Received packs today, nuthin flash really, I ordered a cap which doesn't have the year of Membership noted on it as in previous years, basic car stickers which will no doubt peel off the first time I go through the car wash, membership card and lanyard, badge with years of membership. One of my girls ordered the club scarf which unfortunately is not Navy Blue, quite pale in fact. Anyway, received a lot earlier this year????
Ordered my membership and my little boys at the same time.
Little fellas came today. As expected.....although it does say he has been a member for 3 years now. He only turned 2 in October, so not sure how that works. (I did sign him up as a 2 day old though).
Mine.....nothing......yet :(
Ordered my membership and my little boys at the same time.
Little fellas came today. As expected.....although it does say he has been a member for 3 years now. He only turned 2 in October, so not sure how that works. (I did sign him up as a 2 day old though).
Mine.....nothing......yet :(
That's the way! :D
My little bot was about 6hrs old when I signed him up ;D
His membership certificate showed up before he left the hospital, have a picture of him as a 1 week old, in the hospital crib with his CFC beanie on and membership cert where the name tag usually sits.
Received packs today, nuthin flash really, I ordered a cap which doesn't have the year of Membership noted on it as in previous years, basic car stickers which will no doubt peel off the first time I go through the car wash, membership card and lanyard, badge with years of membership. One of my girls ordered the club scarf which unfortunately is not Navy Blue, quite pale in fact. Anyway, received a lot earlier this year????
Navy Blue seems to have disappeared from all of the apparel available from the club. Everything is pale nowadays. Navy blue should be almost black. I hope the club can look into that.
My little bot was about 6hrs old when I signed him up ;D
His membership certificate showed up before he left the hospital, have a picture of him as a 1 week old, in the hospital crib with his CFC beanie on and membership cert where the name tag usually sits.
Nice!
I regret not doing that with my kids. Stuff these new-fangled ideas about letting them decide for themselves :)
My little girl turned 10 in Nov and her pack came with a 10yr badge in it.. pretty cool.
My boy is 13 and his said 14 yr member,
One got the beanie and the other the hat. I think I ordered the beanie as well. ;D
Nothing flash but simple and effective.
My little bot was about 6hrs old when I signed him up ;D
His membership certificate showed up before he left the hospital, have a picture of him as a 1 week old, in the hospital crib with his CFC beanie on and membership cert where the name tag usually sits.
I signed mine up within hours of being home. I just didn't get home until he was 2 days old!
FWIW, my membership turned up today. Neat little package. I forgot that you had the option of 2GA tix this year instead of your beanie/hat/scarf option. I chose the tix, and they arrived with it - a plastic guard with 'admit 1 GA' on them. Pretty cool.
My little bot was about 6hrs old when I signed him up ;D
His membership certificate showed up before he left the hospital, have a picture of him as a 1 week old, in the hospital crib with his CFC beanie on and membership cert where the name tag usually sits.
Now that's excellent parenting. Sadly, not taught at ante-natal classes. Think I'll suggest it :))
I just added a second membership to my account and called them to change the member option to 2 x GA tickets as opposed to the cheap cr@p they're handing out this year. My Dad got the hat with his membership and I got the scarf. Neither are flash but the hat is downright terrible. Such poor quality, I reckon it would have cost them less than $2 per hat.
Trigg is questioning why we're lagging behind other clubs in terms of membership, well it's stuff like this that adds to the reasoning. I know a few people who can't attend games, but usually take out the True Blue membership, now they don't see a point. You give money to the club and get some hat you can't wear and some stickers that you'll never use.
Also, am I going crazy or did they remove the Membership Tracker from the website?
Loving the new visage NM.........
Loving the new visage NM.........
Haha thanks Paul :)
Haha thanks Paul :)
No worries.
One question though. Why Cher ?
Loving the new visage NM.........
Yes it's eye catching, but I'd prefer navy tones in place of the yellow;)
No worries.
One question though. Why Cher ?
Just a bit of an obsession, have loved her for years. Even went to the US to see her a couple of years ago.
Will try and find a Cher pic with some navy blue in it though for DJC ;D
^
Nice!
Cher was a big part of my teenage years and has bubbled along in the background ever since :)
Yes, I remember my Dad telling me about Cher. ;)
Yes, I remember my Dad telling me about Cher. ;)
Pull the other one . . . it plays "I got you babe" :)
Just a bit of an obsession, have loved her for years. Even went to the US to see her a couple of years ago.
Will try and find a Cher pic with some navy blue in it though for DJC ;D
I see. I'm surprised someone of your tender years would even know Cher. She's at the age where she could be your very old mum or your very young grandma.
Pull the other one . . . it plays "I got you babe" :)
Actually, I do remember this image of her for some reason.
(http://www.kbismarck.org/photos/cher1.jpg)
Where are all our supporters? We are one of the big 5 (gotta include the Dawks) yet bl00dy Port Delaide has just hit 50000 members. Little old Port, 50000.
What are we on ? Just over 30000?
Either they have some real cheap members deals, or they are signing up their gold fish? They probably include all their Port Sanfl members too.
Why are our supporters so reluctant to get on board? Yet when we start winning they all jump on the band wagon.
End rant
Go Blues
Member. :)
Cue kruddlers 'membership numbers mean nothing' rant...
Firstly....interstate clubs are on a different level to vic clubs. 2 teams to choose from, easy to split a city in half and get more members that way. Even easier with smaller stadiums that pack out from members alone. Thus, you need to be a member to get a seat.
Secondly...membership numbers are NOT a true reflection of a clubs strength. Revenue from membership is a better example. Again, interstate clubs need to be treated a little different to Vic based ones as the demand is higher - spread across fewer teams. However, for Vic teams, clubs get inflated numbers from selling cheaper memberships.
Overall you are comparing apples with oranges. Stress less.
I wouldn't mind seeing the clubs financial reports for this season to see how well/poor we really did in this regard. As mentioned previously, i think we inflated our membership figure this season but didn't make a relative amount of money to support the inflation.
Where are all our supporters? We are one of the big 5 (gotta include the Dawks) yet bl00dy Port Delaide has just hit 50000 members. Little old Port, 50000.
What are we on ? Just over 30000?
Either they have some real cheap members deals, or they are signing up their gold fish? They probably include all their Port Sanfl members too.
Why are our supporters so reluctant to get on board? Yet when we start winning they all jump on the band wagon.
End rant
Go Blues
Member. :)
A couple of factors are impacting...
Firstly Port's competition is basically the Crows when drawing supporters to memberships.
Same in the west with WCE and Freo.
It hasn't quite reached the same levels in the Northern states where there is still a lot of support for clubs outside of NSW and Qld but with each year that support will diminish as youngsters grow up with the home State teams... and support for the traditional Victorian teams will die off as the older supporters are replaced by the kids who have grown up with the Swans (already pretty established), Lions, Suns and Giants
In Melbourne (although it's a bigger base) the competition for Carlton are all the other Melbourne based clubs and Geelong.
I don't see that competition as sustainable.
And there is the danger for us.
We need to ensure that when the cull comes we're not a part of it.
Success is a major factor.
From the late sixties through to the nineties we were a power of the competition.
Although not successful every year the support was still strong.
In the days when only one or two VFL games were shown interstate on the "match of the day" each week...Carlton featured just about every second week.
The ''brand'' was well known and the support was widespread nationally.
As the years go by without sustained success other teams have taken the spotlight.
They're the ones whose jumpers the kids want to wear.
I remember what it was like in the schoolyard when I was young.
I was a Carlton supporter.
For the majority of the season we could "walk tall".
Mondays held no fear for us...we'd usually won, and usually won big.
Premierships?...they happened every second year...and even in the poor years we were finalists.
From that base there grew a supporter group that would last for decades....but slowly over the last decade that support base has been slipping in relation to other clubs.
It's a slide we have to turn around....and on-field success will go a long way to setting that process in motion.
See above two posts.
Perfect example a mate of mine has three kids. Two girls and a boy. A Carlton family through and through.
Lost his youngest Marcus (5 year old) to the Bulldogs at the end of season 2015.
Why? Because our song states we're the team that never let's you down, and they keep letting me down dad is what he said.
Why the Bulldogs? His names Marcus and he adores bontempelli.
He still has the two girls but after a premiership he has lost his boy to the Bulldogs. It could be worse but it just goes to show that we have slipped in more ways than one and our last fifteen years have really hurt the club.
Lost his youngest Marcus (5 year old) to the Bulldogs at the end of season 2015.
Just s-house parenting, wouldn't happen on my watch.
Just s-house parenting, wouldn't happen on my watch.
Like ;D
Just s-house parenting, wouldn't happen on my watch.
:)) :))
My younger daughter, a BlueBaggers supporter (as is her sister, of course!!), allowed my grandson to become a Dishlickers supporter. I deported her to Guantanamo Bay. The older daughter will know better!! ;D ;D (Their mother, aka Satan, is a Rottingwood supporter... yes, I know, what was I thinking marrying one of those. Much better second time round, Mrs Baggers is a one-eyed BlueBagger).
:)) :))
My younger daughter, a BlueBaggers supporter (as is her sister, of course!!), allowed my grandson to become a Dishlickers supporter. I deported her to Guantanamo Bay. The older daughter will know better!! ;D ;D (Their mother, aka Satan, is a Rottingwood supporter... yes, I know, what was I thinking marrying one of those. Much better second time round, Mrs Baggers is a one-eyed BlueBagger).
So you've been the Hell-n-Back then Baggers?
My oldest grandson is a Lions supporter, complete with beanie and scarf. He's only 7 so I haven't given up hope. I just need us to start winning so I've got something to brag about! He's in enemy territory now (QLD) until the end of Jan so I'm at a major disadvantage atm.
Got an email to say my membership package is on its way - I'll offer him the scarf when he gets back.
Anyway folks enjoy your Xmas celebrations - have a great Christmas!!
My daughter married a Collingwood supporter and he's a really good bloke, apart from his choice of footy team.
His sons have been brainwashed into following Collingwood, as he was, but I have plan. Included among my youngest grandson's Christmas gifts is a navy blue ball with the CFC monogram; the thin edge of the wedge :)
My daughter married a Collingwood supporter and he's a really good bloke, apart from his choice of footy team.
His sons have been brainwashed into following Collingwood, as he was, but I have plan. Included among my youngest grandson's Christmas gifts is a navy blue ball with the CFC monogram; the thin edge of the wedge :)
I would guarantee you 100% if someone pulled that on my girls when they were little, they would not have even touched the footy. As a wise old man once said to me as a little kid who was thinking of changing allegiance (only for a second or two ;D), "you can barrack for whoever you like...as long as its Carlton". Very much like the Godfathers "I'm gonna make him an offer he cant refuse" line. They leave an indelible impression.
I would guarantee you 100% if someone pulled that on my girls when they were little, they would not have even touched the footy. As a wise old man once said to me as a little kid who was thinking of changing allegiance (only for a second or two ;D), "you can barrack for whoever you like...as long as its Carlton". Very much like the Godfathers "I'm gonna make him an offer he cant refuse" line. They leave an indelible impression.
For every story of someone defying their Carlton barracking parents to barrack for someone else, there is a story of someone defecting to Carlton from non-carlton barracking parents.
I fall into the latter category. My parents are mad Geelong fans.
Thankfully, my cousins who i used to play with when i was little used took me to Carlton games when i would visit them on weekends.
I passed on that Carlton want to a seperate cousin of mine who was came from a family of mad 'bloods' (Sydney) supporters.
My wife also defected from her dad who was a kangas supporter, now a saint.
I am worried that with so much defection in my family that my son will follow suit.
+1 kruddler. Dad was an Essendon supporter.
Bullet dodged here.