Slack i guess, they used to be much worse, they have been improving 10 fold compared to past years.

Wanderers 14,602.

Not to sure where you live ... The Mariners are just as poor as Roar & AU in membership numbers releases.. what some members do is when they renew over the phone they ask the person where are we at and post the answer on our forum... I have phoned the club this year 3 times asked for memberships and asked what are the numbers and have always been told its about !!!! ... maybe fans in the same city can call the club and just ask ...

Edited by Midfielder: 23/8/2014 10:27:43 AM

Edited by Midfielder: 23/8/2014 10:28:19 AM

Ummmm yea why the attitude mate :lol:, Im not that desperate for the Membership numbers to ring up, i renewed through Roars new setup. I simply wondered why there has not been an update, when we are so close to 10k, which could be for 3 reasons which i said before. How hard is it for a simple response from twitter or facebook.......

Facebook and Twitter responses are normally quick, kinda weird. Wouldn't worry too much, what was your tally last season?

Guys, there is more than one avenue on social media - I think we Glory fans found that out last year. The official channels etc... were hopeless, but when the new CEO, Jason Brewer, was announced, some of us discovered his Twitter feed and one promptly asked him the member numbers, which, pleasant surprise, he promptly responded to, with a number!

If the 'official club channel' isn't any good, then try some of the important individuals, some for who it's part of their job to communicate messaging to fans? Glory has just appointed a new Media and Marketing Manager for instance - 'perhaps' Glory's messaging and communication with fans may improve finally? Or if not, his Twitter was shared when they announced it! Roar have their Managing Director/CEO too who's on Social Media I think, I'm sure Mariners, AU, Phoenix and co have their equivalents too.

They may be no more or no less effective than the official pages, but worth a try and some, like Brewer, may even be happy to hear/respond? :-k

Edited by GloryPerth: 23/8/2014 07:08:46 PM

Victory up to 15250, as of a few days ago.



https://twitter.com/gomvfc/status/503080047683452929

Edited by therealfootballsupporter: 24/8/2014 09:47:44 AM

Farken AFL has just announced 800,000 members across 18 teams

Farken NRL has 230,000 members ---shows how badly run they are

Back to actual A-League matters, I'm told Victory are well over 16k now and pushing towards 17k. Really good response with so much time still left until the season starts.

No Bites yet mate.....................your baites stink...;) ;)

Edited by multibet: 24/8/2014 06:53:46 PM

Doesn't sound right? That's more than 40,000 members per club

would include all the pets, babies and alien memberships

Re: Mr Brisbane, Tambo, Midfielder, Davo1985 and co -

Here is what I could find, in terms of,

Brisbane Roar General Manager, Sean Dobson:

https://www.facebook.com/dobson.sean?fref=ts - Not sure if this just his 'personal' account, but none-the-less it's clearly him?

Brisbane Roar Marketing Manager, Kurt Brutton:

https://twitter.com/mr_brutton

And via he, in seeking to confirm he actually IS a Brisbane Roar employee - I saw this post, confirming some of his 'Media team' co-horts at Roar,



Brisbane Roar 'Media person', Dan Lato:

https://twitter.com/DanMLato

So guys, NO EXCUSES, here are there contacts - for any keen on getting some info, or just an update on when there WILL be info - these could be the people to contact. I especially recommend the Twitter links - they'd be both more professionally appropriate and perhaps likely to respond. ALL those folks will be involved in the area to know of the memberships and the member numbers - some of them probably even handle this on some level or another - heck, one of them may be behind the 'running' of the Roar Twitter feed, Facebook or what not - so they're the ones to post when there IS a milestone reached etc... So as we Glory fans tried with our CEO Brewer last season, I guess you guys can too, if you're impatient? FTR Roar have ben pretty good this pre-season, so I guess we can wait a bit longer? :-k

I guess we could find the 'professional' Social Media contacts for the appropriate Phoenix personnel too? Edit: Boy, no wonder communication soo hard - finding them like needle in haystack if at all? They're supposed to be the club's marketing and media guys, but instead of front and centre of fan and media communications in this modern digital age... well, I suppose Phoenix fans can just best just to as how good a job the club does in this area?

Phoenix Head of Marketing, Kyla Lange:

https://www.facebook.com/kylajayne.lange (Again, like Dobson, this seems her personal account, so best to seek other/twitter sources first?)

Phoenix General Manager, David Dome:

https://www.facebook.com/domestar (Again, it's FB and seems to be a personal account, rather than professional one - so tread carefully)

Stuck - no Twitter accounts, as far as I could find, so the Phoenix staff of relevance. Just the Phoenix Twitter itself and for those who have Twitter and want to ask them, here it is:

https://twitter.com/WgtnPhoenixFC

I swear, I guess we're just 'lucky' that these media managers and co at these clubs have Twitter accounts etc... for we to access them, rather than fan access to them (Via professional accounts) being an almost pre-requisite? Clearly some clubs better than others - Glory's CEO Jason Brewer is quite active and prominent in terms of his Glory promotion, re-tweets and interaction with Glory Twitter links and too that of players and fans even!

Edited by GloryPerth: 24/8/2014 11:07:32 PM

What mitsos said, plus 40k average isn't that far off - that's the mark, standard, to which AFL clubs aspire. Collingwood and some others would have more. IIRC The likes of WC Eagles, Adelaide Crows and some others have/had those kinds of figures. The smallest AFL clubs have 20k or so, like North Melbourne, Sydney Swans, Brisbane Lions, perhaps Dockers and co - but I'm going off old data, memory - so they may be a 'bit bigger now' too, especially if, again, 'Pet Memberships' are included. :p

AFL has a culture of memberships that not only pre-dates everybody, but it's that culture which now permeates and influences the growing culture of memberships with rival codes, including the A-League here. The 'Northern States' cottoned on finally, both in the Rugby codes, as too the A-League teams. And we see that reflecting in the much stronger numbers for SFC, Roar, Jets and co, recent seasons.

Edited by GloryPerth: 24/8/2014 11:06:34 PM

An AFL membership doesn't mean you have a season ticket. Three game memberships are counted, among many other stupid things. Their figures are very misleading. Hawthorn have over 60,000 members but struggle to pull 30k against a non-Victorian club.

More AFL members then facebook likes.......................................bahahahaha

Dodgy..=d> =d>

NRL 254k members - 900k Facebook likes
AFL 800k members lol - 660k likes

AFL attendance in 2014 down 12% in melbourne up in adelaide and 3% down across the league and somehow they have managed 150k more members then 2013........................may i be the first to call bullshit.

We have all become members of an AFL club by talking about AFL memberships.

You can also get an AFL league membership where you can go to 40 games no matter where or who is playing, don't think anyone else has that

It's extremely misleading because the "memberships" include all forms, not just season ticket holders. i would say at most clubs almost half their memberships would be for non full ticket items, such as pet memberships, 3 game memberships etc. This doesn't give a true reflection of fan financial support.

As an example, GWS claim they have more than 13k members, yet their avg crowd attendances are well under 10k and would include walk ups and free tickets. So i would assume they probably only have 4 maybe 5k of actual full season ticket holders.

I think the way we count it in the a-league is certainly more accurate, and although it won't give us the big headlines, at least we know where we stand and can relatively accurately predict our attendance base from it.

Adelaide United: 4,800
Brisbane Roar: 9,087
Central Coast Mariners: 3,900
Melbourne City: 7,078
Melbourne Victory: 15,250
Newcastle Jets: 6,725
Perth Glory : 3,800
Sydney FC: 8,760
Wellington Phoenix: 1,000
Western Sydney Wanderers: 14,712

Total = 75,112

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.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/wellington-phoenix-discussion/topics/2014-15-season-memberships/page/10
http://www.fromthestandsal.com/membershiptracker/[/quote]

Adelaide United: 4,800
Brisbane Roar: 9,087
Central Coast Mariners: 3,900
Melbourne City: 7,078
Melbourne Victory: 16,259
Newcastle Jets: 6,725
Perth Glory : 3,800
Sydney FC: 8,760
Wellington Phoenix: 1,000
Western Sydney Wanderers: 14,712

Total = 76,121

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.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/wellington-phoenix-discussion/topics/2014-15-season-memberships/page/10
http://www.fromthestandsal.com/membershiptracker/

Edited by tambo: 25/8/2014 11:03:24 AM

Haha Davo, i swear i didn't update you to add on the extra 1 member... timing issues ;)

Edit: Just realised you forgot to update the total anyway, exact same numbers overall.

Read an earlier mention in the thread that victory are well over 16k, so hopefully this figure should jump a bit soon!

Edited by tambo: 25/8/2014 10:50:23 AM

That'll be it's peak too, unless they're fluffing the numbers which they probably are (pet, baby memberships).

Membership can't grow with attendances down 13%. The AFL membership decline will kick off from next season ;)

Yeah total should be 75,112

Why do you think their memberships will decline next year?

Correct, sorry i missed out on Victory. Cheers.

They had just updated too! I have edited mine so the new total is now past 76k, great news.

Edited by tambo: 25/8/2014 11:04:16 AM

If you want to see a full membership table go to http://www.fromthestandsal.com/membershiptracker/
A few interesting battles taking place to. Great to see over 76k memberships sold 50 days before the season.

Well a few reasons.. Over here in VIC all you seem to hear about this AFL season is how people are fed up with the game, how it's changed, etc, etc. There's a reason why attendances are down 13% and it's not just due to TV coverage, people have genuinely lost interest in AFL

Edited by azzaMVFC: 25/8/2014 01:27:35 PM

I live in NSW so i wouldn't be up to date exactly what is happening in VIC, but i would have to assume that your comment is a slight exaggeration. What are the tv viewing figures like compared to last year?

And I would imagine the AFL will be well aware as to where they stand and the changes that need to be made. Once they implement a raft of changes in the off season, im sure come next season supporters will be rather forgiving.