2008 Membership Tally: RECORD ** 39,360 **

SparkyBlue · **Posted:** Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:26 pm

Danny25 wrote:

And to that collingwood filth that thought we hadnt cracked 40k, well we did and when we win out 17th well crack 50k.

flower THE WOBBLES, SHIT CLUB NO HISTORY

go blueboys

QFT.

House · **Posted:** Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:34 pm

From the Club's Thursday Update:

2008 Membership
2008 is a record membership year for Carlton, with the official membership figure being 40,764.

GWS · **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:32 am

Look out Eddie...here we come...

camel · **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:32 pm

Hey, GWS, they have colour on the interwebz now.

GWS · **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:21 pm

GWS ON MAY 7 wrote:

camelboy ON MAY 7 wrote:

GWS, we have colour on the interweb now.

Yes - as your amazingly lurid, pig ugly, disgusting and downright pile of poo avatar shows.

Luckily here in the world of membership graph production we also have a surfeit of dash and style.

This is Melbourne Camel - we wear black down here. :wink:

If you're going to recycling your lame attempts at humour I guess I'll just have to recycle my cutting, witty responses.

Glad to see you've got rid of that horrible avatar though. :wink:

Blues87 · **Joined:** Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:21 pm **Posts:** 817

We're tracking for 45,000 next year and 50,000 in 2010 at this rate. Continued improvement on field could certainly make that a possibility. Reserved seats at the Dome might be necessary if we can't escape to the MCG.

Abaddon · **Joined:** Fri May 13, 2005 10:45 pm **Posts:** 423

according to the official AFL figures released today we only have 39,360 members... how did the club stuff that up?

That puts us behind Collingwood, Hawthorn and Essendon* who all recorded over 40,000 official AFL members in 2008.

http://www.afl.com.au/tabid/208/Default ... wsid=63354

camel · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:09 pm

GWS wrote:

GWS ON MAY 7 wrote:

camelboy ON MAY 7 wrote:

GWS, we have colour on the interweb now.

Yes - as your amazingly lurid, pig ugly, disgusting and downright pile of poo avatar shows.

Luckily here in the world of membership graph production we also have a surfeit of dash and style.

This is Melbourne Camel - we wear black down here. :wink:

If you're going to recycling your lame attempts at humour I guess I'll just have to recycle my cutting, witty responses.

Glad to see you've got rid of that horrible avatar though. :wink:

mandy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:05 pm

Abaddon wrote:

according to the official AFL figures released today we only have 39,360 members... how did the club stuff that up?

That puts us behind Collingwood, Hawthorn and Essendon* who all recorded over 40,000 official AFL members in 2008.

http://www.afl.com.au/tabid/208/Default ... wsid=63354

I'm shocked! :shock:

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

I think it is highly embarrassing that the club announces 40 thousand plus members, makes a song and dance when number 40 thousand is signed up weeks ago and then the AFL official numbers says we have below 40.

We need an explanation. This is amateur hour.

camel · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:31 pm

Yeah, not a real good look is it. :oops:

DownUnderChick · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:11 pm

I'm chasing this up now.

Watch this space..........................................

CK95 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:16 pm

Don’t tell me 1404 have torn them up already :lol:

DownUnderChick · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:25 pm

I spoke to the membership manager and this is what has happened.

To CFC we have 40,764 members which is 39,360 members with game entry and 1,404 arm chair members who do not have game entry.

Apparently all clubs have arm chair members but the AFL don't recognise them :twisted:

in their official tally because they do not have entry to the ground, hence the published 'official' figure of 39,360. :roll:

Abaddon · **Joined:** Fri May 13, 2005 10:45 pm **Posts:** 423

okay that makes sense. the club published non-ticketed figures in the membership tally on the CFC website.

budzy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:17 am **Posts:** 8128

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

This is really not good enough. Everybody knows that these "blue members" don't count.

The club should not have included these in their numbers (and AFAIK did not include these in earlier years as the clubs numbers and the AFL numbers were the same). I also think that some people might not have signed up or restricted themselves to the cheap blue membership once we announced we reached 40 K.

This said - I can not understand how the Hawks can have higher numbers then us. Look at their attendance numbers compared to us. What does their membership cost? I think they have lots of "special" Tassie members on a membership restricted to the Tassie games that is dirt cheap.

budzy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:17 am **Posts:** 8128

mikkey wrote:

This is really not good enough. Everybody knows that these "blue members" don't count.

The club should not have included these in their numbers (and AFAIK did not include these in earlier years as the clubs numbers and the AFL numbers were the same). I also think that some people might not have signed up or restricted themselves to the cheap blue membership once we announced we reached 40 K.

This said - I can not understand how the Hawks can have higher numbers then us. Look at their attendance numbers compared to us. What does their membership cost? I think they have lots of "special" Tassie members on a membership restricted to the Tassie games that is dirt cheap.

They have 4 game tassie memberships for around $140 I think and have about 3000 members I think I read somewhere.

They have a different catagory structure than us.

SparkyBlue · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:33 pm

budzy wrote:

mikkey wrote:

This is really not good enough. Everybody knows that these "blue members" don't count.

The club should not have included these in their numbers (and AFAIK did not include these in earlier years as the clubs numbers and the AFL numbers were the same). I also think that some people might not have signed up or restricted themselves to the cheap blue membership once we announced we reached 40 K.

This said - I can not understand how the Hawks can have higher numbers then us. Look at their attendance numbers compared to us. What does their membership cost? I think they have lots of "special" Tassie members on a membership restricted to the Tassie games that is dirt cheap.

They have 4 game tassie memberships for around $140 I think and have about 3000 members I think I read somewhere.

They have a different catagory structure than us.

...and I think you need to have admission to 5 games in order to be counted as a 'real' member.

(not saying non-ticketeds aren't 'real' members)

mandy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:19 pm

Danny25 wrote:

And to that collingwood filth that thought we hadnt cracked 40k, well we did

Did you? Did you really???? :lol:

2008 Membership Tally: RECORD 39,360

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