Live Chat with Membership Manager Cain Liddle (Wed. on RFC site)

[RFC_Official]

Why they continue to schedule these "chats" when people are at work and kids are at school beggars belief 

not really. They appear to get enough questions and to do it outside work hours wouldn't be preferred by these employees giving up their time.

We get a good enough response yes. But yeah, try getting your colleagues to stay back after 6pm...you don't get the best response.

[RFC_Official]

6000 haven't renewed. Even if we can retain 80% of those that's 5000 still to re-join hopefully.

A bit disappointing though that there's still a large gap of 6000 between our ticketed and combined membership. While Cain is right to say the $$$ is what is important, there is a promotional aspect to saying how many members a club has. We had the Demons come out today as claim a record membership figure for them of 33k. It doesn't sound too good for a club of our size if our AFL audited figure is just 37k   and so not that far ahead of a Melbourne, on par with St Kilda and way behind the Pies, Hawks and Bombers. We really need to design our non-ticketed memberships to have even a game attached so they are all officially counted by the AFL which is what other clubs do.

[Comment From Guest]
Hi Cain, I have bought the following to the clubs attention prior & seems nothing is done about it? RFC has a huge Greek following & does not seek to find out when Orthodox Easter falls as it has a major effect on the gate; I strongly recommend you look into it; Nick. R

This question has had to have come from our Ramps  

Actually not me! NOT Guilty Your Honor. However the question is spot on. This year Orthodox Easter once again falls with Catholic Easter, this is the first time in a long long long time that Catholics and Orthodox Christian have Easter together however in 2012 the calendars will be different and the club should look at seeing what it can do as we will be hit 1st by Catholic Easter and 2nd by Orthodox Easter which occurs later.

Not having a crack here...but surely AFL fans know the club doesn't decide the schedule of our games?