TF - Quite the opposite. I have always maintained that we should get answers to questions unless there is a solid legal reason for with-holding the information - so do not misrepresent me. I will give the DTB some leeway in that the volunteer nature of the job means questions may not be answered immediately but they could at least acknowledge the question and a time frame for the answer. I do not know how pointing out to Ferret that being a DT member does not make you a club owner is in any way drinking their Kool Aid. I am actually saying the opposite. If you stop giving them your £25/year, as I have then you no longer have any say in how the club is run. That is not ownership. However if you own shares in the club then you have a say without being a DT member.

Uncomfortable for the diminishing clique but Trigger and Kenty we bang on the mullah

They’re all up there in the upper tier on the halfway line lording it over their comrades with a prawn cocktail and glass of champers. All the while discussing equality and inclusion.

Is Buckley still here? I thought he’d left? Has Kris left? I hope he has. It’s hard to know anymore. You don’t deserve to know. Silk appears to have gone full Koolaid which feels odd - the accounts are fine we’re literally within two or three decades of being able to compete and being a DT member doesn’t afford you any right to know anything you plebeians - I think someone has their eye on a DTB role…

Ha ha, Sav.

We were wondering that very thing this afternoon, OI.

We are forever grateful to Buckley for committing against his will to another term as AFC Head Honcho. Unfortunately he was too busy devoting himself to identifying the right boy for the “branding and digital transformation lead’ job and has not managed to replace himself. Nevertheless we welcome the digital transformation of the trust and plc into one super database, funded by volunteer season ticket holders who can’t read small print. As for Buckley, third time lucky in replacing himself is surely a reasonable expectation? Yours truly, The Board

Hey Lou, maybe it’s time for a couple of WISA members to put themselves up for the DTB. 😁

Speaking of which has anyone heard rumours about how Buckley's hunt for his successor is going?

Successful business people are partly where they are because they've been in the right place at the right time with the right idea, often through good insight but occasionally through pure luck. The other component for most of them, who tend to be ideas people, is to have good lieutenants who make sure things happen and aren't overlooked. Picking them, many of whom might be called donkeys or sheep by some, is a definite talent needed to be successful.

I think that a democracy is fine for running a non-league club, especially when you have crowds which are much bigger than your competitors - I don't really think that it works for running a league club, any more than it does for managing any other business.

How wonderfully Animal Farm. But then, the Revolution was always doomed. That’s the point.

Due to my roles on WISA, Supporters Direct & The Dons Trust, think a lot of my information is already in the public domain via Companies House and social media. Time for me to do a rebrand and maybe go off to find a nice non-league club to follow somewhere down the A3 corridor …..

Of that I have not doubt Laurence. More power to your elbow 💛💙

Laurence can also share your private information in order to gain loyalty points with the clique if that helps.

Ferret - I can be a bigger pain than you. :o)

Ha OI: Oh I know I’m a pain in the arse - especially when it comes to The Dons Trust and ensuring our Club is safe but can also progress. Democracy seems to being eroded. But I will not be taken for a fool on a members’ forum by certain DTB members.

If we're going to be told what we can ask and what is going to happen, it is like having an external owner but without the bonus of their money. We need pains in the arse - like me, I'm sure not like Ferret ;) - to push for answers and votes.

Thanks Silk! I was the founding Chair of the Dons Trust, I also am a fully paid up member …. and Brucie Bonus I hold shares. As a member I can ask any reasonable question. I want the answer it shouldn’t be a secret. If you’re a DT member and on Proboards you’d see what I have been asking and also why.

Absolutely DO. Clever on our part (Reeves coming from distance). Stupid on Salfords part as we could gamble and take a yellow (or two) if necessary. Even the execution to move the ball a yard towards our goal was ridciulous. Credit to the the team on how they defended that free kick

Let it go Mr Watson.

99% chance they'd just have missed anyway even with a retake!

I meant pointless as in, it went our way so really doesn't matter.

scotty - agreed. The fact that he started behind the wall and ran fast meant very hard for ref to see where he was when ball first touched by Salford player. These things can go either way - we got lucky and Salford got unlucky.

Ferret - the Dons Trust is the owner and you are just a member of the Don Trust. You are only an owner of the club if you actually own shares. I did buy some shares way back in 2002 but do not know if that makes me an owner - cannot remember what rights they gave me. Just joining the Dons Trust does not make you an owner of the club and never has - no matter what anyone says. All it does is give you a say in what the biggest shareholder of the club does.