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Not going well in Africa cup

Pete O'Rourke on X: "AFC Wimbledon have agreed a deal to re-sign former star James Tilley on loan from Wycombe Wanderers. #afcw afcwimbledon #wycombewanderers [Link] / X [Link]

Where’s the Tilley news been posted?

Hash in league 2, has he got a goal in league 1?

Hash, Has Tilley signed?

Tilley has a goal or two in him and we don't have goals at the moment so happy with that signing

A “one punch” killer got a 3 year sentence recently (about 15 months in truth), so I guess this one will get a caution or something… 😯

Apparently the lad’s been arrested

It’s a helluva thwack. The way the player went down made me think it was AI generated for a while.

Right out of the Ben Thatcher Handbook Trigger

Welcome back Tilley

Thought the same Laurence.

Silk commented and asked: isn't that what we pay Woodruff for or wasn't he there when the proverbial hit the fan. I thought it was a deal done under previous guy?

We could perhaps try to raise more cash via the 50% + 1 route if we bundled that investment with a “right of first refusal”, so that we would agree to give whoever bought the “50%-1” stake the right to match any bid, if we ever chose to sell out control. We might still struggle to sell a non-controlling stake but an offer of that kind would at least give the buyer something tangible- especially if they thought (probably rightly) that the selling down to 50%+1 would always just be an interim stage to selling control altogether, and wanted to be first in the queue to take control in that case.

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Trigg - what is it?

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OI I guess it would depend on why they are investing - if they are investing because they want to directly make a profit out of their investment then you are right, they won't. But they may have other motivations and rich people are weird anyway, they have weird motivations sometimes and there could easily be something us non rich people can't think of.

Hash - I get all that but even somebody rich, maybe especially someone rich, doesn't want to invest £1.5 million or more with the high probability of losing it all in a year or so. I'll vote for 50%+1 but don't see people investing without safeguards to protect them. Maybe LD's idea that it would put them in prime position to make an offer for control if we did run out of money (i.e. a prepack administration) would be their safeguard

OI - I tend to agree, they caused Browne to be off the pitch, so it’s up to them to be sufficiently aware that his return was imminent, and adjust their defence accordingly - the fact that they didn’t do that was looked upon sympathetically by the referee, whereas if play had continued and we’d scored, the ref could justifiably have said to their players “Well you knew he was about to come back on, why weren’t you ready for that…?” 🤷🏻‍♂️

OI on your 50%+1 question, I don't know any more than you and probably know much less but the way I see it is this: We can vote for 50%+1 and there is a chance, however slim, that we might find someone who wants to be a Nick Robertson type stewardship investor because a) it will help with their image / profile or b) it will help them make or build contacts or c) it will help them avoid some tax or d) it will be some fun / a hobby or e) some other reason i haven't thought of. Or we can vote against 50%+1 and we definitely won't find anyone and will have to either stump up £1.5 million ourselves as a fanbase or slide back into the conference, the first of which won't happen and the second of which i definitely do not want to see.

Maybe an argument about a player needing to be off the pitch for 30 seconds having suffered a foul for which a yellow card was shown, yes. Must admit at the time I didn't even think there was a foul on Browne and I'm not sure I've changed my mind having seen it back.

You can argue Doncaster were taking unfair advantage of an injury they caused, and earned a yellow card, by allowing their left back to leave his defensive responsibilities. They should have been aware that Browne would be allowed back at any moment and had a covering defender. The fact they didn't is entirely their fault.