Final Membership Totals 2013

[MightyHawks]

Pies are selling a 1 game membership for $50 to an away game this week and they give you a free hat and other bonuses

It's a disgrace that these members won't get guaranteed Grand Final tickets

 

[Oneiros]

Lol, so much fetishising over the number figure alone is starting to devalue the term 'member'.

 

[Rob]

Lol, so much fetishising over the number figure alone is starting to devalue the term 'member'.

Starting to?

 

[Skeppersap]

This showed up addressed to someone in the house today.
Completely free, no obligation. Are they getting sponsors to buy memberships to boost the numbers?


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But do we sell home games interstate to increase membership..............

 

[go team]

Should Collingwood remove $20,000 worth of 3 game memberships from their final figure?

 

[PieNSauce]

Should Collingwood remove $20,000 worth of 3 game memberships from their final figure?

For what purpose? Maybe to satisfy the 5 year olds out there who have no idea what the numbers mean.

 

[go team]

Or maybe celebrate 80,000* members!

 

[PieNSauce]

Or maybe celebrate 80,000* members!

Does this sentence actually have any meaning? When I put it together with what has been said I get this:

You said: Should Collingwood remove $20,000 worth of 3 game memberships from their final figure?
I said: For what purpose? Maybe to satisfy the 5 year olds out there who have no idea what the numbers mean.
You said: Or maybe celebrate 80,000* members!

Now it may be me but I fail to see how removing $20000 worth of 3 game memberships serves the purpose of celebrating 80000 members. Maybe you could enlighten us all.

 

[rdhopkins2]

The AFL have released final membership figures for 2013.

2012 premiers Sydney have the highest membership growth for a club over 3 years old.
Their cousins GWS have the highest growth but their raw numbers are still the least of all clubs. More will no doubt join as the club experiences more success.
Gold Coast may be slightly concerned that there membership growth hasn't been huge.

Serious concerns must lie at St Kilda and Melbourne, the only clubs to show negative growth. Western Bulldogs would also be worried.

Whilst Essendon supporters have rallied around their club, 2014 may well show a huge reduction in numbers pending the AFL and ASADA investigation outcomes.

The remainder of clubs are relatively stable membership number wise.

CLUBS 2012 membership 2013 membership Var # & Var%
Adelaide 45,105 46,4051 300 2.88%

Brisbane 20,762 24,130 3,368 16.22%

Carlton 45,800 50,564 4,764 10.4%

Collingwood 72,688 78,427 5,739 7.9%

Essendon 47,708 56,173 8,465 17.74%

Fremantle 42,918 43,880 962 2.24%

Geelong 40,205 42,884 2,679 6.66%

Gold Coast 11,204 12,502 1,298 11.59%

GWS Giants 10,241 12,681 2,440 23.83%

Hawthorn 60,841 63,353 2,512 4.13%

Melbourne 35,459 33,177 -2,282 -6.44%

North Melbourne 33,423 34,607 1,184 3.54%

Port Adelaide 35,543 39,838 4,295 12.08%

Richmond 53,027 60,321 7,294 13.76%

St Kilda 35,440 32,707 -2,733 -7.71%

Sydney Swans 29,873 36,358 6,485 21.71%

West Coast 57,377 58,501 1,124 1.96%

Western Bulldogs 30,007 30,209 202 0.67%

 

[Schache It Off]

Bulldogs memberships should grow to 33k+ in 2014.

 

[Rainfall]

Geelong is better then the above

 

[Tas]

Membership increasing, attendances decreasing. Who would have thunk it?

 

[Royal Flush]

My club says we are on 35k. Collingwood say they are on 80k.

 

[Jobe]

Excellent work from the Essendon community, despite our toughest year to date we have smashed our previous membership record.

 

[Tas]

My club says we are on 35k. Collingwood say they are on 80k.

Must be some non-attendance memberships.

 

[Squibbs]

Gary March said on SEN a few weeks ago that we had over 64,000 memebers. Not sure if it counts but worth noting.

 

[VFL13]

dont read into it too much...when u count a one game membership in these figures it is a con job

 

[rdhopkins2]

These figures probably only include memberships greater than 5 games I would imagine and purchased before 30 June 2013.
I stand to be corrected however.

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

Port has 41,000 members not 39,000

 

[Hawkk]

It begs the question why can we keep our 'hundreds and thousands' of pet memberships when Richmond and Collingwood lose their armchair and 1 game memberships

 

[MightyTiger]

dont read into it too much...when u count a one game membership in these figures it is a con job

And what's wrong with that? What if circumstances only allow you to attend one game a year and you want to still support your club? 1 or 3 game memberships should not be discounted, they are still real people putting money into there footy club.

 

[Obese Arachnid]

I have an enormous dick. The tally (whacker) shows me.

 

[timtamWB]

The Dogs shouldn't be worried. In a year where we were widely predicted as bottom 2, even a chance for the spoon, we managed to increase our membership total.

And this was before the past 6 or so weeks when we started playing well!

 

[AstuteTiger]

Gary March said on SEN a few weeks ago that we had over 64,000 memebers. Not sure if it counts but worth noting.

Correct but those 4,000 extra members as part of the clubs clever marketing campaign in July/Aug will be added to the 2014 total, so the official figure for this year is 60,321

 

[coldlunch]

would mean more if they were listed as 'total number of membership games', not just an ambiguous 'memberships'