We ve become a joke!!

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next time we go to a home game.. i think 3 or 4 left...

there will be 5000 people there who didnt buy their membership...and maybe you did!!!....

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Hmmm, I was suspicious all along....we went from 46k to 50k in a week or two.......and the 50k just happened to coincide with our MCG negotiations

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"I had to eat"

Worst part is everyone knows and mock us about it

fmd we're a dumb club... do it incrementally ffs

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The only people who are talking about it are people in here who can't keep their traps shut and want to continuously slander the club!!!!

cant slander by telling the truth.....

dont you teach your kids to tell the truth surrey???

is the truth something thats not good in your books???.... is that the kind of circle of trust u have been referring to???

youre a strange cat surrey.... very unusual set of morals u live by....

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I'm amazed it's taken you so long to realise that ALL clubs do this Synbad. There's allocations of memberships given away at every club. Every year. Whether it's to sponsors, supporters, students, kindergartens, cafes or indians - it's happening. I was handed a Williamstown Family membership this season because I drink coffee at the same cafe as some of the coaches. So it's happening at VFL level too. Yes, it bolsters numbers - but it's also good PR. You might get a follow up customer the following year, friends and family members to join as well, a trip to the club that culminates with purchases at the shop....and all of a sudden - that 'free' membership now has a measurable dollar value straight to the clubs' coffers.

and Synners...Philanthropy IS fun!

so we took our membership to 50k

and collingwood bought theirs to 80 k

are you sure?????

why dont we buy another 15k???? take it up to a very respectable 65 k???

and yes i know clubs buy a few hundred.... but a few thousand???

no way!!!

thats carlton!!!....

or are u saying we always bought a few thousand????...

visy used to buya couple of hundred .. except one year they bught more on the death at pratts first season (pardon the pun) to bri ng it up ...

a few ..... V.... stacks

thats the dufference...

im amazed youre saying its normal.

personally i dont know anyone from any club that has been given freebees before.. except for carlton this year

i know a few...

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Thank you Doc.

Sponsors getting memberships as part of the sponsorship package as contra has been going on at Hawthorn, Collingwood and other clubs for many years, and is good practice. All of a sudden Carlton does it and you kick up a stink?

It's well known through Collingwood, Westpac receive (at least) 10,000. What they do with those is their business...give them to staff, clients, radio stations, at parent/teacher nights at Abbotsford Primary School....doesn't matter. Why does it matter? Let it go...there are bigger fish to fry and you're worried about a little 'Christmas in July' generosity emanating from Visy Park? Least of your worries.