Wilson On Roosters Membership Numbers

[Spirit of 66]

"The Sydney Roosters have the lowest membership levels in the NRL with only 5000 signed up to the club. The crowd at Thursday night's season opener was around 35,000 but would have been close to a sellout if the Roosters had used up their seat allocation of around 11,000. Not quite half of those seats were filled, which shows that the inner city club has a serious issue with its marketing.

It is apparent that even with the addition of Sonny Bill Williams, the Roosters are still not targeting a big enough bite of the inner city league market.

They have a head office with little idea on how to put bums on seats."


This seems to conflict with both the published membership numbers and what looked to me to be a very healthy Roosters contingent in the crowd on Thursday. What is she on about?

[Red.]

I hope Roosters marketing sorts out this slur on their reputation.

[Headless Chook]

Rebecca RBT Wilson has a crack at us

Claims we have no supporters and the lowest membership numbers in the NRL at less than 5000. Last time I saw a figure I thought we were approaching double that number, but it would unusual for her to not check her facts so I'm guessing she would know!

[Headless Chook]

Just started a new thread on this, hopefully the mods delete for me.

I thought we were double that number and way in front of the likes of Penrith, Canberra, Gold Coast, Manly, Sharks and even Wests Tiger

[milanja]

Any lie will do to keep the attention away from her sports editor's sharks.

[elo]

The highest rated and attended Round 1 match in Sydney in the history of the code on a Thursday night (lots of businesses open due to late nigh trade in shopping centres) and Bourbon Bec wants to have a moan, she's unbelievable.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

The highest rated and attended Round 1 match in Sydney in the history of the code on a Thursday night (lots of businesses open due to late nigh trade in shopping centres) and Bourbon Bec wants to have a moan, she's unbelievable.

And just embarrassingly poor journalism....never let facts spoil a good story.

[Guest]

Forget the fact she is wrong with the numbers anyone that was there could see we outnumbered Souffs easily.

Dope.

[Guest]

11,000 members more like.

[redwhiteblue]

She makes me ashamed to be female sometimes. Nothing worse than a cunning manipulative attention seeking woman with an axe to grind spouting factually incorrect information. I ran into one of Thirteen's friends this morning and he told me about this article. I don't read that rubbish paper and am horrified at what they can get away with legally. We are well and truly past the 11,000 membership numbers as I was at the club yesterday talking to the guys there. Thursday night's game alone generated hundreds of thousands of dollars into the economy taking into consideration membership sales, merchandise, food, media, parking etc and as we all know, broke the attendance record for a round one home game. I'm not one for name calling, especially towards another woman but she really gets on my lemon goat.

[milanja]

Any lie will do to keep the attention away from her sports editor's sharks.

thanks mods, thats a much nicer way of putting it!

[kurtsherlock6]

How many bourbons had she had when she was writing this.

Seriously the club should ask for an immediate retraction or take action against the her & the telecrap. This isn't just an attempt to put the boot into our club, its a straight out lie & factually incorrect.

[Vasco]

I've contacted our media manager.

Let's see if they stand up to this grub.

[Guest]

Where can we find the official numbers?

[Guest]

The Telecrap has no credibility thats twice this week theyve brought the game into disrepute with false allegations against our club its about time we hit back enoughs enough.