We agree on many things Doobs but not this one. If the club isn’t sustainable and can’t be competitive when it has the biggest revenue in league 2 then the model has to change.

JAW - noooo. Nobody should feel they have to chip in on this - it won't pay off the debt or get new wallpaper in the office or whatever - but if we want to see a better team taking on League One, then this could make a difference come the January window and is there. 100% run by volunteers

Meadow - 100% ringfenced to go to the men's first team playing budget on January 1. Nothing else. There will be other Club/Trust schemes to fund other stuff, I'm sure. But I'm nothing to do with them and this is absolutely specific to the playing budget, for those who wish to.

Begging bowl number 2 is out

Doobs, I had a DD set up with WAW for a few years but stopped that in protest at DT membership being given to all ST holders. If I were to set up a new DD, is that money guaranteed to go to the playing budget? I don't want to see it disappearing down a loss making black hole.

A4E - my idea for a ‘don’t blame me, I donated to WAWF’ t shirt was vetoed pretty quick! :). On a more serious note, this scheme will absolutely not be for everyone, I make no bones about that, but I think it’s good to have it there for anyone who can/wants to. And I do believe that lots of little amounts could make a difference. To smash £250k by January that’s 5,000 people putting in £2.50/week. Some may put in more, or less. But that £250k would get us two players on £5k a week til the end of the season. And I don’t think we pay anywhere near that usually (so I’d hope they’d be half decent!) :)

Once again all of the pressure is on the fans to produce the spondoolies that will potentially save us from relegation…. 🙄 If only the same amount of effort went into finding big money investors as goes into finding new ways to beg us for loose change, maybe we wouldn’t keep getting asked to rummage around amongst the sofa cushions and smash our kids’ piggy banks…. 🐷 🔨 💰 🤷🏻‍♂️

TBK and his friends on the trust should take note of the well mannered and correct way to talk to the the punters,

Apparently there’s another new fundraising campaign being launched. This one’s called Fiddling While Rome Burns [Link]

Cheers Doobs, as expected, all good guys n gals 😁

Cheers buddy. Literally started as 2/3 people in a Whats App group a few backs back, but have since 'recruited' up to a team of 12, I think. I'm so screwed if i forget anyone (and I hope I'm not sharing names of people who don't want to be shared) but: Daniel B, Kerry, Lou CK, Adam, Alex B, Gary, Jane, Jude, Sammy, Luke

Hey Doobs, well done on this initiative, besides you, who else is involved in the fundraising team?

Nick, Completely understand. Not everyone will be in a position to or want to. But what I will say is this campaign (All For One) is quite specific in that it's for the men's first team playing budget. Every donation should add up and make a real difference we can see on the pitch, come January. It won't be going to, I dunno, repainting the offices or whatever. Not a chance.

Good luck with the WAWF - I donated previously but won’t be doing so this time as (1) I am now retired so don’t have the spare money (2) our black hole is now so big that gestures like this are pretty futile (3) when I donated before it felt just like throwing money into a well, with no feedback or acknowledgment- which is fair enough if that’s the way those organising it wanted to work, but not really an incentive to donate more.

PS first 100 sign-ups get entered into a draw to win the new shirt, signed by the players. 1 in 100 chance cant be bad... wearewimbledonfund.com/win-a-signed-afc-wimbledon-shirt/

haha. I'm not fronting or leading, Padds, Just helping out a small team. Very much dont want to be Bob Geldof here lol. REPD - Could get us a fair few Rambos on loan, or the next Ali (with a fair wind) i reckon. Or perhaps another Browne/Hutch pairing for 6 months?

Wouldn’t be funny if the player the fans had to chipped in for was a Terry Ablade or Tomas.

There seems to be on big age difference when it comes to censorship. We ancients may not like what you say,Sir, but will defend to the death your right to say it. George and Rees are of the cancelling generation.

Given there's no record set atm for number of players per side tennis match, if we could get say 100 per side on tge pitch at PL, could somehow make money and the news during Wimbledon fortnight...

At least they've had the wit to get you to front this, Doobs ;)

Morning all. £250k paying January transfer prices won't get you a great deal these days...

Plan first, donation later.

Now get donating, brothers and sisters, or it will be your fault if we get relegated.

Aw, that’s so nice. The church plate. Bless you Doobs, our Good Samaritan.

If helpful, I’ll be back online around 7pm tonight so happy to answer any questions I can then. Be like a live WUP Q&A but with some dingus waffling on about how £2 a week gets us the next Rambo or some such. Hope you can join in