Sorry, I didn't mean to offend any out of town members. I just think it's a BS metric because it doesn't really tell you anything about the club's commercial value or anything. In Australia it might be different because a lot of sports clubs (NRL and AFL at least) have memberships which give you access to clubrooms and are more like Cossie clubs here, but in NZ we don't really do that. Whether the Nix have 3000 members or 5000 members doesn't actually translate to any greater commercial exposure for the league or anything like that, if those extra 2000 were already engaged and going to go to a game or two anyway, as far as I can tell.
The Metric includes a quantifiable number of fans financially invested in the club. When you go to sponsors etc. if you have a large number of people so dedicated they give your club money that's a good number to show and use.
If we had 20,000 out of town memberships that would show the Nix stretch beyond wellington which would look good for getting money from Carlsberg.
the BS members are the ones supposedly given away by clubs to kids that count as a comparison to other clubs members. There is duging the numbers but allowing out of towners to have club memberships is only good, also the NRL does it too.
Can confirm, I'm a Penrith Panthers member despite living in Wellington because it gave me $1 off every drink when I satyed at the club for a week.