Membership Numbers 2012

[Ghost Dog]

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True but it's never a good thing to be at the very bottom of membership numbers in Victoria. You are always the first name anyone brings up when talking about handouts or culling teams because the league is all of a sudden too big.
You are right i think a lot of people are very apprehensive about this coming season.
A lot of bulldog supporters identify with key individuals, ie Barry Hall, Jason Akermanis, Rodney Eade, Grant, Whitten, Johnno etc, and a change like we have had can bring uncertainty. We have no real famed heroes of the club at the moment, our two best players barely played last year and there are doubts over if they can return to form ever again. Also a brand new coach with a famous face or name after getting rid of a successfull one.
All of these points would explain our slow membership sales, and hopefully a good start will get them signing on.

Knocking off WCE at home would be a great start, follow that up with an away win in Adelaide after they won the pre-season, and then beating a team that have the wood on us in StKilda would be perfect. 3-0 here we come.

The jumper has been a big change too; not to be underestimated.
We will be fierce in the stoppages this season and that's going to win a lot of hearts.
Predicting a bit of a membership spike as new heroes become known to the fans.

Looking forward to:
Callan Ward V Clay Smith
Brian Lake V Buddy Franklin
Luke Dahlhaus V anyone who can catch him.

[chef]

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The jumper has been a big change too; not to be underestimated.
We will be fierce in the stoppages this season and that's going to win a lot of hearts.
Predicting a bit of a membership spike as new heroes become known to the fans.

Looking forward to:
Callan Ward V Clay Smith
Brian Lake V Buddy Franklin
Luke Dahlhaus V anyone who can catch him.

Hopefully it doesn't have a negative effect, the robodog on the front of our previous jumper was quite attractive to kids.

[Eastdog]

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Hopefully it doesn't have a negative effect, the robodog on the front of our previous jumper was quite attractive to kids.

Good point with the jumper change chef although I do like the fact that we have gone back to our traditional jumper. Hopefully Round 1 against West Coast can be a first up win at home for us which would be a very good start. It won't be easy though as many people predict West Coast will be right up there at the business end of the season.

[Cyberdoggie]

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Gone up to 25379 as of today.

Hopefully a few thousand members sign up on sunday

[G-Mo77]

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30,000 members might just be our limit.

We're still close to 5K off that figure. If we don't jump out of the blocks and win some games we'll be lucky to get 27K.

[Eastdog]

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We're still close to 5K off that figure. If we don't jump out of the blocks and win some games we'll be lucky to get 27K.

That will be a factor in whether or not we get 30,000 members this year. Good start = Members will get on board, Bad start = Members won't sign up. It is as simple as that.

[Eastdog]

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Latest membership figure: 25,982 almost coming up to the 26,000 mark. As G-Mo77 the first couple of matches will be important in whether we get the members signing up.

[Murphy'sLore]

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Any idea how many members usually leave it till match day to sign on? It's usually a fairly hefty percentage isn't it?

[Eastdog]

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Any idea how many members usually leave it till match day to sign on? It's usually a fairly hefty percentage isn't it?

I reckon there are a lot of members out there who are still yet to sign up. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that you can sign up as member until around mid season.

[LostDoggy]

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I reckon there are a lot of members out there who are still yet to sign up. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that you can sign up as member until around mid season.

There's a cut off somewhere around Round 10 or 12 (?) -- someone will correct me soon -- when they stop counting and publish the official membership numbers, which is from memory the same cut-off for social club members getting a guaranteed GF ticket.

As an aside, as far as things go, having a pretty much permanent social club membership in case of a GF appearance (not that it's why I do it, but other social members will probably agree that you don't get a heck of a lot of extra value for what you pay) is probably the worst deal I've ever signed up to in my life .. hopefully we start making a whole lot of them one of these days to make all that extra investment worthwhile!

[LostDoggy]

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There's a cut off somewhere around Round 10 or 12 (?) -- someone will correct me soon -- when they stop counting and publish the official membership numbers, which is from memory the same cut-off for social club members getting a guaranteed GF ticket.

As an aside, as far as things go, having a pretty much permanent social club membership in case of a GF appearance (not that it's why I do it, but other social members will probably agree that you don't get a heck of a lot of extra value for what you pay) is probably the worst deal I've ever signed up to in my life .. hopefully we start making a whole lot of them one of these days to make all that extra investment worthwhile!

Yeah, my grand final ticket has already cost me $500.

[Daughter of the West]

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Yeah, my grand final ticket has already cost me $500.

That hurts my head to think of it like that.

I like to think of it as a little something extra I can give to the club, and an awesome insurance policy in the best case scenario. It's got far better dividends than paying something boring like car insurance

[Cyberdoggie]

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As an aside, as far as things go, having a pretty much permanent social club membership in case of a GF appearance (not that it's why I do it, but other social members will probably agree that you don't get a heck of a lot of extra value for what you pay) is probably the worst deal I've ever signed up to in my life .. hopefully we start making a whole lot of them one of these days to make all that extra investment worthwhile!

It is isn't it.

What does it cost to get a GF package deal seat these days off the street?, $1000?

compare that to SC every year of $100, then if we do make it you would pay around $350? for a ticket anyway. If i had a piggy bank and managed to keep it from my wife it would probably be a better deal financially, although the club wouldn't get any of it.

[Cyberdoggie]

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Membership numbers now at 26,588

Kangaroos = 28,832

Not really catching them, looks like we'll be the bottom of the victorian clubs this year.

[Bornadog]

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Up to 27113

On Sunday I arrived to the ground around 1pm as I was running late and couldn't believe the number of people with Doggies colours lining up to buy tickets. The que was very long and I thought to myself, why don't these people have a membership card?

What is wrong with our so called supporter base???