Mark_Beswick wrote:Hard to compare members:
Many clubs have categories which total junior members (often free and under a certain age), life-members and fully paid members.
Its the fully paid members which should be compared. Take Port Power and Crows. They both count around 12000 Adelaide Oval Members as their own members. They are not paid up members to either club, but they both claim the same people as members of each of their clubs. Seems that over-inflating these figures is par for the course no matter which league we look at but the decline for most clubs of fully financial membership is concerning.
Is that to say the 60k-ish membership targets that have gone headline recently - Port last week, Adelaide about six weeks ago - are puff?
