Talking Footy

Sydney Swans now 52000, GWS 12500 - that makes 64500 members in NSW!!!!! Wow just wow! How many RL members in Vic?? 14k. How about NZ

I was wrong 16k members for Melb Storm, 17800 for NZ, and QLD 35280 for Broncos, 17839 for Cowboys and 9078 for Gold Coast Titans - making a GRAND total of 62100 NRL members for ALL THREE QLD NRL CLUBS!!!!!! That's right arguably the strongest RL state or a least part of the strongest RL territory in the WORLD and they have 2 k LESS members than AFL clubs in NSW!!!!!!

And yet two of those teams represent regional teams that haven't got the population of the big cities like Brisbane or Sydney eh.

And the 4 AFL clubs all have members that only match 3/4's or 2/3rds of any given crowd at any given time compared to all those RL clubs being within 15% of their members turning up each game. Hmmmmmm.

http://afltables.com/AFL/crowds/2016.html

Swans 33,964

Like the swans with a 33k average yet having over 52k members, where are they all, at home watching for their owners to get back from the big game? Near 20k difference just for that one club. I wonder how many zealots buy memberships for other clubs to boost the game eh?

Lions 17,569 *no one can tell with those convenient coloured seats :>::

Suns 14,064 Surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre

GWS 12,483 surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

And yet two of those teams represent regional teams that haven't got the population of the big cities like Brisbane or Sydney eh.

And the 4 AFL clubs all have members that only match 3/4's or 2/3rds of any given crowd at any given time compared to all those RL clubs being within 15% of their members turning up each game. Hmmmmmm.

http://afltables.com/AFL/crowds/2016.html

Swans 33,964

Like the swans with a 33k average yet having over 52k members, where are they all, at home watching for their owners to get back from the big game? Near 20k difference just for that one club. I wonder how many zealots buy memberships for other clubs to boost the game eh?

Lions 17,569 *no one can tell with those convenient coloured seats :>::

Suns 14,064 Surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre

GWS 12,483 surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre

similar case with south shitney thickshit, 30k plus members & whats their crowd average?

where are all their fans?
as you said, with your but buts in the other thread, not all NRLOL fans can attend matches each week, but the AFL clubs still manage to sign them up as members

I dont care about other Sydney NRL clubs thickshit, you guys called out my team and my teams memberships are far closer to reality than any of those mythical fumbleball numbers.

I think it is all memberships para. So a large proportion may be say 3 game memberships therefore they, obviously are not going to go to every game. Naturally. Hope that clears it up. Same for rl clubs I assume. Broncos offer a 4 game membership I think.

Also, Gold Coast o reported to be 6th biggest city? Although Gold Coast is a region not a city so not sure how that works lol

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

I dont care about other Sydney NRL clubs thickshit, you guys called out my team and my teams memberships are far closer to reality than any of those mythical fumbleball numbers.

lol the numbers are backed up in the AFL clubs annual reports! i was just pointing out how hypocritical & shit your but but argument is as all you have to do is look at the South Shitney memberships to crowd figures

He still hasn't got his mind across what a membership is!

Naaa I'm too fucking thick for that, fw.

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

Naaa I'm too fucking thick for that, fw.

thank you finally admitting something that every one else already knows

Swans membership 52290 GWS 12651, giving a total of 64941 for NSW! South Sydney 32580, Paramatta Eels 22048 the two biggest NRL clubs in NSW total - 54628! Meaning AFL win again!!!

I think an average for each code insydney would be better.

Everybody knows that Club membership numbers are so easily rigged and flawed, I just think the AFL have Learnt to manipulate/build on them a lot better than the NRL and A-League.

For example I'd take the GWS membership Figure with a grain of salt, my son has registered with the local AFL team (plays aus kick) and he has recieved GWS membership as part of his registration, the swans for sure would be doing the same. It's no wonder GWS's membership has grown but their revenue hasn't risen.
If the wanderers did the same their membership base would be in the 6 figures, and every NRL team bar the roosters would see rises in the tens of thousands.

214Four wrote:

Everybody knows that Club membership numbers are so easily rigged and flawed, I just think the AFL have Learnt to manipulate/build on them a lot better than the NRL and A-League.

For example I'd take the GWS membership Figure with a grain of salt, my son has registered with the local AFL team (plays aus kick) and he has recieved GWS membership as part of his registration, the swans for sure would be doing the same. It's no wonder GWS's membership has grown but their revenue hasn't risen.
If the wanderers did the same their membership base would be in the 6 figures, and every NRL team bar the roosters would see rises in the tens of thousands.

Lol jealous flog! The membership figures are back up in the clubs annual reports that are publicly released to the public! The NRLOLs are not!

You got another but but excuse?

214Four wrote:

Everybody knows that Club membership numbers are so easily rigged and flawed, I just think the AFL have Learnt to manipulate/build on them a lot better than the NRL and A-League.

For example I'd take the GWS membership Figure with a grain of salt, my son has registered with the local AFL team (plays aus kick) and he has recieved GWS membership as part of his registration, the swans for sure would be doing the same. It's no wonder GWS's membership has grown but their revenue hasn't risen.
If the wanderers did the same their membership base would be in the 6 figures, and every NRL team bar the roosters would see rises in the tens of thousands.

Well that's even better because it means participation is growing strongly in NSW, 2014 - Swans members 40k
2015 Swans members 48k
2016 Swans members 52k

If your theory is correct (which I think is a Hugh pile of horse shit!) then we are outpacing growth in sports like soccer, RL and RU!