A4e: if your soup cans make you feel good and benevolent then thats great. However they are demeaning create a dependency culture and do absolutely nothing to alleviate relative poverty. But as long as they make you feel great then carry on.

Do the club study the details of employment law? A document showing entitlement to JSA or UC would be the new form, although I imagine mostly digital and it is a vanishingly small number. Anyway have you recognised that it is not the club giving away cans of soup but DLAG? Are you intending to apologise to the volunteers and donors who burnish AFC Wimbledon's reputation through their efforts?

On my 2nd day of a 12 day round trip to Walsall. Maybe i'll claim the record for the longest travel time to watch Wimbledon - confident of the win!

A4e - shouldn't that be Greyhound sanctuary instead ? 😁

6MDM: i didn't want to raise this the other day - because you seemed excasberated by the discussion - however i need to point out that unemployment benefit no longer exists. So if ypu have been told that "unwaged" equals " receipt of unemployment benefit" - its possibly surprising that we even have one such bursary per match. Instead there is jobseekers allowance or universal credit.

Don't entirely disagree with your eloquent assessment KD, although like everything else the few (clique) spoilt it for the many (rank and fiie members with no meaningful say, as recent history proved).

The club, $6m, obvs.

Charity donations taken out before IHT - so I think we would need to have a charity providing some sort of support for the Trust/PLC. Definitely seems doable but can’t see it raising much.

What is us though? I seem to recall Matt Breach having an article in one of the programmes back in our non league days called something like "Womble 'till I die .... and a bit longet" promoting and advocating leaving a legacy in a will to the club. What I can't remember eas whether it was actually the club or the DT? That is what I mean by what is us? Previously, if I was so inclined, it would have been to the DT as opposed to the club. Now, not in a million years.

Donkey Sanctuary 🫏😬

Aye, Spit. Intestate + no surviving relatives = the Crown. So if you are a lonely old duffer with no kids, why not leave it all to us so we can spend it instead of Rachel from Accounts?

Yes that's dying "intestate" though and mainly people with little to leave. Of course, if you have the means to write a will, you won't die "intestate" so it's not a question of leave to the Club versus leave to the Govt

I'm sure if you have no family or friends and don't leave a will ,the government takes all.

Without them we would have made different (difficult) decisions.

Spit, the Govt would get the same IHT regardless of whether you leave it to the Club or not

As far as irregular income goes, we have been incredibly fortunate over past few seasons - Arsenal, Chelsea Newcastle cup matches and 3 major 1st team player sales plus steady sales of youth GKs. Without these, we would almost certainly have been bust or almost so.

Those that think it is OK to make ongoing annual losses each year do not grasp what a loss actually means. It means your income is less than your expenditure. It means there is more cash going out the door than coming in. Making losses for a few seasons doesn't kill you while you have cash in the bank. As soon as it runs out, which it will by making ongoing losses, you cannot meet your financial obligations and you go bust. Owner-managed clubs can get away with it because somebody gives them cash to keep operating. In our case, it would be the begging bowl again.

Surely that should be a rosette and a wooden rattle...

Yep early days at KM was a request to leave the club some inheritance. Suppose better than rotten government getting it.

Kent - good plan, except that the wreath would need to be the same colours as that scarf we got, slate grey and a weird pale blue… 🤪

I think that request was made by the club years ago KD.

Here's an idea. Let's ask our ageing Baby Boomers to leave their estates to the club in return for one eternal share in AFC Wimbledon plc. When they die, we would give them a yellow and blue wreath for their funeral with an inscription that says 'SHAREHOLDER'.

Totally agree with Biggles on the season tickets, the whole ticket pricing needs looking at, as an OAP I always go for the early bird offer plus I would certainly reduce the reduction on the concession rate and are we once again offering free DT membership to ST holders?

Magic, re your 9am post - that's why i said "unless we can plug those annual losses"

Keefy, yes there will be an early bird rate as in previous seasons. We will be in a position to announce next years season ticket prices soon.