We must be doing something right

[salim malik]

48000 members
6th most watched club
6.02 million viewers nationally,so much for our so called boring game plan
Game against Geelong was the third most watched Sat night game in this broadcasts rights deal
37127 average home crowd up 10% on 013
Doubled Vic membership
Selling $100000 merchandise per home game
Our club is flying and rapidly becoming one of the big AFL clubs

 

[Doggy doo doo]

48000 members
6th most watched club
6.02 million viewers nationally,so much for our so called boring game plan
Game against Geelong was the third most watched Sat night game in this broadcasts rights deal
37127 average home crowd up 10% on 013
Doubled Vic membership
Selling $100000 merchandise per home game
Our club is flying and rapidly becoming one of the big AFL clubs

all without brainwashing the public with the media like wet toast

 

[BananaOnTheRun]

how many more members can we get with the new stadium? Another 20K?

 

[leeloo]

$100,000 worth of merchandise per home game??!! Reckon that says more about how overpriced everything is!

Also, I know that it wasn't just our fans but wasn't the GF one of the highest attendances for a while? Reckon we had a good influence on those numbers though.

 

[ep2018]

It already is a big club. In twenty years there will be more Freo fans in WA than West Coast fans in my opinion.

 

[Darcy 2 Fyfe]

Our WA fan base at the 2013 GF was the biggest movement of people from west to east in AFL history.

 

[Righteo]

2006 would have been up there, C2F.

One of the more impressive scenes I've seen though was Fed Sqaure covered in the Purple Haze. I reckon you'd have felt like the bees knees walking to the G at the head of that purple army.

 

[Freodoc]

2006 would have been up there, C2F.

One of the more impressive scenes I've seen though was Fed Sqaure covered in the Purple Haze. I reckon you'd have felt like the bees knees walking to the G at the head of that purple army.

Loved it and was thrilled to be part of it!

 

[Silent Alarm]

2006 would have been up there, C2F.

One of the more impressive scenes I've seen though was Fed Sqaure covered in the Purple Haze. I reckon you'd have felt like the bees knees walking to the G at the head of that purple army.

I will never forget that. Profound. Although I find the term "purple haze" as shocking as "wharfie time," it was still a pretty special thing to see not just Fed Square, but the Flinders and Swanny intersection all in purple. What I never understood was how no one was in the ground despite everyone seemingly walking over at the once...

Also none of this means anything without a flag. Richmond have an incredible following, make good money, and have a real presence in a saturated market. Yet they're, like, shit.

 

[yakka man]

Unfortunately though Steve Rosich now believes that we will be taxed as part of the equalization measures.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/s...s-finances-to-be-hit-in-name-of-equalisation/

 

[Freo2012]

Our WA fan base at the 2013 GF was the biggest movement of people from west to east in AFL history.

The biggest movements east to west being 1) when the ANZAC convoys were put together at Albany, and 2) when the Federal politicians back in the day paid eastern staters to move temporarily to WA to thwart the secession vote, still majority were in favor of it, but not enough to cause UK (in those days) to effectively rubber stamp it, so we are still a colony of the eastern states (in their eyes).

Most younger people would be totally unaware of the secession movement, and how it actually nearly came off - been all but removed from Oz history now (viewed as folklore history now)

 

[Carnthedockers]

A question I have wanted to know the answer to for a while, if the Afl caps a clubs football department spending for equalization, where will a club be able to spend its money?
Where is the incentive to make a financially powerful club?

 

[StingBitten]

We also have one of the biggest non-member support bases in the AFL. Traditionally being the 'alternative' West Australian club for the 'Alternative' personality-types we've attracted supporters from all walks of life including foreign immigrants - especially those who moved over here in the late 80's/early 90's and were chastised by Weagles fans who didn't jump on board almost immediately.

 

[E Shed]

Unfortunately though Steve Rosich now believes that we will be taxed as part of the equalization measures.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/s...s-finances-to-be-hit-in-name-of-equalisation/

Someone has to pay for all those fat GWS contracts that will be coming up when they have to re-sign Cameron, Patton, Treloar.
Premieships aren't cheap!

 

[Taylor]

How much does the stadium get per seat each game?

If we owned our own stadium we could secure the finances of the club forever, once the initial investment is paid.

 

[scon]

I got to the ground at just after 5 and couldn't buy a Pav300 scarf cos they'd all been grabbed.None at the shop on Monday so they didn't make enough of them and we're hungry for merchandise.
$100,000 per game is a helluva lot.

 

[salim malik]

I got to the ground at just after 5 and couldn't buy a Pav300 scarf cos they'd all been grabbed.None at the shop on Monday so they didn't make enough of them and we're hungry for merchandise.
$100,000 per game is a helluva lot.

About 2 bucks 50 a head for the about 40000 at the game

 

[dont bowl there]

It's like we win more than we lose or something.

 

[scon]

About 2 bucks 50 a head for the about 40000 at the game

Someone spent $5 cos I couldn't spend any

 

[Lach72]

Unfortunately though Steve Rosich now believes that we will be taxed as part of the equalization measures.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/s...s-finances-to-be-hit-in-name-of-equalisation/

This ****s me off royally. Us and west coast should not be taxed as we pay 1-2 million to the WAFC.

Piss up a rope you ****ers



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[Purple Maverick]

The biggest movements east to west being 1) when the ANZAC convoys were put together at Albany, and 2) when the Federal politicians back in the day paid eastern staters to move temporarily to WA to thwart the secession vote, still majority were in favor of it, but not enough to cause UK (in those days) to effectively rubber stamp it, so we are still a colony of the eastern states (in their eyes).

Most younger people would be totally unaware of the secession movement, and how it actually nearly came off - been all but removed from Oz history now (viewed as folklore history now)

Wow that really is incredible, this can't be well known. Tell me more...

 

[Tundrawolf]

The only non Victorian club to have played a game in front of more than 100,000 spectators!

 

[masai]

It already is a big club. In twenty years there will be more Freo fans in WA than West Coast fans in my opinion.

Serious question.

What is your reasoning ?.

Freo thought of as a team that thinks outside the square ?. Eagles seen as staid and conservative, living in the past ?.

 

[ep2018]

Serious question.

What is your reasoning ?.

Freo thought of as a team that thinks outside the square ?. Eagles seen as staid and conservative, living in the past ?.

Same reason why religion is dying: most of the older generation of AFL fans are West Coast supporters here in WA, whilst it seems most youth here are Fremantle supporters. When older Eagles fans die off it will reduce our numbers. The youth of today will jump on as well if you win a flag or two in the next decade, whilst we squander outside the eight.

 

[imperial_oz]

Someone spent $5 cos I couldn't spend any

Jeepers, I'm carrying you blokes.

I spent around $54.00 in two Pav300 hats. So that caters for around 20 non-spenders plus myself. Didn't see the scarves (lucky for my cc)