Maybe I'm being naive here, I can't say I've read an ESG report before, but what even is the case for redacting? I can imagine removing some personal identifying information would be sensible, especially in the context of people being abused or giving abuse, but ultimately this is the most important event in any given year for DTB members to have their say and has exactly zero commercial confidentiality issues (which is a reasonable reason to redact things). I don't really understand why we would want to redact details of process and lessons learned from the members.

TBK showing again why he should be no where near the DTB

TBK - how many pages was the ESG report prior to redaction? The last report from the last election was 14 pages. This one was 6 pages. This seems incredibly short seeing as though there were a lot of lessons to be learnt/ issues

Spit - Telling someone to foff isn't personal abuse or silly name calling, but I've given myself a warning anyway ;)

Is it right that Dave Growns resigned from the ESG over the refusal to allow Trigs to stand? Either way, I find it pretty disappointing how little detail this redacted report goes into. I believe the Trust membership deserves more than a few lines on why a bona fide attempt to stand was disallowed when it was clearly due to an error in the Trust.

Very happy we have our guest book back and can tell posters to f-off.

TBK usual response! If we don't go up this year we will really struggle next. I have been watching Wiimbledon under many different owners for probably longer than you have been on this planet. Good or bad. Life is not a bed of roses but Unpopular decisions are being made now without fans input now. There are many fans are really fed up and it really does not matter whether we are fan owned or not.

I am increasingly wondering if we need a DTB moving forward. We have 3 of the DTB on the PLC, similar to what other non fan-owned clubs have and it seems to work for them. I also think the DTB have a thankless task trying to maintain the fan-owned ethic, yet increasingly realising that we are struggling with our model and spending time after time trying to find trees that have money falling from it.

TBK, stupid question! Same bollocks as when anyone criticises the board and says why don’t you stand then. It’s pathetic, grow up.

The DTB in previous years have made unpopular decisions. The argument of who will we sell to is boring and patronising tbh. If the club is put up for sale, people will show interest.

It is hard to condone some of Trigger's behaviour and continuing animus towards individuals and Bert and the gimps have warned people repeatedly. They aren't banning because of the DTB, they're banning because they are fed up with some behaviours. That said we are getting far away from the DT being run for its members. I still have hopes the new board can reverse that and a big flag for me will be whether they make the ESG truly independent of themselves.

Biggles - regardless, he should have been allowed to stand in the first place, not disallowed on a tecnicality of th DTB's own making, then none of the ensuing fallout would have happened.

Chiggers, usual question - who to?

Thanks Bert, understood. I had no idea of the name of Angus company and hadn’t made that connection. We’ve seen previously with the likes of Rye that the board has given jobs to their mates without a transparent RFP process. I have raised this at AGM’s and tried to get a motion through to prevent this. So you can understand there is certain amount of paranoia with the membership.

JAW - I sympathise with Trigger's abysmal treatment, IMO, during the election, but he has been asked / warned / previously banned for posting insinuations against Club and DTB members, Michelle in particular, again - and in this case also asking about Angus' company, with no obvious foundation, in what came over as an attempt to shit stir.

In all honesty getting a plan to close the £1M annual black whole is way more important than the minutiae of who is on the DTB and how they are chosen

WBM - you’re right, it’s been pretty frustrating hasn’t it…. Our only crumb of comfort is that others have been stumbling too… 😬

Bert - sounds good 👌☺️

Anything in moderation, a4e:)

My only issue with the club right now is the fact that if we hadn't spent the last month failing to turn up we'd be top of the league and nailed for promotion. Other than that I'm actually all good.

Bert - I’m guessing that after heart surgery, one of the things they’ll be advising you to avoid is kebabs… ☹️😢

Looks likely to be Wednesday, a4e

Keefy 100% agree with you. Sell the club.

I must of missed something. I just saw something about a company working with the DT?

Hope it all goes well, Bert?