Lol at Timmy

 Mark Dennis lived in Sherwood park road mitcham, (pollards hill) a typical mitcham resident:-)

 Nick - who would you rather see running the Club - the current Afcw plc/dons trust board or Mike Ashley ?

 And to answer the question about Mike Ashley- I probably wouldn’t want him, or someone of his type, running the club, but if we go into administration we would have no choice over the matter. Therefore the right approach for the DT, which I realise won’t be taken, would be to consider a path to selling to a suitable owner and what safeguards we are able to put in place post-sale, in all honesty we are in an incredibly weak bargaining position, as a potential buyer can just wait for administration if they don’t want to comply with any restrictions, but the ability to deliver an agreed sale is the one card which we could have if we wanted to play it.

 If fan ownership would allow us to be stable (ie not losing £2m per year, which we have no ability to cover in any other way), while sitting mostly in league 2 with occasional forays into league 1 then I think that it would be a pretty good model. Unfortunately, even to have that L2/L1 level of success requires funding that we can’t generate from operations and cutting wages and dropping out of the league probably doesn’t work either, given our overheads. So, ultimately we have the alternatives of selling control to someone who will cover our structural losses or going into administration in a year or two and, from there, either into liquidation or being bought out by someone who will cover our structural losses (but over whose identity we will have control). I know a lot of people don’t like that reality but that doesn’t make it any less true.

 REPD-classic 80s good player but bit of a nutter….only his mum loves him

 Good news - Angus Fox was unanimously re-elected chair of the Dons Trust.

 Anyone remember Mark Dennis?

 O do wonder about going into administration and the likelihood of a business buy us with a view for Chelsea ladies taking over the ground and us being shipped back to KM as a part of their agenda. Chelsea would love to double their youth/ladies ground size and a club in free-fall that administration would bring and might even be able to justify saving the club by aligning us with a more sustainable environment? Just putting it out there...

 Fans owned might of worked in league 1 and 2 for us , if we had done better homework and not built the expensive west stand ,had a very poor ticket system and actually had a 14k capacity ground..still that can't be changed now.only opinion is sell out!

 The current state of football below the Premier League is a big problem. Maybe it changes and you can run at break even in at least some EFL leagues, but I don't see a current route towards that. If it doesn't then the owners cover losses or sell and our current 'owners' are clearly not willing to cover losses.

 Your previous moral…

 I agree with your moral Silk but it highlights another common problem with fan ownership - getting reliable, accurate and balanced information appears to be very challenging.

 Mike Ashley is the leading contender to take over at Sheffield Wednesday. Would you want him running our club?

 Russ - Harrogate have lost £5 million since they have come in the league which they owe to their owner. No matter what our ownership model these problems remain until football gets its finger out of its arse and addresses them.

 We had a successful, promotion-winning season last year in L2 and ran at a loss.

 Fan ownership is failing while we are in league one and two - we are losing millions each year. Let alone talk of champ/prem (although we would be sustainable as a fan owned club in the prem, given the tv revenue). All is good while we have more equity to sell, although that won’t be the case for much longer.

 And finally, yes I think we need to ask all DT members what is their poison. Is it to sell out in the hope of success or to accept our meandering about as we are.

 For my part I think both us and Exeter can compete in L2 and look to survive in L1 - just like Northampton really.

 Trigg - agreed; I’m not really interested either, and I certainly didn’t watch it - but I did quite like a comment I read earlier describing the outcome as a powerful illustration here regarding "influencers" vs. "experts"…. 😂👏

 Fan ownership only fails if you think that success is being in the Premier League or the Championship. If you are quite happy spending some time in L1 and some time in L2 then fan-ownership can work. And Northampton, who are not fan-owned, also share the same L1 and L2 life as us.

 Fan ownership has shown me lately that there’s not enough differentiation from private ownership. All the same problems and the same amount of ability to do anything about it. The main difference is clear - far less money.

 Anyone know when Issue 52 of Historical Don is out?

 Fan ownership just highlights how unequal society is. With a few individuals able to accumulate far more wealth to spend on a football club than thousands of hard working fans in good jobs.

 So good, he said it thrice ;)