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[MickZu]

20,000 members + 10,000 of those having double memberships = 30,000

 

[PoidaCat]

Nice deflection of the passion of your supporter base to the Demons. Quality work.



Mmmmmm. Try again. If you were a Kangas supporter and didn't know that you were playing in Melbourne, well... you're not really a Kangas supporter. Do you really believe that there are that many people who decide at 10:00am on a Saturday that they'll head off to the footy with a couple of mates?



Yeah but their stadium deal would mean that they'd make money on figures like that regardless. And with the fact that they've got a capacity of about 28,000 I'm sure there were fans who thought they would have been locked out so didn't go. The Cats have a large Melbourne based following, and there's no point in driving down to Geelong just to drive back. I bet the next home game is better attended.

FFS. You played at the Home of Football on a fair weather day. Perfect conditions, easy to get to, plenty of public transport and no way you could miss out on a seat. And your team looked guaranteed for the win. What more could be in your favour?

Or maybe after the way you've found to lose games and MFC's lift in performance last week at Skilled your fans had the feeling you might cough this one up as well?

Yep...I'd say every match at TD we get around 40,000 Minimum same as the MCG...regardless of who we are playing...

this is since around 2000-2001 too when we were still shit...

 

[AGC]

Re: 23000 at the MCG...

Yep, there's already a thread about it.

I reckon you could also just sneak one about how you beat us last week.

 

[PoidaCat]

Re: 23000 at the MCG...

The fans have spoken.

"Move to the Gold Coast"...

 

[Geoffa32]

Re: 23000 at the MCG...

I seem to recall Adelaide supporters being chastised for only having 28,000 at the Nothing Cup Final....

Pathetic effort given that MCC members get in for free, and North have a membership of 31,000. Makes you wonder how many of those members are named Whiskers and Fido.

2010 RIP NMFC....When Jimbob Fails the AFL will not give them another chance to relocate.

 

[AGC]

Re: 23000 at the MCG...

I seem to recall Adelaide supporters being chastised for only having 28,000 at the Nothing Cup Final....

Pathetic effort given that MCC members get in for free, and North have a membership of 31,000. Makes you wonder how many of those members are named Whiskers and Fido.

2010 RIP NMFC....When Jimbob Fails the AFL will not give them another chance to relocate.

Well, given we have a non-ticketed Pet Membership, I assume the majority are there.

 

[Zvim]

Nice deflection of the passion of your supporter base to the Demons. Quality work.

Just on MMM today Brian Taylor was talking about the crowd and he said

"don't worry about North, we know they don't have massive support, but at the game yesterday it was almost all North, they turned up. Where were the Melbourne supporters? They are pissweak."

So yeah, it is just my active imagination.

Mmmmmm. Try again. If you were a Kangas supporter and didn't know that you were playing in Melbourne, well... you're not really a Kangas supporter. Do you really believe that there are that many people who decide at 10:00am on a Saturday that they'll head off to the footy with a couple of mates?

Not sure if your brain is fully functional, I knew where it was, all regular supporters knew and they showed up. If I picked up a fixture to look at which game was on this week because I wasn't a rabbid follower then I would have thought it was at the Gold Coast.

Yeah but their stadium deal would mean that they'd make money on figures like that regardless. And with the fact that they've got a capacity of about 28,000 I'm sure there were fans who thought they would have been locked out so didn't go. The Cats have a large Melbourne based following, and there's no point in driving down to Geelong just to drive back. I bet the next home game is better attended.

Seriously, that is pissweak. THIS is the thing that I have been vocal about, people criticising our crowds and not anyone else's. People just like to slag us for whatever reason. Fact is Geelong have significantly more members than us and couldn't fill out their stadium, the money aspect is irrelevant, that is only a factor because of lobsided stadium deals, something the AFL is trying to address.

FFS. You played at the Home of Football on a fair weather day. Perfect conditions, easy to get to, plenty of public transport and no way you could miss out on a seat. And your team looked guaranteed for the win. What more could be in your favour?

Or maybe after the way you've found to lose games and MFC's lift in performance last week at Skilled your fans had the feeling you might cough this one up as well?

That is all irrelevant, if we were playing Freo then I would have said 24k would have been a reasonable crowd. Melbourne are drawing about as many as Freo do in Melbourne at the moment because they have nothing to look forward to.

 

[keefriffhard]

Just on MMM today Brian Taylor was talking about the crowd and he said

"don't worry about North, we know they don't have massive support, but at the game yesterday it was almost all North, they turned up. Where were the Melbourne supporters? They are pissweak."

So yeah, it is just my active imagination.

They deserve a rocket too. But they haven't shoved down everyone's throat how financially viable they are because of their huge following. You head's on the chopping block and you're getting shit crowds. Try addressing the issue of why you've got 30,000 members for '08 and you draw a crowd of 23,000 to a home game.

Not sure if your brain is fully functional, I knew where it was, all regular supporters knew and they showed up. If I picked up a fixture to look at which game was on this week because I wasn't a rabbid follower then I would have thought it was at the Gold Coast.

Anyone who has any football interest knew that the game was here. God knows that anyone who has anything to do with the admin down at Arden Street got their mug on the box to pump it up. For God's sake Brayshaw plugged the hell out of it on TFS. As an excuse, that's B/S.

That's B/S.

 

[keefriffhard]

Seriously, that is pissweak. THIS is the thing that I have been vocal about, people criticising our crowds and not anyone else's. People just like to slag us for whatever reason. Fact is Geelong have significantly more members than us and couldn't fill out their stadium, the money aspect is irrelevant, that is only a factor because of lobsided stadium deals, something the AFL is trying to address.

Surely you're dreaming. This is what it's all about. It's the reason that they wanted to ship you off up north. If you don't care about the money, that's fine. But for your admin, I'd suggest it's their biggest nightmare. It probably explains the apathy of the Kangas supporters quite well if this a general feeling.

 

[OzBomber]

15,000 demons supporters were there too.

Ahahaha! Love you avatar.

But yeah, there weren't many demon's supproters there.

 

[whelan=legend]

Zvim you are dreaming.

Quoting brain taylor means jack shit. Everyone knows he has a personal vandetta against us.

The crowd was about 8000/15000 , pissweak either way, so stop trying to deflect.

Also with the Skilled Stadium game, it was sold out for 2 weeks prior to that and filled to capacity.

 

[Roo-Boy]

Re: 23000 at the MCG...

I seem to recall Adelaide supporters being chastised for only having 28,000 at the Nothing Cup Final....

Pathetic effort given that MCC members get in for free, and North have a membership of 31,000. Makes you wonder how many of those members are named Whiskers and Fido.

2010 RIP NMFC....When Jimbob Fails the AFL will not give them another chance to relocate.

North Melbourne serial Trolls love bagging James Brayshaw but I'm sure that they still enjoy watching him on Thursday nights on The Footy Show and listening to him calling the game on MMM.
Geoffa32 you just enjoy watching your Franchise team getting pumped by Hawthorn today in Tasmania

 

[The Zebra]

They deserve a rocket too. But they haven't shoved down everyone's throat how financially viable they are because of their huge following.

Shoving down everyone's throat how financialy viable we are?
Who the ____ has been doing that?

We are proud of the massive membership response we have had this year, and defend ourselves against tools such as yourself that just make things up, but I don't see us bragging about financial viability yet.

You head's on the chopping block and you're getting shit crowds. Try addressing the issue of why you've got 30,000 members for '08 and you draw a crowd of 23,000 to a home game.

1 shit crowd

It happens doesn't it.

Kind of like a team that claims they are massive, only drawing 35,000 to their first final in 6 years.

 

[Ant_]

That makes it 1 more than your team. How is your membership progressing this year?? Where are your members - they may be afraid that it is inevitable that you will perform like last year again and disappoint.

Just pointing out the hypocrisy of some of your supporters noob.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

North Melbourne are absolute shit.

They will get booted down to the VFL soon enough. And the VFL is where they belong.

 

[Hawkk]

Yep...I'd say every match at TD we get around 40,000 Minimum same as the MCG...regardless of who we are playing...

this is since around 2000-2001 too when we were still shit...

37 times at MCG and TD since 2000

 

[mark73]

Surely you're dreaming. This is what it's all about. It's the reason that they wanted to ship you off up north. If you don't care about the money, that's fine. But for your admin, I'd suggest it's their biggest nightmare. It probably explains the apathy of the Kangas supporters quite well if this a general feeling.

Can't argue with that.

You've been given the world in the last 10 years North fans. You've got a coaching staff and a list thats up there with the best of them. You've got people busting their asses behind the scenes trying to make things right. Get behind it or become a spectator. Yesterday was a ____ing disgrace!!

 

[Roo-Boy]

North Melbourne are absolute shit.

They will get booted down to the VFL soon enough. And the VFL is where they belong.

You always attack North Melbourne exactly the same way as Braun_2_B_Wild that make's me suspect that you are the same person
Both of you. Your trolls against my club make me sick.
I'm just so disappointed that you and Braun_2_B_Wild are still allowed to post on BF and are not Red Carded permanently.

 

[sutcliffe's hotel]

Can't argue with that.

You've been given the world in the last 10 years North fans. You've got a coaching staff and a list thats up there with the best of them. You've got people busting their asses behind the scenes trying to make things right. Get behind it or become a spectator. Yesterday was a ____ing disgrace!!

Well no not really. Look at the attendance figures over the years and this is about what we can expect between our two clubs.

Now unless you know the exact breakdown of how many of that number were North fans and how many were Melbourne fans, how can you possily know whether we turned up in more or less numbers than previous years?

There was probably 17,000 or so North fans who got to see a game that they would have missed had it been played on the Gold Coast. What more needs to be said?

Let the trolls feast away - we have never claimed to be a big club, we just like to win premierships.

 

[lethalselbow]

Pathetic attendance.

So either:

The Kangaroo membership is a lie.

or

Kangaroo supporters are just pathetic no shows.

 

[PoidaCat]

Conditions of Entry


For the comfort, safety and enjoyment of all patrons, staff and event participants, and/or pursuant to MCG Regulations and the Major Events (Crowd Management) Act 2003 (Vic) the following items are not permitted into the MCG:

- Alcohol;
- opened soft drink containers;
- cans / glass;
- torn-up paper;
- musical instruments;
- whistles;
- flags with handles exceeding 1.6 metres;
- fireworks / flares / laser lights;
- chairs / stools;
- rollerblades, skateboards, scooters;
- animals (guide and hearing animals may enter);
- audio recording equipment* / video cameras;
- any large article that cannot be placed under a seat; and
- any device that in the opinion of Melbourne Cricket Club management has the potential to cause injury or public nuisance.

Cloakroom facilities are not available for any of the above items.

*Audio visual equipment may be permitted for those parents whose children participate in the Auskick / Little League competition.

There we have it.

 

[theduckfan]

These north supporters would have to be the worse in the league.... not only does their coach , chairmen etc... beg for there supporters to rock up .... they absolutely beg the Sh** out of them to attend the game ..
IMO 23,000 is not good enough especially when you got over 25,000 members.


I received a red card for telling the NorthMelbourne supporters that they belong on the gold coast but this certainly pinpoints were there real home is !



This Game was moved from the Gold Coast specifically for their fans to attend the game. Absolute crap North Melbourne !!!!!!!!!!! how desperate does brayshaw and laidley look begging the supporters to simply make time for a 3 hour game ... Not to mention a home game ... were there members get in for free.... No Excuses North just plain Crap ( forgot to mention there was almost 15,000 dee's fans at the game )

What do they give memberships away at Carlton?

Last time i checked my membership was worth $260. I don't get in for free, i paid for the ticket.

 

[Bone71]

Anyone get the feeling around 2015 we are going to see a repeat of the Fitzroy "merger" except it will be Gold Coast wearing NMFC&GCFC on the collar of their Gold Coast Kangaroo's Jumpers? Would be ironic