Surrey 700-4 against Durham

Padd - what better way to prevent certain votes never attaining the required percentage, than to flood the membership with those "who only want to watch football" and may never vote

Back in earlier days iPL hosted meetings. The moderators were independent, which is as they should be at present. I moderated twice. Maybe I was asked because I was no longer a DT member, I really don't know. Both times went without any probs. Had there been, it would have been dealt with fairly and promptly. Obviously, my lips were sealed afterwards. I believe the moderator on Discord is one of the club's officials, therefore biased. There's your prob.

FFS Martin - "We all agree that more engagement is what matters not the medium." Complete and utter bollocks when Discord is so obviously getting in the way of good communication along with the conditions of usage and moderation set by the DTB.

Watching the tennis coverage I am glad we kept the "AFC" prefix. Although previously I would have preferred us to revert to FC once we got into the league, AFC is useful to distinguish us from the tennis, especially when I hear lines on the telly like "there is only one Wimbledon" etc.

I still can't work out whether the DTB are in favour of 50+1 or not. Those who are seem to have shot themselves in the foot by creating thousands of new members. Or would it not be a restricted action? I'm beginning to lose track.

NR wouldn't be worth a lot of money (I presume much of it tied up in Asos shares) if he didn't insist on good financial management in any venture he was supporting or investing in.

Can’t we ask Nick Robertson the ASOS guy to buy more equity / donate couple of million

AIOW- I hadn’t thought of that, but you are right - not sure if there are actually going to be any meaningful votes though, and of course the prevalence of proxies held by the chair means that whatever the DTB wants always gets carried anyway

Nick Woking (3) and any votes requiring a majority be pushed through on about 20 votes

Hosting a DT meeting using a platform that 95% of members have chosen not to sign up to could result in (1) a big rush to sign up to the platform or (2) a particularly poor turnout to the meeting - let’s see which happens- my money is on option (2)

They said on the radio yesterday that Fatboy Slim was doing his 100th appearance at Glastonbury and that was a record.

Read doubtmeisters post quickly and thought he was saying Laurence had played Glastonbury 😂

The point is not to enable a meeting but to twist people's arms to join Discord.

Zoom simples!

Nick, correct. I believe Mr Lowe played at the very first Glastonbury weekend, and then this weekend too. More appearances there than any other artist.

The functionality issues is for the birds. It needs no more than this place, you ask a question and get an answer, how simple is that? I get you might want to create subjects, Q&As sections but beyond that, the ones qualified in responding or should be, are the premise of what is needed. Proboards gave that, it failed because those that should be accountable weren't and I'd image Discord is the same. All run on a better comms card and then going quiet. When the so-called grown-ups aren't speaking back with a reply, its hardly something the yoof want to join up to.

and can Martin answer my recent question on whether we are setting a deficit budget (exc cup games & player sakes) for 25/26 and how much this is

Away, away, with the TBK..

Stoppit, Trig ;)

Also can you explain what you meant when you said “it was inevitable that Morecambe’s fairytale would end like this?”

Martin - If you are after being asked questions, can you follow up on my unanswered query about who decided not to have one of our midweek games (Newport at Plough Lane I think) on Sky Sports +. Was it Sky, EFL, us or the opposition? If we have a say what is our policy?

However we have been hosting online meetings for the last couple of years till someone suddenly decided to use a meeting as a recruitment tool for Discord.

And that particular medium provides less engagement and permits even less still.

I don't find Discord hard to access or use but I appreciate some people do, or dislike its moderation. It has far more functionality than this place and several of its biggest critics on here are regular users. I talked to Leigh about not having meetings on it so I shall investigate why this strategy one is and hopefully use something like Zoom instead but I'm not promising anything. We all agree that more engagement is what matters not the medium.