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    How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    There are lots of different ways to support our mighty club, of course starting with annual membership and the different levels, such as reserved seating, social club , backyard bulldog, player sponsorship, the many different coterie group membership etc.

    Then there are raffles, bulldoze the debt etc etc.

    One reason why I started this thread was the club rang me today and asked me to buy a ticket in the raffle where you win a trip to London with the players. Tickets are $100 each and they have only sold 100, but were expecting to sell 2000. They think they will sell about 300 - pretty poor, but then again $100 is alot for some families.

    Personally, I have Gold membership with reserved seating, plus I buy raffle tickets wherever possible as well as have helped out on bulldoze the debt. In the past I have helped with the Fitzroy Merger funds to eradicate the debt as well as funds into the Elite training Centre and have bought a seat in the Whitten Stand.

    If I had more funds I would do more.

    This thread is not to show off but to get an idea how posters help the club, we all have our own financial position and can only put in funds according to our circumstances.
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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    I pay for an interstae membership with added social club membership, my little nephew's kids membership (He's back in Tassie) and I also donated $100 to the bulldoze the debt campaign earlier this year. Oh and I also buy training singlets and playing shorts direct from the club website.

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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    I buy my membership each year and have so since 1983. I contributed a fair bit of my hard earned in 1989 to ensure we did not fold/merge.
    Not only am I not in a position to contribute more, I will not be contributing more. I am sick of tired trying to prop up the club. It should not have to rely on diehards to contribute more than the membership $$$.

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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    Quote Originally Posted by Desipura View Post
    I am sick of tired trying to prop up the club. It should not have to rely on diehards to contribute more than the membership $$$.
    I don't believe you
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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    I keep paying for my 5 home game seats + 2 social club tickets from over in WA. If a raffle comes up I am usually a buyer...Bulldog for Life makes the membership thing easy but it is hard to justify when you can never actually attend a game.
    What should I tell her? She's going to ask.

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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    I don't believe you
    Which bit? Sorry, I miised the joke.

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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    Quote Originally Posted by Desipura View Post
    Which bit? Sorry, I miised the joke.
    That you won't be supporting the club financially anymore. I had a smiley not a joke icon.
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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    That you won't be supporting the club financially anymore. I had a smiley not a joke icon.
    I mean I won't be contributing more than my membership.

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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    I have Social Club membership, pay monthly to Bulldoze the Debt, am one of the 100 who have bought a London trip raffle ticket, have bought a book of the $5 raffle tickets - I need a picture of an all day sucker to complete the post

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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    I have an AFL membership as I watch a lot of games inc non-Bulldogs games with a group of people that all have them.

    As a donation to the club I also buy a Gold Membership that I haven't used in years.

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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    Didn't realise they'd only sold 100 tickets. I can't afford it, really, but bugger it. I'm ringing them now…

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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    Quote Originally Posted by BornAScragger View Post
    Didn't realise they'd only sold 100 tickets. I can't afford it, really, but bugger it. I'm ringing them now…
    Well done. Good odds for winning.
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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    They are on sale until October tenth I think.

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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    Membership, which is more a donation as I rarely get the chance to go to games.
    The curse is dead.

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    Re: How Do you Support the Club Financially?

    Quote Originally Posted by mjp View Post
    If a raffle comes up I am usually a buyer...Bulldog for Life makes the membership thing easy but it is hard to justify when you can never actually attend a game.
    This is me plus I helped with the bulldozer at the start of the year.
    Don't piss off old people
    The older we get the less "LIFE IN PRISON" is a deterrent...

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