Hard to make a fourth-tier Tuesday night game against Morecambe sound exciting, innit

RP - agreed. It has been irritating me since they started writing this for EVERY midweek preview. I really don't like watching evening games at Plough Lane because of those digital advertising hoardings, which are even worse this season now they have extended them around past the goals at each end. The club don't care. They could easy resolve the situation by upgrading the floodlights. That is the bigger issue, which is why those hoardings are tolerable for afternoon games. I'd put up with poor floodlights without the hoardings but as it is just shows the contempt fans are treated with. The club know. They have been told enough times.

Wouldn't mind if our floodligjts weren't so shite

Hash, ditto. First night match of the season for me. The german DT member who used my ST for franchise in March is attending tonight so we'll catch up which is nice.

This 'under the lights' phrase that's used for every night game is really starting to grate. The more times I'm told how 'special' it is, the less special it feels.

It's debatable we have "lights" at Plough Lane; electronic advertising boards excepted!

LIGHTS LIGHTS I LOVE FOOTBALL UNDER LIGHTS

Will be thumping 5 -1 win tonight,we are unstoppable at plough lane this season.

Resting Bugiel is a good shout but can’t see Jackson doing it in a league game. Unless injured he will always play his core of Lewis, Reeves and Bugiel.

A full month has passed since the Cup match was moved to Newcastle. The optics for the club aren't great that refunds don't appear to be moving at any speed. Most of us on this forum have a close affinity to the club, and won't be unfairly critical. But there will be others who just go to the occasional match and otherwise don't follow the club in great detail. In the end AFC Wimbledon is a business and I suspect other businesses would be getting a lot of grief. I think the last official club statement (OS not social media) said refunds would be issued by end of last week at the latest. I get the impression many are still waiting.

Just hurty words then.

Just to clean up yesterday's mess here is a better description [Link]

sav the biggest problem is they wouldn't get anywhere doing it.

Any manifesto not mentioning improved comms won't get my vote. I will order the candidates with preference to the ones who make the most references to improved comms in their manifesto.

Obviously if I was standing I would get voted on,but I would get kicked off for breaking the trust code of conduct within a week😂

TSO - totally agree with that on 'collective responsibility' I was thinking earlier that I would vote for pretty much anyone who said that they would ignore that norm. (As you say, to my understanding it's not a contract at all, it's just an agreed way of behaving.)

Kelly is a classic case of where a reserves fixture list would make a difference. We have several in our squad who are going to drop in here than there and it's never going to work as well as we'd like.

Alan true and I think many young people would find it very frustrating and even disillusioning to realise just what it's like.

A4e - completely agree. That's the point of having 4 strikers as well. Rotation is key.

I think it might be worth starting with Stevens and Pigott this evening - Bugiel is looking a bit like a flogged horse already, and he’d be great to bring on for 20-25 minutes against a tiring deflated Morecambe if we are for some reason struggling to break them down…. I’d sooner he was a starter on Saturday against a much better side than tonight’s opposition….

Alan - I worry more about the plc board now. The Old Guard would mostly be Angus, Graeme and James M, the other two remainers being Hannah and probably James L who seem much more open to dialogue with the members. In some ways that even seems unfair on Graeme and James M who have interacted when challenged in some areas. It does definitely need some strong willed new people though. The key is not to immediately agree to what the plc board ask for but challenge them robustly.

And as per lurker - you need a critical mass of new attitudes to get around the sheer skullduggery of those who want to keep themselves and their ilk in situ.

The thing about the young is that they probably won't be "leaders" and the Old Guard who remain, doing what they do, taking charge of the agenda and the status quo goes on regardless.

The key issue with the DT board is the ‘collective responsibility’ element which I believe isn’t a contract as such but seems all those elected sign up to and prevents them speaking as a normal member or fan.

I think the DTB needs a paid, full time person as a Chief of Staff or something (no voting power, but ability to execute on some things like gathering KPIs, making presentations, drafting documents). What it looks like to me is people go in with good intentions but get completely bogged down in drafting and negotiating with each other that it makes it almost impossible for them to meaningfully do anything they commit to doing.