2010 Membership tallies....

[Rob]

Sold Out = 75% capacity?

You're confused. Sold out means all tickets sold. 40,000 of the tickets are sold to members before the season. Only 3,000 or so extra can be sold per game. No more people can attend even if they wanted to.

Your argument is flawed when 4 of our 7 Melbourne based home games are against low drawing opponents (Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Port Adelaide)

Only to the extent of fewer opposition supporters attending. How many in the MCC reserve for instance? Always going to be at least a few thousand. How many in the AFL members reserve without Hawthorn club support? Another couple of thousand. Add anywhere between 1,000 and 10,000 opposition supporters and another 5,000 Hawthorn (and neutral) single ticket purchases.

A 35,000 crowd to Hawthorn v Port would still be lucky to have over 25,000 members.

Meanwhile, a 35,000 crowd at Subi *must* have at least 32,000 members, because no more than 3,000 others can get in.

 

[Bigeasy]

The irony is that Hawthorn don't offer pet membership, Richmond does

You sure about that? Seems to be thousands of ferils at Hawks games.

 

[_RT_]

Once again, the attendance and profit margin is a completely seperate argument

I'm amazed that you lack the you lack the comprehension to seperate the 2 in argument, its really pretty basic

If the Hawks didn't sell off the 4 games to Tassie, their attendance figures might be greater, but it would mean their profits would be lower, because the deal you guys have with Tassie is a major reason behind the Hawks posting such large profits over the last couple of years.

Not when those games are away games or when we're playing Carlton at Ethiad the year after pulling 70,000 against them at the MCG (Melbourne are rostered to play them at the MCG)

Who mentioned anything about away games, if your club brought those 4 games back to Melbourne there is a good chance the AFL would schedule at least 2 of those home games against 2 of those 3 big clubs. Guess thats another thing that can be blamed on the 20k seat stadium.

The same impact 80 years of poor success has had on the Bulldogs attendance

In the last 20 years the Dogs have played in 10 finals series making the premlim final in 5 of them. Compare that to Richmonds 2 finals series over the same period and most people would say that they have been relatively successful in the modern era.

 

[deck]

3. We don't have pet memberships or 1-game armchair memberships. It seems to be the in-vogue excuse from other clubs when trying to explain why a 'minnow' club like Hawthorn could have 50,000 members. Our simplest membership is a 4-game Tasmanian membership which is $75 (same price as Collingwood's 3 game membership).

Your obviously having a laugh.

Capping general admission tickets and forcing people to buy a 4 game membership to attend 1 game. If that's not fudging the numbers I don't know what is.

 

[Neville Bartos]

Your obviously having a laugh.

Capping general admission tickets and forcing people to buy a 4 game membership to attend 1 game. If that's not fudging the numbers I don't know what is.

Attend 1 game? We have a 4 game membership for our 4 games in TASMANIA! WOW! It's a revelation!

Are you genuinely the stupidest person on Bigfooty? How could you possibly get that so wrong?

Eddie Maguire lead the chorus of "Hawthorn is fudging their membership numbers" last year, only to look like a complete idiot (which he does every day anyway) when Collingwood started advertising a 3-game MELBOURNE membership.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

You sure about that? Seems to be thousands of ferals at Hawks games.

As opposed to an empty stadium featuring North Melbourne?

 

[deck]

Attend 1 game? We have a 4 game membership for our 4 games in TASMANIA! WOW! It's a revelation!

Are you genuinely the stupidest person on Bigfooty? How could you possibly get that so wrong?

Eddie Maguire lead the chorus of "Hawthorn is fudging their membership numbers" last year, only to look like a complete idiot (which he does every day anyway) when Collingwood started advertising a 3-game MELBOURNE membership.

Yes it does offer 4 games. But Hawthorn had a limit on general admission ticket in to the ground. That meant once all were sold the only way in was to purchase a 4 game membership even if 3 of the games had already been played.

And the Collingwood 3 game membership sales last year had all proceeds go to the Black Saturday appeal.

Yes all clubs come up with ways to inflate figures and Hawthorn are difently doing it.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Yes all clubs come up with ways to inflate figures and Hawthorn are difently doing it.

Awesome use of the English language.
Care to explain how Hawthorn difently inflate their membership figures?

 

[Gibbo_88]

Paddlepop Lions membership: 5,527

 

[Philhawk]

Hawthorn - 30,100 overnight.

With two weeks still left till Christmas, fingers crossed we can get in excess of 40k before then.

 

[gopies1981]

Collingwood as of the 8/12/09 20,121.

 

[Greystache]

Collingwood as of the 8/12/09 20,121.

Bulldogs 14,100 as of this morning.

 

[loki04]

Collingwood as of the 16/12/09 : 30,026.

 

[Lord_Travis]

Melbourne at 17,517 as of 11/12

 

[The Kipster]

36,235 as at 16th December 2009

 

[loki04]

Melbourne at 17,517 as of 11/12

Good effort should be on track for 30k?

Would be good to see each club get 30k members imo.

 

[Sedition]

Always hard to get membership numbers out of Sydney but I sent them an email.

For the first time this year Swans have:
1. Full Blooded Member - 11 games
2. Full Blooded Member - 8 games SCG only
3. Red Member - 3 games - any venue, any game
4. Red Member - 3 games, 3 cities - Sydney, ACT, Melbourne
5. Premium Membership
6. Supporter Membership (seniors)
7. Supporter membership (Swans Club Juniors)
8. Supporter Membership (Cyggy Club Babies)
9. Supporter Membership (Pets)
10. Supporter Membership (Cheer Squad)
11. Time Out Membership

LOL

 

[gopies1981]

Collingwood as of the 18/12/09 - 31,446.

 

[Bring-Back-Powell]

I'm trying to sign up 5 or 6,000 people in Seattle to become Melbourne members.

Hopefully we'll crack the 40K next season.

 

[Zvim]

I'm trying to sign up 5 or 6,000 people in Seattle to become Melbourne members.

Hopefully we'll crack the 40K next season.

Doesn't your re-integration with the MCC mean that you effectively have 100,280 members and 194,097 on a 15 year waiting list?

 

[Hawthorn United]

Always hard to get membership numbers out of Sydney but I sent them an email.

For the first time this year Swans have:
1. Full Blooded Member - 11 games
2. Full Blooded Member - 8 games SCG only
3. Red Member - 3 games - any venue, any game
4. Red Member - 3 games, 3 cities - Sydney, ACT, Melbourne
5. Premium Membership
6. Supporter Membership (seniors)
7. Supporter membership (Swans Club Juniors)
8. Supporter Membership (Cyggy Club Babies)
9. Supporter Membership (Pets)
10. Supporter Membership (Cheer Squad)
11. Time Out Membership

LOL

What on earth is the Time Out Membership?

 

[magic_johnson!]

What on earth is the Time Out Membership?

Believe someone who is going away but wants to keep their seats/want to keep their number of years they have been a member intact.

 

[Zvim]

What on earth is the Time Out Membership?

 

[EagleMan87]

Believe someone who is going away but wants to keep their seats/want to keep their number of years they have been a member intact.

That's actually a good idea.

 

[tucky74]

What on earth is the Time Out Membership?

someone who only wants to go watch their team when they are winning