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45,800 today. Just spoke to the club. Last year there was a 5148 membership spike between this week and the next week when games begun so fingers crossed we have a great game and get the spike.  

 

I say this every year - membership numbers are a complete w@nk. I'd be amazed if anything more than 50% of club memberships are legitimate 11 game plus memberships.

The rest are pets, babies, freebies, gifts or for 3 games or less. My son is counted in St Kilda's membership number because the SMJFL gives out free 2 game memberships when you register each year. He has zero interest in St Kilda. We only take it up so we can get into the game for free if St Kilda host Melbourne.

The membership numbers might give the clubs a brief sugar high, but it is the membership dollars and the match day attendances that truly matter.

 

 

4 hours ago, poita said:

SMJFL gives out free 2 game memberships when you register each year. He has zero interest in St Kilda. We only take it up so we can get into the game for free if St Kilda host Melbourne.

I got offered that for my oldest kid this year.  Is that the whole league or just that club?  

I refused it outright, despite the free game.  No way I was helping the Saints, you can Kildat idea dead right now

 
5 hours ago, Its Time for Another said:

Are you Peter Lawrence by any chance. Banging on with the same old misguided rubbish. Take it somewhere else. Move one. 

No but I'm sorry he's not on the Board. 

You take it somewhere else.

9 minutes ago, Hellfire Dub said:

I got offered that for my oldest kid this year.  Is that the whole league or just that club?  

I refused it outright, despite the free game.  No way I was helping the Saints, you can Kildat idea dead right now

dorks do the same for every kid at blackburn junior fc in efnl.  probably other clubs too


Does anyone know if there will be any scarf collection points this year? 

On 16/03/2025 at 11:37, Steamin Demon said:

Does anyone know if there will be any scarf collection points this year? 

No. Call the club and request one.

5 hours ago, He de mon said:

No. Call the club and request one.

Thank you. I'll give it a go. 

 
On 16/03/2025 at 11:37, Steamin Demon said:

Does anyone know if there will be any scarf collection points this year? 

As long as you have requested  the scarf and stickers with your renewal, they should all be mailed out. The Club stopped scarf collections when COVID struck and haven't started them up again. If you have received your membership either on your mobile or card, you should check with the Club that you have requested the package when renewing.

At the end of last year I was able to buy a Trident tier membership after being on the waiting list for 1-2 years. Does anyone know if the seat allocation changes every year? I'm in the last row from the front, so just wondeingr if it gets better...


30 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

At the end of last year I was able to buy a Trident tier membership after being on the waiting list for 1-2 years. Does anyone know if the seat allocation changes every year? I'm in the last row from the front, so just wondeingr if it gets better...

I think Trident members retain their seats unless they request a move and that there is a empty seat.

 

On 18/03/2025 at 21:03, At the break of Gawn said:

At the end of last year I was able to buy a Trident tier membership after being on the waiting list for 1-2 years. Does anyone know if the seat allocation changes every year? I'm in the last row from the front, so just wondeingr if it gets better...

You definitely retain your seat. Every year I vow to change our seats, but I never do. I am right on the drip line, and the afternoon sun makes it tough to see, but I like the people around me.

On 16/03/2025 at 11:37, Steamin Demon said:

Does anyone know if there will be any scarf collection points this year? 

As a volunteer who handed out scarves for years I can tell no! All scarves are mailed out with memberships and I believe the option is a scarve or a demon shop gift voucher. We are no longer required to hand out thousands of scarves.

Very early days but presently down nearly 15%. That's a substantial drop (so far).

You can't tell me the top brass haven't noticed that by now.

10 hours ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Very early days but presently down nearly 15%. That's a substantial drop (so far).

You can't tell me the top brass haven't noticed that by now.

Do you have any idea what the numbers are so far this year?


18 minutes ago, Rednblueriseing said:

Do you have any idea what the numbers are so far this year?

Look at the table on page 1 of this thread.

George updates it fairly regularly.

It's not surprising that we as a club see this sort of drop off during times of turmoil when you consider the socio-economic demographic of the Melbourne fanbase. I definitely feel like Melbourne supporters are more likely to scrutinise the club through their wallets than any other club is. When you combine boring football with no scoring, off field issues, player turmoil, not to mention the off-season anxiety fueled by your best players threatening to leave, and it is absolutely no surprise we have seen a 7k dropoff.

I can't remember who said it, it might have been Pert, and i think the news article has been scrubbed from Google, but I distinctively remember someone saying that the aim was turning Melbourne into the "NY Yankees" of Australia.

There is no compelling reason at the moment to sign up. It's much harder to sell hope when you can't win games even with one of the best ruckman of all time, and a premiership winning midfield still playing together.

24 minutes ago, praha said:

It's not surprising that we as a club see this sort of drop off during times of turmoil when you consider the socio-economic demographic of the Melbourne fanbase. I definitely feel like Melbourne supporters are more likely to scrutinise the club through their wallets than any other club is. When you combine boring football with no scoring, off field issues, player turmoil, not to mention the off-season anxiety fueled by your best players threatening to leave, and it is absolutely no surprise we have seen a 7k dropoff.

I can't remember who said it, it might have been Pert, and i think the news article has been scrubbed from Google, but I distinctively remember someone saying that the aim was turning Melbourne into the "NY Yankees" of Australia.

There is no compelling reason at the moment to sign up. It's much harder to sell hope when you can't win games even with one of the best ruckman of all time, and a premiership winning midfield still playing together.

At the moment we are more like the NY Mets, though they are blue collar fan base unlike the Yankees.


We have less members than St Kilda and Bulldogs and 2,000 more than North who’ve won about 3 games in 5 years

We should be ahead of those 4 clubs all things being equal.

I’m not really surprised BBP we were in the Press for all the wrong reasons all year long, even on Demonland it reached fever pitch. That type of bad press really hurts the newbie supporters and we now appear to have lost half of our 2021-2023 gains. Plus our start is the worst since 2019, injuries and having trouble implementing a new game plan seems to have sapped the players confidence. I preferred the team first defensive game plan then try to merge the changes over a full season??

13 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

We have less members than St Kilda and Bulldogs and 2,000 more than North who’ve won about 3 games in 5 years

We should be ahead of those 4 clubs all things being equal.

We should be in the vicinity of 75k if we were true contenders.

Sustained success is key, 2024 and 2025 (so far) are not helping.

 

48,401 slowly sneaking up towards 50,000, I thought it would be a significant drop off but not to this magnitude our current form is not helping our numbers. Will be lucky to reach 58,000.

Presently 15.8% down on 2024

-18% on our 2022/23 peaks


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