43,849 now.

Another small increase today. Just shy of 44K. We now have 43,921 Members!

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2002:> "In their Masters Chambers
They Gathered for their Feast
They Stabbed us with their Steely Knives
But They Just Can't Kill The Beast!" <2016

THE BLUEBAGGER BEAST IS BAACKK!!

Just because he misfired one day doesn't mean you should stop updating the thread title!

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dane's trolling again

Another very small addition today. Now we have 43,970 Members!

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2002:> "In their Masters Chambers
They Gathered for their Feast
They Stabbed us with their Steely Knives
But They Just Can't Kill The Beast!" <2016

THE BLUEBAGGER BEAST IS BAACKK!!

At this rate, could be lucky to eek over the line for 45k...

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BLUES 2010: PAV AND JUDD = FLAGS. DOING IT FOR THE LOVE OF DICK PRATT.

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR TALKINGCARLTON SUPERCOACH 2009 YET?

Already passed last year's total of 43,791.

Approximately 3,000 and 5,000 more than recent years.

6/05/2011 - 40,579
3/5/2010 - 38,420
2/5/2009 - 40,502

Think we'll reach Richmond's 47,000 which includes non-access memberships.

http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-sport-b ... 1hobx.html

Don't tell that to Caroline Wilson...

Haven't been here; stop scratching your OCD patch.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Go back another year and it's not that impressive.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Piss poor but not unexpected.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

As far as paid up memberships we are 3rd out of all the clubs only behind collingwood and hawthorn

How is that piss poor

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If you allow the Government to change the Laws in an emergency
They will create an Emergency to change the Laws

This is correct and when you take away the non-ticketted members from all other clubs, we are currently third overall.
Working on last years numbers, Richmond would have just cracked the 40K mark with Essendon* still just under 39K

I am so upset we have record membership this year. Not good enough.

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dane's trolling again

At the current rate of tracking, only Hawthorn and North Melbourne will have a greater growth (pro rata) to their numbers from the year prior, to ours.
West Coast, Richmond, Essendon* and Sydney have a high percentage of non-access members and if they are skimmed from the top as they were last year, the numbers don't look quite as good.
It will be interesting to see how the AFL handle those numbers this year.
Carlton don't do non-access along with St.Kilda and Melbourne and to some extent, Geelong, Hawthorn and Collingwood.
West Coast, Sydney and Gold Coast had 20% non-access numbers last year with Richmond and Essendon* at 15%

How far behind are we?



Why shouldn't they be counted? They produce revenue don't they?
Collingwood will be producing large numbers of non-access memberships because they can't fit them all in. I would have thought thats a sign of strength.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

Over the 44K hump now. We have 44,031 Members today!

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2002:> "In their Masters Chambers
They Gathered for their Feast
They Stabbed us with their Steely Knives
But They Just Can't Kill The Beast!" <2016

THE BLUEBAGGER BEAST IS BAACKK!!

The AFL don't count them. It's not my argument.
Collingwood had only 525 non-access members with a 71,271 official members last year, so that argument doesn't count either.

I agree that revenue is the most important factor through memberships and again Collingwood had a very high pro-rata figure last year.
Off the top of my head I think it was an average of $200.00 per membership as opposed to our $170.00.

No doubt Collingwood do it better than anyone else, with Hawthorn now a close second.
Carlton have some lessons to learn for us to gain ground on those two.

Well thats us boned

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Hawthorn now have an entire state buying memberships - what were they before Tassie and they are most likely the most successful club of the last 40 years with out looking at the numbers

Collingwood play in a Grandfinal on average every 2.67 years you would expect their membership to be high - a big black dog could administer that club and they would still have high numbers

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If you allow the Government to change the Laws in an emergency
They will create an Emergency to change the Laws

What does that matter Sydney?
You don't think that being the big club that we are, we shouldn't be doing all we can to reel in every potential member?

Collingwood aren't happy with their lot and are announcing that they'll be up to 150K members in 5 years time.
I can't see it unless tricky memberships are involved, but nevertheless they've set their aim.

Hawthorn have 7K Tassie members, so peel them off the top and they're still way in front of us.

I think (read, I know) we can do better and hence should leave no stone unturned.
To date, we have not done this.

Must just not supply the details to the AFL, we sell plenty of non-match day memberships.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa