2011 Memberships

[Perth Red]

Has Storm started selling yet?

 

[Von]

No.

Will be interesting to see their final tally compared with last year considering they will only have 2 months to sell them before kick-off.

 

[Billythekid]

No.

Will be interesting to see their final tally compared with last year considering they will only have 2 months to sell them before kick-off.

Isn't that the same thing the storm did last year though?

 

[Timmah]

They'd released them by now from memory.

 

[adamkungl]

Nfi why Storm release so late. Surely the Christmas period is a good one for memberships.

 

[BunniesMan]

It's astounding that they'd wait this long. Maybe they're expecting a decrease in memberships because of what happened last year and are releasing them late so they have a more convenient excuse for their lower numbers? Remember the Storm doesn't need membership money to survive day to day like most other teams so there could be political/face saving reasons behind this?

 

[AuckMel]

Yea, still nothing from the Storm. I'm told the Rebels have over 6k in members already and they are expensive.

 

[STG-MACCA]

I received an email from St.George today and I think they said they were just about to hit 13K (not sure of a breakup).

 

[CC_Roosters]

It's astounding that they'd wait this long. Maybe they're expecting a decrease in memberships because of what happened last year and are releasing them late so they have a more convenient excuse for their lower numbers? Remember the Storm doesn't need membership money to survive day to day like most other teams so there could be political/face saving reasons behind this?

Didn't the Storm actually add to their members after the scandal broke?

Fair play to Souths looks like they are going to smash the record for ticketed and NT again. No were near as much hype about it as last year for the 10K challenge and they almost have it already. Parra and the dogs are doing well too, considering their piss poor 2010

 

[BunniesMan]

Didn't the Storm actually add to their members after the scandal broke?

Fair play to Souths looks like they are going to smash the record for ticketed and NT again. No were near as much hype about it as last year for the 10K challenge and they almost have it already. Parra and the dogs are doing well too, considering their piss poor 2010

There's a possibility every single club (with the exception of the Storm, due to their own strange behaviour with putting memberships on sales) will have better numbers than last year. Great news for the game.

 

[STG-MACCA]

Just to confirm, this is an extract of the email from Saints:

with membership numbers for 2011 now passing 13,000 and growing daily the only way to guarantee yourself, your family and friends a seat for all the on field action this season is to become a Red V Member today.

 

[Evenflow]

It's astounding that they'd wait this long. Maybe they're expecting a decrease in memberships because of what happened last year and are releasing them late so they have a more convenient excuse for their lower numbers? Remember the Storm doesn't need membership money to survive day to day like most other teams so there could be political/face saving reasons behind this?

It's not the reason at all you f**king numpty, read below what i posted 3 weeks ago and then you'll have your answer. The Storm cracked 10k last year, they'll be up around there again this year and be higher than several other clubs so they'll hardly need an excuse for their "lower numbers" Full membership details will be released next week.

The reason for that is the new CEO has come in and has stripped back all membership packages to nothing and given them a complete overhaul. With all the sh*t that went down this year not everything that was offered at the start the season to members was put forward so they sent out a member survey a couple months back getting all members feedback/opinions and rebuilt the packages from there. From all reports they'll be out early in the new year.

I think they're much better off taking a bit more time reworking the packages and giving more value for money as opposed to rushing them out half arsed and offering up the same old from this season. You mentioned they should be building bridges which i totally agree with and a good way of doing that is giving the members more reason to renew. Obviously the hard core year in year out members will renew regardless, i'm more talking about borderline cases who arent sure or new members altogether.

 

[Timmah]

Even so Evenflow (lol sorry) - this period of time is ridiculous. A full review shouldn't even take this long and it has the potential to cost the club thousands of dollars in income.

 

[Lambretta]

I would love to know how the Roosters are going members wise

I know they were over 4,000 way back in December - would be interesting to see what the Christmas period did for numbers.

 

[supera]

In a time where NRL clubs have finally caught on to how important membership is, Melbourne's woeful efforts in getting their packages out makes a mockery of the endeavours to get all fans to become members - especially being the only team that comes from a market that is so accustomed to buying club memberships.

 

[Evenflow]

Even so Evenflow (lol sorry) - this period of time is ridiculous. A full review shouldn't even take this long and it has the potential to cost the club thousands of dollars in income.

You're still cut up about that under the thumb comment ait ya? (lol sorry) You may be right and you may be wrong and we won't know for a few months when real numbers are through to see how it's affected it. How can we possibly guess/know how many people won't renew because the memberships have been delayed? You just can't put any number on that because it'd be pure speculation if you were silly enough to try.

As i mentioned in my previous post 3 weeks ago, the hardcore are going to renew no matter when they're released so there's no income lost there. How it will affect the borderline who are either new members or casual fans again we just won't know until a few months. I hardly doubt those categories would've been rushing out a month before xmas to buy Storm memberships anyway with everything else that was going on even if they were out back then so if they were going to buy them then i'm sure they'll buy them now.

I'll stand by what i say and still think the club get at least 8k+ and even closer to last years total which would be a great effort IMO. With the salary cap debacle you'd be a hard task master to expect the Storm to increase their membership numbers the following season but if we can stay around par or not far below it'll provide a solid base to work from in the future. While i agree it's not ideal they aren't out by now i can still understand why they wanted and needed to start their membership categories from scratch and believe they did the right thing in that respect.

 

[Billythekid]

In a time where NRL clubs have finally caught on to how important membership is, Melbourne's woeful efforts in getting their packages out makes a mockery of the endeavours to get all fans to become members - especially being the only team that comes from a market that is so accustomed to buying club memberships.

A bit harsh don't you think? If anything the storm has lead the way in terms of getting their fans to sign up as ticketed members. I'm pretty sure this year they will again be right up near the top.

Fair enough they should get it out earlier (missing the christmas period is a big mistake) but the storm have still pushed memberships harder than a lot of clubs in the NRL.

 

[supera]

missing the Christmas period is more than a 'mistake' - if any of the clubs who actually need the membership money missed getting memberships out by Christmas, it'd be damn near criminal.

 

[Perth Red]

I'm surprised clubs don't make more of memberships as Xmas presents.

 

[applesauce]

I'm surprised clubs don't make more of memberships as Xmas presents.

The Titans did a very good job of that this year, hence the huge increases.