Given the lack of proof reading, can you be sure it was the right return address...my views nobody else's.

Thanks Trig. Oh well. Hope for the best, I 'spose.

Pads I think it comes down to the crapness of the voting link that the trust put out. Not sure if you remember but it was badly worded, badly structured and GCSE fail level of communication. As usual. But within that I think you could essentially vote for each round on the same link. So I suspect (but can’t be certain) that if you voted via that link then you voted twice already.

Great piece Rob, particularly liked this passage, A good start would be the next elections, where people with actual business backgrounds get to stand, and get elected. Perhaps some of its current semi-irrelevance is because it’s seen as a cross between the Department of Administrative Affairs and a local branch of the Green Party. It needs to up its game, and if it drives away the wannabe politicians and Gender Studies students then even better.

So just us and Keefy who didn't get a second vote?

Agreed OI and as I’ve stated a few times I have zero faith in the people who are supposed to be leading these negotiations to get it right. Something so crucial to the survival of the club let alone the ongoing performance capability shouldn’t be entrusted to people who have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that they are not up to the task and are not to be trusted to bring information faithfully to members.

Good article Rob. What still seems very unclear to me is the 'working capital' situation aka covering our ongoing losses. How keen is someone buying in going to be in covering losses if we can use our 50%+1 to force through a policy they hate? OK, they can threaten to withdraw but that would probably just cause administration and value their investment at zilch. So the key thing for me when/if we do have a beauty parade is what are the arrangements on working capital and how firmly tied in are our investors?

That’s an excellent write up Rob and you have articulated well some things I have felt for a while.

Good piece, Rob

Is the Sunday sport still going ?

Could someone less senile explain this DT vote thingy to us? The last email we got, on 27th March, said that we would get a survey re the second vote in due course. We didn't. Now everyone seems to think it's all gone through. Did they have so many proxy votes that they didn't need ours to meet the criteria?

Good analysis REPD

Trigger I didn’t actually dislike him. He could be very irritating at times and he wasn’t someone I’d go out of my way to engage with. But I genuinely don’t hold grudges on here and other times I’d be fine with him. But on a public forum he was always walking a very thin line. And this sub, like our fan base, has some very mixed backgrounds and personalities. Which includes plenty of people with very strong and clear views of what they’ll tolerate. He definitely needed to read the room better.

Morning all. As 50.01 goes through the second stage of approval, SW19 has done a bit of a long article on the whole thing - [Link]

*deliberate lower case t on the second times btw

Can’t remember the last time I read a newspaper. I used to buy The Times and read it on the way to away games, but if modern times tell us anything at all it’s that the glory days of investigative and objective journalism are well and truly over.

OI. I stopped reading Yhe Times about a year ago

RK I tend to read the I paper as well. Easier to get news out of it than most papers.

I bring a book mostly these days RK. I thought you were a Times reader.

I don't read the Guardian but I just glance at OIs on Saturday matchdays. He can't make midweek games ;-/

Always felt like Kentish didn’t know when to stop pushing people’s buttons.

Another hot sunny day on the island, friendly smiley bus drivers wait for you to sit down before moving.and haven't seen any stabbings

I can't speak for Bert but I think a lot of the reason Kentiish isn't back is Kentish. Maybe people should speak to him.

Anyone who doesn't read the guardian on here or hold it values is cancelled :-)

Trigger- amen. Everything I read on here that he posted was either really useful, well written or sometimes pushing things but not in a malicious way