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AFLMA Newsletter
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The Newsletter of
AFLMA Inc, the AFL Members Association.
In this issue:
1) Did you enjoy
the football last weekend?
2) AFL Membership
Statistics
3) AFLMA Annual
General Meeting
4) Pre-Booking
H&A Tickets
5) AFLMA Trivia
Night
6) Contact details
DID YOU ENJOY THE
FOOTBALL LAST WEEKEND?
What did you think
was the best game?
Why not vote for
your choice in the AFLMA Game of the Year.
Each week you'll
be able to vote for you choice as the best game of
the previous
weekends games. At the end of the home and away season
there'll be 22
weekly nominations, and you'll have the opportunity
to vote for the
Game of the Year. Last year's winner of the AFLMA
Game of the Year
was the Round 8 match between Collingwood and
To vote for your
choice of the Game of the Round log onto the AFLMA
website (http://www.aflma.com/www.aflma.com)
and press the "Game Year" button.
We believe that
AFL Members are ideally suited to make this award. The
membership isn't
limited to supporters of any one team and extends to
those without
specific club allegiance. We are a group of people who
are among the most
passionate supporters around who appreciate good
football.
AFL MEMBERSHIP
STATISTICS
The AFL recently
issued its 2002 Annual Report. It presents some
interesting
statistics about the AFL Membership, particularly in
comparison with
the membership figures for the past decade.
Last season there
were 47,671 members, the lowest total since the 1995
season (when there
were 47,111 members). The season with the highest
number of members
was 2000, when there were 52,187 members. Therefore
there has been a
decrease of 4,516 members in 2 years.
The 2002 total
includes 957 children who are classified as 'Additional
Family/Under 7'.
This is a new membership classification that relates
to children under
7 years old. They get free entry but are entitled to
be issued with the
a membership card so that they can pre-book seats.
The total number
of Full Members was 31,531, the lowest number over the
past 10 seasons.
The season with the highest number of Full Members was
2000, when there
were 35,697 Full Members. Subsequently in two years
there has been a
net decrease of 4,166 Full Members.
2,184 Full Members
took out Absentee Membership, which meant that 29,347
Full Members were
entitled to attend the football last season. This is
the lowest number
of attending Full Members over the past 10 years.
Six years ago the
AFL had a waiting list for a Restricted membership, an
estimated 25-30
year wait for Full membership, and only about 500 Full
Members didn't
renew from one year to the next. Now there is no waiting
list, a 6-8 year
wait for Full membership, and at least 2,000 Full
Members aren't
renewing each year.
Once an AFL
Membership was valued and members renewed almost without
question. Now an
increasingly number of people are willing to let go of
their membership.
The AFLMA believes that the way to stop this decline is
for the AFL to
return the Membership to what it was that first attracted
people to apply to
join.
AFLMA ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING
We remind you that
the AFLMA will be holding its 2003 AGM at
Hotel &
Brewery, cnr Coventry & Moray Sts,
Association is
run.
If you have
misplaced or deleted the AGM Notice, you can check it out
at our website (http://www.aflma.com/).
PRE-BOOKING
H&A TICKETS
Last issue we
asked you to tell us how things went on Monday, 17
March, the day
H&A reserved seating went on sale. We'd like to thank
all who wrote in
telling us of their experiences.
AFLMA TRIVIA NIGHT
The AFLMA recently
hosted its second Trivia Night. A great night was had
by all, with the
night being marred by the usual controversy about one
or two of the
questions. (Has there ever been a Trivia Night that didn't
have debates about
the questions?) Our thanks go to Greg Salter who did
a great job as
Quizmaster.
We would like to
thank Kraft
<http://www.regentsport.com/index.htm>,
Tower Hotel in Hawthorn
<http://www.towerhotelhawthorn.com/>,
and Fortune Tee
<http://www.fortuneteeshirt.com/>,
who donated goods to be used as
prizes, in a
raffle and auction.
CONTACT DETAILS
Internet: http://www.aflma.com/
Email: mailto:info@aflma.com
Telephone: (03) 9557 7796
Mail:
Patterson VIC 3204
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