The original grounds are Wimbledon High School's playing fields now.

So how many of the 28K do you think have significant disposable income JG? I'm marginally more optimistic than CW's 38 but would put it in the very low thousands at best. Then you have to winnow out people like me who might put some money in if the club was well run, which in my opinion it definitely isn't.

Nursery road off Worple road

Whilst I hope the new faces since the turn of the year are getting to grips with our losses, I'm still extremely wary of governance when the big boss position is apparently held by the only person capable of doing it, which also happens to be a role that person defined.

We definitely shouldn't be limiting our ambition and scale of thinking to those with the least ability or inclination to act as owners. But if we want to progress we need to fund it. Some fans are clearly hoping that someone comes along who is relatively wealthy and happy to lose £2m-£3m per annum. My point is that we as fans could easily fund £2m-£3m on our passion/hobby. It's a drop in an ocean. I am definitely happy to contribute to our future - so I believe are thousands of other fans. But clearly not all.

@8000 home supporters so are the other 47000 going to chip in to bail out the club / help it to progress? Get real.

I think the first tennis tournament was 1877 but it was founded about 10 years before (might be wrong)

RK - That would be the point. Fitting out the 3rd floor, extended south stand, fitting undersoil heating could all be potential options.

That link about contracts didn't make very encouraging reading, JAW. Hoping we have an option on Ogundere, even if his contract is up. The only bright spot, from my POV, is that I always assumed Harbottle was a loan player, and so I'm pleased to see we've got him for another year.

That's a shame. Wasn't there a big to-do about 10(?) years ago too, when the All England Club attempted to copyright the word 'Wimbledon'?

You can't raise income from a Bond to spend on the team. One off income = One off Expenditure, basic rule of finance & banking

mackiemill, I believe the tennis was formed a decade or so before the football club.

Plough Lane Bond 2?

The only slightly annoying thing about yesterday was that a bag of Percy Pig Phizzy Pigtails cost me £2.75 from the M&S Food concession near block 227. Having munched through it with alacrity during the second half, my replacement bag today bought at my local M&S in Tunbridge Wells cost me only £2

How much of the average fan's wealth is disposable income and available to spend on a football club after paying for all life's essentials and other stuff that is more important like holidays? On average less than 10% maybe. Ask the same question of a person with a wealth of over £100m and the answer might be over 80%.

OI-I make it 38

There’s so many things flawed with JG paragraph… I’m sure it’s a wind up

..and Ade Azzez and Sean Rigg and Ryan Sweeney - and didn’t we resign Callum Kennedy

How many of the 28,000 (or even 55,000) are under 18 and still at school? How many more are under 30 and if not spending all their money on avocado toast then struggling to pay rent? How many more are bringing up children, not the cheapest undertaking in the world? How many more are pensioners that aren't rich?

And Connor Smith

I could be wrong but the last time we went up we only lost Roos, Kennedy and Akinfenwa at the end of the season?

Wonder if we will get that friendly against Newcastle

What we also have is the massive brand 'Wimbledon', which because of the tennis no doubt resonates loudly within the sports investment types based in the States, Middle East, etc. Doesn't matter it's football (and they probably don't really care); the association with the 'brand' is what they'll want and feel it can be really monetised. Going up and now having our own new stadium probably makes us a far more attractive proposition (and the level of debt we have is minuscule when it comes to serious investors)

LOL @ Galty and responses, thanks JAW will look at it later

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