Official Club Stuff 2017 Membership Tally

[Madtiger2006]

You can give it a rest now for the season dude! As they stopped counting the figures a month or so ago

Not us though

 

[gaelictiogar]

Sydney was always a much larger market with much more potential than the Gold Coast. The situations are different in that regard.

If memberships continue to decline - very likely given this years performances - and crowds don't pick up they will continue to fall further behind the rest of the competition. I'm not saying it's likely to happen, but I think it is a possibility if the situation worsens with Tasmania clamouring for a team. All it might take is for a different administration to come in with different views on the expansion and how much support clubs should receive and Gold Coast could come under fire.

The AFL will not desert the GC. It is simply too invested in the notion that it is THE nationwide sporting league. To retreat from an urban market is simply not going to happen come what may.