The Tassie Hawks 4 gamer is counted as ticketed
........ and we can turn around and say Oh look we have 40,000.
We have 39,000 members (2008 season).
For some reason the AFL just don't count some of them (Tiger Insiders & MCC Tigers). No idea why, it's not real hard. The club has already separated them for finals ticket allocation purposes.
They say they only count memberships which have access to finals tickets. That's not true. They count Melbourne supporting MCC members who pay an extra small fee in the Melbourne FC membership figures even though it gives zero access to games.
It's an AFL caused anomaly, not the club. The AFL are pig headed about only counting memberships which meet a certain criteria.
I don't have a problem that there are exceptions to that criteria for some memberships but not others (Melbourne MCC member unfair add-on aside). I have a problem with the memberships which are not counted by the AFL. They are club members, the same as the ones counted.