World Cup is on, maybe that has affected it?

are we miles behind last season? or is there some context that I am missing here?

Heart_fan and co, in regards to Sydney FC - not exact numbers, but seems their membership campaign is indeed under way, this from today:



Edited by GloryPerth: 7/7/2014 08:04:37 PM

Joffa, where are you getting some of your figures from? 'Fromthestands' says Glory has 1,800 members so far and the figures are different for some other clubs too. I'm not sure where they source their figures either, but given it's Glory, it's usually a mystery to extract any kind of numbers from them?!

Edited by GloryPerth: 7/7/2014 07:57:09 PM

This Season

Adelaide United: 1200
Brisbane Roar: 2500
Central Coast Mariners: 800
Melbourne City: 4631
Melbourne Victory:
Newcastle Jets: 822
Perth Glory : 800
Sydney FC:
Wellington Phoenix:
Western Sydney Wanderers:

TOTAL: 10,753

Monday, 8 July 2013 4:20:31 PM

Adelaide - 3,200
Brisbane - 2,747
Central Coast - 2,000
Heart - 2,236
Newcastle - 3,000
Perth -
Sydney - 3,022
Victory - 8,765
Wellington - 1,427
West Sydney - 8,500

TOTAL: 34,897

Edited by Joffa: 7/7/2014 06:35:02 PM

Edited by Joffa: 7/7/2014 06:38:17 PM

Whats the delay with the other clubs?

Seems like they have been significantly slower this year. Did they figure that the WC was on and would wait? Interesting logic if true.

From:
http://au.fourfourtwo.com/forums/default.aspx?g=posts&t=82745

how do other clubs compare to the same time last year?

Adelaide United: 1200
Brisbane Roar: 2500
Central Coast Mariners: 800
Melbourne City: 4383
Melbourne Victory: 0
Newcastle Jets: 822
Perth Glory : 1850
Sydney FC: 0
Wellington Phoenix: 0
Western Sydney Wanderers: 0


http://www.fromthestandsal.com/membershiptracker/

Joffa wrote:
Adelaide United: 1200
Brisbane Roar: 1486
Central Coast Mariners:
Melbourne City: 4383
Melbourne Victory:
Newcastle Jets: 822
Perth Glory : 1200
Sydney FC:
Wellington Phoenix:
Western Sydney Wanderers:

TOTAL:

Should have refreshed before I posted. ;)

Pretty sure those are transaction numbers, Dave. Think the real number is likely higher going by what I've heard.

Just received an email from AUFC saying we've reached 1200 members. Memberships are selling at twice the pace as last year and this is our fastest start since the 2009/10 season.

Last night, head coach Josep Gombau offered a signed playing shirt to one lucky member if we passed 1,000 members overnight. the 1000th member joined last night, and sales continued strong today. We have now surpassed 1,200 members after the first 4 days. That's double what we sold in the first week last season and is the best start to our membership campaign since 2009/10.

That was from me mate. If you just renewed yours, check your email it has the number on it.

The Club has nearly reached 1,000 members after only 3 days. If we get over 1,000 members by tomorrow I will give 1 lucky member a 2013/14 playing shirt personally signed by me.

We are very happy to see so many passionate members have joined already, and we want to see more. If you have already joined we thank you, and we ask you to encourage your friends and family to join as members. If you have not joined yet, you can do it now by clicking here, or by calling 1300 GO REDS (1300 467 337).

Where are you getting the numbers from for Brisbane?

That is now my membership all sorted.

Rumoured that Lampard will be announced tomorrow morning 10am EST. If so, I expect Heart's tally to soar. Also, fantastic work by Victory on that coin initiative that is mentioned a few posts above. Hopefully clubs follow their lead in that regard.

Adelaide United: 445
Brisbane Roar: 1486
Central Coast Mariners:
Melbourne City: 4113
Melbourne Victory:
Newcastle Jets: 822
Perth Glory : 1200
Sydney FC:
Wellington Phoenix:
Western Sydney Wanderers:

TOTAL:

Edited by Joffa: 2/7/2014 08:48:31 PM

Just renewed my memberships for the Jerks. I was the 822nd member to renew.

Perth Glory FC @PerthGloryFC · 3h
MEMBERSHIP | The first 1200 memberships were packed yesterday to go out to Members. http://bit.ly/1ipTWHX

Yep will be donating my coin, fantastic initiative.

Haven't seen it mentioned before
In victree's renewal brochure, it mentioned that all members would receive a "Victory Coin", which can be kept as a souvenir/momento/keepsake/thingy, redeemed for "exclusive" merch, or hand the coin back to the club, who in turn would donate a junior membership to one of their charity partners
As long as people didn't skip over this, can see many people donating the coin

Adelaide released memberships today and were on 445 a few hours ago (cf. Adelaide twitter).

FTR This is what concerns me with SFC member levels too and so I really hope that the absence of ADP does not diminish their efforts to push past 10k members and perhaps a new record level of members once more?! Hopefully having Arnie and a more genuinely stable an competitive squad may help off-set any negatives from ADP's absence. A relieving factor could be ADP's diminishing lustre, including injuries kicking in, back-end of his SFC experience - so the club and it's fans were already starting to learn to live without him.

Edited by Gloryperth: 1/7/2014 09:54:52 PM

Wow - Old Heart/Melbourne City surely seem on-track to smash their own record and even exceed the 10k mark, even IF there is, as we might expect, a natural cooling off during the next couple of months? Another purple patch will hit come late pre-season and A-League lead-in, with membership advertising as too general A-League advertising and coverage kicking in, as too the mail out to tardy members renewing or new ones who are late comers etc... We saw this last year with all clubs and when considering City - if they already have 8k or so by September then they'll be trending well?

Though in terms of 'cooling off' it's hard to see at the moment, with the constant publicity feed filtering out - David Villa Guest, Damian Duff signed and now the publicity and speculation surrounding the very real possibility of Lampard. We wonder when this will let up?! Surely sooner rather than later - given is still a full three months till season start and A-L teams are early into their pre-seasons.

And indeed guys, 40% growth on the 6k hey had start of last season is now a realistic if conservative even, prospect! I'm thinking in the wash-up, whether Lampard happens or not, they could hit the 12-14k members mark?! :-k And a cooling off will naturally have to occur during these next two months - or else I get the sense, like in economics, that a bubble is forming and when the burst occurs it will be ever more dramatic.

Re-post and updated for new page:



Keep up the good work Clinton! =d>

The club's growth curve is technically a near full two months ahead of last season and at this rate, pushing towards a full three months! :shock:

Edited by Gloryperth: 1/7/2014 09:57:34 PM

Will certainly be a big boost if it happens.

May well be interesting for those Chelsea fans that want to go to matches to see Lampard but don't want to put money into the pocket of Manchester City :lol:

Edited by heart_fan: 1/7/2014 03:38:24 PM

If MC confirm lampard this year then your members should reach 10k by season start.

4k members... not bad.

Should be aiming to hit 7.2k before the season starts as a foundation.

Remember the aggressive marketing tactics haven't started yet (Whole page spreads in the paper, Billboards, TV commercials etc.)

Get excited