Grimsby 2 - 1 up at Colchester

RK - yes, a red herring, but our club like to do things neatly, or try too! Hahahahaha

porthcawl - it was the 96th minute Dean Parrott penalty day 🥳

Laurence, financial year end is a red herring. You can still take payments in say 24/25 for 2526 and simply account for them as prepayments in the accounts. Like 5 & 25 year STs and debentures

Porthcawl - we broke that unfortunate record on a past visit to Walsall.

Spit - the club has a year end of 30 June each year, so earliest could be sometime mid-July for first DD and then First of month from August onwards.

my heart dropped when I saw it was volunteers day tomorrow, we never win on this day

Bert, have they "upgraded" you from keyhole to open heart surgery then?

Sheff Utd leading the race for a one-year stay in the Prem

No I f***ing don't :-)

“AFC Wimbledon, who are third, have won just two of their past eight (D3 L3), collecting nine points in that time.”

I think Mutley on Drums would disagree with you MPH

Good article on league two promotion race [Link]

Funny you should say that, MPH.

Anyone else pissed off with wishing Bert all the best for his bloody operation ??

Bert, i've wondered whether they have the ability to cancel a ST ticket for one match, when the ticket has been re-sold. I mean can you use the card to get through the turnstile and then just pick a vacant seat?

Bert indeed, and to tip-in Spits idea of starting DD early, it would also put the account into credit before the season starts and as such, failure to pay wouldn't cost the club a penny and gives the account holder an opportunity to make good missed payments.

Rudoni on bench, just coming back from injury

Wonder if the 8k is April and mays DD payments, easy to make it look like chasing 🤔, as they said it was double that a while back.

ITV 4 Sheffield utd v Coventry on now.

DD -But they can appear to be acting in their own interest. Appealing to them as the highest resort may never bring bias but it certainly can lead to suspicions of bias. I can raise at least one other example but let's take it to email if you remain interested so as not to impose too much on the guest book.

More likely in the current climate that some simply can't afford to service the payment and the DD bounces. It should be easy, if no response, to cancel the ticket and an attempt to use the ticket gate raised some sort of notification.

Clearly not for the benefit of the DTB, but then none of the actions commissioned or undertaken by the DTB are done for the benefit of the DTB (with the arguable exceptions of D&O insurance and having tea and biscuits available for DTB meetings).

Why are they having to chase DDs? Is it perhaps people who have died and their DD has been cancelled, and other circumstances?

DD - yes, my fight is that it should change. I think when I was involved one argument went beyound the scrutineer's decision to the DTB and I suggested to the scrutineer he ought to resign if overruled, which he wasn't. I think George Jones's idea that the ESG should report to the secretariat has legs and there clearly needs to be compromise but I doubt that one could put forward a coherent argument that elections are held for the benefit of the DTB rather than the members.