well done but we're still around 10th on the membership lists and around 7th of the ten Melbourne based clubs.
It will be a hard task to climb the ladder.
Looking at the numbers from Big Footy
We should easily stay in front of the Saints next year and probably the Dogs who are 5k behind us. The teams within striking distance are Geelong, Hawthorn and to a lesser extent Essendon. Carlton's figure strike me as rubbery so they could be within range.
North have 45k members which is more than we had in 2020.
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/2021-afl-membership-tracker-figures.1259510/