Let's hope the club makes plenty of money from the new play"How the Enshriners beat the majority:-)

Nick Woking - problem with administration for a potential investor is that you wouldn't get exclusivity by then - you'd be competing with whoever else is interested. And of course, you'd then have to deal with what crap has been left behind because of the process of admin - and by that I mean unpaid suppliers, creditors, any hidden little sinkholes. As tempting as buying a recently admin-ed AFCW would be, it wouldn't necessarily be better than doing so while we're still solvent.

Lurker- you may be right- though I think that even if this deal had gone through we would be unlikely to have got the cash in time to save our L1 status so they would have started in L2

Trigger- in effect we are now down to a choice of a worse deal than before (as investors know that we are going to be increasingly desperate) or no deal, and consequent administration, ending in either a sale by the administrator totally outside our control or the club ceasing to exist altogether if no sale can be agreed, either way our best option has gone now.

Nick if the club goes into administration the punishments would probably take us too far from the level investors want to be worth the effort. There are no shortage of clubs to invest in with this kind of a deal. Other than location rhe league one status would be the key thing.

REPD- I think what I would take from this if I was a potential investor is that anyone seeking to do a deal with the DT is going to come under this level of scrutiny (reasonable or unreasonable), therefore they would be much better off as an investor to wait for administration and buy the club at that point, without having to jump through a lot of hoops to satisfy our purity brigade or bother with fans having 50.1% control over the ground (or anything else)

Should the Bertrand Boys fail with another investor, anyone who wants to come in could really hold the club and the supporters to ransom. We're lucky so far that the SSF are happy to meet us in formal meetings, some of their members are seen at away games, that kind of thing - the next investor may think that's a waste of time

I think deep scrutiny is understandable and justified given this would have been a historic pivot for AFC Wimbledon. I’m sure fans of all other clubs check out their potential new owners in great depth because it gives you an idea of what they’ll be like once in charge. I agree that baseless accusations are unhelpful and unhealthy. We have to accept that there is still a group of fans who would vote for enshrinement if they possibly could and they’re willing to do anything to stay fan owned.

Oxford - I don't do socials, only this site, so was unaware of any smearing.

So however this has come about. From what we were told was why we have to do this. The club will be broke and dead end of this season?

EGM should have stood to allow members to question the board on their performance and future options eg by what deadline do Bertrand & Co need to find alternative finance before the club needs to take financial action ourselves to stave off administration? And what other options exist outside of the current cashless consortium?

Oddsock, if you read back, I was explicitly not saying fans shouldn't ask questions. I asked questions myself and even linked to some research I did on Mir on this guestbook. What I objected to was unreasonable smearing, expecting to know confidential info, and briefing to the press/making insinuations online rather than asking questions via the proper channels. At the start of the process, the DTB invited people to ask them questions and said they would update their FAQs with answers but some people decided to besmirch a man's reputation online instead for ideological ends. Foolish and, frankly, I'm very cross about it.

Fed up with all the bullshit around the club now. Fucking joke.

Cray Wanderers 2 Stockport 0 atHT.

groutings, groutings, Mr sock :-)

Keefy it was effectively trying to use yesterday’s cup exit at the hands of a lower division side as a reason to not want this deal to go through.

and the fact that we each, individually ("jointly and severally" I believe is the legal term), feel "holier than thou" due to our recent history is only going to exacerbate matters.

Just so people know, the Wimbledon signed (faded) shirt I put on eBay contributed just over £39 towards DLAG - thanks to the buyer, someone in Norway who was hoping that Egil Olsen’s name might be on the shirt…. (to be honest, I couldn’t tell, too many names were scribbled…).

G'day, tGG.

timmy - be honest; we have been fighting amongst ourselves for the past 24 years.

Oxford - If fans (that have the right to vote on this issue) take it upon themselves to ask questions before voting, surely that's not only their right, but the sensible thing to do. If not, what's the point of giving them the right to vote in the first place? If the person being scrutinised doesn't like the questions, that's too bad. If there's nowt to hide, there shouldn't be a prob.

Story time on the guestbook it seems

Strangely I also feel sorry for some of the "Don's Trust" board members. I sat opposite Graeme Price on the Northern Line after the MK game for half an hour or so and I whilst neither of us know each other, I got the sense that he was positive and excited about bringing whatever deal he and others had been working on, to the table.

Enshriners = Football club killers

All going on cray game on bbc2 now