Its not rubbish it's 100% true, based on facts, evidence and logic.
Absolute rubbish mate.
Oh and in conjunction with your previous rubbish post, I could understand if melbourne had dropped in membership after the previous 8 years. Yet there has been Incremental improvement on that base as well.
So what? All membership numbers for all clubs have increased in that time. Buying memberships has became more of a cultural learned value each year these days. Far more than it was. Tell me a club whose membership numbers havn't increased? Just one.
Absolute rubbish mate.
Couple that with a fixture that has been horrible to us the past few years financially (deservedly), yet the supporter base continues to grow, as does turning that into memberships.
The supporter base ins't growing. It's been declining for 50 years. Melbourne have only has ONE winning season in the last 12 years (2018). Success is what drives support. How can support for a club be growing when they have only had one winning season in over a decade? People don't choose to support teams that are losing
We did see some enthusiastic support from Melbourne's tiny support base this year as they came out in greater numbers to support a good team. And fair enough. When you have been shit for 12 years, of course the existing fans are going to turn up in greater numbers.
But the overall numbers of Melbourne's supporter base are declining and have been declining for half a century.
Unless you've looked at a Fairfax poll or something less relevant, you're either talking absolute rubbish, or have NFI. I'm thinking a similar blend of the two.
No need to be rude. I'm just stating the facts. Melbourne are the least supported Victorian club. There is no reason to suggest the Herald-Sun numbers are wrong.
After all, Collingwood, Essendon, Carlton, Richmond are 1,2,3,4, according to those numbers and that is universally accepted to be true. So, Why would Melbourne (in last spot) be wrong, but every other club is in the right spot??
Why is Melbourne being last on the Supercoach poll (which is a defacto survey of 300,000 people, not simply a small sample of 3,000) be the
ONLY incorrect position? Clearly the order is accurate. Anyone can see that. The big clubs are at the top and the small clubs are at the bottom.
I repeat:
So, Why would Melbourne (in last spot) be wrong, but every other club is in the right spot??