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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #135 on: November 10, 2011, 10:40:15 AM »
Which means your $300k figure is an irrelevant factor as it's largely imaginary money assuming every member would instead buy a cap or scarf for $15, which aint happening.

Sorry you've confused me with your comment about members buying "cap or scarf for $15"... I am not sure what you mean? And yes some days it doesn't take much to confuse me  ;D

Are you talking about the members cap & scarf? Because no one has to buy those

The options this year are you can take a members cap or scarf or a $15 Store voucher.

Last year they had the same options as this year but with the added option of donating the value back to the footy dept.

We don't know what that value per member was last year. So all I was suggesting as a starting point you could use the value of the store vch to do a round calculation based on 20k members (less than 1/2 of our total members) deciding to "donate" rather than taking the cap, scarf or Vch

Alternatively if you want to say the caps or scarfs cost the club $5 each then you could apply the same theory 20k members give up $5 ea = $100k

Whatever the value it just seems strange they've taken that option away for the 2012 m'ship campaign when they are trying to raise $$$ for the FTF



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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #136 on: November 10, 2011, 01:16:48 PM »
Which means your $300k figure is an irrelevant factor as it's largely imaginary money assuming every member would instead buy a cap or scarf for $15, which aint happening.

Alternatively if you want to say the caps or scarfs cost the club $5 each then you could apply the same theory 20k members give up $5 ea = $100k

Whatever the value it just seems strange they've taken that option away for the 2012 m'ship campaign when they are trying to raise $$$ for the FTF

And that is my point.  $300k appears a lot, when in all reasoning the final costs would probably be "only" under $100k.

If you dont want a scarf or cap you simply dont redeem your voucher.   But in the end with the ordering they need to order merch well before the member tally really gets going so even if there is the option to send your money to the football department instead, in the end they still have to order a large amount in anticipation so if they spend the money on purchasing but then no one wants them there has really been no money gained for the football department as the mass purchase has already been made.

Does that even make sense? It does in my head but not sure it's translating.  :rollin
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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #137 on: November 10, 2011, 01:18:24 PM »
Does that even make sense? It does in my head but not sure it's translating.  :rollin

Surprisingly it does  ;D
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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #138 on: November 10, 2011, 02:00:46 PM »
The figure must be only counting those who have manually renewed over the net. Don't we have a number of members on a rollover plan so they are automatically counted towards 2012? That's how other clubs' tallies jump to 10k+ as soon as they release their membership campaigns.

Yeah but the first payment doesn't come out until the end of this month, so maybe they aren't counting those until after the first payment
That is correct. Once the first payment comes out of our bank for rolling tiger memberships  next month, then those members will be deducted from the tally.
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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #139 on: November 10, 2011, 02:07:50 PM »
Richmond wont get to 50,000 members next year IMHO.

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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #140 on: November 10, 2011, 03:23:14 PM »
Richmond wont get to 50,000 members next year IMHO.

I agree

I reckon we'll get 51-52k

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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #141 on: November 10, 2011, 07:01:45 PM »
Richmond wont get to 50,000 members next year IMHO.

Thanks to you we will only get 49,999
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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #142 on: November 10, 2011, 08:43:13 PM »
Richmond wont get to 50,000 members next year IMHO.

Thanks to you we will only get 49,999

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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #143 on: November 11, 2011, 12:19:31 AM »
Richmond wont get to 50,000 members next year IMHO.

Thanks to you we will only get 49,999

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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #144 on: November 11, 2011, 01:38:09 AM »
A good showing in the first weekend of short NAB Cup games against Hawthorn and North could help a lot with giving our membership an extra kick before the season proper starts.
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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #145 on: November 11, 2011, 06:54:02 AM »
A good showing in the first weekend of short NAB Cup games against Hawthorn and North could help a lot with giving our membership an extra kick before the season proper starts.

As long as the NAB cup goes ahead - the greedy AFLPA and player are threatening to boycott it

See:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/strike-threat-to-februarys-nab-cup/story-e6frf9jf-1226192044407
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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #146 on: November 11, 2011, 11:31:07 AM »
We will get 50 if we can win a few of the 5 first games. The draw doesn't help us, we would have got over 50 last year if we had a decent draw first up and a few wins to start with.

I think we will get the 50k in 2012.
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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #147 on: November 11, 2011, 02:22:48 PM »
Membership tally as of 11/11/2011

1,932

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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #148 on: November 14, 2011, 12:07:21 PM »
Membership tally as of 14/11/2011

2,314

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Re: Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power
« Reply #149 on: November 15, 2011, 02:28:39 PM »
I notice in North's latest membership video they use the line - "It's in our blood!".

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