There were only about a dozen memberships to sell before North Melbourne could celebrate breaking through the 30,000 mark and the club’s Good Friday training session was the perfect opportunity to reach the milestone.

With the Roo Shop open for business, supporters began filing through ahead of training and buying up their memberships. Within minutes, the goal was achieved and a specially made sign set up in the foyer marked the occasion by displaying the magical number of 30,000.
Hundreds of fans also bought merchandise ahead of the session at Aegis Park and news of this significant target only adds to an already promising year for the young side.

North chairman James Brayshaw was delighted with the news when contacted on Friday morning by kangaroos.com.au.

“It’s made my day,” Brayshaw said.

“I mentioned this the other day when I spoke to the media, it’s really important that as a club, we continue to grow and this shows were are doing exactly that.”

The club is around five thousand members up on the same time last year and Brayshaw acknowledges while the news is good, there still much more work to do.

“There’s a long road ahead but it’s encouraging to see we are on the right track. Hitting 30,000 members at this stage of the year is terrific and it’s a credit to our great people for joining up and turning it to our games. We had had 46,000 fans at the Essendon match last week and now we need to keep pushing the boundaries and growing like never before.”