Another OTD picture that I am in although I doubt MPH could pick me out in this one.

Happy Dickie Guy Day “This man is not human”

Thanks Timmy - been suggesting a working group for ages, but it is about losing control. They never want to lose that.

Trigger - my bans from discord are often about asking difficult questions, even repeating them, or posting them in the wrong place - as I point out: no-one died because of my actions, but we are ruled by two members of Gen z, who fail to understand the purpose of an adult discussion/conversation.

Paddington - Hope yours & Mr.P's cataract surgery goes well. I finally had both eyes done, the pandemic getting in between ops. Only need glasses for reading now, otherwise eyes like a hawk. Good luck with it.

Rob - I did go outside and the sun briefly appeared. No Sunday morning football in the local park though. Is that really a thing of the past?

Nick - yes, trading whilst knowingly insolvent is a criminal offence and directors can be jailed.

What is the points deduction for entering admin? Is it still 15? If we go down this year, we could get hit 26/27 in L2, and with reduced playing budget ...

Morning all. SW19 is back - [Link]

Some on DTB board would have saved the Titanic by enshrining that she was unsinkable!

I am no expert, but I do wonder if the club may have to think about the legal position if they sell season tickets without being sure that we will have enough funds to complete next season?

Most of our cash balance (arguably all) @ year-end will from advance ST sales, so doubt we'll pass the "going concern" criteria OI

Thanks for the qualification OI 😊 I am nowhere near ITK enough to have originated any of the rumours that are doing the rounds.

I hope we'll be able to watch the meeting on-line, as we're both in the midst of cataract surgery at the moment so not travelling very far. Like others, I don't imagine it will tell us much.

My question to the Board would be "Are you totally confident that the auditors will sign us off as a 'going concern' in the 2026/27 accounts?" That is a question they could answer, with or without their fingers crossed behind their backs.

We will almost certainly be very little the wiser after the meeting because the boards can legitimately claim not to be able to comment on every rumour listed (not originated) by Trigger. Either personnel confidentiality or commercial confidentiality. So even if wiser we probably won't be better informed. The DTB should have been looking at all possibilities for at least a couple of years but then nearly all were elected on the idea that fan ownership was 'sacrosanct' and some even on the idea it should be enshrined.

Or what Karen said

Agree with Nick W and I would argue further that the inner circle are the exact reason we’re in the situation we’re in because they’d rather hold on to their positions and relevance than see AFC Wimbledon succeed.

Both boards are too busy playing I own/run a football club and have no interest in suggestions from anyone

Laurence is on the naughty step, Timmy. Banned more times from Discord than a insert metaphor here.

TM- I am going to go to the meeting on 3 Feb(if nothing else we get much more sense from the club board than the DTB), but I fully expect that every sensible question will be met by the phrase “ we can’t tell you that”. I also agree that, given the massive flaws in the electoral process which we saw last year, we may have fan (ie trust) “ownership” but control is very definitely in the hands of a small inner group, so losing that fan-ownership won’t actually be a big deal.

Laurence - could have fleshed it out more but I think the broad point (every club is unsustainable but they can afford to cover £5m of losses whereas we are struggling to meet £1-2m) was addressed. I accept people might ask what more we could be doing to reduce that loss but I can’t see us closing that gap by any significant amount (and sadly others will only spend more and more anyway).

And I’m glad Laurence had just popped in- I’ve been following his suggestions and dialogue to the trust via discord etc - some great ideas and someone with great business experience- why is there no offer to take some ideas up/get Laurence on a working group/co-opt etc

TM - the goal was to get back to Merton in our own stadium. There was no second goal for supporters to buy into. Getting to the Championship was dangled, but not really realistic for supporters as a collective buy in.

Well, let’s see how transparent the Boards are at the meet the board event on the 3rd Feb. But again, there’s likely to be only 80 people in the room, do we deserve fan ownership when there seems to be so much inertia around it