2013 Membership - THE ROAR IS BACK

[tigs2011]

Nearly 3rd biggest club in the land. 

[Stripes]

Would be nice to leap frog West Coast and threaten the Hawks this year. 

[WilliamPowell]

@ 30/4/2013

56,039

A very slow day indeed 

They either haven't updated the figure

Or..............

Yesterday was a really slow day 

[one-eyed]

No update today. We're still 8000 ahead of this time last year.

01/05/2013 - 56,039
01/05/2012 - 48,011

Here's the membership growth from May 1 onwards last year. So don't expect us to reach the 60k target before mid-July unless we get on a winning roll starting this weekend.

01/05/2012 - 48,011
01/06/2012 - 49,608
02/07/2012 - 51,348
02/08/2012 - 52,444
05/09/2012 - 53,057

http://oneeyed-richmond.com/forum/index.php?topic=14346.1290

[rogerd3]

any big extravaganzas this year to tip it over.

[one-eyed]

Change in Club Membership tallies 2012-2013

                     01/05/2012   01/05/2013   Change

Collingwood     65,000          73,629        +8,629
Hawthorn        58,463           60,290        +1,827
West Coast     53,435           57,333        +3,898
Richmond         48,011          56,039        +8,028
Essendon        45,266           51,605        +6,339
Carlton            43,921           43,950        +     29   
Adelaide          43,051           45,000+    +~2,000
Fremantle        40,838           40,000+         - ....... Freo figure hasn't been updated for over two months
Geelong           37,606           38,737       +1,131 
Port Adelaide   36,627           39,175       +2,548
Melbourne       34,220           30,723        -3,497
St Kilda            33,617           31,811        -1,806
North Melb.      31,858           32,297       +   439
W.Bulldogs      27,970           26,979      -    991
Sydney            26,680           34,000      +7,320
Brisbane          20,159           21,608       +1,449
Gold Coast       10,980          11,817       +   837
GWS                 8,804            11,983      +3,179

AFL members - 55,744          55,577      -   167

[dwaino]

n0rf

[Phil Mrakov]

I see the bandwagoners at Collingwood have gone crazy with 3 gamers

[rogerd3]

the 2 biggest clubs in the land with the biggest increases.

the hawks will stagnate, the injectors are riding on a high, and the blooze
just cant cut it as a big club even with little Hitler joining them.

the usual suspects like Nought, Tankers, 1 flag Saints and such will never
have huge members, so the Gestapo need us and needs us bad.

[tony_montana]

The sooner they put nought into tassie the better, get the hawks out of there and see a drop of 10k tassie supporters off their membership total to put them back in their box. tbh I still find it hard to believe they have 50k members in melbourne, just dont buy it.

[Smokey]

The sooner they put nought into tassie the better, get the hawks out of there and see a drop of 10k tassie supporters off their membership total to put them back in their box. tbh I still find it hard to believe they have 50k members in melbourne, just dont buy it.

Since Hawthorn came to power with their 1971 Grand Final win, in the next 41 years to 2012 they have only missed the finals 15 times, with their longest stretch of 'outs' being 5 years from '02 to '06.  In the same period Collingwood have missed 17 times with their longest stretch of 6 'outs' from '95 to '01.  In that time Hawthorn have won 9 flags and finished runner up 5 times.  On those figures alone it's not hard to see how their supporter base could have and would have built up with such a long period of sustained success.  They had powerful sides with charismatic figures (Hudson, Matthews, Knights, Brereton, Dunstall, Platten, just to name a few) and sheer weight of successful results would have proven irresistible to many young kids over time.  I still think they fudged their figures early on when they miraculously 'doubled' their membership in the very same year that the AFL was using it as a basis of calculating compensation for losing Waverley as their home ground but I don't doubt that today's figures are genuine.  Whether their supporter base is as passionate as ours is another matter entirely because ours has stuck and grown through a couple of embarrassingly long periods of failure ('48 to '66 and '83 to today) whereas Hawthorn were perennial easybeats for the first half of their club history, taking 52 years from 1925 before playing in their first finals match in 1957 and only making 3 finals series (1 flag) prior to 1971.  Our support is genuine, hardened and proven while their hardiness and ability to stick the tough times is unproven.  And while we have a very large latent support base that has yet to fully come back out of the woodwork, I believe the support we see from Hawthorn is all they've got.

[tony_montana]

The sooner they put nought into tassie the better, get the hawks out of there and see a drop of 10k tassie supporters off their membership total to put them back in their box. tbh I still find it hard to believe they have 50k members in melbourne, just dont buy it.

Since Hawthorn came to power with their 1971 Grand Final win, in the next 41 years to 2012 they have only missed the finals 15 times, with their longest stretch of 'outs' being 5 years from '02 to '06.  In the same period Collingwood have missed 17 times with their longest stretch of 6 'outs' from '95 to '01.  In that time Hawthorn have won 9 flags and finished runner up 5 times.  On those figures alone it's not hard to see how their supporter base could have and would have built up with such a long period of sustained success.  They had powerful sides with charismatic figures (Hudson, Matthews, Knights, Brereton, Dunstall, Platten, just to name a few) and sheer weight of successful results would have proven irresistible to many young kids over time.  I still think they fudged their figures early on when they miraculously 'doubled' their membership in the very same year that the AFL was using it as a basis of calculating compensation for losing Waverley as their home ground but I don't doubt that today's figures are genuine.  Whether their supporter base is as passionate as ours is another matter entirely because ours has stuck and grown through a couple of embarrassingly long periods of failure ('48 to '66 and '83 to today) whereas Hawthorn were perennial easybeats for the first half of their club history, taking 52 years from 1925 before playing in their first finals match in 1957 and only making 3 finals series (1 flag) prior to 1971.  Our support is genuine, hardened and proven while their hardiness and ability to stick the tough times is unproven.  And while we have a very large latent support base that has yet to fully come back out of the woodwork, I believe the support we see from Hawthorn is all they've got.

smokey, i just find it interesting that their huge membership never seems to translate into crowd figures. In the blockbuster games you will always see large gaps in their members section. Over the years at various times you go to big blockbuster games involving us, carlton, coll and ess now and then you will concede they have more fans, louder roar etc, I cannot recall once ever going to a haw richmond game and thinking "poo they have a big contingent".

Also about the success, absolutely they have been stunning in the past 40 years, but prior to that they were the worst side in the comp, they would have been coming off a tiny base from the previous 40 years of nothing. I also look at noughts success in the 70's and again in the 90's with arguably the greatest player of all time at their helm taking them to 8 prelims in a row and that has done sweet f all for their base. I think a large portion of the fans from the old power clubs have a strong success rate in keeping their kids following in the tradition so whilst the hawks have had a stunning run of success I dont think that would equate to this large a membership base. ill concede I have no facts to back me up and i may be wrong - just find it hard to believe 

[WilliamPowell]

I wonder with Hawthorn if they count people who may hold multiple memberships as single memberhip holders times by the number they hold

What I mean is this:

I have a total of 5 RFC memberships but I am only counted as 1 member

Wonder if Hawthorn would count me as 5 members? 

[WilliamPowell]

@ 30/4/2013

56,039

A very slow day indeed 

They either haven't updated the figure

Or..............

Yesterday was a really slow day 

Still no update since Tuesday 

[one-eyed]

As of 02/05/2013

56,185