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8,800 Where R U!

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letsgetiton!:
its a damn disgrace!
8,800 people have not signed up yet that were members last year!!!!
unless u r dead or a vegetable, there is no excuse why you should not buy a membership this year!
those 8,800 would bring us over the 30,000 mark!

bloody hell, quit smoking, quit drinking, quit the pokies, stop spending money on ur wives, girlfriends, boyfriends and husbands!

buy a ticket 4 easter and dont waste money on chocolate!

COME ON GET OUT THERE AND JOIN THE TIGER ARMY AND BRING US BACK WHERE WE BELONG!!!

Harry:
I find it very hard to beleive that so many people signed up last year when all they had to look forward to was Spuds cliche's and weak efforts from Nichols, Houlihan, Blumfield, Fletcher etc, but when a proper coach and some decent young talent comes to the club they are nowhere to be seen.  What's going on?  Are most tiger fans sadists and are so accostamed to pain and torture that this is all they actually seek?

letsgetiton!:
this is why to many ppl tiger supprters look like a bunch of tossers!
we bring it apon ourselves. some tiger fans should stop barracking and start supporting!

mightytiges:
The new rewards scheme and free sunnies may have something to do with increasing our figures last year. Also hearing we would lose $2m may have scared a few onboard who now think with Wallace and the new kids we're back on our feet. Who knows  ???

There is a loyalty factor required from supporters but that also needs to be reciprocated by the Club if you want a huge membership. The hardcorers will always sign up rain, hail or shine but every club has its bangwagon element. Winning games is the only way to tap into them. Rhetoric based on hope and promises doesn't cut it after being the worst performed club for the last 20+ years and displaying disgraceful uncompetitive dull on-field performances the past 3 years. To play on that Tiger ad frm a few years ago - the team needs to turn up if they want supporters to. Finally that looks the case this year.

The Club is on the right track after making the right changes but it will have to do the hard yards and show some consistent winning seasons before it bares fruit. Just a reality of footy. I agree with Terry that our membership goal should be 10% of total barrackers.

one-eyed:
Wallace makes a Tiger plea
12:20:33 PM Wed 16 March, 2005
Paul Gough
Sportal for afl.com.au

Richmond coach Terry Wallace says it is enough to have the great Tigers of old "turning in their graves" and admits it is time for the club's fans to show the passion they are renowned for.

Wallace was referring to the alarming drop in support for a club long regarded as one of the "big four" in Melbourne.

"There were 10 clubs that had over 30,000 members last year and we were not one of them. That would make Richmond people of old turn in their graves," Wallace said in an appeal to Tigers’ fans.

Up until now Wallace had been hoping the excitement generated by his arrival and that of top draftees Brett Deledio and Richard Tambling plus experienced recruits Troy Simmonds, Mark Graham and Trent Knobel would be enough to generate a rush of new members for the Tigers.

Yet the Tigers membership is still only around the 21,000 mark - roughly the same as this time last year - and some 8800 members have not renewed since last year.

Wallace knows this is due to the club finishing on the bottom last season as he realises many Richmond fans - who have seen their team make the finals just twice since 1982 - have begun to give up on their club.

However Wallace said the Tigers' position today was no different to that of Essendon when Kevin Sheedy took over as coach in 1981.

At that stage Essendon fans could hardly have dreamt their club would become the biggest in Victoria over the next two decades with the club having tasted finals action only three times in the 1970's since their last premiership in 1965.

But Sheedy immediately steered the Bombers into the finals in his first six years in charge, leading them to the 1984-85 premierships, and the club has never looked back since.

"It's not as if our supporters are gone, they are just lying dormant like this footy club has been," Wallace said in a passionate appeal to his club's fans.

Wallace said research showed Richmond had more than 400,000 supporters Australia-wide - amongst the most in the competition - yet was still struggling to boost its membership.

"Unless you become a 30,000 plus membership club, you have no hopes of sustained success in this competition," Wallace said.

"Yet we can't turn 10 per cent of our supporters into members."

Wallace said those lapsed Richmond members should realise that the Tigers are already a different team from the one which lost its last 14 games last season.

"First I would like to say (to those lapsed members) have you been down to the club and seen the manner in which the side has trained the last five months or been to the last three practice matches (which the Tigers have won)."

"So I ask those 8800 (lapsed) members to give us a chance and see whether we can change things around for you."

http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=190402

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