DO, I haven’t come this far to now wave the white flag and drip into NL. When we moved to PL we made the decision imo, that we wanted to be a league club, however our boards have not been able to navigate it as a fan-owned club.

We have reached the fork in the road: either we sell out to an investor and stay L1 with maybe a tilt at Champ, or we carry on, swap PL for KM if Chelsea agree and play Conf S with occasional foray to Conf Nat.

What is our vision anyway? To a small number of people it may be one thing but across the fanbase it will be many different things.

Our need to have an investor that shares our vision and fan-ownership ideas is pie in the sky stuff. We won’t find them because if they were out there, we would have found them by now.

With every update on our finances, my mind is even more made up that selling up completely is the answer. People saying we should compete at our natural level have no idea what that is. Probably mid-table National league, but our attendances would drop significantly and we would probably struggle with the up-keep of PL.

Old Is, there was some chat (around springtime iirc) that an investor put a pretty substantial amount up for some equity and a yearly contribution to running costs but they walked away.

Maybe Sam Hammsm was seeing what afc wimbledon was all about before we go into administration...

Fan owned non negociable? Surely if we go into administration its a free for all and bond holders might not get their money back.

We might as well bite the bullet properly now. Even if the 50%+1 people say they will invest in day-to-day running of the club in the future, it woould be almost impossible to hold them to it and they could take over on the cheap after a few years by threatenig to withdraw the support. As we and Exeter are finding, fan ownesrhip in League 1, and probably soon in League 2, doesn't work.

Yes takes 2 or 3 attempts to long on to Wup.

WJ - Don't know if it's any help, but I was getting a 'too many connections' page last night.

I see you can only comment on that tweet if the DT follow you on twitter.

Dons trust twitter post, about finances [Link]

Hmm - seems the problem may not have gone away

I didn't break (for a change) or fix the GB, but I should have prevented this error for the foreseeable future.

A fan owned club isn't sustainable with the white elephant stand, substantial debt and poor governance in the national league as it's effectively a full time pro league. The time passed long ago about debating about being in the conference south, part time and being sustainably fan owned. Even the bean counters here with fan owned preference know that the ship has sailed. A non trust finance group required asap to manage some form of sale/substantial equity sale.

You do not have to be that clued up to realise that we cannot afford our current wage budget and the National League is our level for sustainability with the lower costs probably taking care of the lower revenue. Of course I called unambitious when pointing this out and the fact we need to cut £1 million from the budget but the cost of remaining fan-owned is to be a side who at best will be a bottom half L2 side.

he purpose of the DTB meeting summary is just to give a quick-and-dirty flavour of the topics that were discussed at the meeting, ahead of the minutes, and I think the latest summary is fit-for-purpose. Being on the DTB when things are difficult is unquestionably stressful, and they're right to check in with each other that they're managing their own wellbeing. Glad they put that financial statement out ahead of the SGM, and I suspect there'll be a decent turn-out for once!

Glad he's out Sparty, hospital is the last place to get well. Wish you all well and hope things settle quickly.

My son Sam came out of hospital a couple of days ago and is staying at ours for the time being. He's recovering quite well but is having lots of problems with his stoma bag leaking, so we're busy with lots of cleaning up and trips to and from the hospital and the GP surgery, which is very frustrating for us all atm.

mad - I find it impossible to disagree with you… We need money, proper money - and soon… and long term, not just for now. We need to resurface the entire road, not just fill a few potholes…

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Well, there it is, cats out the bag, finally. We are skint, properly up against it, desperate for cash and a generous idiot because we've left it years too late to admit that the enshriners were fundamentally damaging the future of the club. Well done all those that kept voting for the enshriners.

Spit, probably a server issue. One of Jon's email addresses isn't working. Thankfully the other one is.

Phew,thought the Dons trust might of taken wup down😂😂