a mate who works in sales (wholesale building supplies) ... he has hundreds of clients and the topic of conversation (apart from the business side of things) centres around footy

He reckons there are only a handful of Demon supporters where as the other 250-300 all support the Blues, Hawks, Pies, Bombers & Tigers

Our years in the wilderness has cost us in terms of having a younger supporter base ... especially so when we were absolute crud

The remedy is to stay in contention for at least 5-7 years.  Whatever window we're in needs to be extended and maintained indefinitely

I also reckon we convert a lot of our older supporters into members.  $250 is not a lot for the afluent (if afluency is a factor)  Doesn't necessarily mean that they are going to attend games though

Just my take as I could be wrong on a few fronts, LE

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Posted (edited)

Just 40% aged over 50 doesn't look representative of the posters on DL.  I'm basing that on the number of posters who talk lovingly about grandchildren, recall our 50's and 60's glory years, anecdotes of players and games of the 70's etc

Maybe there are a lot of older posters who haven't participated yet.   Or 'younger' DL members with accounts that don't post regularly and have participated.

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Posted
On 6/5/2022 at 10:11 AM, The heart beats true said:

I think it’s rubbish that the demographics aren’t in 5 year brackets. 41-45 would make me feel heaps better than 41-50 does. This weekend sucks.

☹️

As a 59 year old, I applaud it!! ;)

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Posted

Just on 200 responses now.  I wonder if that sample size is large enough to be meaningful.

It does confirm my suspicion that we don't have a lot of young (under 30) posters here.

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