2013 Membership tally: 50,597

dane · **Joined:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:14 am **Posts:** 22357

gsker1 wrote:

Piss poor really, considering Collingwood are going for 70,000 and they aren't that much bigger than us!

Seems like they are.

DocSherrin III · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm **Posts:** 17210

gsker1 wrote:

Piss poor really, considering Collingwood are going for 70,000 and they aren't that much bigger than us!

In case you haven't noticed - it's Collingwood.....Distance.....the rest.

harker · **Joined:** Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:27 am **Posts:** 2345

gsker1 wrote:

Piss poor really, considering Collingwood are going for 70,000 and they aren't that much bigger than us!

70k? Collingwood will be hitting 80k this year.

cimm1979 · **Posted:** Mon May 27, 2013 12:13 pm

harker wrote:

gsker1 wrote:

Piss poor really, considering Collingwood are going for 70,000 and they aren't that much bigger than us!

70k? Collingwood will be hitting 80k this year.

In the last 12 years they've been in 5 GF's a gazillion PF's .

That builds an expectation of success. People will buy that every year. Eddies been a godsend as well, but for me Carlton supporters are saying " give us something" and they don't mean a scarf or beanie.

If we start beating Swans and Hawks and dispatching Norf and St Kilda that would probably help, but we need to be involved in the last two weekends of the year to break out of the membership ceiling we have at the moment.

harker · **Joined:** Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:27 am **Posts:** 2345

cimm1979 wrote:

harker wrote:

gsker1 wrote:

Piss poor really, considering Collingwood are going for 70,000 and they aren't that much bigger than us!

70k? Collingwood will be hitting 80k this year.

In the last 12 years they've been in 5 GF's a gazillion PF's .

That builds an expectation of success. People will buy that every year. Eddies been a godsend as well, but for me Carlton supporters are saying " give us something" and they don't mean a scarf or beanie.

If we start beating Swans and Hawks and dispatching Norf and St Kilda that would probably help, but we need to be involved in the last two weekends of the year to break out of the membership ceiling we have at the moment.

That's all true cimm but it's more than success alone.
It's a feeling of being connected and important part of the whole.

Hawthorn have done that and Richmond are doing it. We haven't and are now playing catch up.

cimm1979 · **Posted:** Mon May 27, 2013 12:55 pm

True Harks.

Not sure how you sell "we are a club of the people" when everything else we've done for 30 years is about "high roller" supporters, their family, flunkies and hangers on.

Is it any different now?

Hawks are the "family club" and so are we, as long as your family is in pokies or packaging.

kezza · **Joined:** Thu May 11, 2006 6:11 pm **Posts:** 14899

45,377

Synbad · **Posted:** Mon May 27, 2013 7:50 pm

Only 15 more thousand and were at the G...!!!

hooooray!!!

camel · **Posted:** Mon May 27, 2013 8:50 pm

Didn't they downgrade the help us get to the G promise to a mere 50K?

Jez1966 · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:42 pm **Posts:** 2833

45,440........

dane · **Joined:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:14 am **Posts:** 22357

362 to go.

Synbad · **Posted:** Wed May 29, 2013 7:38 am

Maybe we don't wanna go to the G

DocSherrin III · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm **Posts:** 17210

Synbad wrote:

Maybe we don't wanna go to the G

'We' being the apathetic Carlton supporter base? You're probably right. But the club needs it. The move to Etihad was a grab for cash and a little pressure from AFL headquarters who we were in no position to squabble with at the time. Things have changed. The club dictates its future this time 'round.

The magic number (50k) is important - but more to show in negotiations that there is incremental growth, and enough growth to suggest that this club is getting too big for the Stadium it currently has a contract with. The revenue from membership figure coupled with the 'bums on seats' figure is a much better one for the Carlton hierarchy to use because they both show us to be a top 3 Victorian club.

CK95 · **Posted:** Wed May 29, 2013 10:24 am

At 50k we'd still be smaller than Essendon*

dane · **Joined:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:14 am **Posts:** 22357

I think Essendon* are a prime example of artificial growth.

camel · **Posted:** Wed May 29, 2013 8:44 pm

dane wrote:

I think Essendon* are a prime example of artificial growth.

cimm1979 · **Posted:** Wed May 29, 2013 9:18 pm

camelboy wrote:

dane wrote:

I think Essendon* are a prime example of artificial growth.

CK95 · **Posted:** Wed May 29, 2013 9:31 pm

Not bad!

dane · **Joined:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:14 am **Posts:** 22357

The new record beckons. Can we crack 46,500?

mikkey · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:27 pm **Posts:** 4129

45,891 today and new record according to twitter feed.

2013 Membership tally: 50,597

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