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OK guys, so the We Are Wimbledon Fund has been relaunched (wearewimbledonfund.com) with an All For One campaign urging fans to help boost the first team playing budget as we return to League One. We’re probably going to need all the ££ we can get. Of course, this won’t be for everyone - but if you are in a position to contribute, and would like to, then every donation could help make a real difference. The initial target is to give Johnnie and Craig £250k for the January window, and that has to be a decent player or two. Maybe even the next Ali?! Anyway, the idea is that lots of small amounts soon add up over the six months so fingers crossed we can make this happen. There will be incentives to donate along the way. Keep your eyes on social media (X, FB, Insta, Bluesky and TikTok) and the website wearewimbledonfund.com and do hit me up with any questions (well, questions I may be able to answer, please).
1st Jul 2025 09:06:34
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KD, I appreciate the Animal Farm analogy and to a certain extent I agree. However the WAW donations are ringfenced for the playing budget.
1st Jul 2025 23:26:28
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JG certainly doesn’t do himself any favours with the rather self-satisfied way that he expresses things, though I think that his underlying point, that it is much more difficult to mobilise funding from a large group of fans for a “collective” investment than it would be from a small group of wealthy individuals with a direct and substantial stake in the club, is hard to deny. To me it’s relatively easier to raise “donation-type” funding for a one-off capital investment (eg the share issue to buy KM- I never expected to see the money I put into the shares again, which is just as well, as I never will), I just can’t see us doing that sort of fund-raise every year in perpetuity to cover ongoing losses, which is what we need.
1st Jul 2025 23:24:13
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“Just be thankful we still have a football club to support,” said Boxer. “Napoleon is always right.”
1st Jul 2025 23:18:42
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Spot on Nick. JG gives off the air of I'm rich, how much richer can I be? Whereas here's me on £13.65 an hour contemplating a £20 a month DD to boost the budget.
1st Jul 2025 23:01:32
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JG the return that you get is having a football club with Wimbledon in its name. Am I in a parallel universe or has everybody forgotten what happened and how close we came to not having a football club to bitch and moan about and criticise the people that are running it. I don’t know him, but JG seems to personify how an owner would view our club, all about personal gain. Be careful what you wish for. Quite a few on here don’t seem to like JG very much at the same time as advocating selling to an owner.
1st Jul 2025 22:54:38
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The club and the DTB gets a lot of stuff wrong and it’s not helped by the attitude of one who posts on here, but it’s getting a bit boring bashing them up for everything that they do. Almost like we want to fail and say “I told you so”
If we’re going to do the TBK unanswered questions sticky we could call it an icky.
1st Jul 2025 22:26:30
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Laurence - I’m not getting into the JG or not JG argument I really don’t care about that - but it’s obvious in this case that if a private owner wants to whack in £10m of their own money in the hope of reaping the rewards from promotion to the championship or premier league and the increased revenues available there then that’s why they would do that. JG is pointing out that we owners don’t have that. Anyone that wants to contribute to the WAWF fund is well within their rights to do so but it is not an investment. WAWF are thankfully very clear about that - this is a donation and your money is spent and gone. You don’t hand it over expecting any financial return. Private owners may well see their input differently, but if your sportswashing companies don’t seek direct financial return then they still see a financial benefit from the bigger picture.
1st Jul 2025 22:17:07
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Please don’t lose your wonderful balance because of who’s posted something. I don’t know what your specific beef is with Jg and I don’t care. On this occasion their point is correct - GP’s quote is comparing a private ownership financial investment with a community fan group donation. It’s not the same and it’s an unnecessary comparison amidst a decent call to action from WaWF - if I were on the board with my professional communications background I would not have let that quote go out.
JG has just summed one of the ills of the world. Too many people who become super wealthy, rather than put it back into the society that helped them acquire it, just go to their financial adviser to find out how to move it to a tax haven.
1st Jul 2025 22:04:33
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Hard to know who to support between Djokovic and a Frenchman
1st Jul 2025 21:44:14
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"DonsTix worked brilliantly for Wembley." So as long as you had it with you it allowed you to enter the stadium just like any other previous type of ticket. It's like saying the doors to the bogs at Wembley worked brilliantly.
1st Jul 2025 21:40:52
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The stairs at Wembley took me to another level.
JG - what do you think they are getting in return?
1st Jul 2025 21:39:43
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just another throwaway line trying to prove you know so much
rover t - thankyou for pointing this out.
1st Jul 2025 21:32:42
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Graeme Price is completely missing the point. Obviously the reason why owners at other football clubs often put their hands into their pockets to pump further money into their clubs is because they are getting something in return. Some sort of return on Capital - whether it be an eventual monetary return or some form of accolade within the community and amongst their peers. Why would I donate to some Collectivist dream where I receive neither and my fellow fan who donates less or nothing gets the same benefit from my donation? Call me selfish - yes I am and proud of it. Sorry but human nature is self-interested and we most certainly haven't yet reached the alienation of things
1st Jul 2025 21:30:50
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6MDM: On your smartphone you will have a a Google Wallet. Best to download into the Wallet. You will rarely get good internet at matches or concerts when there are a lot of people simultaneously using it.
1st Jul 2025 21:20:12
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I hope Delano McCoy-Splatt's footballing career doesn't follow a similar path to his older brother Javaun Splatt. At Derby County aged 18/19. Now at 24 playing for Hythe Town in the Southern Counties East Football League having been at 10 different clubs in between.
1st Jul 2025 21:16:36
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TBK are you planning on answering any of the outstanding questions asked of you on here? You claim engagement is a two way street and that you’re surprised at how few emails you’ve had since becoming a board member. Should have plenty of time to answer the questions here. Would it help if we requested a sticky that contains all the questions you’ve so far left unanswered?
1st Jul 2025 21:13:49
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For any lurkers TBK is currently board member Martin Drake. Remember that for the next election campaign.
Yes that's what I did - just get the right bit open before you go to the game and then select that page to get through the barrier
1st Jul 2025 20:55:39
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I think you could pay £10 for a card?
6MDM, no you don't. Your ticket is downloaded on to your device. You do need battery though of course.
1st Jul 2025 20:53:10
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DonsTix worked brilliantly for Wembley.
6M - just go to WiFi and pick AFCWGuest - should work… Otherwise get your ST loaded on the app as you walk to the ground - it shouldn’t need internet 👍
1st Jul 2025 20:52:53
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On an entirely different topic, do you need internet access at the time you would use the ticketing app the club launched towards the end of the season to gain entry? The reason I ask is I can never get online at Plough Lane. I've had this issue with two different phones and two different mobile phone carriers (first Vodafone and, for the last few years, Sky). Maybe it is just me but I would be surprised if there are not others. What would happen to them if they pitched up and could not get in because their app could not get online?
1st Jul 2025 20:42:48
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Not an issue for me next season as I coughed up the extra £10 for a card but did anybody consider this (rhetorical question)?
I don't suppose Graeme added "and meanwhile we are looking at all other ways of reducing costs and raising revenue so that we need to make fewer calls on these 'owners'"?
1st Jul 2025 20:40:40
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Good point, RK and I didn't want to go to either Bromley game as it goes!
1st Jul 2025 20:31:22
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Bored of all the DT stuff.
“We own our club”. . . When it needs more money . . .
1st Jul 2025 20:28:38
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“Dons Trust Board member Graeme Price added: ‘At other clubs the owner may or may not increase the side’s playing budget and it just so happens we have around 7,000 owners to call upon, and this is a great initiative for all those who are able to, to really contribute to our success.’”
1st Jul 2025 20:24:07
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This is the stuff we need to get a comms expert in on. We are no different from any other club in that our owners also may or may not increase the playing budget. The haughty nature of these statements do us no favours when you look at comments like Rover T’s alongside it. We are owners only when the clique want our cash. Outside of that we are to be ignored, censored, banned and preached towards. We need to find a better balance.
I struggle to see not going to Bromley as punishment Rover...
1st Jul 2025 20:16:40
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