I believe he was referring to the league members as whole.

You sure TheSelectFew? Double check the tallies between today and yesterday and see most of that differential is from Victory growing from 17.6ish to 18.6ish?

But either way, point is, such initiatives DO seem to have some effect - even if other fans just write them off as cheap gimmicks, novelty bribes or whatever.

Edited by GloryPerth: 19/9/2014 05:02:43 PM

Then you get the foundation members that get pissed off that some new members gets 1k, I know one did the bastard :lol: Big lotto on tomorrow get on it!

Edited by MrBrisbane: 19/9/2014 05:07:01 PM

Really? I thought as the biggest city in Aus they would have more followers then 10,000?

Yeah indeed! That's why I brought it up, as somebody said previous page that Victory's initiative may be open to 'everybody'! So the 'early adopters' (of sorts) may have a chance, for once, to be rewarded too. :p :d

Edited by GloryPerth: 19/9/2014 06:15:50 PM

It's ON - once again!



Brisbane Roar: 10,024
Sydney FC: 9,612

Who will win? :p

Please no :lol:, get enough of that shit elsewhere. Should be a safe zone, but still some laughs.

Ok :lol: ...

*Gauntlet removed*

BTW,

Melb City: 7752
Newcastle Jets: 7514

It's a new page now, so, who will be first,

Davo1985 or Tambo?

:p



Hat consumption time may well be upon you, soon enough?! :shock:

Edited by GloryPerth: 19/9/2014 07:00:41 PM

From the growth rate, i think, off the top of my head Jets have been moving memberships quicker lately

City been kinda slow, nothing wrong with that. Villa how bout showing your face!

Brisbane v Sydney. The battle of the fair weather fans.

:lol: Victory dont? Wake up ffs! If we make it this year whatch them come!!!

It's kind of ridiculous that he's only arriving in October. But then again, he IS only a 'Guest' player - but reflects what a sideshow his visit is both regarded as, by his party and what will end up being!

It depends how JVS has set up this City team during pre-season and what allowances he's made, prepared for, for the Villa stint. Whoever City's present #9 is, during pre-season, JVA may or may not be prepared to continue with him there, despite Villa's presence. It's presumed once Villa is there, that he'll feature up-top, but it depends on JVS' set up. City has many wingers or players capable out there, so odds are further he'd be upfront.

But they can't be too reliant on a player coming in cold and who will only feature for 10 games, at the very most. He really shouldn't be a 'key player' in the team, but in other ways he may naturally be so?

I just hope JVS and the existing squad, can work it out for the best. Some of the hype surrounding City threatened a genuine circus, trivialisation of the wider A-League, though much of those concerns have since been quietened. We all want for it to work out well, for the betterment of the A-League, so hopefully it does and the experience doesn't end with too many 'regrets'.

Edited by GloryPerth: 19/9/2014 10:47:04 PM

We are the biggest club in australian football history. If they join its a result of our own history. We don't need silverware to get the people on board but we have it anyway.

Melbourne Victory must beat 22,591

Edited by Davo1985: 19/9/2014 12:30:53 PM[/quote]

this time last year

Adelaide - 4,132
Brisbane - 5,000
Central Coast - 4,480
Heart - 4,856
Newcastle - 8,000
Perth - 4,394
Sydney - 8,122
Victory - 18,012
Wellington - 3,000
West Sydney - 15,408


Total memberships sold - 75,404
increase of about 15% with city and roar being the chief engines of growth this year sfc doing ok too. I'm expecting 95k by 11/10 and maybe 106-107k by the end just missing our target

SFC are almost 1500 memberships ahead of this time last year.

Considering everything that was going on with Del Piero, Farina, and all the fan protests last year, to be almost cracking 10,000 members before the season start is pretty amazing really

Do any reds fans know when he memberships will arrive? Haven't got mine yet.

:d :lol: :p

Email the other day said first week of october, and to call the club if you don't receive by oct 10

city 7771

Hopefully we get another 50 or so today with the family day today.

4.5 k per week or say 650 a day and we would break the 100k for the start of the year ... unlikely but possible ...

Edited by midfielder: 21/9/2014 12:55:00 PM

Victory will get 1k per week I think... Leaving 3.5 for the other 9... Or 400 each club per week.

I think city, sydney, newcastle and Brisbane will go close... But not exceed that. And then the other clubs won't go near (wsw almost capped out as well) ... So 100k won't happen. I'd be stoked if we could beat season 9 total by round 1 though...

MV 3
Roar 2
SFC 2
City 1.5

Thats 8.5 remaining clubs to get 5K or 833 each ... still unlikely but tis possible...

Heard from the grapevine we are hitting 11k soon.......

Interesting discussion guys. It's possible - I think we're reliant on Victory to still take up most of the slack and they have the most room to grow - especially reaching towards their own target of 23k members. So they need 5k more or so to do that, but with Fan Days, limited memberships etc... they could still do it.

And when Tambo mentioned the cap - that reminded me of something I've brought up before, but not in this way - I think a number of the 'smaller' clubs, infact most of the clubs, have their own 'natural caps' to a degree too. Not that they have a limit, but usually, or season's past, they have had a steady, consistent, base and it may hardly change.

I know last few seasons that's changed dramatically for some clubs, with growth on growth, but it's clear the likes of Glory and Phoenix are quite stagnant. Mariners did fantastic last year, great campaign and new club record pushing 6k and well beyond their 5k target. They are a bit behind their levels of last season, but just to meet what they achieved would be great. Even Jets too, partially due to off-field or what not apparently, many Jets fans suggest they have hit a natural limit, a bit lower than the highs and excitement of early Tinkler era - 9-10k at very most for them apparently.

It's again only really Roar and City who are entering brave new world territory, well exceeding their previous/recent club records by quite some margin - their upper limits known! Sydney FC are a chance to surpass last season's record too. Adelaide United are an interesting spanner in the works - they could be approaching their club record and even pushing beyond that is quite possible. So brave new world for them too? But the club's member target was a surprising 10k a season or two back, so perhaps they inch ever closer to that? :-k

Club Membership Targets (From what we know, past couple seasons):

Adelaide United: 10,000 (60%)
Brisbane Roar: 10,000 (Now exceeded!)
Central Coast Mariners: 6,000? (Goal would be to exceed club record from last season (5,900-ish?) - 68%)
Melbourne City: 8,000? (Club Record Exceeded?)
Melbourne Victory: 23,000 (80%)
Newcastle Jets: 11,000 (That's the club record, right? 68%)
Perth Glory : 6,000 (I presume that's about the club record or exceeding it? 71%)
Sydney FC: 11,000 (Goal would be to exceed club record set last season (10,500 or so?). 87%)
Wellington Phoenix: 4,000 (72.5%)
Western Sydney Wanderers: 16,500 (96%)

Total = 105,500

Now round up, for some clubs and the league's sake. Melbourne City, naturally, make their target 10k. Sydney FC could also realistically strive for 11.5k-ish (Set for rounding purposes). And Roar are already pushing 11k and could realistically hit 12k.

So that's roughly how your 110,000 member target is worked out and indeed how it will be achieved. The only discrepancy is AU, though they've made good gains towards their ambitious target. They won't reach it, but they may settle around 7-8k members. City, Roar and Sydney FC could still make up the difference to the overall target, given we don't really know their limits lie.

Adelaide United: 6,118
Brisbane Roar: 10,024
Central Coast Mariners: 4,100
Melbourne City: 7,805
Melbourne Victory: 18,673
Newcastle Jets: 7,552
Perth Glory : 4,295
Sydney FC: 9,612
Wellington Phoenix: 2,846
Western Sydney Wanderers: 15,773

Total = 86,798


Total as of 11/10/2013 = 86,352
Total as of 1/4/2014 = 94,520


http://www.sydneyfc.com/
http://membership.melbournecityfc.com.au/
http://wanderers.memberhq.com.au/
http://www.membership.newcastlejets.com.au/
http://www.melbournevictory.com.au/
http://www.a-league.com.au/

Edited by Davo1985: 22/9/2014 01:36:57 PM

Melb City now up to 7.875. Family day saw a decent increase of around 100.