The CFC site should be filled with Kruezer pics - I mean that is one transformation right in front of us, that only people who'd been to training (or used Uncle John's pics) would see. There's a lot of positives they should be working through.

Maybe they're waiting for Mike & dan to write some articles

Think he has moved to Blacktown

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Looks like the 20k mark has been cracked- currently 20,102.

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Tried to ring the Membership Dept today to ask a question about the "Carlton for life" thing for the four memberships I pay for, only to find the office closed. Very poor, IMO. I know tomorrow is a public holiday, but it's the wrong time of the year for a "bridge" day off.

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Good to see we've smashed through the 20,000 barrier and are ahead of last's years levels, especially after giving Fevola the flick.

Is there anything this great club can't do?

Have someone in the office to answer questions the Monday before Australia Day?

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

Played right into the flower from Bigfooty's hands.

Good one.

It's a good point Verbs, and something we should be trumpeting. The figures for memberships look great at the moment, and hopefully with a reasonable NAB Cup series we can really build some momentum. It's fantastic to have so many members at this time of year. Keep on joining up people!

Just taken to reading this thread.

Everyone is having a go at the membership and marketing departments and rightly so. Ultimately who is responsible. I could say the president as some don't think Sticks is up to it, but isn't it the person who runs the administration, CEO Greg Swann? Maybe he he needs more help or isn't as good as he is cracked up to be?

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Hey Guys membership is now 20603 (check CFC Website) still cant understand how the Dawks and Filth are so far ahead of us at his stage .I hope its the case of the Hare and the Tortoise .Does anyone have any figures as to what our membership was at this time last year

20,374 members as of 22 January 2009

Where’s that membership figures geek bloke

The guy they named the 18th team after....

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Collingwood have those 3 game memberships which they include in their official tally, and I'm pretty certain Hawthorn have pet memberships, where you can sign up your goldfish

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"GIBBS."

Hawthorn also have a big push into Tassie and have at least 2000 members from here as a result. They come here to do kids' camps and baby-kissing exercises. They play here. They market here. They have members here. Carlton, on the other hand, stopped sending decent delegations here during the Elliot/Parkin era. Last year they had a function in the middle of nowhere that cost a fortune to attend. Despite the pleas and groans of disappointment from a few very dedicated people down here, the club has managed to alienate supporters by ignoring them and then allowing Hawtorn and St Kilda to sieze the initiative. My grandaughter (Bellerive Primary School) went on a school excursion through Bellerive Oval and left there with a fistful of Hawks marketing material, stickers and the like. They don't even bloody well play at Bellerive.
I have complained to the club about the website and offered to write stuff for them during the dry season but didn't even get a reply. If the club spent as much time keeping us informed as they do sending repeat emails to remind us they need our membership renewals, we would have more members and less stuff in our inboxes. The reality of AFL clubs, including our own, is that they see members as cash cows. For years the corporate dollar has been more important than individual members, which is why I can get a GF ticket for myself and my family and my friends and their friends if I am reasonably placed with Hyundai, Spicers, Mission Foods, QBE, etc but not if I have been a member for twenty or thirty years unless I win a ticket lottery, a prize on TV, pay for a gold and diamond studded life membership or camp out for a few nights at the ticket venue just in case there are some left when I get to the front of the queue. It is also why corporate boxes were the main focus in all the then suburban ground re-developments and why almost an entire tier of the MCG and Docklands is behind glass.
Don't hold your breath waiting for it to improve. That's why I enjoy reading the training reports posted right here on TC, (even if they are 99% shit).
Must go. I have another reminder in my inbox to renew my membership.

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Sounds like they are not making the effort that they could be. As for the cash cows business, I have been having that problem for years. They are oh so quick to send out the brochures of memberships and the like, however slow as all buggary to send out the membership once I have forked out the money. I did the Blue Believers thing in December, and they said I would receive something in the mail. Still nothing and we're one day away from February.

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Hey Guys
22606 as at today on official website 2000 new members in 4 days .Blues on the march

Just got a letter from the club hittin me up for another 110 bucks to get a reserved seat in the AFL members area of Etihad for 6 home games. I really wish they sent it out when the AFL had originally sent me brochures...now I'm lucky if I can afford it.

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"GIBBS."

Hey guys,

I have upgraded to Captains Club Premium Gold this year. I see that I can take 2 guests per game dependant on availability. What does this mean exactly? Can someone run me through it?

Hi GUYS
Just checked CFC official website 23538 members keep on coming .Can anyone tell me what our m/ship was this time last year are we up down same love to know