That doesn't make sense because your crowds average last season was roughly similar to your membership figure. If a lot of Easts fans are SCGT members then the crowd average would be greater.
I'm not saying they go, rather it's a disincentive to buy a membership in the first place.
Trust members go if it's a big game or if the team is going well - but they tend not to turn up in big numbers if the team is playing like..... well they have for the past two years.
The "members" area of the SFS (the area above the tunnel where members of the SFS rather than the Roosters sit) generally has between 1,000 (small games) and 2,000 (big games) in it on match day.
Remember that out of approx 10,000 members a certain number are non ticketed or have the cheap bronze membership and probably don't come to every game. After all, it's not a massive incentive to rock up if you've paid $9 per game.
Our average gate was about 10,000 for the past few years - so assuming 65% of our members come to every game, that still allows for 1,500 trust members and 3,000 pay on the day people.
I would imagine those figures aren't far from the truth.
If there weren't any SFS members then I would imagine the Roosters would have a couple of thousand additional members each season. That was the point I was trying to get across originally.
PS - I am not saying other clubs don't have the same issues (Broncos for example) - I'm merely saying that it does hurt our membership numbers.
