2017 NMFC Membership Tally/Discussion | Final tally 40,441

[Heaps of fun]

GC on life support.

Bizarre to think that if the AFL moved us to the Gold Coast there would probably be 20,000 less members in the pool of AFL clubs. No way we'd be any higher than 30,000 up there even if we were drizzled in draft picks and won a GF.

 

[GarnerSmash]

Bottoming out at 40k after a preseason of doom and gloom in the media and a season of playing kids shows how far we have come.

Pull off a recruiting coup or two and watch us hit 45k+ next year.

 

[giantroo]

Thank You Shinboners.

North Melbourne is saying thank you for the amazing support of its 40,441 members this week with some fantastic prizes.

The club, along with partners Canterbury and Remedy Kombucha will be contacting some of its most loyal supporters during the week to say “thanks”.

Every day of the week, there will be two exciting giveaways for 2017 members, including a Canterbury prize pack, North signed guernsey, Syd Barker Medal tickets and more.

We'll be calling all our winners, but you can also keep an eye on the North Melbourne website or app to see the full list of lucky recipients.

From the players, staff and coaches at the North Melbourne Football Club, we want to say thank you for being the best supporters in the league ... for being there rain, hail or shine … win, lose or draw … week in, week out.

Thank you for being a Shinboner in 2017.

As an added "thank you", The Roo Shop is offering 40% off apparel in-store at Arden Street this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Simply present your membership card to claim the discount. Interstate members can obtain the discount by calling (03) 9320 2480.

The full list of prizes
Monday

- Canterbury prize pack
- Two General Admission Social Club Memberships

Tuesday

- Two double passes to the Grand Final Breakfast (balcony seating)
- Two invitations to 2018 Selfie & Autograph Day

Wednesday

- 2017 signed North Melbourne guernsey
- 2018 Junior Mascot Experience

Thursday

- Two tickets to the Syd Barker Medal
- Personalised letter from a North player

Friday

- Five double passes to Guard of Honour at first 2018 home game
- Two post-match change-room passes (2018)

Saturday

- $100 Roo Shop voucher
- Case of Remedy Kombucha

 

[chaelsonnen]

Yep.
As of 1/8:
2015 total 41,090
2016 45,000
2017 40,441

Of course we want to be growing each year, but considering this is likely a wooden spoon year. Being only 600 odd memberships of out prelim year in 2015, isn't all that bad. Have a big off-season and recruit a few nice players and should be back up to the 45,000 mark next year.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Thank You Shinboners.

North Melbourne is saying thank you for the amazing support of its 40,441 members this week with some fantastic prizes.

The club, along with partners Canterbury and Remedy Kombucha will be contacting some of its most loyal supporters during the week to say “thanks”.

Every day of the week, there will be two exciting giveaways for 2017 members, including a Canterbury prize pack, North signed guernsey, Syd Barker Medal tickets and more.

We'll be calling all our winners, but you can also keep an eye on the North Melbourne website or app to see the full list of lucky recipients.

From the players, staff and coaches at the North Melbourne Football Club, we want to say thank you for being the best supporters in the league ... for being there rain, hail or shine … win, lose or draw … week in, week out.

Thank you for being a Shinboner in 2017.

As an added "thank you", The Roo Shop is offering 40% off apparel in-store at Arden Street this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Simply present your membership card to claim the discount. Interstate members can obtain the discount by calling (03) 9320 2480.

The full list of prizes
Monday

- Canterbury prize pack
- Two General Admission Social Club Memberships

Tuesday

- Two double passes to the Grand Final Breakfast (balcony seating)
- Two invitations to 2018 Selfie & Autograph Day

Wednesday

- 2017 signed North Melbourne guernsey
- 2018 Junior Mascot Experience

Thursday

- Two tickets to the Syd Barker Medal
- Personalised letter from a North player

Friday

- Five double passes to Guard of Honour at first 2018 home game
- Two post-match change-room passes (2018)

Saturday

- $100 Roo Shop voucher
- Case of Remedy Kombucha

Still no winners from the rich eastern suburbs. Stupid "political correctness".

 

[Bati_18]

Does anyone know when we will be able to buy memberships for 2018?

Due to personal reasons i could not buy a membership this year but am eager to make up for it by buying six memberships next year. One for me reserved seating and one for my niece who is nearly three years old and am planning to make her a NMFC supporter for life as to not give my sister (her mum) a chance to make her an Essendon supporter.

The other five will be for my father,mother, a good freind, and one for my brother in law who is new to Australia and has taken a liking to Aussie Rules football.

In terms of our membership numbers for this year i believe that is a decent amount considering a lot of people knew we would have a poor year in terms of wins. Next year our target should be 50,000, i believe this is getable.

 

[Orange Peanut]

Still no winners from the rich eastern suburbs. Stupid "political correctness".

or the poor ones

 

[giantroo]

 

[darko]

I swear Higgins' noggin gets bigger each day.

 

[archereleven]

Spuds a legend lol

 

[Peter27374]

Wow, what a fantasy from some recent contributors, coming off a spoon, without big signings and the same old deadbeat coach the membership will drop. Guaranteed! that's why they are throwing the whole future of the club on one player.

 

[Gasometer]

Wow, what a fantasy from some recent contributors, coming off a spoon, without big signings and the same old deadbeat coach the membership will drop. Guaranteed! that's why they are throwing the whole future of the club on one player.

On ya Pete.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Got down to Arden St this week, grabbed a couple of things in the Rooshop sale, saw McKay and Clarke shopping too, enjoyed a latte from the coffee stall, then passed Boomer on his way in to work. Very happy with that excursion and proud to be part of the club. Never go there without remembering what a pipe dream it is to have my own club settled at home, with a fantastic facility and now a base of $40,000 members in a down year.

 

[Roogal]

We're doing alright. Okay, alright isn't good enough, but it's a start. Yes membership copped a battering this year and there are many reasons behind that. I suppose that in times when household budgets are being stretched (thank you f#cking energy companies) then supporters and members will prioritise their spending in the Club's projected 'Down Years'.

We started the season with the second youngest playing list, an unsupportive media, and the seasonal draw from Hell where we played our first eight games against the top teams of the previous season. Yeah ... it's been our 'Annus Horribilus'. From here, things we assume should get much better. 2017 has been the season that has perhaps built character in the team's young players, perhaps strengthened the resolve of our truest and most ardent supporters, and provided the foundations for better days and things ahead.

Our club has its challenges, I personally still have my doubts about the club supporting an AFLW and stand-alone Reserves team in a climate where we still haven't retired debts and considering that VFL teams don't come cheap, just ask North Ballarat Roosters who will finally know their fate on September 15th. We will have challenges in the future as we come under increasing pressure from the AFL to consider a permanent relocation to Tasmania (there ... I said it, there's the Elephant in the Room (or is it running across Arden Street?)). Our own team is even talking of basing its AFLW team out of Hobart as the 'Tassie Kangaroos'.

Similar decisions may also confront other AFL teams with the Western Bulldogs who stole Ballarat from asunder, with the pending demise of the North Ballarat Roosters from the VFL, and the Ballarat Council may well be seeking another tennant to fill its new Mars Stadium. The Western Bulldogs have now recently upped the ante to Ballarat declaring that they want the ground built to eventually hold 20,000. Well ... in the words of Darryl Kerrigan ... "Tell them they're dreamin"! Why would Ballarat build a 20,000 capacity venue to host only 2 AFL seasonal games? Ballarat will rightly be wanting much more commitment from the AFL to warrant that level of investment and development, particularly when there are 'local talking heads' (The Liberal Party members of the Ballarat Council, the Local Liberal MLC and various self-interested local groups) already screaming 'waste of public money' about the scale of the current development so far?

To me it seems that the Bulldogs are not fully committed to Ballarat yet either. The players and the team didn't even train in Ballarat before they got beaten by Port Adelaide there recently. Their players didn't turn up after the Grand Final win last year (and that point wasn't lost on Ballarat's North Melbourne supporters at the time). To me, that poses questions about the commitment and connection that the Bulldogs say that they are trying to build. The Bulldogs announced in 2012 that they wanted Ballarat as their zone and in 2014 managed to white-ant North Melbourne out of a city with a deep AFL pedigree where the Roos had spent 10 years building loyalty, memberships, and a very succesful VFL alliance with the North Ballarat Roosters. So the Bulldogs have some decisions to make as well.

Below: The re-developed Mars (Eureka) Stadium currently holds about 12,000. Proposed further expansion will involve extending the main grandstand around 60% of the arena for a seated capacity of 15,000 (Projected cost $15 million). However, 20,000 would require the rearward extention of the new Eastern Stand (closest to shot) and the likely demolition and rebuilding of the main social club as a 2 tier stand (cost likely to be upward of $30 million).

RE-ENTER North Melbourne. So if the Western Bulldogs don't want to commit to Ballarat after 2021 because they can't get a 20,000 stadium, then give the bloody joint back to the Kangaroos because our Tasmanian Commitment ends then, and we will play three seasonal games at Ballarat (at a venue designed to hold 15,000) against Port Adelaide, The Suns and GWS and our reserves and AFLW team can play there without our club taking on the further debts that we can ill-afford by expanding and upgrading Arden Street.

 

[Limerick]

Hi Mods move this to its own thread if you wish.

We are slipping within the Melbourne clubs and particularly within the smaller Melbourne clubs (Melbourne,
St Kilda & Western Bulldogs). My question is how do we address this. Certainly a premiership will give us a boost
but if its a one off will it be enough?

Carlton, who are having a sh*t period, are still growing.
Thoughts?


___________ 2015______ 2016______ 2017______ 2018______Comment___%_Increase
Adelaide_____52,920_____ 54,307_____ 56,865_____ 82,669______31_May._____56.2%
Brisbane_____25,408_____ 23,286_____ 21,362_____ 24,730__________________-2.7%
Carlton______47,305_____ 50,130_____ 50,326_____ 54,383_________________ 15.0%
Collingwood__75,037_____ 74,643_____ 75,347_____ 85,000______Guess_______13.3%
Essendon____60,818_____ 57,494_____ 67,768_____ 76,180______15_Jul.______25.3%
Fremantle___ 51,433_____ 51,889_____ 51,254_____ 55,121______8_Jun.______7.2%
Geelong_____44,312_____ 50,571_____ 54,854_____ 59,782_________________ 34.9%
Gold_Coast__ 13,643_____ 12,854_____ 11,665_____ 11,841_________________ -13.2%
GWS_______ 13,480_____ 15,312_____ 20,944_____ 24,861_________________ 84.4%
Hawthorn____72,924_____ 75,351_____ 75,663_____ 80,000_________________ 9.7%
Melbourne___ 35,953_____ 39,146_____ 42,233_____ 44,154_________________ 22.8%
Nth_Melb.___ 41,012_____ 45,014_____ 40,343_____ 40,853_________________-0.4%
Port_Adel____54,057_____ 53,743_____ 52,129_____ 61,300_________________ 13.4%
Richmond____70,809_____ 72,278_____ 72,669_____ 100,303________________ 41.7%
St_Kilda_____32,746_____ 38,009_____ 42,052_____ 43,302_________________ 32.2%
Sydney_____ 48,836_____ 56,523_____ 58,838_____ 60,425_________________ 23.7%
West_Coast__60,221_____ 65,188_____ 65,064_____ 70,000______Guess______ 16.2%
W._Bulldogs_ 35,222_____ 39,459_____ 47,653_____ 43,300_______________ 22.9%

Total_______836,136_____ 875,197_____907,029_____1,018,204______________ 21.8%
Nth_%_of_AFL_4.9%_____ _5.1%______ __4.4%_____ __4.0%
AFL_Increase____________ 39,061______31,832_____ 111,175
AFL_%_Increase_________ 4.7%_ _______3.6%________12.3%

 

[danj]

I think our current president needs to talk us up more, this was one area JB was really good at. BB is almost a non entity in comparison. He should be out there pumping up our tyres around our community engagement, our pokies stance, the redevelopment of Arden St. Get a regular guest spot somewhere on radio and tv, some creative social media etc etc

Oh also Brad might make 3-4 changes tonight, that might spark a surge