According to the ol' terms and conditions on the membership site the cut off was 5pm today. Basically says any members signed up after that time wont be counted officially by the AFL and the member wont have priority access to finals tickets.
I was about to sign up to the 3 game membership tonight but now haven't because of that. The clubs reminder email which they only sent yesterday didn't reference that info. I've replied and just suggested in the future that would be useful to make known in the reminder emails (nothing angsty, it was my fault I was lazy and left it too late).
I was a 10 year consecutive 11 game member too. Rather ironic that the entire 10 years I was a consecutive member (I have been one before many times though) we have not once made finals, the year I'm not a member and not attending games, we will probably make the finals. You can all thank me later!
Wouldn't you still be able to sign up to an armchair membership to keep your consecutive years going?
Pretty ordinary that the club doesnt specify a cut off date.
I will be calling them tomorrow to confirm my consecutive years are counted, it is my fault for leaving so long but i would think that signing up as a member before the end of the year would count.
Edit: i just twigged that you were specifically talking about finals tickets.