“free bus passes, NHS treatment…” - ignorance must be bliss…. 🤪🤦🏻‍♂️

JG - out of interest, would you have the Wrexham owners if hypothetically they wanted AFCW instead of Wrexham a few years back?

BTW Galty have you left a legacy in your will to the club for when you pop you clogs, please?

Galty - fewer matches.

MLD - we competed for years in the top flight whilst having the weakest squad on paper. That is because we knew what we were, Now I saw a few weeks back we were talking about playing it out from the back and not playing a Bugiel type.

Tomato Swig - because that's life. You can't expect a Mercedes for the same price as a Reliant Robin! If the club and the majority of fans have the ambition to see the Club progress then there is a price to pay for it. If you can't afford it - come to less matches or watch Vertu Cup, Women's or Youth matches which are all massively cheaper.

The Godfather of Capitalism had this to say about those with the broadest shoulders - "It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion"

And he’s back …

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.