I don't remember the £3,000 per year bit. People were talking about a one-off £3,000 towards the stadium, and that turned into the PL Bond.

BTW we have doubled our attendances, and therefore we should be generating more income and profit.

Dundonald - think it was the December 2019 meeting where people were asked to commit £3000 a year to fund the new stadium. Do you remember whether any notes of names were taken on the night, please? Thanks

“The argument was that we are the least unsuccessful club in the EFL financially”

Would investors be interested in buying control for a number of years? Like Barcelona where they elect a president. It's the only solution I can think of to our financial problems where the fans still retain a say in who runs the club. Like Spotify where you don't own the music or PCP on cars.

Come on you Bournemouth @

Wow some game at Old Trafford - 4-4 with a few minutes still to go 🤪

Control LD. There might be people who would see us as a very attractive investment if they had control but 50%+1 offers them nothing unless they insist on very severe restrictions on what we can do (i.e. get close to control)

What's attractive to all the other owners of L1 clubs that invest an average of £6.4m a year?

The argument was that we are the least unsuccessful club in the EFL financially (among other things).

Any rational investor should just sit on the sidelines for a few years and then pick up the club and all its assets for next to nothing.

Did I get that right to get 50+1 through 60% of trust membership must vote and 75% of those must vote yes ?

How can anyone think we are an attractive investment when we have systemic losses of between 1 and 2 million per annum and no serious strategy for turning that around? We are a lousy investment.

I still can't understand why any rational investor would put large sums of money into a business they wouldn't control. The DTB seem to believe that this person exists, and will continue to hunt for them until the last minute.

We will eventually go into admin as the 'owners' aren't willing to cover the losses even those of running a competitive League 2 team. If that happens any money put in towards 50%+1 is lost. So what demands will anyone investing make to ensure we don't go into admin?

For fans of all clubs in L1 to cover the amount put in by owners the average ticket price would have to be raised by £27.83 per match.

The conclusion presented was that it's very challenging, but that we are Wimbledon and, as such, are an attractive investment proposition and also have a track record in rising to challenges. To be fair to the PLC board, it's not for them to say we should choose a different model but it was DTB reps on the PLC board who were using the sacrosanct word.

DunD - I'll be astonished if selling beyond 50+1 is an option, or discussed at all. Fan ownership is sacrosanct, until it isn't. Much as the people running the club are well-meaning, I think events will outpace them soon.

What was the conclusion from that Aideen?

Lots of references in that meeting to our ownership model being sacrosanct etc. Apparently we are going to have options put to us, one of which will be 50.1%. I really hope that they include option(s) that cross the "sacrosanct" line - and present as objective a view as possible of those options.

Sorry for typo.. average club owner in league puts in 6.4m

We are 23rd in playing budget in league 1. To be 20th we’d need another 1.4m Average wage in league is 7m 8 clubs pay over 8m Average club owner in league ours on 6.4m

I’m still waiting for my kidney stones to come out been waiting since last bank holiday now bloody doctors are going on strike again work not happy going on half pay soon

They finished the Zoom feed at the end of the DT meeting, but Dons TV still going.

The DT meeting took about 45 minutes, but we're still waiting for the PLC meeting, I think. (Dons TV says it's still half-time, so can't have started yet.)