Official Club Stuff 2019 GWS Membership
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- Apr 12, 2012
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Just had to update some details over the phone and we have hit 30k overnight. 3rd biggest club in Sydney.
Well done to the club and membership team.
Next step converting those fans to a minimum 15k to 18k attendance.
Well done to the club and membership team.
Next step converting those fans to a minimum 15k to 18k attendance.
Behind the swans obviously, but who else?
Sydney FC was 14,834 and the Wanderers were 19,007 for the 2017/18 season and Souths are only at 29k as the largest Sydney based team.
- Apr 12, 2012
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Think we are 2nd in NSW but we are behind the Broncos of the NRL..
I originally thought South's had more than 30k, just. My bad.
Great to get to the 30k figure and it still needs to show in the matchday crowds and hopefully with a sunny day and good timeslot the crowd for this weekend is between 18-20k more would be great but with 4 good home games to come and some sunny weather the average crowd for the year should increase
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It doesn't seem to add up.
With the club trumpeting 30,000 members, we should be posting “sold out” notices for games against large-drawing opponents like Collingwood.
Where are these members? Does anyone have a breakdown of how may there are in Sydney, the ACT, and interstate?
With the club trumpeting 30,000 members, we should be posting “sold out” notices for games against large-drawing opponents like Collingwood.
Where are these members? Does anyone have a breakdown of how may there are in Sydney, the ACT, and interstate?
- Apr 12, 2012
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Tigers have 100k and avg 50 or so.
We have a lot of 3 game member in comparison to other clubs(from what I've been told).
If we get a sellout against the Swans and a good crowd against the dogs we should have our biggest avg crowd since we began. I think.
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30,000 Strong As GIANTS Celebrate Historic Milestone
In just eight short years, the GIANTS have reached a hugely significant milestone, passing 30,000 members for the first time.
73% NSW. Presumably mainly in Sydney, though Queanbeyan/Duffy are 5th and 6th for suburbs with most members.
15% ACT
12% Other
35% new members in 2019, which I assume would be mainly short term memberships on top of whatever %age already held short term memberships.
Yeah I agree. The pace of the reported membership growth seems much faster than the growth in home crowds.
I may be wrong but the member numbers also include the womens and the netball memberships and that will inflate the figures but as discussed the member numbers need to equal larger crowds at GS and Canberra and hopefully a few favourable factors and a good draw in 2020 we will see the crowd numbers increase again. I can see the average increasing again this year and we all know the best way to increase the crowds are wins in September
- Apr 12, 2012
- 46,168
- 41,967
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- GWS
They include the woman's, that aren't double ups, only. Netball not included.
- Apr 12, 2012
- 46,168
- 41,967
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- GWS
That's what's needed.
Our membership numbers are fines we just need to convert more and more from the 3 and 4 game memberships to the full season etc
After 8 years the Richmond Tigers only had 306 members - must have been propped up by the VFA at the time 
They didn't break 30k members until 2007 so we beat them to that mark by 114 years.
They didn't break 30k members until 2007 so we beat them to that mark by 114 years.
After 8 years the Richmond Tigers only had 306 members - must have been propped up by the VFA at the time
They didn't break 30k members until 2007 so we beat them to that mark by 114 years.
And to pick a random year... (well, not so random, I like symmetry) 1988 - eighty years after joining the league - 80 years of playing at the very epicentre of downtown footy heartland - their home crowds at the home of football, The Mecca of Mecca’s, the centre of the footballing universe, the MCG were....
34,824
27,417
12,880
11,468
7,157
19,458
20,199
20,475
15,026
19,406
For an average of 18,831
So after 80 years in the heart of heartland they were averaging about 6k more than we do on the frontier of the hostile wilderness after 8 years.
.... but.... you know.... Victoria.
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Les Malone
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- Jul 28, 2019
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After 8 years the Richmond Tigers only had 306 members - must have been propped up by the VFA at the time
They didn't break 30k members until 2007 so we beat them to that mark by 114 years.
Not a great comparison really, in those days to become a member you needed to be seconded by another member or official in some cases 2 members, AFL memberships only really became popular in the 1990's when big growth happened as it became easier to get one.
I am not knocking the Giants of course, hopefully in a couple of years we will be around 50k
Les Malone
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- Jul 28, 2019
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Richmond played at Punt road till about the mid 1960's then moved to the MCG, in 1988 they averaged at home 20,259, seven years earlier they averaged over 43,000, seven years later over 42,000
