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.
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, as far as I can tell.