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just saw Perth Glory have a membership tracker up on their website.

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That's what you get for having some of the most expensive memberships in the league. Such a shame. 

Like last year they will probably be the most expensive in the league. At least this year they have some sort of reason after being premieres. 

Glory counter updated to 4054

here are my KPI for each club with what they should be aiming for:

Adelaide united: 10K
brisbane roar: 12K
CCM:7K
melbourne city: 10k
Victory:30k 
Perth: 12K
Sydney:15K
Wellington:10k
WSW:15K
WU:7K

Victory won't reach 30k. i'm expecting a drop this year. 

how much of a drop? 

WSW were at 16-17K. I think we should be hitting around 17k

We can assume that both MV and MC could lose a number of members to WU. How many is a bit of an unknown but we can assume there will be some.
Recruiting is going to be a big deciding factor for MV. A lot of key players gone and a lot of key positions to be filled. 
That combined with an increasingly stale and uninteresting competition means clubs cannot fully hit their ideal numbers. 
30k at MV is also a difficult number due to limited capacity of AAMI park. 

not a significant drop. maybe 25k. There just feels like a hint of lower expectations with a new coach. Fans are already frustrated with the lack of signings and continued slow starts to the season. Plus there is now extra competition in Melbourne. Maybe I'm completely wrong as its more of a gut feel. For all I know, we could end up singing a big marquee who puts bums on seats and we're off and running in R1.  

Victory tweeted 13,422 members today 

Victory might be the same for members but that well could be fans renewing but downgrading to 5 games or 2 game memberships.

Sydney got 16.5k last season. I think they will at least be aiming to hit 17k, although they will probably be happy with a holding pattern until they return home.

Is there even capacity at the temp stadiums for 17k?

Both stadiums are 20k, however when Leichhardt gets to around 10k, it comes such a pain of a stadium. 

I doubt it is 17k full season ticket holders so unlikely to be an issue.

This was posted by Waz on August 11 last year in last season's membership thread (not sure how to quote posts from other threads).



so from a Victory point of view, we need 4,000 members in 25 days to match the comparative time last year. 

August 6th 2018 MV officially announced they signed Honda. Currently we barely even have a squad. Unless they pull out a big name marquee in the next 4 days, I can't see them matching that number.

when is the membership counter up on the website? 

I'll probably get the 3 game Dolphin stadium membership for Roar.

WU memberships will be going on sale soon. this will be interesting. The seems pretty cheap. from memory GA adult is $195?

With MV's GA membership at $259 and MC's GA membership at a $280 (ridiculous), it's a smart move by WU positioning their pricing sub $200. It will definitely help sway any fans that are on the fence. Especially those MC fans that live out west and are feeling neglected by CFG.

wow, really? the disconnect continues it would seem. 

I just read the fine print and it's potentially more expensive than that. MC charge extra to GA members to reserve a seat for the derbies. However the next package up is $290 which reserves a seat for every game including derbies. MV plays derbies at Marvell so there is no extra charge for GA members.

I will be happy if they get 5k, anything more is a bonus

Brisbane's packages are reasonable and a credit to the club. After a terrible previous season i was doubtful with what membership numbers will be like this year, however with a number of fresh faces around the club, positive news and a decent turn out of more than 2k to their first pre season game I am feeling confident they will go past 10k.

Hoping all clubs achieve decent numbers, even if you can't get to games, buy your clubs supporter membership. 

Wellington should hit 5k again this season which is good for such a small club.

Greater Wellington has only about 50k less people than greater Newcastle - you should be getting similar membership numbers.

With the independent HAL on its way I feel membership will now be a thing of the past. We should be seeing less members and focus more on general crowd numbers.

5k will be the new 15k, If its ok for expansion clubs to have low numbers then is good enough for everyone else Nix included.

this is what we can expect of a closed independent league, no incentive to improve or invest, no p/r because it would impact the owners hip pocket and teams happy with mediocrity so long as it means financial survival and minimal cost for their owners.

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