Not sure what's more amazing - that we could stuff up something so simple, or that 40,000+ Pies fans can afford a membership.

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The same fans you hang shit on for not being able to read, write or

























count????

this is ridiculous. monumental cock-up really. i'm sick of our great club giving opposition supporters material.

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Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Don't be too down on yourself Tiana, while it won't be counted in the "official" membership count, it will help the club financially.

Maybe next year you will be in a better position to purchase your membership earlier and be more "official", but for me what counts is that you have become one of the Navy Blue Army. And THAT is official.

Cheers Mrs C. I will definetly be doing it in time next season.
Just happy to contribute to this great club that has brought me such joy over a long period of time.

If we counted all the non-match admission members, that would include pets, of which we've made much fun of Hawthorn for.

We should be above that.

I agree with Jars. Total transparency must be the way to go.

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This is a major stuff up and i am embarrassed!

Firstly, we are number 4 in VIC: Not good enough

Secondly, Carlton are raving on about signing member 40,000 and we actually never made it

Thirdly, it was on our banner

fourthly, if we knew we had not made 40K more people may have bought them

We are the new Hawthorn!

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Couldn't agree more with you guys - this is a classic stuff up which can't ever happen again. In recent years we've matched the AFL announcement, so why we changed this year is beyond me. If we want to show overall membership - then show ticketed and non ticketed - don't try and pass the numbers off when you should know that the public will interpret as ticketed....

Maybe those with the board contacts should pass on how stupid it makes us look in the scheme of things so they understand it is a silly mistake to make.

The actual figure isn't important. What's important is the trend. The trend tells me that we are breaking membership records...let's see what next year brings us.

MY dog is a junior member, he got a birthday card recently.

No, Pets are Pets!

I think we are saying the same thing. Transparency... BUT...we should take the lead and drop this "they're not REAL members sh!t"
AFL can publish figures as "game attending members, general membership and pet membership categories if they like...but as is reflected in some of these posts, there is only disappointment if you say "your not a REAL member"

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Greg Lee

I don't think I expressed myself clearly.

I would never infer that non-match members aren't "real" members. They've shown their support and laid down their folding stuff for the club, and for that everyone is grateful.

BUT, the club knows the rules when it comes to members counted in the official tally, and that's a membership entitling entry to 5 matches as minimum for counting in the total.

I'm disappointed that the club had us all excited, but in reality hoodwinked us in regards to the true official figures, and overstated the case.

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That's hilarious. You should take that show on the road.

Thanks I'll keep that in mind.

eddie mcguire just on sen: "i'm taking the kids to the zoo today so they can see the hawthorn members."

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Maybe it's tactical....

Set 40k as the goal for 2009.

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Scoreboard at today's game congratulated all Carlton fans for helping to break the 40,000 member tally...

Screw the AFL count, we are Carlton, Flower the rest.

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Hard to crack a million when you play half your games at a ground that only fits 30,000. The move from Princes Park might have been sad for nostalgic reasons but the value of having hundreds of thousands of extra live supporters was underestimated at the time.

How many members would we have now if we could only fit 30,000 into our home ground? How much less merchandise would we have sold if we had 200,000 less people turning up to games over the course of a year?

I'd still like to see us mainly at the MCG but even with the Dome/G split as it is at the moment it's good to see so many additional people able to turn up to games and see the club play.

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