Club Mgmt. 2016 Essendon Membership Thread - Final count - 57,494!

[yaco55]

Will be a bump after Family Day and the first NAB Challenge game.

 

[CourtzMajora]

47,897

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Are we still ahead of what we were in 2015? It seems to be slowing down.

roughly on par with last year.

typical spike is due when the season starts

 

[Paul_Barnard]

roughly on par with last year.

typical spike is due when the season starts

Dont count on that spike this year.
It already happened after the criminal CAS result..

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Dont count on that spike this year.
It already happened after the criminal CAS result..

people sign up when the season starts so they can organsie their tickets etc

some ppl cabfed doing it

 

[Synth]

The data isn't exact as some days the figures may be from a couple days before or just after but ill try keep up from 28th going forward if I remember

 

[Doss]

Synth, he lives!

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

We're currently at 48,156 on 26 Feb which going by that graph is a record, surpassing 28 Feb 2014 by 9.

 

[Bombermania]

Being a bit of a chartist I would think our membership numbers will finish up being in the mid-high 50s and might with a few wins jump into the low 60s

 

[BratPack]

Took me longer than I wanted but I finally got signed up. First time I've been a member since '95 I think when I was 14 (Never had the money)

 

[The Pork]

Me and 2 other mates signed up today all first time members after years of saying we would. Got the active area membership. Can't wait I'm pumped.....

 

[Loonerty]

Signed up last night, finally.

 

[Shane Hird]

A spike imminent this week you'd think.

 

[Dave]

There's never been a more important year than this to show your support and get on board. Our club has been horrifically mismanaged and as a result, it's in a badly gutted state at present, but there is still an enormous wealth of tradition behind this club and the past four years don't change that. You support the jumper and all the history that it stands for.

There are still some very solid and gutsy people wearing our jumper who will be taking the field this year too. They're going to face a hard task, and guess what; we might find out what it's like to truly on tough street as supporters for a year or two. But, we've just got to guts it out. And those players need our support; not just the Baguleys, and Goddards, and Zaharakises, but the young kids like Laverde and Daniher and Langord and Merrett who are going to be forced to stand up taller than they probably should have to with their tender years.

But guess what: we've still got our club. That's more than those poor Fitzroy supporters who watched their club be systematically and unethically pushed out of the league twenty years ago can say. And we'll still have our club well into the future, as long as we stick fat. That's the most important thing.

It's going to be a tough year, it will most likely be a tough few years. But right now we're basically at ground zero and if we can maintain our support now, it's going to define so much of how quickly our club can rebound from this disaster.

Well said. Parents are joining as members after years in the wilderness (aka winters spent in FNQ). Get on board people!!

 

[daffo]

Should crack the 50k this week or next.

 

[Shane Hird]

Even if it levelled out at 50,000 it's a pretty good turnout considering the circumstances.

 

[CourtzMajora]

48,747

 

[HirdsTheWord]

No reason why we cant go 65k this year.

the boys are working their assess off

no reason why we cant support them by signing on

 

[Shane Hird]

48,747

600 signed in a one weekend!

Nothing like beating Carlton to get the punters moving.

 

[pepsi]

600 signed in a one weekend!

Nothing like beating Carlton to get the punters moving.

I imagine the family day would have played a big part in that jump.

 

[Lethal]

Membership ad
Make a stand

 

[Lore]

Membership ad
Make a stand

They've changed the membership counter on the EFC website as well. We're now people who've "made a stand" rather than "threads in the sash".

 

[Mercurial89]

I thought when we copped the suspensions that over 50K would be an ok achievement. The fact we may have that before the season starts and could end up around 55k is pretty great.

 

[Darealrath]

I thought when we copped the suspensions that over 50K would be an ok achievement. The fact we may have that before the season starts and could end up around 55k is pretty great.

It is, but I wonder how much impact the advantage membership system has made. Might have less if people had to make more of an effort to sign up again, but impossible to measure and that's why they put the system in place in any case (though obviously they wouldn't have forseen such an extreme situation).

 

[bombersfan4000]

I thought when we copped the suspensions that over 50K would be an ok achievement. The fact we may have that before the season starts and could end up around 55k is pretty great.

Its a credit to all the supporters for showing their true colours as the club is going through its darkest hours & on track to break to reach membership records