Port Adelaide resurgence has record supporters chasing memberships November 28, 2014 8:01PM Power fans stand for their Never Tear Us Apart anthem. PORT Adelaide continues to ride its wave of resurgence with fans swamping the club in a bid to join up or renew their membership for next season. On the back of a spirited 2014 campaign which ended with a narrow loss to Hawthorn in the preliminary final, the Power has had no trouble selling hope to supporters for next year as it shoots for 60,000 members. At the height of last year's record 55,750 membership tally, the club's biggest intake of members in one week was 1800. Last week it took 1800 members in one day alone when sales opened on Friday. Port Adelaide has 22,000 members with a reserved seat at Adelaide Oval and they have until December 19 to either renew or risk losing them. Such is the demand, there are currently 750 people on a waiting list for a reserved seat at Power home games. Despite a day of drama on Monday when its phone lines were down for the entire day following the weekend storms, the club's member services general manager Matthew Richardson said he was thrilled with the initial response from fans. "Ideally we would have commenced memberships a month ago but on the back of the excitement of 2014 there is real anticipation for 2015," Richardson said. And we're really encouraged by the high amount of interest from new members. Over the last month we've had expressions of interest from 4500 potential new members and a lot of those are joining up now. On Monday our phone lines were down the whole day so we'd like to thank members for their patience while we were dealing with an issue that was obviously beyond our control. Across town at Adelaide, membership packages for next season are yet to go on sale but a date is expected to be announced soon.