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Was in Bendigo on Friday with our supporter group and spoke with Adam from the membership team who said our membership was in dissaray compared with other years, in fact from 11,000 people he had a very quiet night compared to the Essendon membership crew, he also said that at this rate we could be as much as 3,000 to 3,500 down at the start of the season which equates to quite a few dollars an a big hole in the clubs budget.
He said they just could not put a finger on why there has been a complete drift away, maybe the fact that we are the most expensive club in terms of average membership prices and the fact we are driving our membership towards reserved seating could be a factor, I recall Mr.Dicker once siad we were shifting to the MCG in preference to Telstra Dome as the MCG offered 40,000 free walk up seats, something that we enjoyed at Waverley and something Mr. Dicker promised we would continue as the "Family" club at the MCG, now that he is not around I assume our Board feels it can shift away from the values that made this club the most respected in the league once upon a time.
He said they just could not put a finger on why there has been a complete drift away, maybe the fact that we are the most expensive club in terms of average membership prices and the fact we are driving our membership towards reserved seating could be a factor, I recall Mr.Dicker once siad we were shifting to the MCG in preference to Telstra Dome as the MCG offered 40,000 free walk up seats, something that we enjoyed at Waverley and something Mr. Dicker promised we would continue as the "Family" club at the MCG, now that he is not around I assume our Board feels it can shift away from the values that made this club the most respected in the league once upon a time.

