I don't know the legal position but ethically you'd have to allow those who have already invested to take the higher rate. Has anyone heard any more from "half a million guy" mentioned on here a few days ago?

thank you for your thoughts. On the plus side, I am still out-performing Swin on Premium Bond returns on a monthly basis.

The Trust seem to be missing a trick on this bond thing - as it is obvious that there isn't going to be enough demand at the terms on offer and sending begging emails isn't going to change that. If the alternative would be to take out finance at 10%+, secured on the stadium, why not try offering a more realistic rate (say 10% rather than the 5% on offer) to fans to buy into the new issue. Clearly this would increase our interest costs but if the bond fails then we would have to pay that to a commercial lender anyway and it would be better to have 10% unsecured debt to fans rather than 10% secured debt to a commercial lender. Of course we might still not attract enough money but there is a chance, as people might see the rate as making it a gamble worth taking on the risk. Nobody, other than a truly committed fan, is going to lend to us at 5% when you can get 4.4% from a commercial bank, fully covered by the FSCS guarantee scheme but if you could get a really good rate for the loan then some might take the punt.

Not good to read tGG - hope things improve?

Sorry to hear that tGG, life can be s**t sometimes, hope for recovery soon

Very sorry to hear all of that tGG - do take care, and I hope you’ve got some support too….

Take care tGG please

Trust working Sunday overtime. Email just arrived asking me to take out another bond.

a4e - hello, mate. Nope. Pretty pants. Multiple family member mortalities, a period of unemployment (for the first time in very nearly a quarter of a century), depression, (standard levels of) alcohol abuse and the unfortunate resurgence of a gambling problem that had been dormant for over 30 years as a coping mechanism. But, on the plus side, I haven't had any ketamine in over a year.

Those aren’t really the Frequently Asked Questions though are they? “Where is the missing £400k and what is being done about it?” would have been a good one to frequently answer.

Those ppl running the club who lurk here to watch out for naughty behaviour, can yiy maybe post and let us know if there will be scum directors in hospitality on Thursday please.

Watching the Manc derby, I’m now clueless as to how the offside rule is supposed to be applied - allowing that goal was completely bizarre, but I’m sure the refs on here will be able to clarify…

At the risk of repeating myself, there must be loads of you who want to own a share in Wimbledon’s best pub that is an AFC Wimbledon pub through and through. £250 gets you a piece of a unique opportunity to embed yourself in Wimbledon history. £1000 even better and you even secure a discount on your future drinks. I believe community owned pubs have a 98% success rate so long term returns and a place for future generations [Link]

Apparently that would now be a yellow (rule changed after the Beckham sending off) and VAR can't interfere in yellows

How the fuck has Fernandez not got a red as well there. Blatantly kicks Foden in the back.

Good for the DT to provide those answers- at least a degree of transparency. It’s interesting that the process to come up with the estimate of £1.6m of demand for the new DT bond was to start with “how much do we need?” then ask “is that reasonable based on our survey?”, which is a slightly back-to- front approach vs what a normal commercial company would do, but at least explains how we settled on such an over- optimistic assessment.

A4e - I thought it was another of your sly political digs, not necessarily at Spit, but still a political and unnecessary remark, especially as you are always the one saying let's not get all political on here. I did let it slide at the time, but seeing as it was brought up again, I thought I'd make a comment on it. Ps, stop being a political hypocrite.

Ladies complete a home treble with men yesterday, youth beating Gillingham and 2-0 todays against bitcoin Bedford.

Folks, let me tell you, the European Women, they did it! They have won the Solheim Cup, and it was a tremendous performance. Just fantastic! These ladies played so well, really great golf. We're so proud of them, absolutely proud. Winning is what we do best, and they showed the world how it's done. Congratulations to our champions! Keep making Europe great on the greens!

My hotel room has a Gideon bible.

Just watched back yesterday's match. No video of anyone being booked straight after Stockley's booking as showing replays rather than the live action and Bailey not booked for diving for the 'pen'. Ref puts his hand in the air, but slowed down he has no card in hand - just indicating indirect FK.

And the RNLI was formed in 1824 when ROI was under British rule

Re the RNLI, they provide life saving services in the seas of the British Isles and so operate around the ROI as that is part of the British Isles (a late response to a post a few days ago questioning why the R was in the title if the ROI was covered).

TGG - wow, welcome back, long time no post - hope all is good, still quaffing good quality grape juice?

OI - thanks for that, and you’re absolutely right, it most definitely was not aimed at Spit, so I’d be grateful if that wasn’t implied again - as far as I know (from your own posts, Spit), you are a supporter of Lowe, not Farage - but I agree, let’s not chat politics, it’s way too tedious. Peace and love to all :)