Anti Gold Coast
19 Apr 2008, 00:48
Definately. The North Melbourne FC is finally beginning to capatilise on it's un-riveled success in the 90s with up and coming Joey's ready at the helm, to support the club. One just needs to look at the recent membership figure breakdown, to recognise that whilst "powerhouses" like Essendon can only manage Junior memberships of 4760, the North Melbourne FC have recorded a whopping 8148 junior memberships.
It's all well and good for the Bombers and similar clubs to have good-solid memberships now, but what happens when the Baby-Boomers are pushing up daisies? Meanwhile, over at what will be the newly developed Arden St, we will be having waves of young supporters.
With this increased capital, comes increased expenditure. Now let's take a simple case study. The reason that the American economy is able to produce the best "talent" and "products" is because of the billions of dollars flowing through the economy. You have to have capital to get any organisation flowing. The North Melbourne FC is committing record amounts of capital into getting the business to function properly. So whilst many do argue "you can't sustain your memberships BLAH,BLAH BLAH" I argue that there immediate injection of capital is worth it's wait in gold. The club will be able to invest more into player payments, sport science, and just general "uncrappyfying Arden St." This in turn will lead to better performances on-field, which will lead to increased memberships, greater supporters, and greater presence in the AFL community.
Now the pessimists in you, will say "the majority of the junior memberships are pity memberships." Feasible, I have to agree. So lets look at the concession memberships. Now, negligible pity memberships are likely to be "concession" memberships, so when we have a look at the figures, we find the Roos have greater amounts of concession memberships, than clubs like Hawthorn, Port and the WEstern Bulldogs, and merely trail teams like Richmond by 8 memberships. So in total, we have 8 less- junior and senior memberships than Richmond, and 2714 more junior/concession memberships than Essendon. Very nice!
The effects of this have already started to pay off. The club has been able to unearth quality players in rookie drafts like Matthew Campbell, Scott McMahon and numerous others. It's a shame to think, that the club was intent on signing quality such as Priddis, Brett Jones and Aaron Davey, had it not been for the inability of the club to fund such acquisitions. But the day of the pauper-Roos are no more. We are a force to be reckoned with.
With imminant success, we can realistically hope for these membership numbers in both the junior and adult sectors to blossom, as we unseat clubs like Richmond from the AFL's power-broker clubs.
A little optomism never hurt anyone.
It's all well and good for the Bombers and similar clubs to have good-solid memberships now, but what happens when the Baby-Boomers are pushing up daisies? Meanwhile, over at what will be the newly developed Arden St, we will be having waves of young supporters.
With this increased capital, comes increased expenditure. Now let's take a simple case study. The reason that the American economy is able to produce the best "talent" and "products" is because of the billions of dollars flowing through the economy. You have to have capital to get any organisation flowing. The North Melbourne FC is committing record amounts of capital into getting the business to function properly. So whilst many do argue "you can't sustain your memberships BLAH,BLAH BLAH" I argue that there immediate injection of capital is worth it's wait in gold. The club will be able to invest more into player payments, sport science, and just general "uncrappyfying Arden St." This in turn will lead to better performances on-field, which will lead to increased memberships, greater supporters, and greater presence in the AFL community.
Now the pessimists in you, will say "the majority of the junior memberships are pity memberships." Feasible, I have to agree. So lets look at the concession memberships. Now, negligible pity memberships are likely to be "concession" memberships, so when we have a look at the figures, we find the Roos have greater amounts of concession memberships, than clubs like Hawthorn, Port and the WEstern Bulldogs, and merely trail teams like Richmond by 8 memberships. So in total, we have 8 less- junior and senior memberships than Richmond, and 2714 more junior/concession memberships than Essendon. Very nice!
The effects of this have already started to pay off. The club has been able to unearth quality players in rookie drafts like Matthew Campbell, Scott McMahon and numerous others. It's a shame to think, that the club was intent on signing quality such as Priddis, Brett Jones and Aaron Davey, had it not been for the inability of the club to fund such acquisitions. But the day of the pauper-Roos are no more. We are a force to be reckoned with.
With imminant success, we can realistically hope for these membership numbers in both the junior and adult sectors to blossom, as we unseat clubs like Richmond from the AFL's power-broker clubs.
A little optomism never hurt anyone.