Sharks are promoting memberships atm to push us over the 15k mark by June 30. Anyway so far so good we have climbed to 14507.
I agree it's still disappointing considering there were 70k "Fans" at the GF. Non ticketed memberships are only 50 bucks. Piss poor imho.
Sharks are promoting memberships atm to push us over the 15k mark by June 30. Anyway so far so good we have climbed to 14507.
I agree it's still disappointing considering there were 70k "Fans" at the GF. Non ticketed memberships are only 50 bucks. Piss poor imho.
The 70,000 sharks fans being somehow representative of a membership goal is pretty misleading. The bandwagon factor was absolutely enormous. Let me explain. I have a copy of the Daily Telegraph from the day after the grand final.I know SIX people who have their picture in that paper, wearing sharks gear and celebrating wildly.
The first 2 are a couple. They live local, attend matches regularly, are what you would call invested supporters, they attend 5-6 games a year, all the semis and GF and despite regularly being urged to buy a membership won't do it. Whether it is tightness, laziness or whatever they just won't do it. They argue their support is enough.
Then there are two young blokes wearing retro sharks jerseys and embracing madly. They get interested in the NRL around finals time and went along for a good time. They would probably watch between 4 and 6 regular season matches on TV and couldnt name any player outside the superstars. Jayden Brailey, Sam Tagatese, Sosaia Feki could all walk past them in the street and they wouldnt know who they were. Theres no way they are gonna buy a membership.
The other two were bizarre. One is a Dogs member, the other a dragons die hard yet there they were, in a Sharks jersey whooping up the win. Some people just want a party.
All of our social media analytics through SharkCast tell us the sharks have about 8,000 local supporters who are absolutely die hard and fanatical. Nationally that goes out to about 15,000. Then there is another tier of softer support worth about 20,000 and behind them are the absolute casuals. Grand total about 120,000-140,000 "fans" but this includes all the bandwagoners.
15,000 care enough to be members
70,000 will turn up for the first grand final win, but this includes members.
Another 50,000 will watch the GF on TV or like them on facebook or tell their mates they support the sharks.
The numbers track pretty close to this. To get 15,000 to hand over coin is pretty good really. The sharks are still a small club.
