12,178 Foundation Members of GWS

[Raiderdave]

GWS have more members than all the western Sydney NRL clubs without having played even played a game. The future looks bright for the AFL in NSW.

unlike yourself n other fumbleball fans .... we're not stupid
GWS have inflated their numbers with 8K cheap.." part " .. pay next to nothing memberships .....

its smoke n Mirrors
I predict the actual monitery value of their membership will be less then all 4 Western Sydney NRL club's
& be well behind Canterbury's & Parramatta's

[ParraEelsNRL]

They had to give away over 3k worth in Canberra alone to get the Government subsidies, bahahahahaha, there was a thread at Little Footy about it.

[Beaussie]

GWS have more members than all the western Sydney NRL clubs without having played even played a game. The future looks bright for the AFL in NSW.

unlike yourself n other fumbleball fans .... we're not stupid

No, you lot just have no passion for your clubs/code. That's why you'll forever be small fry in this country's sporting landscape.

[ParraEelsNRL]

Bahahahaha, out rates your code every week head to head.

[Beaussie]

Pfft, keep telling yourself that sunshine. Our TV deal is more than double yours. Why is that? Oh yeah get set for another conspiracy theory.

[Raiderdave]

Pfft, keep telling yourself that sunshine. Our TV deal is more than double yours. Why is that? Oh yeah get set for another conspiracy theory.

we haven't done our deal yet

watch this space

[Beaussie]

Pfft, keep telling yourself that sunshine. Our TV deal is more than double yours. Why is that? Oh yeah get set for another conspiracy theory.

we haven't done our deal yet

watch this space

Watching this space and we've already heard the CEO of Foxtel describe Rugby League as a 'downmarket product' when compared to the jewel in Australian sport - the AFL.

Good luck with the tv deal, you're going to need it. Meanwhile our $1,253 Billion is banked already.

[Raiderdave]

Pfft, keep telling yourself that sunshine. Our TV deal is more than double yours. Why is that? Oh yeah get set for another conspiracy theory.

we haven't done our deal yet

watch this space

Watching this space and we've already heard the CEO of Foxtel describe Rugby League as a 'downmarket product' when compared to the jewel in Australian sport - the AFL.

Good luck with the tv deal, you're going to need it. Meanwhile our $1,253 Billion is banked already.

like I said
watch this space ............

[enarelle]

AFL myth number 57. So it turns out that of the 12k in foundation members for GWS only 25% are actually from GWS ie that area of 2m people. So 3,000 people paid their $50 for a cap in GWS. 40% of the GWS "membership" are from Canberra. Why would that be the case one has to wonder. Well Canberra is a city of ex pats and quite a few are from the AFL states and GWS is the closest thing they are going to get to their own AFL team. just like the Swans who have over 60% of their membership/attendances are made up of expats from the AFL states. Of course there are only so many ex pats to go around and it shows in the TV ratings for the Swans and AFL in the Sydney market ie the locals dont watch in any great numbers.

Indeed one must say that the AFL have spent a veritable fortune on bringing AFL to people who had already bought the concept. Basically the AFL peaked north of the Murray 5 years ago and is now madly trying to get back that "peak" by creating more teams and spending a lot more money. Problem is that the people north of their Murray made their choice over 100 years ago.

[Raiderdave]

AFL myth number 57. So it turns out that of the 12k in foundation members for GWS only 25% are actually from GWS ie that area of 2m people. So 3,000 people paid their $50 for a cap in GWS. 40% of the GWS "membership" are from Canberra. Why would that be the case one has to wonder. Well Canberra is a city of ex pats and quite a few are from the AFL states and GWS is the closest thing they are going to get to their own AFL team. just like the Swans who have over 60% of their membership/attendances are made up of expats from the AFL states. Of course there are only so many ex pats to go around and it shows in the TV ratings for the Swans and AFL in the Sydney market ie the locals dont watch in any great numbers.

Indeed one must say that the AFL have spent a veritable fortune on bringing AFL to people who had already bought the concept. Basically the AFL peaked north of the Murray 5 years ago and is now madly trying to get back that "peak" by creating more teams and spending a lot more money. Problem is that the people north of their Murray made their choice over 100 years ago.

its extraordinary isn't it

they are have been w@nking on now for the last couple of weeks that they have over 12,000 members
all they've got are 12K " foundation " ... half committeed ... maybe not committed at all ... people who've forked out very little at this stage & may fork out very little in the future.
& of these .... only 3000 from the greater West
St Mary's RL club would get more to a BBQ on Junior players sign up day

the 5K Canberrans .... nearly half of all their membership
most of these won't be asked to pay anything more to attend the 3 games being played down here ... not many of these will committ to full memberships & make the 6 hour round trip to games in Sydney
nearly 1000 come from out of NSW/ACT
they've put in all they're going to

nah .... its all a load of svengali trickery

the number of 12K looks impressive
but on closer inspection ... its anything but

[ParraEelsNRL]

Fudge fudge wink wink lmao.

[Beaussie]

AFL myth number 57. So it turns out that of the 12k in foundation members for GWS only 25% are actually from GWS ie that area of 2m people. So 3,000 people paid their $50 for a cap in GWS. 40% of the GWS "membership" are from Canberra. Why would that be the case one has to wonder. Well Canberra is a city of ex pats and quite a few are from the AFL states and GWS is the closest thing they are going to get to their own AFL team. just like the Swans who have over 60% of their membership/attendances are made up of expats from the AFL states. Of course there are only so many ex pats to go around and it shows in the TV ratings for the Swans and AFL in the Sydney market ie the locals dont watch in any great numbers.

Indeed one must say that the AFL have spent a veritable fortune on bringing AFL to people who had already bought the concept. Basically the AFL peaked north of the Murray 5 years ago and is now madly trying to get back that "peak" by creating more teams and spending a lot more money. Problem is that the people north of their Murray made their choice over 100 years ago.

Oh aren't we a bitter one.

We have over 12,000 paid up members with more to sign up in the Giants coming first season. You pathetic lot can only ever dream of such membership numbers.

Oh and watch out Raiders, the Giants will soon have more members than your pathetic mob in the ACT.

Death to the NRL. :<> :<> :<>

[Raiderdave]

AFL myth number 57. So it turns out that of the 12k in foundation members for GWS only 25% are actually from GWS ie that area of 2m people. So 3,000 people paid their $50 for a cap in GWS. 40% of the GWS "membership" are from Canberra. Why would that be the case one has to wonder. Well Canberra is a city of ex pats and quite a few are from the AFL states and GWS is the closest thing they are going to get to their own AFL team. just like the Swans who have over 60% of their membership/attendances are made up of expats from the AFL states. Of course there are only so many ex pats to go around and it shows in the TV ratings for the Swans and AFL in the Sydney market ie the locals dont watch in any great numbers.

Indeed one must say that the AFL have spent a veritable fortune on bringing AFL to people who had already bought the concept. Basically the AFL peaked north of the Murray 5 years ago and is now madly trying to get back that "peak" by creating more teams and spending a lot more money. Problem is that the people north of their Murray made their choice over 100 years ago.

Oh aren't we a bitter one.

We have over 12,000 paid up members with more to sign up in the Giants coming first season. You pathetic lot can only ever dream of such membership numbers.

Oh and watch out Raiders, the Giants will soon have more members than your pathetic mob in the ACT.

Death to the NRL. :<> :<> :<>

paid up

$50 ..........

I'd spend more in an afternoon at King O Malleys

the combined value of that 12K members is just $600K .......

Penrith had 7K members in 2011 ( lowest in the NRL) .... the value of their membership ..... nearly 1.5 million dollars

like I said

smoke n mirrors

[ParraEelsNRL]

$50 bahahahahahahahahahaha.

[Topper]

I seriously doubt that monetary amount for Penrith is accurate on membership alone. If I were the Panthers CEO I'd be reducing the amount a membership costs in order to compete with GWS. If they don't then they clearly failed business at Sydney Uni.