RFC Membership 2015: Strong and Bold

[Phil Mrakov]

I have seen all over the paper and website that if you sign up before a certain date it will be 2014 prices instead of 2015.
Does any one know the price hike?

Around 20 bucks extra on your 16 gamer

[one-eyed]

As of 18/02/2015

57,747

[Phil Mrakov]

We will win

[one-eyed]

As of 19/02/2015

58,260

[one-eyed]

We're now 5,183 ahead of this time last year. On track for a final tally of over 71k  .

19/02/2015   58,260
19/02/2014   53,077

[Phil Mrakov]

We're now 5,183 ahead of this time last year. On track for a final tally of over 71k  .

19/02/2015   58,260
19/02/2014   53,077

if were 5-0 we'll get 75

[Mr Magic]

Yep a few bandwagoners here might even jump on if that happens.

[one-eyed]

As of 20/02/2015

58,711

[Phil Mrakov]

Hawks crapping themselves. Andrew Newbolt is regularly refreshing the Richmond membership website to check the tally

Expect a 5k jump for Hawthorn very soon

[Smokey]

Fast Eddie's the one that might be crapping himself.  Be p-funny if both us and the Dawks went past them!   

[Phil Mrakov]

Fast Eddie's the one that might be crapping himself.  Be p-funny if both us and the Dawks went past them!   

Don't the skunks offer a 1 game membership now ?

[Phil Mrakov]

Fast Eddie's the one that might be crapping himself.  Be p-funny if both us and the Dawks went past them!   

Don't the skunks offer a 1 game membership now ?

Just checked and they offer all sorts of 1 game memberships. What a joke! Why don't we have a Tasmanian tiger membership ? We have far more supporters in tassie than Collingwood. Collingwood offers a 1 game membership, a 1 game tassie membership, various kinds of 3 game memberships and even a digital membership. No wonder their numbers are so high

Reckon we should do the same and we'll get the most in the league for sure

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Club membership tallies - 20/02/2015

Coll'wood    64,556
Hawthorn    61,490
Richmond    58,711
Port Adel.    54,492
West Coast 51,669
Adelaide      50,000
Fremantle    47,002
Essendon    45,846
Geelong       35,502
Carlton        34,125
Sydney        30,000
North Melb.  28,530
St Kilda       27,669
Melbourne    26,639
W.Bulldogs  22,088
Brisbane      17,298
Gold Coast   10,820
GWS Giants   7,142


AFL membership - 44,050 (capped at 60k)

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Hawthorn Hawks close in on Collingwood Magpies AFL’s most popular club

Samantha Landy
Herald-Sun
February 22, 2015


HAWTHORN is closing on Collingwood as the country’s most popular AFL club.

And Richmond, hot on the back of last year’s late-season revival, is not far behind.

The Magpies still head the AFL’s membership ladder with 64,507, slightly down on the same time last year.

But the Hawks are on their tails with 61,490, 5500 more than at the same time in 2014.

And Richmond has 5183 more signed-up fans than this time last year with 58,260 members on its books.

The Tigers’ mob includes 18-day-old Alice Butler, who was signed when she was just four days old to follow in the footsteps of her dad, Joe, 31.

But Collingwood chief executive Gary Pert is confident his club can land more than 85,500 members before season’s end.

“Collingwood members have always shared a deep emotional connection to the club and today this connection lives on,” Pert said.

St Kilda is also punching above its weight, signing up 3803 more members than last year, putting the club on track to eclipse its target of 35,000.

Carlton and Essendon have seen their numbers take a hit after the Blues disappointing 2014 and the Bombers off-field woes.

But it is Port Adelaide that leads the pre-season charge for members, with the club just 1400 short of its 2014 tally more than a month before the 2015 season has started.

Power has attracted 13,000 more members than it had 12 months ago for a total of 54,342. It is one of 14 sides to be ahead of this time last year.

Marketing manager Matthew Richardson said his club owed its membership boom to its “fantastic style of footy” and its Adelaide Oval home.

Port has sold out its reserve seats at Adelaide Oval, and Adelaide expects to do the same.

Adelaide has enjoyed a successful off-season, attracting about 8000 more members than a year ago.

More than 680,800 AFL fans have signed up, up from 642,000 this time last year.

Carlton has work to do, as it is about 4000 members short of this time last year with almost 34,000.

But the club has a chance to catch up during its ­“Membership Marathon”, when it will aim to enlist 5000 members in five weeks.

AFL general manager for clubs Travis Auld said the league’s membership numbers had grown annually for the past 14 years, and were looking to do so again in 2015.

Auld said about 50,000 new members had already signed up this year, driven in part by fan-friendly changes made to this year’s fixture, ticket allocations and pricing.

“Members are really the lifeblood of clubs,” he said.


COLLINGWOOD

So far in 2015: 64,507

This time last year: 64,900

Members in 2014: 80,456

HAWTHORN

So far in 2015: 61,490

This time last year: 55,990

Members in 2014: 68,650

RICHMOND

So far in 2015: 58,260

This time last year: 53,077

Members in 2014: 66,854

ADELAIDE

So far in 2015: 57,103

This time last year: 49,000

Members in 2014: 57,231

PORT ADELAIDE

So far in 2015: 54,342

This time last year: 41,200

Members in 2014: 55,750

WEST COAST EAGLES

So far in 2015: 51,577

This time last year: 50,954

Members in 2014: 58,529

FREMANTLE

So far in 2015: 47,343

This time last year: 45,331

Members in 2014: 49,942

ESSENDON

So far in 2015: 45,735

This time last year: 46,851

Members in 2014: 60,714

GEELONG

So far in 2015: 35,505

This time last year: 33,193

Members in 2014: 43,803

CARLTON

So far in 2015: 33,957

This time last year: 38,079

Members in 2014: 47,485

SYDNEY

So far in 2015: 30,214

This time last year: 29,602

Members in 2014: 40,126

NORTH MELBOURNE

So far in 2015: 28,722

This time last year: 27,754

Members in 2014: 40,349

ST KILDA

So far in 2015: 27,801

This time last year: 23,998

Members in 2014: 31,349

MELBOURNE

So far in 2015: 26,770

This time last year: 26,759

Members in 2014: 35,917

WESTERN BULLDOGS

So far in 2015: 22,113

This time last year: 21,611

Members in 2014: 31,814

BRISBANE

So far in 2015: 17,501

This time last year: 16,082

Members in 2014: 24,032

GOLD COAST

So far in 2015: 10,809

This time last year: 9658

Members in 2014: 13,480

GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY

So far in 2015: 7115

This time last year: 7674

Members in 2014: 13,047

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/hawthorn-hawks-close-in-on-collingwood-magpies-afls-most-popular-club/story-fndv7pj3-1227233781930

[Phil Mrakov]

Gary Pert is not serious is he ? 85k