2019 afl membership numbers prediction

[Kanga87]

Dunno bro top 4 team at the end of 2018 something you havent seen your side be for a looooong time.

“Dunno Bro” might want to check your facts “bro”

 

[Pessimistic]

I'd give both the QLD clubs some space and wait and see what happens this year.

The Lions are on the up. We dont know how far or fast but it seems improbable their supporters wont have reason to cheer at the Gabba this year. That always causes an increase.

The Suns had unique issues last year with no games at Metricon for the first half of the year.

It would piss me off if Olympic Park was taken, including Spotless, for half the season. As I understand it's not the clubs fault unless you blame them for failing to lobby the QLD govt effectively.

They actually get good crowds at Metricon consistently. As for us that no doubt includes local residents that support the opposition. We actively promote memberships to these people at Spotless and Manuka with cheap 3 game packages, and even an $80 one game membership for Manuka offerred prior to the third game.

Not sure if the Suns take the same tack. I tried to check the packages on their site but no details are available. It says they will be in November. We started rollovers and selling packages at the start of this month and have 9k to date. Not sure what this means.

It would have been an ideal opportunity to take games to other regions of Queensland more to gauge support there

 

[Niggles]

For what it matters the Hawks have increased their tally every year since 2007.

Presuming we pick up Wingard, Scully and co. I can’t see us dropping - we increased last year from 76k to 81k on the back of trading out Hodge, Mitchell, Lewis and missing the finals.

We’ve also been top 2 for club membership in every season since 2007 (and top in 2009, 2015-16) so it’s going to be interesting to see where we sit relative to Collingwood, West Coast and Essendon.

That said membership numbers have lost all meaning since the AFL changed the definition of ticketed memberships about 5 years ago

Was that when they questioned those dodgy hawk family memberships which included 3 kids regardless of existence. Was probably the fact that you had 2-3 times the number of junior members as the next best club that had the AFL asking WTF.

 

[Bluelegs]

Basically the OP is on some good shit

Saints clearly fudging the numbers lol.

 

[Shrek1975]

Richmond went from 72669 members in 2017 to 100726 in 2018. Certainly not unrealistic to think a club with as many supporters as Collingwood has could not do the same or better after a very similar rise into contention.

 

[ltchyba11s]

Huh. So we might overtake Hawthorn as the second-largest club this year.

Cool. Pretty good for little ol' Western Australia.

Work out the population of Worst Australia, divide the population of Perth by 2 then subtract that. Then get the population of Melbourne and divide that by 10. You might not sound so disillusioned.

 

[ltchyba11s]

Richmond went from 72669 members in 2017 to 100726 in 2018. Certainly not unrealistic to think a club with as many supporters as Collingwood has could not do the same or better after a very similar rise into contention.

By the end of the 2017 H&A season Richmond had 75,777 members. Collingwood won't hit 100,000. There aren't as many Collingwood supporters as you think there are. I would expect that type of narcissism fro the spoon fed Syckleyites.

 

[Macpotata]

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