Galty - you might be missing a point. Money fails to buy a player who always fits into a team. Often it is a team of misfits, who do better than the most skilled players around. They have something to prove.

JG - The problem is that you seem to think money is THE token by which succes is measured, even though your Olympian activities might suggest differently. Most of us see money as just one token and also embrace the concept of enough money. In terms of club success, of course money is important but your approach mirrors Koppel, except he should have argued we should all go and support Chelsea or Real Madrid rather than Fulham.

Yeah I pay £35 for a match ticket, reason i only do 3 matches this season. And not a fan of the new ground.. Galty adds something else to WUP, hounding out posters cause you don't agree with them,just adds to the wup bore. It's OK for some to say something but not others.

Laurence - your friend doesn't have to sit in a Central West Stand seat. What on earth is wrong with the East stand? But the problem isn't necessarily the £38 for a Central West stand seat (although for the best seat in the house - I happen to think it is still ludicrously cheap) - the issue lies with the average price paid after allowing for Season ticket discounts, over 66s & unwaged bursaries, and overly discounted children & family tickets. You could argue that because of all of these bursaries your friend is actually having to pay more - which causes him not to come and the seat being taken by someone on a subsidy who brings their own thermos of tea and dunking biscuits. You can't buck the market.

I’ve met Galty. Shared a taxi at Hartlepool a few seasons back alongside another Dons fan after a train got delayed or cancelled or something. Couldn’t pick him out in a line up though and I don’t think he was a Wup poster at the time. Personally I don’t have a problem with his posts or suggestions. Doesn’t mean I agree or disagree with them. This place is at its best when there are different viewpoints and ideas bouncing around.

Money is not a dirty word - it is simply a token by which success is measured. It’s the equivalent of Points on the League Table and without money there can be little or no success or progress on the pitch. They go hand in hand. As a fan I want to see progress on the pitch and I want to be entertained – which is somewhat dictated by our playing budget. I’m definitely prepared to pay more to achieve that (and I make no apologies for voicing that) – some of you clearly aren’t. At half time yesterday I suspect most Wimbledon fans would have willingly handed over an additional £10 each if we thought that it would have significantly (if not definitely) increased our chances of winning.

do we charge enough on a match day? I was chatting with an AFCW supporter at Sutton yesterday, and he told me, since he does not have a season ticket he has to pay £38 for a central west stand match day ticket**. I checked his point this morning, and confirmed correct. So unsure where Galty comes up with his supposedly low figures? Perhaps he is not comparing like for like?

6MDM: I’m a fan who for 37 out of the last 42 years has travelled home and away to over 80% of fixtures – for much of that time travelling from either North Wales or Italy (spending at least £10K pa on travel); I’m a fan who pays the full (non-bursary) price for my ticket; I’m a fan who always purchases food and drink within the ground to support the Club; I’m a fan who goes out of his way to utilise the Club’s business affiliates; I’m a fan who regularly pays for family and friends to attend matches – thereby introducing a number of new fans to the Club; I’m a fan shareholder; I’m a fan who has historically used his businesses to regularly sponsor the Club; I’m a fan who has regularly used any business acumen (I don’t have any football acumen – so can’t help there) I might have, to provide constructive ideas to help the Club move forwards financially (many of which have been wholly or partially taken up). But - I hadn’t realised that I needed to apply for your permission to support the Club.

Morning all. SW19 on yesterday now up - [Link]

What year did goalkeepers start wearing gloves, presumably it was after 1975…?

Looking at the stats from yesterday - we will play like that and win as often as we lose - especially against a side with poorer strikers. Like idea of playing Foyo & Nkeng just behind Bugiel up top - maybe on Monday?

OTD - state of the PL pitch! Suppose that was fairly normal in those days!

Does this WIJG chap actually attend matches? Has anyone on here met him? Just wondering what he's like in real life, as opposed to his rather odd online persona.

THD ~ possibly same match?

RIP Mary Rand

Clive Thomas disallowed a goal for us at Torquay with the ball in flight - header from a corner - either for HT or FT.

At Torquay on Boxing Day 1980, Clive Thomas was alleged to have arrived, ahem, the worse for drink. When John Leslie disputed a decision, he punched him in the stomach.

AI ragebait bot is very apt. Unfortunately he's all too real.

Bushmonkey - I fear he is for real but he is completely detached from the whole point of being a football supporter (and possibly reality). He may have once understood it but his pathological obsession with money and how supporters are just there to fund the extravagant lifestyles of average footballers (and it is fine to price out people who depend on their football team for more than just watching success on the pitch) means all he can do is bore everyone on here with ridiculous money talk. He hates everything about our club other than the name and the transient players on the pitch. I put supporters front and centre of everything a club should stand for and be about. It was why AFCW was formed. He puts them last.

Is WIJG for real or some kind of ai ragebait bot?

6m$, Trevor Kettle was the ref against Accrington. Blew the whistle just after they took a free kick but before it went in the net. He wouldn't allow it. The playoffs would have been so different if he had.

RIP Trevor Oakes , see him and Showaddywaddy at Butlins 70s weekend

I get what you mean Trig. It didn't feel like a 3-0 loss. I've seen Stockport supporters moan about Addai but he was playing with Crawley vibes of two years ago. We didn't make the best of our chances but he was excellent. That attempt by Kai would have gone in against a National League goalkeeper.

Yes, against Accrington Stanley in the season (2015-2016) we beat them a few weeks later in the play offs to get promoted. They must have really hated us as that game ended 0-0 and those two dropped points cost them automatic promotion.

Was that the most enjoyable 3-0 defeat you’ve ever watched?