2011 Membership - "The Tiger is Stirring" [merged]

[WilliamPowell]

So it looks like we will finish 5th on the membership ladder - sure beats 9th

[mightytiges]

So it looks like we will finish 5th on the membership ladder - sure beats 9th

And 4th if we don't count the Eagles' waiting list  .

Now we'll have to wait on Andy D and AA to work out the official membership total the AFL recognises.

[one-eyed]

RFC twitter:

"Today is your LAST chance to become a Richmond member for 2011, and you can do it for just $79! Sign up here: http://membership.richmondfc.com.au/"

[mightytiges]

No update on the RFC webiste since the last one a few days ago and it's now past the cutoff date. So it appears we'll end up with just over 47,500 members with almost 11k of them new for 2010. Not a bad effort considering we are still a bottom 6 side. The bandwagon hopefully is building.

[yellowandback]

No update on the RFC webiste since the last one a few days ago and it's now past the cutoff date. So it appears we'll end up with just over 47,500 members with almost 11k of them new for 2010. Not a bad effort considering we are still a bottom 6 side. The bandwagon hopefully is building.

Best supporters in the AFL. The only thing Richmond has that is truly great ATM.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Anybody from the club tell us what was our final membership figure for this year?

[one-eyed]

There's been no update on the RFC website since last week Tucky.

Club by Club tally - July 6, 2011

Collingwood   71,271
Hawthorn      56,084 ............ (including 8,371 Tassie members)
West Coast    54,268 ............. (includes non-ticketed waiting list. ~45k are ticketed members. Last year 44,160)
Essendon       50,271
Richmond      47,575
Carlton          43,214
Fremantle   ~40,000
St Kilda         39,204
Geelong        38,933
Melbourne     36,693
Port Adelaide 36,330
W.Bulldogs    32,031
North Melb.   29,951
Sydney         27,923
Brisbane       22,163
Gold Coast    14,048
GWS              9,656

Adelaide: N/A (limited memberships available. Last year 45,545)

[one-eyed]

Membership tally - 11/07/2011

47,675

10,940 of them are new members.

[MADTIGER2010]

Membership tally - 11/07/2011

47,675

10,940 of them are new members.

Are they still on sale?

[one-eyed]

Membership tally - 11/07/2011

47,675

10,940 of them are new members.

Are they still on sale?

I believe so (at least the 3-game membership) although they won't count towards the official AFL figures. Good luck to the Club selling anymore by the way now given the past month on-field .

[one-eyed]

Here's the AFL's final membership figures. We cracked the 40k "ticketed" or "access" members mark.

Eight clubs - Adelaide, Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fremantle, Hawthorn, Richmond and West Coast - now boast membership bases of over 40,000.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/118901/default.aspx

Club                Access Members     Official club website tally
Collingwood         71,271                  71,421  
Hawthorn            56,224                  56,229 ..... (including 8,483 Tassie members)
Adelaide              44,719                      -
Carlton                43,791                  43,214
West Coast          43,216                      -
Fremantle            42,762                      -
Essendon             42,559                  50,271
Richmond            40,184                  47,675
Geelong               39,343                  38,933
St Kilda                39,276                  39,286
Melbourne            36,937                  36,693
Port Adelaide        32,581                  36,330
Western Bulldogs  29,710                  32,031
North Melbourne   28,761                  30,046
Sydney Swans      27,106                      -
Brisbane Lions      20,792                  22,163
Gold Coast Suns   11,141                  14,064
GWS                       -                         9,757                      

[10 FLAGS]

how come theres a 7000 differential in our numbers. The 3 game membership replaced the non ticketed membership- dont these count still?

[WilliamPowell]

how come theres a 7000 differential in our numbers. The 3 game membership replaced the non ticketed membership- dont these count still?

Yes

but what about the other ones Flags, the AFL wouldn't include those - eg the Non match day cubs, the MCG tiger etc

Bombers appear to be in the same boat as us - 7k differential

[10 FLAGS]

40,184

THIS is our membership number. The club looks stupid when it claims 47,000 members and we come out with 40,000 official members. And this was on top of the supposed extraordinary success of the membership campaign. The club needs a reality check IMHO. If it wants to do membership numbers it should do it properly, not leave it till late July for the AFL to make us look stupid. Members are members and contributors are contributors and the club needs to make this distinction or better still just have the officially recognised memberships thats all and dont include other numbers.

[TigerLand]

40,184

THIS is our membership number. The club looks stupid when it claims 47,000 members and we come out with 40,000 official members. And this was on top of the supposed extraordinary success of the membership campaign. The club needs a reality check IMHO. If it wants to do membership numbers it should do it properly, not leave it till late July for the AFL to make us look stupid. Members are members and contributors are contributors and the club needs to make this distinction or better still just have the officially recognised memberships thats all and dont include other numbers.

I actually don't believe anything the members tally suggests.

Don't believe for a 2nd we have 500k more members than St.Kilda and Hawthorns 56k (including Tassie members) is legit. Where are their 3 day memberships and pets memberships? Hawks fans couldn't fill a cookie jar let alone half the MCG.