You have a way Hawkk of pulling out figures and then making insinuations that can't be backed up with fact.
I heard the saints had 1500 members in tasmania but we will go by your figures. How do you come up with the estimate that half of them haven't signed up. This would suggest that tasmanian supporters are not very sticky.
I heard the saints had 1500 members in tasmania but we will go by your figures. How do you come up with the estimate that half of them haven't signed up. This would suggest that tasmanian supporters are not very sticky.
(what is going to happen to when the tasmanian govt loses it taste for a footy team & we play less games there).
I would think you could argue that if any tasmanian supporters have not signed up they may have been replaced by victorian supporters who are now happy they play 17 games in victoria.
Remember part of the reason the saints aren''t playing more games in tasmania is they believe they have a higher ability to recruit members in victoria than in tasmania.
The fact is there are too many factors involved to say with any certainty at all why membership has dropped (& it may still end up higher overall for 2007 anyway) but it is a very long shot to say because they have left tasmania they have lost members overall.
That's why IMO, the decision made by the Saints board was short sighted, the biggest mistake any board can make is to assume success.
