Well done Dazzer. Copied details here: Dates for your diaries 21 October: Member Information evening at Plough Lane (starting at 7pm), where the investor group and their proposal will be introduced to members. This session will be shared online for those unable to make it in person. 21 October: Online voting and questions window opens 29 October: Second Member Information evening at Plough Lane (starting at 7pm) and online 10 November: Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) in the evening at Plough Lane and online 17 November: Online Voting closes. 18 November: Formal results announced to members.

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That’s not a comment on the new chair btw they don’t have an official channel to contact all members simultaneously.

I agree with what REPD says below about the Wednesday meeting. Ultimately this will pass because it has to (ie we take this offer or we go into administration and at worst have no club or at best have an acquisition over which we have no control at all). There was a point a couple of years ago when we were in a stronger financial position (or at least were less close to running out of cash) and we could have set meaningful conditions for selling out control, but the DTB let that moment pass, among a lot of nonsense about fan ownership being "non negotiable", and now we find ourselves in a situation where we have no choice.

Yeah they shut down the official discord server but it was continued unofficially and in exactly the same format full name DTB number etc. One DtB member got themselves in a bit of a pickle with a fan last night on Twitter after sharing a screenshot showing the new ESG Chair updating people on that server about election info.

Trig - I thought Discord had been discontinued, don't know of any other. Tbh seems as though Trust has ceased communication that isn't unidirectional or face to face.

I think we'll always be prone to injuries as we're likely to recruit "discounted" players with injuries on their CVs

Nicander are you on the secret discord server? I think some info about the meeting is available on there. I think the new ESG Chair is posting election info on there too.

Nicander, starts at 7pm. Also think the election timeline is dropping tomorrow

I'd argue with Rob about regretting defeating the 50%+1 first time around, not because of that but because of the associated proposal, disastrously upping the votes on some Restricted Actions to 95%(?). If 50%+1 had got through so would that have done, luckily it was put to the second vote but with so little publicity that it failed.

Anyone know anything more about Wednesday eg what time? For the most important meeting in many years, maybe ever, DT doesn't seem very interested in people turning up. Not even listed on their website, no timings in the one email we've had about it. It's in three days lads!

My only counter to the Plymouth and Cambridge games is that both of those teams were also missing key players. Even Wednesday had players out (Barry; the goalkeeper) - but obviously their finances and squad run much deeper.

Silk - when I asked a couple of years ago I was told that the investors buy new shares, maybe something worth confirming on Wednesday.

Perhaps they were at Hillsborough yesterday.

I also have now idea why the bookies have Mansfield as favourites for Tuesday. Their away record is played 4 won 0 drew 1 lost 3. Scored 3 Conceded 10. I think even we can see them off.

Our last three away games were all v teams in play-off places. We were toe-to-toe in two of them, with a large number of first choice players out. With a fully fit squad, we'd likely have a few more points on the board - but them's the breaks. No Ogs is the biggest problem, followed by Tilley and Stevens. We need our CBs all fit, so Johnson can be rested as he has looked rocky all season so far.

BTW if the investors bought all the DT shares they would not be able to invest a single penny in the squad above the cap set by our revenue. However if they bought newly created shares then they could - so the DT selling out does not allow that.

In terms of strikers there is a bigger problem: Stevens, Browne, Cornick, Tilley, Richards and McNeilly have all missed games to injury this season. If you add in the fact that McCoy-Splatt, Sweeney and Ogundere are also injured and the injuries we had at the tail of last season there is a clear problem that needs to be fixed.

Morning all. SW19 on getting gubbed at Sheffield Wednesday now up - [Link]

TNT or YouTube yom for fa cup draw 530 I think

I understand your point :) I’d just prefer people to be asking proper questions about the investors, their plans and the risks rather than saying “can you buy us a defence in January?”

Maybe it isn't dreadful if the mood is a little bad on Wednesday but a win on Tuesday would be good anyway.

Need a positive result and performance on Tuesday so that the mood in the investor presentation is not bad.

The second goal is the one that kills the game, and that’s just a slip. Niche reference but Yiadom is the new Chris Willmott. But yes midfield continues to be the main problem as we have no-one defensively competent in there. We can set up well defensively as a team as we did for half an hour yesterday, but when games open up we’re in trouble. We also don’t keep the ball for any spell of time and that just adds to the pressure.

So why is it our defence looked so inept yesterday? Also, did we have any midfield?