bomberclifford
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Port Adelaide 2024: "I want my money back"
Resource 2024 Membership - Audited Figure 66,015 - New Club Record
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- Mar 22, 2013
- 2,398
- 4,810
- AFL Club
- Port Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Liverpool FC, Carolina Panther's
It’s pretty low tbh, Port better have a promising first 6 rounds or that tally ain’t going much higher, or it won’t matter because so many people have switched on to Ken’s act
10 buck digital members.. perhaps they could build a digital stadium
Digital Kenny
He's gonna finger bang bang you into his life.
Port2Power
All Australian
Membership Update 19th of March 2024
Increase of 767 members in 7 days (12/03/24)
Up by 2280 members from this time last year (16/03/23 - 52,106)
Increase of 767 members in 7 days (12/03/24)
Up by 2280 members from this time last year (16/03/23 - 52,106)
- Oct 8, 2004
- 18,651
- 25,479
- AFL Club
- Port Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Liverpool
The Devils are already 75,000.
No game day members though. $10 foundation members which I have signed up for to support Tassie's entry into the AFL. Any serious membership numbers will be significantly lower.
RussellEbertHandball
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Absolutely, because its clever marketing. No way would GC or GWS have got 75,000 sign up as foundation members for $10.
Its a good indicator to AFL and Tassie government that tens of thousands of people reckon Tassie deserve their team in the AFL given their real footy legacy and not just to worry about eyeballs.
Exactly, I'd call it a vote of confidence by the footy community for Tassie's AFL bid.
- Feb 20, 2013
- 3,031
- 14,311
- AFL Club
- Port Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Chicago Bulls
Plus raised over $1.2m by sending out stickers
That would barely cover wages for the admin team but money well earned for a political point.
- Mar 1, 2014
- 14,643
- 18,569
- AFL Club
- Port Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Cronulla Sutherland Sharks
Clever but disappointing.
The Devils are a State team in a club competition as is evident in the Tasmanian State guernsey that they have been allowed to wear. I thought the AFL said a big fat NO to clubs wearing a state guernsey in what is a club competition. I seem to recall Nigel Smart proposing that the Crows wear the SA State guernsey in a heritage round some years ago. That bid was shot down by the SANFL and the AFL.
As the Devils are the only AFL club among 530,000 people in an Australian Rules footy mad state I am not surprised that they have 100,000 Ten Dollar Members. Good luck to them I just wish they had shown a bit more flair in determining the new team's colours and nickname. in the NBL the Tassie Jackjumpers have shown what can be done as they resisted the temptation to revert to the old Hobart Devils nickname of the 1990s and they have reaped the rewards. Resurrecting the Hobart Devils nickname along with adopting the Tasmanian State colours and the Tasmanian State jumper lacks imagination but good luck to them anyway. I have nothing against a Tasmanian entry into the AFL I just wish it was badged more like a club than a State side. As I posted elsewhere every time we play them it will feel like we are playing a State team.
Defending the use of the 100 year old Tasmanian State guernsey Nick Riewoldt had this to say,
Riewoldt added it was standard for AFL clubs to wear a traditional uniform.
Does this mean Nick will now be supporting Port's right to wear our traditional PB outfit?
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RussellEbertHandball
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Tassie's different. They have had a long term North / South footy divide and a North West / North East footy sub division that has held footy back in the state. So if you are trying to unify the whole state behind this venture then using the state footy icons makes a lot of sense as the starting point. There hasn't been any complaints from Tasmanians.
They aren't going to get another team in the next 50+ years, with hundreds of thousands and millions of people moving there driving the push for a second team,unless global warming makes the main land burn and Tassie stays cool.
And as a few of their ambassadors have been saying, its their foundation jumper and icons, so it doesn't mean they wont change / be added to once the team has started playing in the AFL.
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- Mar 1, 2014
- 14,643
- 18,569
- AFL Club
- Port Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Cronulla Sutherland Sharks
I understand the demographics and as I posted I am not opposed to a team from Tasmania. I am just disappointed at the lack of a club ethos in what they have done. I actually think being the only club from an island State is a real advantage and the 100k membership should not be a surprise. I can also understand the thinking behind what the Tasmanians have done I just don't think they should have been allowed to do it and I do not think the Devils should be telling the AFL what they may or may not do sometime in the future I think the AFL should be telling them what they cannot do now just as they do with us.
The disappointing thing is there is not one once of originality or any unique ambience in anything they have done.
The colours - green gold and red are the Tasmanian State colours.
The Guernsy- The Tasmanian map with the red T on a green background has been worn by Tassie State teams for 100 years.
The devils- this nickname was used by the Hobart Devils in the NBL in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Devil logo- the AFL and the Tasmanians had to get permission from the Disney organisation to adapt the Devil logo to suit.
Good luck to the Tassie Devils anyway, I look forward to watching Port beat a State team.
- Nov 6, 2014
- 65,172
- 83,038
- AFL Club
- Port Adelaide
Come on. You can’t compare.
I'm sure the AFL and the (current) Tasmanian government had major input into the strategy. 100k Members, just before an election where there's the risk of no new stadium and no team. This is, IMO, as much about politics as the team itself at this point.
