17 minutes ago, Jack Vineys Anger Manager said:

Our crowds were pretty good in 2025 considering our ladder position. 449k in total attendance at home (afl 9th) average home attendance of 37.5k (Afl 8th) in all matches 840k attendance (afl 9th)

Our reputation of not turning up is a myth. In 2025 anyway.

remove the alice game and it's stronger again

our membership base is always going to be low as our supporter base is small, but our conversion of supporters: members used to be, and presumably still is, one of the best in the competition

ultimately, we're a minnow club

3 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

remove the alice game and it's stronger again

our membership base is always going to be low as our supporter base is small, but our conversion of supporters: members used to be, and presumably still is, one of the best in the competition

ultimately, we're a minnow club

I’d love to know how many MCC members are also MFC members and vice versa. I also think we have a huge opportunity to build our fan base through are affiliation with Casey and that growing area, but I’m not sure we are utilising it well enough. I’d love to see us offering cheaper member options for people living in that area to build the member base, even if financially it doesn’t make anything in the short term it could be a more long term plan.

7 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

I’d love to know how many MCC members are also MFC members and vice versa. I also think we have a huge opportunity to build our fan base through are affiliation with Casey and that growing area, but I’m not sure we are utilising it well enough. I’d love to see us offering cheaper member options for people living in that area to build the member base, even if financially it doesn’t make anything in the short term it could be a more long term plan.

aints' membership base is artificially boosted - or at least it used to be - by giving away memberships to children competing in the smjfl league, and parents often got memberships thrown in for free too

ultimately i suppose it's not # of members that counts but $ driven from them

9 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

aints' membership base is artificially boosted - or at least it used to be - by giving away memberships to children competing in the smjfl league, and parents often got memberships thrown in for free too

ultimately i suppose it's not # of members that counts but $ driven from them

Yeah I wouldn’t do it for ever, but if over the next 10 years we can add 10k-20k members using that strategy long term we may get some rusted on members out of it

1 hour ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

I also think we have a huge opportunity to build our fan base through are affiliation with Casey and that growing area, but I’m not sure we are utilising it well enough. I’

We've been at Casey now for 17 years and it's not really demonstrated that it adds to the supporter base.

The VFL and AFLW attendances are rarely over 2k.

Could/Should we do better. Perhaps but financially we're stretched.

Bulldogs haven't shown any signs of capturing the massive growth in the Western suburbs so perhaps we're not alone