I think the BBC can only take action against dogs if they don't pay the licence fee. In the meantime they are reporting on whether we are dealing with dangerous dogs in an approriate manner to protect people and other dogs.

a4e, plus WiJG appears never to have accepted that the Club has to pay 20% vat on matchday tickets. Maybe he doesn't bother looking too closely at his firm's finances ;-/

The BBC are after our dogs 🐕 now. How low can they get. Dogs are great for guarding the home,especially as 92% of burglarys go unsolved!

SB - ridiculous, isn’t it.

OI - I’m a bit confused by JG’s logic - on the one hand he wants an end to all and every concession ticket price (including for the poorest pensioners and the disabled), and on the other hand, he wants to introduce a deal whereby you can get a match ticket plus a pie PLUS a pint for under twenty quid… And apparently that’ll somehow save the club £350,000… Mind you, he’s good mates with a Yale law professor, and Dobbies garden centre gives you a free coffee, plus Industrial Provident blah something or other, sorry I tuned out…

OI - sorry, yes, you’re right, but wow what a great stadium they had back then…!!

Bob - Never realised Ks old ground was so huge. That OTD crowd goes up, up and up again. They must have quickly built a few extra tiers because the Dons were coming to town. Yep, must be the answer. Elementary my dear whatsit.

a4e - Richmond Road not Kingsmeadow though I'm fairly sure that didn't have a two tier stand when I visited :)

There is probably a universe within the pluriverse where all of JG's ideas get tried out but none of us are ever likely to live there. So we are left with the step by step approach starting with restricting concessions in the poshest bits of the stadium.

Surrey - also, the game was apparently at Kingsmeadow, but if you zoom in, there’s a packed huge two-tier stand in the background, so there must be about 50,000 spectators there….

An interesting game OTD in 1962 as I see three teams were involved. One wearing orange, one wearing white with white shorts, and one wearing white with black shorts.

Turning that “bursary” element into a revenue generating “concession” would make sense. Scrap the over 66s “bursary” discount on season and match-day ticket sales and replace with a “concessionary” discount for certain less popular matches in less desirable parts of the stadium. For example - an Over 66s promotion at £12 for an evening match ticket or expand the over 66s promotion to a ticket, pie & pint for just £18! If the Club could make this work – it would not only save over £350,000 of the current “bursary” element but would in addition generate increased revenue which otherwise would have been missed. A double whammy – positive all round.

I’m lucky because I have a work pension as well as a state pension, so I obviously pay tax, but I know several people who only receive a state pension and some even still have a mortgage or loans to repay. Doubtless some will say they just didn’t work hard enough or save well enough during their working lives, but people’s circumstances don’t always allow for those things - illnesses, injuries, and all sorts of other factors can affect someone’s finances over their lifetime…

Postman - we are away on Friday, no - or was that just info for those travelling in the general direction of Wimbledon?

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As you get older you normally earn more money, hence pay more tax. A breakdown of income levels v tax paid for the over 70s would provide a better basis for analysis. Some are wealty but many are not.

Strangely enough in 22/23 over 70s paid more income tax than under 30s . There's the problem.

Matchday concessions are like the triple lock. These days, there's a lot of pensioners who have saved and had good jobs with occupational pensions inc tax-breaks. But there's also many folk who have to get along with state pensions/benefits. Politicians can't crack that one and neither, I suspect, can football clubs

Concessions are an interesting one and seem to be relatively unique to sport in terms of venue attendance. Concerts, Theatre etc don't tend to offer them. I guess with Kids its a "start 'em young" approach, but other discounts are just trying to take into account people have less money and are more a social kindness as I can't imagine a few quid is really the difference between going and not going.

Dropping the unwaged concession is a pity but not one I will cry over for long.

No trams to Wimbledon this Friday and sat engernering works

Spit-I remember the season we got to Wembley in 1988 we gave away 22 penalties!!! I went through the end of the season video(remember them?)and had a look and exactly half were pens but also half weren’t just bad refereeing

Surely those on universal credit should get free tickets, being a social justice club..

JG must be pretty nimble on the key board to trot out verse and chapter on his views , 3 lengthy posts. Perhaps he would be better employed being the secretary of our Industrial & Provident Society. Sorry George your tenure is in danger.

But one bit of good news! It does appear that the Club have now removed discounts for the "Unwaged".