Ha ha.

I recon we’ll have more members than wanderers this season and that we’ll both finish higher than them.

I recon this year it’s a Roar/City fight for first and second place and Aloisi with sweet revenge in the GF.

The good news is City will at least qualify for the ACL ... at last ...

95,647 with a week to go.

The HAL is running ahead by about 4% or 3275 from where it was a 1 week out from the season last year. 92372 vs 95647

SFC are down 1325 (11%)
WSW are down 1049 (6%)
CCM are down 747 (16%) 
MVC are down 355 (1%)
MCI are down 274 (3%)
Glory are down 212 (3%)

NIX are up 1358 (49%)
ADL are up 1517 (32%)
Jets are up 1705 (23%)
BRI are up 2657 (47%) 

1385 to beat last years starting total. 4353 to hit 100.000.

12/10/18

 

Membership at season start				Total Membership
Club	18/19	17/18		17/18	16/17	15/16	14/15
AU	6,316	5,323		6,677	10,099	8,720	9,505
Roar	8,284	6,258		8,664	7,050	5,347	12,113
CCM	3,903	5,256		6,939	6,265	6,048	6,242
MLC	8,229	9,386		10,702	13,078	9,278	11,759
MLV	23,670	24,025		25,674	26,251	27,054	24,200
Jets	9,033	7,542		8,578	8,703	9,284	10,003
PG	6,140	6,555		8,540	8,644	7,109	6,298
STF	10,743	12,122		13,779	12,512	13,153	11,510
Nix	4,142	4,200		5,230	4,791	5,035	4,185
WSW	15,187	16,365		17,131	20,022	18,349	18,706
	95,647	97,032		111,914	117,415	109,377	114,521
Start of season Membership				97,032	96,877	89,437	97,252

I think I did cross-check a bit, but going by last season's thread also difficult for now, so thanks for clarification Midfielder, maybe I'll re-try closer to the date with the figures I had gathered last year: https://forum.insidesport.com.au/FindPost2587014.aspx

Sorry my table shows last year at the start of the season not a week out.

If you look at the last line of the table it shows the season starting figures, 

What PJ did was look at the figures a week out. As I said mine have the Friday the season started last year... only so much you can get in a table without making it confusing 

think we will get there? 

even if we do, it doesn't look great consideirng the season starts 2 weeks later. and consideirng the later start, there is less likely to be an increase in post Round 1 membership numbers

“it doesn't look great consideirng the season starts 2 weeks later” ... what’s that got to do with it?

“and consideirng the later start, there is less likely to be an increase in post Round 1 membership numbers” ... why?

You've lost me, what's your reasoning? There is still 26 rounds to go after round 1, as there was last year.

I vote this thread gets stickied

I think the point is that even though the season started later, the sales and marketing of memberships started the same time as previous years, so it will be interesting if there is the usual increase after round 1 or whether that growth has been used up already. This was something I was also thinking about.

Wanderers will be interesting to watch.  They don't have a home game until Round 4 so late sign ups would be expected but if they get off to a bad start that might not happen.

@AJF

That’s drawing a long bow. The membership numbers are effectively “flat” on last year and might go over by a bit but it’s nothing to get excited about.

Christmas still occurs after R1 which is where clubs get their biggest kicker from with people buying presents and for the second half of the season.

@Waz, speaking from experience, MV were much more active in pushing their membership this year and they did start marketing at the same time, including multiple direct calls to organise payment over the phone. Other people I know were the same and there isnt too many holding out so dont expect much growth after rnd 1. But we will see.

@ AJF

I think the same can be said of Roar, way more organised than last year and better pricing and promotion all round.

I’m not bullish about attendances this year but membership suggests the slide has ended but that the recovery hasn’t started.

Personally I think we’re on the same trajectory as last year - there’ll be a lift in memberships post round 1 based on individual team form (remembering more than half of memberships sold are for 3 or 5 games which you don’t need to buy before R1) and another lift before Christmas

I also think the clubs will get a lift with the new 2-3 game miniroos pass which are technically membership. If they do that there’ll be a significant uplift but hopefully that happens late in the season so we can do a like for like comparison.

But this “2 weeks later thing” is irrelevant I think, people anchor their purchasing decision around when the Season starts not the calendar

Melbourne Victory at 24220. 

We actually don't have a home game until Round 5 near the end of November.

My bad.  Our first home game is 23/11 v Newcastle.

When do WSW play out of the new stadium?

Next season

MV called me before last season to renew, but didn’t call me this season even though I left it a lot later.

well today is the last update before the start of the season 

Roar announced yesterday they are adding the 6,500 ‘Roar Rascals’ to their membership numbers. Not sure if it will be added to today’s total but Roars membership number will jump to nearly 15k when they do.

What are the Roar Rascals? Free under 8 members?

that's cheating!! haha 

I’m guessing most clubs will have the equivalent of Roar Rascals as it’s built out of the free MiniRoos tickets.

It’s a 2+2 game family membership. 2 free games and 2 games for $95

At the start of the week they had about 6,500 of these sold and might push 10k when they start pushing it again next week.

I’d rather they left the addition of these numbers until later in the season though, it will distort comparisons with previous seasons (although the club will argue it’s just an extension of the membership options and a legitimate connection to grassroots which people have been arguing for)

Great job by Roar. That sounds like a lot. Any other clubs announce there figures for that option?

It would be interesting to see the full breakdown of the tally. All clubs offer various tiers and membership options. I'm sure MV would still be on top for full season members but would be interesting to see by how much and how the list changes if we only count full season members.

Victory have a lot a five game and country members as they get support accross regional Victoria. I have heard they have a many as 5000 members in Geelong. You would imagine a lot of those are not full memberships.