Membership 2012 - Roar Pride, Roar Passion, Roar Power

[gerkin greg]

eff Carlton

[mightytiges]

whoa, we're pulling away from thr Blues now

And closing in on the Dons  . Only 1600 behind them now after trailing by about 7000 a month ago.

Given the capacity constraints of both Docklands and Footy Park, at the rate we are going we should be able to jump above both Essendon and Adelaide in the next couple of weeks.

[10 FLAGS]

Ive been a bit sick tonight and I was listening to SEN when one of the presenters said a hawthorn official was on some show and he was all bitter and twisted because hawthorn are not a big 4 club. Anyone see this. I think this is great. Hawthorn are pretenders from what I know full of low value memberships of little financial consequence.

[Dubstep Dookie]

Ive been a bit sick tonight and I was listening to SEN when one of the presenters said a hawthorn official was on some show and he was all bitter and twisted because hawthorn are not a big 4 club. Anyone see this. I think this is great. Hawthorn are pretenders from what I know full of low value memberships of little financial consequence.

Didn't see it but good to know 

Would be interesting to compare average home crowds (excluding sold interstate games) between the big 4 and the Hawks.

[WilliamPowell]

Ive been a bit sick tonight and I was listening to SEN when one of the presenters said a hawthorn official was on some show and he was all bitter and twisted because hawthorn are not a big 4 club. Anyone see this. I think this is great. Hawthorn are pretenders from what I know full of low value memberships of little financial consequence.

I would think SEN were talking about AFL 360 on Fox where they were talking to the president (not Kennett) & Hodge. The President was saying they see themselves as one of the "Big 4" even if the media doesn't. He based this on their crowds, membership numbers and balance sheet. Have to say he certainly didn't sound bitter & twisted was very balanced in how he presented his argument.. but the media are good at creating stories when there isn't one 

[Bengal]

Crowd averages for lasrt season.. included is the finals as well so you could knock a few of the  finalists.

 Collingwood Magpies      60,959
 Essendon Bombers         51,451
 Carlton Blues                  50,964
 Geelong Cats                  43,812
 Hawthorn Hawks            43,194
 Richmond Tigers             40,695
 West Coast Eagles         35,925
 St Kilda Saints                 35,697
 Melbourne Demons         33,231
 Adelaide Crows               30,559
 Fremantle Dockers          30,108
 Sydney Swans                 29,013
 Western Bulldogs            28,705
 North Melbourne Kangaroos  28,074
 Brisbane Lions                 25,190
 Port Adelaide Power        23,065
 Gold Coast Suns              22,075
 ALL                                   36,425

[one-eyed]

As of March 14

40,732

[Smokey]

Crowd averages for lasrt season.. included is the finals as well so you could knock a few of the  finalists.

 Collingwood Magpies      60,959
 Essendon Bombers         51,451
 Carlton Blues                  50,964
 Geelong Cats                  43,812
 Hawthorn Hawks            43,194
 Richmond Tigers             40,695
 West Coast Eagles         35,925
 St Kilda Saints                 35,697
 Melbourne Demons         33,231
 Adelaide Crows               30,559
 Fremantle Dockers          30,108
 Sydney Swans                 29,013
 Western Bulldogs            28,705
 North Melbourne Kangaroos  28,074
 Brisbane Lions                 25,190
 Port Adelaide Power        23,065
 Gold Coast Suns              22,075
 ALL                                   36,425

You have to remove the finals figures otherwise it's not apples for apples.  And to be honest, it;s not really a good comparison anyway, when some teams play 'boutique' interstate games to small (but near capacity) crowds as part of the AFL bigger picture.  Hawthorn play a number of games at Launceston and we played at Darwin and Cairns, while Collingwood, Essendon and Carlton between them played 1 game at Carrara (Collingwood).

[Hellenic Tiger]

We could be sitting at 44-45 by the time we play the Filth.

[bojangles17]

Crowd averages for lasrt season.. included is the finals as well so you could knock a few of the  finalists.

 Collingwood Magpies      60,959
 Essendon Bombers         51,451
 Carlton Blues                  50,964
 Geelong Cats                  43,812
 Hawthorn Hawks            43,194
 Richmond Tigers             40,695
 West Coast Eagles         35,925
 St Kilda Saints                 35,697
 Melbourne Demons         33,231
 Adelaide Crows               30,559
 Fremantle Dockers          30,108
 Sydney Swans                 29,013
 Western Bulldogs            28,705
 North Melbourne Kangaroos  28,074
 Brisbane Lions                 25,190
 Port Adelaide Power        23,065
 Gold Coast Suns              22,075
 ALL                                   36,425

should only be based on home and aways,  an accurate stat needs to be based on constants ...some playing finals and others not isnt what you call relative

[smasha]

Ive been a bit sick tonight and I was listening to SEN when one of the presenters said a hawthorn official was on some show and he was all bitter and twisted because hawthorn are not a big 4 club. Anyone see this. I think this is great. Hawthorn are pretenders from what I know full of low value memberships of little financial consequence.

Yes.
I laughed.

They are using it as ammunition to win a flag I feel like the skunks do with their US Against Them garbage.

Borrowed it from Swoopa but Pies seem to borrow anything from Richmond.

[one-eyed]

Club Membership tallies - 14/03/2012

Collingwood       64,500   
Hawthorn          51,540     
West Coast       50,878           
Adelaide            42,910           
Essendon          41,754
Richmond          40,732         
Carlton              36,768
Geelong             32,506         
Port Adelaide      30,056       
St Kilda              28,084     
Melbourne          26,791
North Melb.        25,401
W.Bulldogs         23,942
Sydney              23,355
Brisbane            17,069   
Gold Coast        10,027   
GWS                   7,049       

Fremantle -  N/A           

AFL members - 53,619

[10 FLAGS]

Essendon seem to have fallen into a heap. They were way out infront of us a while back and Tomorrow or Monday/Tuesday next week at the latest we will have clawed above them in membership numbers. As I said elsewhere The Tiger Army is on the march!

[one-eyed]

As of 15/03/2012

41,353

[1965]

A big win on Saturday will help boost the numbers but the main game is still round 1 vs the Scum.

Win that and memberships will soar.