LOL so they take away non match day memberships but they count 3 game and pet memberships. Har har har
The AFL don't count pet memberships in the total neither does the RFC
I believe the 3 game membership is counted as it gives you access (entry) into games
What the AFL doens't count is things like non match day junior memberships - eg "Cotchy's Cubs"
Unfortunately every year the AFL calculates our membership tally differently to how we do it. So we safely deduct about 5000 from the total and that will be the official AFL number.
I don't care what the AFL number is. IMHO the Club's number is the one that counts because the Club recognises all of its members in its number.
It doesn't matter what the category a member is a member .. end of story in my book