Resource 2023 Membership - Audited Figure 64,041 - New Club Record

[Ljc_86]

I’d love to be a fly on the wall in the offices today

 

[StrappingTape]

They acknowledged my 15+ years of membership in mine as well.
Hopefully the message about rusted on supporters leaving is getting through.

It's a sales tactic. Pulling at the heart strings

 

[Grave Danger]

I've only gone off auto-renewal at this stage - told them whether I renew in 2023 will depend on decisions made by the club in the next few weeks. Got the stock "You will have ample time and opportunity to consider your renewal for the 2023 season" response.

 

[StrappingTape]

Why do you think they are calling around trying to sure of AFLW memberships

Honestly, who would ever pay for one when they are easily had for free? Just this week Livingstone offered 7000 free tickets to round 1.

 

[Nelso]

Mine has been cancelled.

Next thing on the to do list is to write an email to Richo.

 

[dirty2]

Well emails sent... My $1200 platinum family membership might not hurt them... But when it's hundreds? Thousands? It will.

Well done Koch

 

[Papa G]

I know for a fact the club thinks when push comes to shove, most people will end up signing on. Turning off auto renewal means dick to them. You actually need to cancel.

 

[Hot Port]

I’ll pay $100 to keep my seat for one year if that’s possible, and renew in 2024 only if ken is gone!

 

[El Zorro]

I least they bothered checking for how long I've been a member.

Hey [El Zorro],

Thanks for your email. As per your request, I have opted you out of auto-renewal for 2023.

As someone who has been with us for 15+ years, we’re very sad to see you go.

You will have ample time and opportunity to consider your renewal for the 2023 season.

If there’s anything else I can do regarding your membership, now or in the future, feel free to reach out.

Thanks,

 

[afl2004]

I least they bothered checking for how long I've been a member.

Hey [El Zorro],

Thanks for your email. As per your request, I have opted you out of auto-renewal for 2023.

As someone who has been with us for 15+ years, we’re very sad to see you go.

You will have ample time and opportunity to consider your renewal for the 2023 season.

If there’s anything else I can do regarding your membership, now or in the future, feel free to reach out.

Thanks,

Got the same

 

[ibd77]

If there’s anything else I can do regarding your membership, now or in the future, feel free to reach out.

Did you respond to that statement?

 

[El Zorro]

Did you respond to that statement?

I didn't.

 

[Ljc_86]

The are expecting a lot of people to be reacting and then come crawling back.

 

[Pt Augusta Power]

I least they bothered checking for how long I've been a member.

Hey [El Zorro],

Thanks for your email. As per your request, I have opted you out of auto-renewal for 2023.

As someone who has been with us for 15+ years, we’re very sad to see you go.

You will have ample time and opportunity to consider your renewal for the 2023 season.

If there’s anything else I can do regarding your membership, now or in the future, feel free to reach out.

Thanks,

They think you’ll cave before the season starts.

 

[Loony Juice]

I know for a fact the club thinks when push comes to shove, most people will end up signing on. Turning off auto renewal means dick to them. You actually need to cancel.

I disagree for a number of reasons

First being that you are already counted as a 2022 Member and have contributed financially

Secondly the numbers on auto-renewal of their membership are taken as 'guaranteed income' by the club, stopping auto-renewal of membership is a great way to send a message before next season even starts, by which time we will have spread the word further and many more members are not auto-renewing automatically and those not previousy doing so will also have reconsidered purchaing a membership for a further season of fraud from the Kenny J Simspon/BigDavy LittleKoch social club

 

[Loony Juice]

The are expecting a lot of people to be reacting and then come crawling back.

They think you’ll cave before the season starts.

Such is the contempt with which we are viewed

Spread the word one and all

Let's send these charlatans a message

 

[joyful]

I’m a bit the opposite to most people here in that I am (was) a member who was slowly increasing. One of my post divorce goals was to become a member, the first thing I did when I was made permanent at work was celebrate by buying a membership, the season was almost over and it was just a ‘true believers’ one or something really cheap, but gosh I was so excited when that pack arrived. That I was in a position to be able to choose what I spent my time and money on and that I could do it on something as frivolous as football was just such a thrill.
Over the following years I upped the membership to include game access and started attending games (even though that was super outside my comfort zone). I also started buying merchandise (gotta have something to wear to the games!)
This year I splurged on a reserved seat and made regular trips to watch the SANFL as well, spending money at Alberton (I byo for AO).
Full of optimism for next year (because there was no way we weren’t getting a new coach right, finals clause and all that) I started considering upgrading to a higher level; better seats, bigger spend.
But as I said, I can choose how I spend my time and my money now, and when I use it to support Port I am choosing them over the multitude of other hobbies and interests I have, it’s not a case of if not footy then what else, and, after this year, my other interests are looking like a more attractive option.
So unless something exciting happens over the summer I won’t renew, or upgrade and even if I do cave a little at the start of the season it would be at a much lower investment and no game attendance.

 

[Hammer#8]

I cancelled my membership at the end 2020 for the simple reason of Hinkley remaining coach. Despite being at what seemed the start of a successful era, there is no way I'm continuing to bankroll stability.

If we sack Hinkley I'll only then come back.

 

[rogerjames]

+1 canned

Fired off an email. It was like eating Pringles - once I popped, I just couldn't stop. Look, I know no-one at the club will read this. But it was most cathartic. Highly recommend...



Dear PAFC,

Since I’m never getting married, because, well, I reckon that archaic institution is a crock of sh!t, this is as close to divorce as I’ll ever get.

Cause: irreconcilable differences.

The club today is totally unrecognisable to the one I fell in love with way back in 1980.

It’s lost its way.
It’s lost its purpose.
It’s lost its soul.

And I cannot sanction your buffoonery any longer.

The “Cult of Ken” is the most bizarre thing I’ve seen in my 42 years as a Port supporter. That mad bastard Jim Jones could’ve taken a few pointers from the club in how to spread a dangerous, disingenuous gospel. All you’ve done is divide the fanbase into “True Believers” and “White Noise” (perhaps better known as “Happy Clappers” and “Old School Die-hards.”)

The constant gaslighting coming out of Allan Scott HQ feeds this voracious parasite.

Stickerman rules.

The once proud club of Fos, Big Bob, Bobby Quinn, Jack, Russ, Bruce and Bucky - Craig Bradley was always my fave, fwiw - has been hijacked by a conga line of conmen.

Kochie, that gutless spiv - and yes, I refer to him as a gutless spiv - is a self-proclaimed “professional bullshitter” who talks tough but rarely backs it up. Comes off second best in just about every negotiation. Oh hey, Prison Bars, how’s it going? And I’ll be damned if Ken and his manager don’t play him off the break every time. Every. Goddamn. Time. It’s embarrassing.

Far out, I had Richo sussed when he used data and metrics, the refuge of any slick scoundrel, to defend plagiarising the Liverpool video. That shameless IP heist is emblematic of the shortcuts and copouts that define the club these days.

Ken is a sh!t coach but cunning as a shithouse rat. Time and again, he’s called the club’s bluff. Every time, the spineless admin metaphorically pissed, shat and spewed all over itself like my brother-in-law literally did to himself at my sister’s 50th birthday party many moons ago. Hinkley no doubt learned to spot a mark from his days selling used cars. He’s taken you suckers for an absolute ride.

HOW MANY TIMES ARE YOU GONNA BUY THE SAME LEMON!!!???

Weirdly, I kinda admire the elephant-sized balls on the guy. Still. that yokel is the most pain those Geelong sadists have ever inflicted upon us. The 2007 Grand Final was one day. Hinkley’s reign has been a decade of suffering. Ken years and counting.

Gawd, I’d love nothing more than for Ken & Kochie to ride off into the sunset on the Ca$h Cow.

So yeah, can my auto-renewal, thanks. Hell, you can straight up bin my membership. Starting right now, I’m gonna put my hard-earned towards my other great passion:

OG Kenner Star Wars toys.

And with all the moolah I’ll save from merch, membership and match day shenanigans, I’ll finally be able to get my Holy Grail item: the cardboard Toltoys Death Star, which I haven’t had in my collection since the early-80s when Mum gave it away to some little bastard down the street.

Funny enough, I’ll have Ken, Kochie & Richo to thank for it.

The f@%king irony.

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Brilliant

 

[rogerjames]

You just watch. The club will start bumping 3-game members up to 11-game members "on us".

They will fudge it like they've fudged everything in recent years

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

+1 canned

Fired off an email. It was like eating Pringles - once I popped, I just couldn't stop. Look, I know no-one at the club will read this. But it was most cathartic. Highly recommend...



Dear PAFC,

Since I’m never getting married, because, well, I reckon that archaic institution is a crock of sh!t, this is as close to divorce as I’ll ever get.

Cause: irreconcilable differences.

The club today is totally unrecognisable to the one I fell in love with way back in 1980.

It’s lost its way.
It’s lost its purpose.
It’s lost its soul.

And I cannot sanction your buffoonery any longer.

The “Cult of Ken” is the most bizarre thing I’ve seen in my 42 years as a Port supporter. That mad bastard Jim Jones could’ve taken a few pointers from the club in how to spread a dangerous, disingenuous gospel. All you’ve done is divide the fanbase into “True Believers” and “White Noise” (perhaps better known as “Happy Clappers” and “Old School Die-hards.”)

The constant gaslighting coming out of Allan Scott HQ feeds this voracious parasite.

Stickerman rules.

The once proud club of Fos, Big Bob, Bobby Quinn, Jack, Russ, Bruce and Bucky - Craig Bradley was always my fave, fwiw - has been hijacked by a conga line of conmen.

Kochie, that gutless spiv - and yes, I refer to him as a gutless spiv - is a self-proclaimed “professional bullshitter” who talks tough but rarely backs it up. Comes off second best in just about every negotiation. Oh hey, Prison Bars, how’s it going? And I’ll be damned if Ken and his manager don’t play him off the break every time. Every. Goddamn. Time. It’s embarrassing.

Far out, I had Richo sussed when he used data and metrics, the refuge of any slick scoundrel, to defend plagiarising the Liverpool video. That shameless IP heist is emblematic of the shortcuts and copouts that define the club these days.

Ken is a sh!t coach but cunning as a shithouse rat. Time and again, he’s called the club’s bluff. Every time, the spineless admin metaphorically pissed, shat and spewed all over itself like my brother-in-law literally did to himself at my sister’s 50th birthday party many moons ago. Hinkley no doubt learned to spot a mark from his days selling used cars. He’s taken you suckers for an absolute ride.

HOW MANY TIMES ARE YOU GONNA BUY THE SAME LEMON!!!???

Weirdly, I kinda admire the elephant-sized balls on the guy. Still. that yokel is the most pain those Geelong sadists have ever inflicted upon us. The 2007 Grand Final was one day. Hinkley’s reign has been a decade of suffering. Ken years and counting.

Gawd, I’d love nothing more than for Ken & Kochie to ride off into the sunset on the Ca$h Cow.

So yeah, can my auto-renewal, thanks. Hell, you can straight up bin my membership. Starting right now, I’m gonna put my hard-earned towards my other great passion:

OG Kenner Star Wars toys.

And with all the moolah I’ll save from merch, membership and match day shenanigans, I’ll finally be able to get my Holy Grail item: the cardboard Toltoys Death Star, which I haven’t had in my collection since the early-80s when Mum gave it away to some little bastard down the street.

Funny enough, I’ll have Ken, Kochie & Richo to thank for it.

The f@%king irony.

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Love it all mate but, the Jim Jones reference is the piece de resistance.

Instead of dumping a truckload of chicken shit in front of the Alan Scott HQ, maybe we dump a couple of pallet loads of Kool Aid there.

Send packets of Kool Aid to Rucci, Kornes, Whateley etc and tell them to top up and drink some more, as they have refused to sprout Hinkley should be signed up for another 20 years.

 

[MrMeaner]

I've only gone off auto-renewal at this stage - told them whether I renew in 2023 will depend on decisions made by the club in the next few weeks. Got the stock "You will have ample time and opportunity to consider your renewal for the 2023 season" response.

That is definitely a line they were given to say. The operator even repeated it when I responded to her first use of it by saying 'don't bother contacting me if Hinkley and Koch are still there.'

 

[Grave Danger]

That is definitely a line they were given to say. The operator even repeated it when I responded to her first use of it by saying 'don't bother contacting me if Hinkley and Koch are still there.'

It'll be ampoule time if KH gets another extension...

 

[MrMeaner]

It'll be ampoule time if KH gets another extension...

That'll just be the moment I switch off from anything more than a passing interest in AFL. At the moment, I am hanging by a thread. My wife and son don't follow any of it. I'm much more invested in getting out on the road and trails on my bike.

 

[DaTBird187]

It would be nice to know how this has played out in the four walls of Alberton since last Thursday.