Yes ,6 years yesterday that famous 2-2 at Luton under Wally. Shame about that betting thing and the reduced budget he got after the great escape. Think we would now be in the championship if he was still in charge.

“Wally Downes and Mark Robinson as joint managers” - dream team 🤪☺️👏

He's going to partner Bobby Zamora

DO - or possibly in goal

Should we play Vardy as a 2 with Stevens or with Bugiel? Or maybe as part of a 3? Decisions, decisions? ;o)

Jamie Vardy has now presumably, cleared Rebakah's legal debts, so can afford to retire

Hash, you should have said "Well Franco died many years ago and now it's time to move on ..."

I am just back from holiday in Madrid where i told a few people about us and that we are fan owned and they said 'you mean like Real Madrid?' and I said yes...we are like real madrid.

Spit - Not only was my road turned into a rat run some years ago when they put traffic lights in at Cannon Hill/Grand Drive, but it's also used as a car park by mums taking their sprogs to and from the local brainwash place. Don't mind the latter at all, why should I, but turning the road into a route to avoid those traffic lights has become a sour point. The 20mph limit has been about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Anyways, as a consequence of the heavy use of the road surface, it developed a wide, deep split right down the middle, which the council have ignored. If they got that Jeremy Vine whinger to ride down, he'd end up with his wheels stuck down the gap. Bet they'd repair it quick enough then. Seem ironic they can asphalt entire pavements, but ignore potholes and splits on road surfaces. Perhaps they hope all the litter the bin men leave behind will miraculously blow into and plug said split. Yes, that must be it.

Jamie Vardy on his way

Always made me laugh that when monkleigh rd and Ashridge way in morden were made school streets, that woodland way was also made a school street,I wonder which ex merton council leader lives down that road. Can't have them yummy mums dropping off the kids and turning round that street 😂

Episode 3 of The Womble Coefficient podcast is now out. Available on Spotify ([Link] and Apple ([Link] I thought it was a good discussion but see what you think!

Keefy49 I’m amazed that Merton Council seem to have stealthily got away with their latest idiotic scheme to take up all the paving stones from our pavements and replace them with tarmac. Tarmac pavements look like shit when they are new, so imagine how they will look once they have been dug up then patched by the utility companies. Taking up and replacing a slab on a sand bed makes accessing services relatively easy compared to having to dig up tarmac. Be interesting to see if they implement this scheme in Wimbledon Village

I'm quite happy for one of leds,biggles and the other extreme fans owned clan to take over as president and pay a big lump every season towards debts.😂

Alan - agreed, if you go down El Presidente model they would need actual control of most of the inner workings.

OI - Ah ok got it. If someone is willing to put £1.3m+ a year on the line for us, they should be given meaningful amounts of control and probably a reasonably long term (5 years?) so they can actually do things. That is clearly the trade off for the Trust/Fans Ownership: You get temporary control and all the trappings of club presidency in return for capital at risk and/or investment. I thought you meant trying to apply candidate slates/parties more directly to our current set-up.

Saveloy, the whole good or bad DTB'er is dependent on the candidates ability to stay strong and face down some of the nonsense that comes from within. El Presidente would need to be given the reigns to remove unelected blocking forces as part of the gig...

Sav - yes. I'm sure someone can provide the exact details but it seems you elect the President and he/she gets to choose most/all of the rest of the Board (partly at least in advance). It does make accountability much clearer and I can see why a President with his own money at stake would demand real authority.

Shame Newport IW couldn't sort their shit out, another fan owned club could have been a good day out but the new ground isn't going to be up and running on time [Link]

Jardim at has left Newport.

OI - do you mean sort of mini political parties within the candidates? I'm personally keen on something like that. I find it very challenging to unpick who is a good DTBer and who is not. Collective responsibility effectively hides almost all responsibility. Even tracing whether people have done the things they said they would in their manifestos is hard. Being able to ascribe success or failure more clearly to a specific alliance/group would make my voting choices easier and I think increase responsibility and democratic accountability. Not sure it would be that easy in practice given we have a third of the board leaving every year under the current processes.

Barca also have slates of candidates for election so that people are pulling in the same direction. There are upsides and downsides to that. In favour stuff happens quicker and with less fuss, against you can get a board doing bad stuff with little to obstruct them. On the whole I'm against but can't deny it often works at Barcelona - till it doesn't. Thoughts?

RE Barcelona as an example of 'fans ownership'. In some ways it's not a bad model to look at to ease off the fans-ownership stabilisers. The President can only get elected if they can personally guarantee 15% of the annual turnover (i.e. if they make losses, El Presidente gets his/her chequebook out). Effectively creating a sugar-daddy subsidy of a nominally fans-owned club. I'm sure the enshriners wouldn't go for it, but sooner or later we will need to change something (by force or design, I hope we go for design).

Woking again maybe?

All those psf's with K's.