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2016 Membership tally - 56,000 reached
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Chaisa
Brownlow Medallist
- Jun 2, 2013
- 14,998
- 14,886
- AFL Club
- Sydney
- Other Teams
- The Exers
On this, we're still playing finals at ANZ right?
As much as that might suck as we won't get a proper HGA, the crowds should hopefully be strong and make the atmosphere better.
Probably means anyone who doesn't pay for an automatic GF ticket miss out though
Parents are away in September so I dunno if we go anyway, but still it sucks as my parents weren't willing to pay up in 2012 and we missed out in 2014.
woot! now we need to maintain these extra members and keep the base strong.
sataris
Chief Toastie Officer
- Feb 15, 2015
- 10,694
- 21,691
- AFL Club
- Sydney
I'd be surprised if the base dropped below 35k for a good number of years from here on out....
that would be pretty bad if it did, but if we can maintain 40K-50K for a decade or so keep people rusted on, thats a much better goal.
Awesome effort. Stole this from reddit, graph of membership numbers since 1984:
Horse has enjoyed solid acceleration during his tenure
My dad bought me a Swans scarf in 1987. No idea I was wearing approximately 1% of the club's revenue around my neck at the time.
That graph really shows the Lockett effect. And the Buddy effect is a pretty good faximile. I think supporters become members because of hope and an expectation of competitiveness rather than as a reward to the club for Premiership glory. We pretty much plateaued after 2005 to 2011 - and that was the greatest period of success in the club's history to that time. Looks like we signed about 5k in extra members for being Premiers in 06 and the same or even less in 2013.
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It looks like the growth is we've moved the base from 28k where it sat for a number of years to around 35k+ for now. That's a fantastic result.
Lakeside Swan
Premiership Player
- Banned
- #158
Shout him a few frothies and take a membership form and pen with you.It's also looking to be the second year in a row that we're on track to have more members than "Big 4" Carlton (although in fairness that's as much to do with their performance as ours).
We're taking one of dad's mates to his first AFL game this weekend, if the boys put on a good show I'm hoping we might be able to get him signed up for a cheeky 3 game membership
Lakeside Swan
Premiership Player
- Banned
- #159
Thanks Sketi. That's amazing. Clearly, playing in the 96 GF was our biggest success. You can see the then fickle Sydney supporters jumping off the bandwagon due to our limited success afterwards. This was blamed on the culture of Sydney people at the time but it would now appear that the Swans have changed that culture. I thought there would have been a bigger up swing after 2005.Awesome effort. Stole this from reddit, graph of membership numbers since 1984:
Horse has enjoyed solid acceleration during his tenure
Lakeside Swan
Premiership Player
- Banned
- #160
What makes this achievement even better it the fact that we were in the toilet four decades ago. Found this great article about our move to Sydney from The Wookie on Roar which is very accurate and detailed: http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/07/06/the-south-to-sydney-saga/
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Awesome effort. Stole this from reddit, graph of membership numbers since 1984:
Horse has enjoyed solid acceleration during his tenure
EFA
- Thread starter
- #163
50,242
In 10 years the Sydney/South Melbourne Swans Football Club will be the powerhouse of the AFL!
Eddie will be irrelevant.
Buddy will be in his last year!
Tippett will be our coach with Jenkins his assistant.
We will have 120,000 members.
At least 2 Victorian teams would have relocated, folded or merged.
Eddie will be irrelevant.
Buddy will be in his last year!
Tippett will be our coach with Jenkins his assistant.
We will have 120,000 members.
At least 2 Victorian teams would have relocated, folded or merged.
- May 2, 2014
- 1,619
- 2,662
- AFL Club
- Sydney
Buddy still at full forward
on a scale of one to brendan fevola how high are you right now?
Chaisa
Brownlow Medallist
- Jun 2, 2013
- 14,998
- 14,886
- AFL Club
- Sydney
- Other Teams
- The Exers
Do people who already have reserved seat memberships get to keep them for as long as they'd like? Cos otherwise....
I have copied one of the comments about the July 2012 post of South's move to Sydney (from Lakeside Swan's link in post #160) below. Couldn't help smiling when I noticed the bolded text.
Pope Paul VII said | July 6th 2012 @ 1:44pm | ! Report
A lucky break for SMFC.
My favourite memory of the early days is the three consecutive 30 goal matches in 1987.
A pity they couldn’t go back to back in 2006. Old Sth were runner up in 34,35 and 36 after winning 1933, hope Sydney don’t have to wait as long for there next.
Pope Paul VII said | July 6th 2012 @ 1:44pm | ! Report
A lucky break for SMFC.
My favourite memory of the early days is the three consecutive 30 goal matches in 1987.
A pity they couldn’t go back to back in 2006. Old Sth were runner up in 34,35 and 36 after winning 1933, hope Sydney don’t have to wait as long for there next.
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As far as i'm aware, members have up until around mid december to renew their memberships and retain their seats. If you dont renew by the cut off date your seats go up for grabs.
Garlic muncher
Cancelled
- Feb 3, 2016
- 4,480
- 3,258
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
That is a interesting point and one i posed on the footy industry board, Both WA clubs have waiting lists for memberships and the highest prices in the country, with 50,000 plus members how long before the SCG is pretty well sold out with perhaps only crappy seats left.
The SCG members takes away some seats, i think a couple of thousand must be left for walk ups and opposing clubs, i wonder how many seats are actually up for sale and how many have been sold ?, and how many are left and how many decent seats are left ?.
