{"id":4797,"date":"2014-06-25T19:41:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2014-06-25T19:42:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T19:42:48","slug":"gor-mahia-membership-drive-falls-below-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-membership-drive-falls-below-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia membership drive falls below expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/member-cards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Gor Mahia membership recruitment drive was officially launched on May 13 2014 amid pomp and circumstance. The officials even went as far as predicting that they would reach a target of 1 million members which to most people seems impossible. A more reasoble target would have been 25,000 to 30,000, about the amount of people it would take to fill Nyayo stadium.<\/p>\n<p>However as secretary general Chris Omondi tells goal.com, the initiative has been a flop as fans have not shown interest. \u201cThe take up has been very poor. Many fans have not taken it up and we are thinking of re-launching it again,\u201d Gor Mahia Secretary General Chris Omondi admitted to Goal.<\/p>\n<p>So what could the reasons be ?<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that some fans think that the club still has not done enough to assuage their concerns for accountability. It is also true that the club has not been aggressive enough in promoting the membership drive. There has been nothing about it in the newspapers recently. There have been no officials trying to promote the membership drive. They simply kicked off the drive and waited for fans to register.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from membership, the club has not pursued other revenue ventures such as re-introducing the original \u201cGor Mahia\u201d jerseys that used to sell like hot cakes before the Tuzo jerseys took over. With the club in dire need of additional revenue, there has been no attempt to sell other club merchandize.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-membership-drive-falls-below-expectations\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gor Mahia membership recruitment drive was officially launched on May 13 2014 amid pomp and circumstance. The officials even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,123],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-membership-recruitment","tag-gor-mahia-sponsor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}