Edit - £10 week / £1.48 day

 Spit - it’s not a bad idea. Haven’t we got like over 9,000 members now? One in three need to cough up. Great bellwether for fan ownership - £1.48 a week to stay fan owned or we sell

 Maybe the Dons trust should email members and say we need £10 a week from each of you to remain fans owned,might actually see how many still want to be fan owned

 Tomato Swig - I presented the idea in a different way on discord. The target audience is NOT existing season ticket holders, but the newer supporters.

 Stuart, that is over £500 over a full year. Adding that to the cost of a current ST would make the ST unaffordable to many supporters.

 Anyone got a spare for Orient

 I’d just like to wish everyone a happy & lucky new year and thankyou to the folks on here who got me the extra tickets for the Grimsby away day (seems a long time ago) for my family where we had the best time, good luck to everyone going to Orient tomorrow, I’m back for the Wycombe game COYD

 The only way we are covering the shortfall is adding this £1.43 a day needed onto some ST’s. Maybe on Hospitality and West Stand ST’s as they are the more affluent.

 Laurence - I think just a resolution at an SGM (or EGM if urgent). I believe that is what we have done with the other directors. Whilst I'd like to see it happen fast, we do need the promised report and recommendations on the governance model.

 The trouble with dividing the loss amongst a set of people is that you have a percentage, probably quite large, who can't or won't contribute. So then you have a larger number when split between fewer people etc. etc. Every bit helps but we have seen over the past couple of years that the current 'owners' are not going to fund the losses.

 OI - what is the process of enabling Woodroof to join the Board?

 Timmy - take it you saw my post on discord on the same subject of £10 a week. The point I made to Stuart is that it needs an emotional appeal, rather than just fund the short fall. I would even break it down further to £1.43 a day. You can set up daily/weekly/monthly plan with Plum Fintech to set aside an amount that you feel is right and then pass through to the club/DT as appropriate.

 Spit - Adams Park has under-soil heating

 1-0 - better get used to that scoreline.

 Hash - that will be me! 👍

 In my past Brisbane Road experience I've found the Central line station to get quite crowded. You may find it easier to get the Victoria line to Walthamstow Central then a bus to the ground (58, 69 or 97 I believe). There is a pub near the station - the Goose. Used to be spit & sawdust, then yuppie, no idea what it's like nowadays.

 Orient 0-4 Dons. It all comes together and at least one person will post about the playoffs being on again

 Boring political posts again, see you next year all…. 🥱🤪🥳

 Orient 2 Dons 0 tomorrow (oh for the days of a 6-2 win in 84:-)

 Minus 3/4 over the weekend will Wycombe be on?

 Laurence - absolutely, I've been saying we need an MD/CEO on the board rather than an "Executive Chairman" ever since Mr. Buckley came up with the current governance arrangement. If James Woodroof is good enough to be on the board (I think he is) then appoint him. If he isn't find someone who is of the required standard.

 At a slight tangent, any strategy or strategic process that the Trust comes up with needs to be rooted in the Objects. The Board is in place to pursue those Objects (and nothing else). Or, if the Objects are wrong, there should be a process to change them.

 On the whole "sacrosanct" thing, the only goals that are arguably sacrosanct are the Dons Trust's Objects, as set out in Rule 2 of the Constitution. And they're only sacrosanct until members vote to change them. There's nothing in the Objects requiring majority ownership of the Club. Some of them are arguably better served via maintaining majority ownership. But others would not be, I would argue. In particular, "strengthening the bonds between the Club and the community which it serves" (the very first Object) is arguably served by on-the-field success and expanding the stadium, neither of which is easily reconciled with fan ownership.

 TBf ,most of us started paying tax at 16,now youths wait till 23ish after studying for useless courses. Then have big debts that the tax payer writes off. If they don't earn the required wage to pay back.. state pension is low in this country compared to others. Goverment now calling it a benefits which is crap as benefits don't get taxed.

 What upsets me is that we don’t have 3,500 owners/ fans/members/followers who are willing to set up a £10 weekly direct debit to fund the clubs current shortfall. Thats less than 2 pints of beer a week in London. We don’t deserve to be fan owned if we’re not willing to put in such a small amount