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DeeZone Redleg

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3 minutes ago, layzie said:

Does this mean less road trips and other entitled club benefits? 

Probably not Layzie we are the founding club the oldest in the land we have to lead the way as usual, no special benefits like the rest.!!!!

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16 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

now bring on the new home announcement

(if only just for od)

DC, you must be shattered, mate, you've been providing great updates all the way along, and bloody @dazzledavey36 pips you at the post. 🤣

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This really is absolutely incredible.

To reach 70,000 is a historically important achievement for the Melbourne Football Club.

I understand some of these members are last minute for finals tickets. But it still shouldn't be disregarded.

To think that this amazing Club that we all love almost went extinct in 1996 when we almost merged! We almost went bankrupt a few times too.

For many years we have struggled to get above 20,000 members. Then we were happy with 40,000 members a few years ago.

If we continue to have success then we will hopefully continue to grow.

What a time to be a Melbourne Demons member. Something I have been for 25 years. It really does bring tears to my eyes.

May our beloved Melbourne Demons keep going from strength to strength!

Let's aim for 75,000+ members in the near future!

It just proves that winning Premierships and sustained success will grow your membership. It is a very simple formula.

GO DEMONS!!! 🔴🔵👹

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DeeZone Redleg

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51 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

now bring on the new home announcement

(if only just for od)

How good is this DC I thought that we had just missed the mark but some smart marketing and a brilliant finish to the year by our boys and there it is.!!!

and Great Demon Supporters.❤️💙

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A HUGE well done to all of our Demonland brothers and sisters, and everyone else whose hearts are possessed by the red and blue!
Like every one of us, I’m so excited by what lies almost within touching (kicking?) distance in 2023  ……. and beyond!  Imagine what Flag or two might do to our future membership tallies.  Go Dees!
 

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42 minutes ago, Binmans PA said:

DC, you must be shattered, mate, you've been providing great updates all the way along, and bloody @dazzledavey36 pips you at the post. 🤣

Look,  whe it comes comes to performing on the big stage @daisycutter was no where to be seen so I had to pipe up.

Lift your game Daisy ffs

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Extrapolating from the August figures for all clubs that puts us 6th or 7th.

Of the Melbourne clubs we are 5th and Essendon is within sight... (79k members)

Well done

* Hawks have not published their figures

https://www.sportingnews.com/au/afl/news/membership-numbers-2023-all-time-members-record/fk66mawntzeiuv0l1ivnqeu0

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54 minutes ago, Supreme_Demon said:

This really is absolutely incredible.

To reach 70,000 is a historically important achievement for the Melbourne Football Club.

I understand some of these members are last minute for finals tickets. But it still shouldn't be disregarded.

To think that this amazing Club that we all love almost went extinct in 1996 when we almost merged! We almost went bankrupt a few times too.

For many years we have struggled to get above 20,000 members. Then we were happy with 40,000 members a few years ago.

If we continue to have success then we will hopefully continue to grow.

What a time to be a Melbourne Demons member. Something I have been for 25 years. It really does bring tears to my eyes.

May our beloved Melbourne Demons keep going from strength to strength!

Let's aim for 75,000+ members in the near future!

It just proves that winning Premierships and sustained success will grow your membership. It is a very simple formula.

GO DEMONS!!! 🔴🔵👹

Top 4 three years in a row.

Goody and team are doing their bit.

Congratulations to all of us.

 

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Really nice to go to a game and see a range of ages and different nationalities decked out in red and blue. Feels like the club is gathering a lot more new supporters - as opposed the the declining number of 50+ year old, homogenous, grumpy, ex private schoolboys in the mcc (of which I am one) that made up most of our 15k of supporters  who turned up 10-15 years ago.

we did well to hang on 

I really never saw us being the club we are now. What a joy! 

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This is a significant moment. I was watching some clips from the 1990s of Shwartz and Neitz the other day, lucky to be 20,000 people at the ground let alone 20,000 members. And then the whole "benefits of losing" and Mark Neeld eras.

We are a large, successful, financially stable, long term sponsors-keeping, attractional club with exceptional personnel in the Board and Executive, and great staff & volunteers behind the scenes. We have a dogged, resilient, brilliant coach who the players love, and a team full of talent and marketable personalities. Top 4 - 3 years running.

Best jumper in the game, our home is THE home of the game, we ARE the history of the game. 

I have waited a b****y long time for this and I am going to revel in it, and brag about it. Loving it. 

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13 minutes ago, Dees_In_October said:

So good! Who'd have thought we'd get here 10 years ago?

And shout out to the roughly 5% of that figure who are AFLW members. According to the club, we've broken our AFLW membership record again as well.

For $30 a year I'd implore all of our supporters who can afford it to consider taking out an AFLW membership. Supporting and investing in our womens competition now will contribute in a significant way to our on field success and pay massive dividends in building our womens competition and making us a big destination club.

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6 minutes ago, chookrat said:

For $30 a year I'd implore all of our supporters who can afford it to consider taking out an AFLW membership. Supporting and investing in our womens competition now will contribute in a significant way to our on field success and pay massive dividends in building our womens competition and making us a big destination club.

And included in that you can choose between a tote bag or water bottle! 😁

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