wildcats80
Years ago

2065 Wildcats members re-sign on day one of renewals

That's the number of wildcats members who signed up on day one of the renewal period. Outstanding.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Any idea how many (approximately) new members have signed up?

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wildcats80
Years ago

That's just existing members, members have a few weeks to sign up before public gets a chance to snap up seats. 25% of members signed up on day 1 which is an incredible number.

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Anonymous
Years ago

That's not true, of that number, some are renewing and some are new members

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Marcus Camby
Years ago

Wow....the Wildcats org really know how to retain members even after price increases.

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Benno
Years ago

I just can't wait to see what player they are gonna bring in with all this $$$ Quality organisation!

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KET
Years ago

Perth are fantastic in how they are running the organisation, would love to see other clubs getting a few tips from them

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T
Years ago

Thought this thread was gonna be some far out prediction for the state of the game 50 years down the track .....

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Maxymoo
Years ago

We will all be Wildcat fans by 2065

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Anonymous
Years ago

Nick Marvin and Jack Bendat need to sit down with every CEO of the other NBL clubs and teach/advise them how it is done

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Anonymous
Years ago

2065 is a decent turnout to a Kings game. I refuse to believe the 3-4k crowds that they report. There is a big black curtain covering half the upper bowl.
Perth should hold a seminar for other NBL clubs.

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Anonymous
Years ago

"Perth should hold a seminar for other NBL clubs"

Could not agree more with this

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Anonymous
Years ago

And Fraser Neill should listen VERY carefully

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GWB
Years ago

Wildcats are in a different league in everything off court to the rest of the league... No other club is anywhere near close. 36ers did some great things last season, but only way they could get in that same realm is if EVERY game had a turn out like Grand Final Game 2 ... even then they just aren't doing it like Perth does. Always a 6er fan but I have unlimited respect for how perth does things (outside of flopping)

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Anonymous
Years ago

Marvin & Bendat really could teach the rest of the league a few things about how to be successful.
All you really need is
* unlimited money from a mega rich owner
* a brand new state of the art arena smack bang in the CBD of a city of 1.5 million+
* 28 consecutive years of making the playoffs

Struggling teams like Cairns, Townsville and Wollongong really just need to follow this same model and they will be fine!!

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Wookiee
Years ago

There's no doubting the professionalism of the Wildcats over the years, but it's more a good case study for the "get a rich owner who doesn't mind spending money over a bunch of seasons to allow the business to do things right, not cut any corners and actually build a solid, well run, off court business"

It's not just a case of putting the right people on the court, they've had some duds, just like other teams, but their professionalism off the court and being able to pay for the right people really helps too...

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Anonymous
Years ago

Wildcats were already killing it before they got their new stadium.

Melbourne Tigers owners have money yet they advertise on Gold FM (a station that plays old music) and have a stupid double decker bus as their advertsing.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Tigers advertising on Gold FM is free.

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Bol Bol
Years ago

When people are happy to pay so much for a cup of coffee, its not hard to get them to buy a muffin too

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koberulz
Years ago

Yeah, there are a lot of favourable circumstances for Perth: on-court success, a new venue that was in itself all over the news in the months before its opening, an owner that doesn't mind spending money, reasonably friendly media, and they've probably got one of the most efficient advertising dollars in the league. The other capital cities would be way more expensive for the same coverage (they've had multiple full-page ads on the back of the paper, for example), and the regionals simply don't have as many eyeballs to reach.

That being said, I'm sure if you handed the team over to a poster from here at random, they'd be a mess in a pretty short space of time.

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Nathan of Perth
Years ago

^ And if you handed it to a few of the posters on here, it'd deliberately be a mess :P

Oh yeah, renewing, need to get on that.

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Jack Toft
Years ago

Perth do a lot of things right and there are a number of things that work in the favour of the Wildcats. There are some things other clubs and the NBL itself could learn from them, especially with the social media aspect, promotion and community/corporate engagement.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Reading todays west by the sounds of it seems like Jervis, U'u and Burdon are gone. Wagstaff(thanks to the loyalty rule) is probably staying as is Beal.Losing Jervis whom is a starting calibare Center will be a big blow with Knights fragile frame.

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Anonymous
Years ago

I see no reason why the Tigers can't go close to doing what the Wildcats do.

Rich owners, will have a new/bigger stadium, a Marketable team in the sports capital of Australia

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Jack Toft
Years ago

Melbourne have absolutely no reason not to be #1.

"Melbourne is the sporting capital of Australia"
Highest participation rate of basketball
More kids play basketball than football
Junior rep teams smashing nationals
Lots of company HQ's in Melbourne
Off season to AFL means sponsors can promote all year around
etc etc

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Anonymous
Years ago

AFL dominates the market.Unless they generate the SE Melbourne Magic V Tigers rivalry once again which was a epic contest almost everytime they met, the NBL just dosent have that much pulling power.Melbourne needs a second team to garner that kind of rivlry again.

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Anonymous
Years ago

I don't think Jervis will leave the cats..

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2065 Wildcats members re-sign on day one of renewals

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