Is Doobs in the afternoon film on BBC 2 today?

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DD- Whole stadium open. Any unsold is oyrs which I'm sure some will be sent back and sold to them subject to a segregation area. I reckon 50k crowd

Geordies have charged £20 for adults and £10 for concessions in all areas except for hospitality obviously

Vat has to come off

KD - I did have to pull the car over to chat to Adrian Chiles yesterday :)

It looks like they are standard EPL club that has a ballot system for tickets and probably a huge waiting list. My son is friends with a Chelsea supporter, they go to these "minor" games and seem to always sell out.

I'm guessing 45% of the gate could be 250K maybe less?

Does "sold out" possibly mean they're not opening up the whole stadium? If they've genuinely sold out all of SJP, that's great.

Also some of the away tickets might start being snapped up by home fans as they seem to be on general sale to anyone

Meadow-good news for us, apparently they have had 8 away cup draws in a row so a home game is a big bonus

Kentish that's sort of where a lot of the discussion has gone. There's nothing stopping the DTB members who do stuff because it's their thing and use their position to do it, from doing what they want outside of the DTB and the DT. They can then liaise with the DTB if they choose. They don't need a DTB status to do some of this stuff (DLAG doesn't have it) and they don't need the authority that goes with it if that's all they're bringing to the party. Doobs and DLAG have shown stuff can be done without the status and power.

Spot on Kenty. Really don’t think it would be that difficult for a DTB’er with a project on the go to find 10 mins to upload an update video. If there are 6/7 burning questions, the relevant DTB’er make the replies visible in a YouTube update. Webjam, Pro Boards, meh.

Newcastle home tickets sold out.

Yep,just got caught in the downpour walking up worcester park high street

Another monsoon in Wimbledon now. That isn’t what we need

Look at Doobs. He's raised over 100K and appeared on the BBC 1pm bulletin without - as far as I'm aware - even leaving his home.

Maybe it is riffing but it is what is needed. Sadly it seems to be easier for it to happen here than within the DT itself.

For example, members could self-organise themselves into groups about certain subject areas very easily using technology. These groups could feed into the DTB decision making process without being a formal part of the DT.

I'm not sure how we improve the fan-DTB input process but instinctively I feel the answer is a bottom-up approach instead of the rather Soviet tendency to form unnecessary committees.

Kentish in which case the first role of the DTB is to be clear what mandate the people it answers to (which seems to have been forgotten), want it to be. And no trick questions or loose wording. Literally here's a list of what the DTB carries out oversight on. What's important to the members (the DTB's bosses).

Russ totally agree and the key thing is none of the people doing these things have to stop and it doesn't necessarily mean everyone now has to be paid. It just means that things that should be under the Ops banner or football banner of the club are put there. The DTB keep using the "that would be an ecumenical question" defence but far too much is still with the DTB that should also be in there.

People talk about oversight as if it's a small thing. Far from it. It includes ST pricing and a thousand other things. Like I say, the role of the DT and its members is to oversee the financial, and to a lesser extent ethical, performance of AFC Wimbledon. That is the core function. What the DT should do is reimagine how fans can get involved in the oversight.

OI I stand by the idea that all of these side committees and whatever should have to come back each year, with a report, to request permission to continue, like any properly run organisation would want.

I've turned a bit of a corner on the DT and think that there is a useful function for it as a (somewhat) democratic entity that oversees the PLC and also provides a channel for volunteering, sub-commercial peripheral activities and fan dialogue with the PLC (including some operational topics). I think if we whittled down the DT to 100% focus on PLC oversight (as I used to think) we would end up with some non-democratic supporters groups popping up and, frankly, they would more likely be a voice for zealots and 'we are not a club, we are a movement' types. Having a 'big tent' supporters group, such as the DT, is dilutive of the extreme positions without shutting them out, and I think we benefit from that.