One does not suffer from an email outage DD, one takes full advantage.

Anyone else here suffering from the Hotmail/Outlook outage?

Let’s not forget JaW has never made a fuck up in his work life.

JaW - That's a question I can't answer at the moment I'm afraid. It wasn't me organising this.

Mav, how did that only get found out 4 days before the event? Piss poor planning. Just undermines confidence that if the basics can’t be done right then what else is going on.

A five set final on Sunday will separate the,Sinners from the Alcarazes

JaW - Diary conflict which couldn't be resolved I'm told.

Ditto, my original shares. They were bought, willingly, on the understanding it was a donation. Later, a group of us bought more which old Tony held. Should someone make a reasonable offer for mine (which ain't going to happen) I would sell. Something else which ain't going to happen is me donating said shares to the club. Having not expected any return on them I was pleasantly surprised to be ushered to the front of the queue for the Liverpool FA Cup tickets. The fact that I swapped said ticket for an AC/DC one is neither here nor there. Why did I throw my money down the drain? Because I couldn't bear the thought of the only club I'd ever supported, dying. Would I give more to the club at present? No. Why? Because, imho, no-one has a tight grip on club finances, so would ultimately be wasted. Should that change, would I donate? Should they get a hold, there would be no need, would there?

Lots of empty seats at the women’s tennis semi finals as it’s so bloody hot and people are passing out

When I purchased my shares soon after selling them I was very happy with the profit I made, and swiftly used that income to sell more shares that will provide helpful retirement income when I come to buy them at the age of 68. It’s all very straightforward to anyone with a brain and I was not misled in any way.

Professional football clubs exist to win football matches, not to make and distribute financial profits to shareholders. Goals, points and silverware are the dividends. The reason we lose millions - as with virtually every other club - is because Labour smashes Capital. Labour is scarce and wages are very high. Unlike most businesses, the more spent on Labour, the higher the ‘dividends’.

Hopefully Aideen was zipped up.

I wouldn't because a lot more shares have been created since then. One can argue about whether I should have had pre-emption rights when that happened but as my valuation of the shares was zero any rights offer would have been at a premium to my valuation so very easy to decline.

All I'm saying is that it didn't have to be a case of zero monetary/investment return on capital. Philanthropic donations are exactly what they say on the tin - not to be confused with purchasing shares in a start up speculative football enterprise. If you had been allocated a fair/reasonable/proportionate amount of shares for your £3000 you would now be sitting on a 13 fold return - rather disproving all those people who claim that shares in a football club can never produce a return. So yes the only reason they haven't is because you weren't allocated a fair, reasonable or proportionate allocation of shares. Some people (seemingly not all of you guys) were desperate to cling onto control because god forbit fans that had invested £3000 should actually have any meaningful ownership.

So the Dons Trust Strategy meeting is delayed until 21st July. No explanation

For God's sake don't call him up,KD.

Galty, do you donate money to charitable causes? If so, what do you get out of it?

I was certainly not stitched up in any way, I knew exactly what I was getting into. Are you having a problem understanding my statement that I valued the shares at zero from the moment I acquired them? I was keen that we owned Kingsmeadow (also keen that we treated Ks well) and I did what I could to enable that. Not as much as the people (including Aideen?) who jumped out of a plane, do you want to tell them they were stitched up?

Biggles' right-wing alter ego?

Spot on, Karen.

Based on his last post, I now think Galty is a wind up. Nobody can be that stupid, can they?

Who is John Galt - [Link]

JG I like others gave £3000 in exchange for having a team again, I’m not unintelligent I knew it was in fact a donation even though shares were given. Thank goodness other like minded people were there and not a theatre full of people like you, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to come on here giving the big I am

OI - so basically you & others were stitched up - providing the capital to enable the Club to exist and grow whilst the "general secretaries" of the Politburo could indirectly retain control over the Collectivist dream. I take my hat off to everyone who contributed at that point but I do think you should have insisted on a fair share for stumping up the capital.

The Folly Inn, between East Cowes and Newport on the River Medina used to be decent, [Link] We'd cycle down their, haven't been in ages. From the main road, going to Newport, Turn right opposite Whippinghan School into a country road down to the river