AFL Silver Membership Waitlist Number

[Demonic Ascent]

I don’t know why it’s such a secret for them not to reveal club support numbers each year.

if things haven’t changed over the years then I think Collingwood have 7-8K gold, and Carlton have 4-5K gold.

if those 2 sides meet in the Gf, then that might be almost enough for essentially all but a few remaining gold members to miss out, if only 13,000 seats are sold to gold members.

If Collingwood had 7-8k Gold 5-10 years ago surely they are above 10k now?

 

[Seattle Mariners]

If Collingwood had 7-8k Gold 5-10 years ago surely they are above 10k now?

Logic would say yes.

However, I'd like to think that every GF scenario would guarantee all gold members of competing clubs a GF ticket.
For example, if it's a Collingwood V Essendon or Carlton GF, then all gold members of both sides will be catered for.
Therefore they might cap the amount of Collingwood gold members at 8 and 5 for Carlton so it doesn't exceed the 13K that seems to be the max available for gold members.

I could be way off though.

 

[TigerR]

Logic would say yes

I don't think there would be 10000 Collingwood gold. But regardless the AFL should cater for all Gold with nominated club like you said and then some.

This year, 2010 members were offered Gold so we can use 2010 figures (which are published) to get an estimate.

In 2010 there were:
29854 gold
21618 silver
2487 absentee

In terms of club of support and assuming absentees are not counted in those figures there were

10812 Collingwood (23.5% of those with a nominated club)
6651 Carton (14.5% of those with a nominated club)
28394 other club of support (62%)
5615 no nominated club of support (10.9% of all members excluding absentee)

So 38% with a club of support were Collingwood or Carlton. Assuming the same rate of attrition across all supporters, worst case is that there are 11400 Gold between them. This assumes 30000 Gold and everyone has a nominated club. (I suspect a lot without a nominated club could be Under 7s, as I remember at least one of my kids not having a nominated club recorded until they had to pay as a 7 year old.)

I doubt both these clubs will be in the Grannie this year anyway, but you never know. Brisbane v GWS and they might have to discount tickets for silvers.

 

[The Sultan]

there are 30k Gold members, at a guess 20k would be either Carlton/Collingwood/Essendon/Richmond. If two of the four make it, you'd have to be unlucky to miss out, assuming 13-15k tickets are available to AFL members. But saying that AFL membership ae exactly transparent, so there may only be 8k tickets available.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

If Collingwood had 7-8k Gold 5-10 years ago surely they are above 10k now?

Absolutely.

Collingwood don't drop off in hard times, and only would have taken even more Gold spots during COVID. Added to this, the bump they'll get from new silver members this year can't be downplayed as well. You will see people see Gold get guaranteed and they will jump on.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

From the end of 2013.
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Now that is an interesting breakdown blue harvest

Hazard a guess what the 2023 numbers would look like? Pies probably have a much bigger pie (no pun intended) of that total.

 

[deck]

If Collingwood had 7-8k Gold 5-10 years ago surely they are above 10k now?

But if Gold was capped then at 30,000 and is still capped at 30,000 then for every added Collingwood club of support gold means less for other clubs.

 

[deck]

Logic would say yes.

However, I'd like to think that every GF scenario would guarantee all gold members of competing clubs a GF ticket.
For example, if it's a Collingwood V Essendon or Carlton GF, then all gold members of both sides will be catered for.
Therefore they might cap the amount of Collingwood gold members at 8 and 5 for Carlton so it doesn't exceed the 13K that seems to be the max available for gold members.

I could be way off though.

Going by some post further back it maybe the case. There appears to be people who signed up for silver a year or so later than others but were offered gold before them. Was this due to the club of support?

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Noticed when getting tickets yesterday that restricted view was available. Anyone know where abouts in the AFL Reserve restricted view would even be?

 

[Demonic Ascent]

Logic would say yes.

However, I'd like to think that every GF scenario would guarantee all gold members of competing clubs a GF ticket.
For example, if it's a Collingwood V Essendon or Carlton GF, then all gold members of both sides will be catered for.
Therefore they might cap the amount of Collingwood gold members at 8 and 5 for Carlton so it doesn't exceed the 13K that seems to be the max available for gold members.

I could be way off though.

I don't think so. The memo for GF ticket allocations a few years ago allows bands for each allocation and I'm pretty sure AFL member were 13k-17k so they could theoretically allocate up to 17k if they had to. They would probably recoup those tickets out of competing club members allocations.

 

[Demonic Ascent]

Absolutely.

Collingwood don't drop off in hard times, and only would have taken even more Gold spots during COVID. Added to this, the bump they'll get from new silver members this year can't be downplayed as well. You will see people see Gold get guaranteed and they will jump on.

Assuming they had a lot jump on after 2010/11 who would be getting Gold now I'd say they're around 10k.

 

[Demonic Ascent]

But if Gold was capped then at 30,000 and is still capped at 30,000 then for every added Collingwood club of support gold means less for other clubs.

Yep if I had to guess some Essendon supporters would've dropped off between 2013-2016, possibly some Carlton too? Maybe Geelong? There's limited benefit to clubs who don't play at the MCG.

 

[Demonic Ascent]

Going by some post further back it maybe the case. There appears to be people who signed up for silver a year or so later than others but were offered gold before them. Was this due to the club of support?

I reckon it's more likely they got their join dates mixed up.

 

[Underarm]

Noticed when getting tickets yesterday that restricted view was available. Anyone know where abouts in the AFL Reserve restricted view would even be?

Seats with poles in the way. Usually around the entrances to each bay. They're pretty good seats to get.

 

[Jeremias]

Mate of mine just called me up and said he got an email from Carlton with instructions on how to enter the GF ticket ballot.

He’s a silver member with Carlton club support.

Didn’t sound right to me but thought I’d check in with the good folk in this thread; anyone know if that’s true or has he misread?

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Mate of mine just called me up and said he got an email from Carlton with instructions on how to enter the GF ticket ballot.

He’s a silver member with Carlton club support.

Didn’t sound right to me but thought I’d check in with the good folk in this thread; anyone know if that’s true or has he misread?

Can’t speak for Carlton specifically but Collingwood silvers had access as priority three in our ballot (so unlikely to actually land a ticket).

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Can’t speak for Carlton specifically but Collingwood silvers had access as priority three in our ballot (so unlikely to actually land a ticket).

Same with Hawthorn.

 

[Jeremias]

Can’t speak for Carlton specifically but Collingwood silvers had access as priority three in our ballot (so unlikely to actually land a ticket).

I think he said priority 2…so maybe he was right!

 

[deck]

Mate of mine just called me up and said he got an email from Carlton with instructions on how to enter the GF ticket ballot.

He’s a silver member with Carlton club support.

Didn’t sound right to me but thought I’d check in with the good folk in this thread; anyone know if that’s true or has he misread?

Outside the top tier category that guarantees a Grand Final ticket, Carlton categories members based on consecutive years as members. Anyone who has had less than 10 consecutive years can't enter the ballot. Good system in my view.

 

[deck]

I think he said priority 2…so maybe he was right!

That would be 25+ consecutive years as a member.

 

[Jeremias]

Outside the top tier category that guarantees a Grand Final ticket, Carlton categories members based on consecutive years as members. Anyone who has had less than 10 consecutive years can't enter the ballot. Good system in my view.

It goes on years rather than membership type?

That is good in theory. But for a disorganised club that can’t even nail email comms (though to be fair that’s probably an AFL-wide thing rather than Carlton specific) that does seem out of character!

 

[The Sultan]

Can’t speak for Carlton specifically but Collingwood silvers had access as priority three in our ballot (so unlikely to actually land a ticket).

Yep put two silver afl members with pie supporter in the ballot (lowest category) last week.

 

[NetworkNerd]

Mate of mine just called me up and said he got an email from Carlton with instructions on how to enter the GF ticket ballot.

He’s a silver member with Carlton club support.

Didn’t sound right to me but thought I’d check in with the good folk in this thread; anyone know if that’s true or has he misread?

My wife dropped to bronze with club support but got in the ballot because of 10+ years consecutive.

So yep it's a thing as long as you have done 10 in a row

 

[BEEG]

Lol what's the secret to getting tickets everyone keeps talking about?

Missed out once which was Tigers vs Adelaide and from then the 4 of us always jumped on with multiple devices on a joint call and haven't missed since.

I just wonder with Gold club support missing out are you actually just logged in and once it says tickets exhausted you just give up?

I can't see how it's possible for any club support Gold members to miss out for the Pies game.

 

[rfc4eva]

My wife dropped to bronze with club support but got in the ballot because of 10+ years consecutive.

So yep it's a thing as long as you have done 10 in a row

Do bronze get a waitlist spot?