JG: going to matches is not fun. The football is awful, there’s not much hope of wins, not much hope of goals, not even shots on target. Relegation and losing the better players thereafter is definitely a big possibility. In fact losing the better players is a possibility even if we stay up. Im questioning the thought of going nowadays and I know others are. Putting the prices up significantly as you suggest is a complete non goer as I believe will harm attendances significantly. Competing on the pitch should be any teams primary objective. This, imo, can only be done by selling the club and getting in the investment we need to get better quality players. We all know competing in a professional sport is directly related to salaries

6MDM - why ignore me? Sorry - I hadn't realised that we can't talk about the clear need to generate more revenue. on this forum. If you think you can find someone with £100m+ who can afford to lose £2.8m each year - then put them forward. I won't be against.

Mark - what has been clear for years? Are you aware of any testing of ticket price elasticity? I'm not. If the market dictated that we could generate another £2m in ticket revenue by increasing prices - would you be against in principal or because you don't think that we would generate the additional revenue. If the latter - lets do the testing!!!

At least JG has stopped saying that an owner wouldn't be allowed to put money in.

Trigger - couldn't agree more. Let the market dictate. Money is not bad and financial success and success on the pitch are directly correlated - unless we get lucky.

Agree with TF and Spits comments but I find with most irritations if you ignore them they soon go away

Mark - I'm certainly not holding the club back. I have made my views on ownership by a Community Trust clear on numerous occasions. My point is that whoever owns the Club will want to reach break even in the medium to long term. I suspect that can only be achieved by charging the market rate for tickets not by clinging to some ideological nonsense that others "with the broadest shoulders" should act as benefactors!!

I've supported the club for 63 years so why should I be priced out of continuing that?

Also while Galty was watching MK, we were funding and starting the club for him to get the benefit a few seasons later(freeloader)😂

NL - my ignore him comment was't aimed at TF, although you probably knew that.

Paying years of tax and NI pays for the NHS and Bus pass (hopefully)it's not free. Only someone who was born with a silver spoon would think that way.

Well said 6mdm

ML - ignore him. All he talks about is money. He moans about people not paying enough and him not being prepared to subsidise their hobby while he wants existing fans to be replaced with new rich fans to subsidise his ambition. It's called hypocracy. 90 of the 92 league clubs are privately owned and funded. Owners will stomp up for their own reasons. Why do we think we should be different? We'll either end up in non-league, go into administration or go bust. Our constitution will prevent any meaningful change in ownership. The DTB have already shown they will not amend discounts on ticket prices, even for just premium seats so we're stuck.

Trigger - correct. But it is not going to come from our model in the required £s. It’s so clear and has been for years

Whichever side of the ownership model you’re on the answer is the same - we need more money. Sadly our leadership seem to be being heavily influenced by those who seek to remove money from the entire football industry and thereby have us somehow come out as winners via that route.

Talking of songs - the one spurs fans were singing at Burnley apparently made me laugh - “Tottenham go backwards / sideways everywhere they go”

What was the song being sung on repeat for ages in the 2nd half that had a verse in it referring to a clown? I'm not a singer but do like to know the words. I've not heard it before. Nice that Ryan Johnson now has his own song. If it wasn't for Seddon being a shoe in for POTY he'd have been in with a shout. He was a bit ropey last season but has stepped up this season.

JG: I blame the people who won’t sell. You are holding our club back. In a world of fantasy. We are in a pro sport multi £ world. Get real. If you want to look at this fantasy in practical terms. The £25k or so raised in the WE are Wimbledon fund is a prime example. That would pay for a free transfers wages for about 3 months? We need to times that 25k by 50 to 100 just to stay still on salaries. Let alone the rest of it. It’s not happening with this ownership model

My gut feel is that a few fans would stop coming altogether; a few more would attend less matches. But that most of this reduction would be taken up by others – either existing fans currently unable to purchase additional tickets for friends or family or new fans. Would these additional/new fans be more or less likely to spend on food, drink and merchandise once in the stadium? Overall, I suspect that we would close the £2.8m deficit.

Not that I ever would – but if I was stupid enough to ever be persuaded to buy the Club – the first question I would ask is: has anyone done any elasticity testing of our average matchday seat revenue. We are currently at virtual capacity for most home games at an average revenue per “bum on seat” of around £14.50 (net vat). If we increased this to £26 (net vat) what would the overall impact on revenue be?

There is so much negativity on here around our financial position – much of it misinformed or devoid of constructive solution. Last year’s revenue of £10.1m (whilst in League 2) puts us easily in the top half of all current league 1 & 2 clubs. Our losses were £2.8m, much higher than the EBITA figure some people have stated as depreciation is a real expense, not some mythical amount which can be ignored. It’s a relatively small amount of money but one which is unsustainable. I am as frustrated as anyone on here about our lack of ambition when it comes to the playing budget but I don’t believe that this can be resolved over the long term simply by finding a fairy godmother/father to bail us out. Instead, I lay the blame at some of my fellow fans, many of whom post on here, who were unprepared to pay their way – always wanting someone else to pay – whether it be for their free bus passes, NHS treatment and now subsidised Wimbledon Match Day tickets.

The picture on the OS with the item about the meet the boards meeting shows a bloke I didn't recognise flanked, far less prominently, by Michele Little and Mick Buckley. Mr P reckons he's a pretty heavyweight PR type who's been co-opted onto the plc board. Are they really going to try to schmooze us into something?

Laurence should have access all.areas,he's been their done it, doing his press service.and volunteer roles for years.. it's obvious someone has taken a dislike over something? From what other have said he isn't the only volunteer to be treated badly since the NPL move.

The static coming off some of Laurence’s v neck knitwear makes him a security risk

Stuart- you clearly have your view on this and I have mine- neither of us are going to change, so I will leave it there. In the scale of things- with the club nearing administration- none of these sorts of issues are going to matter much anyway.