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The simple one is no discounts in West Premium blocks.
19th Nov 2025 15:05:20 
[86.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
I'm not talking about removing discounts completely. I'm talking about the plethora of categories and the fact they are given in all parts of the stadium. Make over 65s and under 16s 50%of a full adult price for certain parts of the stadium. If they want to sit in the west stand premium seats they can but they have to pay the full price.
19th Nov 2025 14:55:44 
[78.lo.gg.ed] 
We've got some on here wanting to bump up ticket prices and others wanting discounts. Somebody has to fund our ongoing losses. Personally, I'd accept relegation to a level we can afford but I'm in the minority. I don't expect somebody else to subsidise my hobby but I want that hobby to exist at an affordable price.
Name a club that doesn't give discounts to children and/or students and/or pensioners
19th Nov 2025 14:38:58 
[46.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
While the club is heading towards oblivion, the focus of the DTB is rewriting a constitution for something that may cease to exist or celebrating another award it's won for a sustainability index that is so flawed in it's concept it would be laughable if this was not so serious.
19th Nov 2025 14:28:37 
[78.lo.gg.ed] 
Original investors in the PLC would only get any money for their shares in a sale if a new owner wanted them or full control. I can see them only wanting some of them if we went down to 50% + 1 and they don't have enough for 75% control, so maybe selling up would not give a bit of cash back to all shareholders.
100% agree with everything you've said Six Million Dollar Man
19th Nov 2025 13:55:49 
[109.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
If we did sell up completely, we'd have no say over matchday ticket prices or anything else. Other than the inner circle, we don't have much say now but they're unlikely to do anything radical, otherwise they already would. They can't even get past the ridiculous discounts we offer to sit anywhere in our stadium.
19th Nov 2025 13:46:23 
[78.lo.gg.ed] 
On the plus side, at least those of us with shares in the PLC would get some money for them, which most of us have long since written off. If we get brought out of administration, shareholders rank below creditors, who would probably only get paid a few pence in the pound, leaving shareholders with nothing. Just saying.
If the majority don't want to balance the books by reducing player wages and accepting relegation to a level we could sustain without outside investment then we would be better off selling up now while we have some say in the matter. The stadium is owned by its own legal entity. I'm not sure legally if you could hive it off so that it sits outside the group so an administrator couldn't get their hands on it. Ditto a prospective new owner. The problem is that is where most of the value is so an administrator is unlikely to find somebody to pick up the debris in a fire sale or a new owner willing to pay money for little more than fresh air. This would result in the club being liquidated and ceasing to exist.
19th Nov 2025 13:31:04 
[78.lo.gg.ed] 
Why anybody would invest or lend to a loss making business with no strategy to turn things around is beyond me. Somebody would need to see value somewhere and would want control and ownership over everything, including the stadium.
The reason administration is inevitable is every communication from the club or DTB talks about fan ownership (sic) being non-negotiable. They fail to understand what a football club exists for. The lack of interest in the DT will ensure nothing changes, hence administration. Footballers are greedy. Supporters demand success. Somebody has to pay up or shut up. Most supporters see football ownership akin to socialism, i.e. they want somebody else to pay. The issue is somebody else does pay for 99% of other clubs. I don't even know what the mission statement and strategy of our club is. I don't know what most supporters want as we keep getting fan ownership rammed down our throats.
19th Nov 2025 13:22:25 
[78.lo.gg.ed] 
Anything is non-negotiable until it isn't, including fan ownership.
Stuart - you block off access to changing room areas, and have access from opposite the club shop. Reallocation of space.
19th Nov 2025 13:09:26 
[92.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
I have never craved for fan ownership but at the time it healed the wounds from our unjust move away from Plough Lane. Not prepared to pay extra to to maintain the present ownership model. If 50+1 is productive in bringing extra investment then great if not sell up and sink or swim like the vast majority of other football clubs.
19th Nov 2025 12:41:46 
[95.lo.gg.ed] 
Winter is here.
StuD - cheers. Every time I pass it I think that we could do something with it.
19th Nov 2025 11:42:45 
[149.lo.gg.ed] 
Won't affect our bottom line, of course, but even a pub open before and after the game could be a nice little money spinner.
Nick R mentioned in at ‘Meet the PLC’ recently. I believe the rental was too high for us to afford and the club were keeping an eye on it in case it isn’t rented out and the asking price reduces.
19th Nov 2025 11:35:53 
[104.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
How much is it to rent the vacant retail unit on the corner of Greyhound Parade?
19th Nov 2025 11:34:41 
[149.lo.gg.ed] 
Long felt the club pub should be in there. Even if it means no unique stairwell.
We have the 3 lounges on the middle floor though? I would think the old offices wouldn’t be possible due to them being right next to the players changing area and access is highly restricted.
19th Nov 2025 11:30:30 
[104.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Curacao displaces Iceland [Link]
19th Nov 2025 11:28:41 
[86.lo.gg.ed] 
I only know the name because of a nasty blue liquer popular(?) in the Netherlands
I agree with Laurence about the ground floor. I reckon it would be popular to have a decent lounge or lounges there to go to before and/or after the game, get a seat in the warmth, buy a drink or three and maybe some grub, with the TV matches on in the background. Maybe season ticket/Dons Trust members only?
19th Nov 2025 11:18:32 
[176.lo.gg.ed] 
Wasn't Crystals at Selhurst like that?
6DM - I don’t think its the clubs being greedy, its them having to charge as much as they can to survive.
19th Nov 2025 11:09:37 
[104.lo.gg.ed] 
I actually blame us fans in a way as if a club tried to be more sustainable by keeping ticket prices stable etc and then did shit and got relegated, the fans would be on the owners back asking them to chuck more money in or selling to someone who can.
I have no interest or desire to pay more through turnstiles etc either to remain fan owned either. Fan ownership is a great thing to do when it means you can achieve your immediate goals, but it should be a cross we are prepared to die on.
19th Nov 2025 11:08:20 
[104.lo.gg.ed] 
Also lets be realistic, we have taken outside investment since the days of us accepting a ‘donation’ to pay for Jon Main.
Taking an agnostic view on future fan ownership, the most important priority IMO is to secure the key assets regardless of how the football club is ran and who owns it. We can’t all agree how we get to sustainability or how the club may be funded but we could surely all agree that the stadium is there for the football club and shouldn’t be at the mercy of administrators or malevolent owners. We cannot write any protections into the articles of association, as they are null and void in insolvency (or with a majority ownership change). We need creative ways to protect the key assets. Whilst we are in a position where we are losing ~£3m a year it should be a priority to put appropriate protections in place as administration is pretty foreseeable.
19th Nov 2025 11:07:00 
[86.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
"We should be fan owned. And everyone else but me should pay for it"
19th Nov 2025 10:44:51 
[149.lo.gg.ed] 
Kind of the long and short of it, really.
CL - I have been in the "sell-up" camp for a very, very long time.
19th Nov 2025 10:36:18 
[84.lo.gg.ed] 
Just making it clear to those who want to remain "fan-owned" they will need to pay for that and, even then, it won't last long. So, who was it that suggested the "Championship in 5 years aspiration" idiocy?
If we do wanna remain fan owned we do need to pay for it. And I've got no interest in paying for it tbh
19th Nov 2025 10:27:18 
[82.lo.gg.ed] 
So, sell up it is.
SB - to paraphrase the old saying, fan ownership begins in our hearts and ends in our wallets.
19th Nov 2025 10:25:42 
[149.lo.gg.ed] 
Not that I think increasing prices will touch the sides in the years to come. And that assumes there isn't negative publicity over it.
Stuart - re your 10.00.14 - precisely. This option MUST be on the table.
19th Nov 2025 10:17:17 
[84.lo.gg.ed] 
REPD - what people think about paying to watch at LO and Mansfield is not pertinent. It is what they think about AFCW and it's survival as a fan-owned club that matters.
Morning all. I think the reaction to £30 for Leyton Orient and Mansfield answers the question about how people will react to higher prices at PL...
19th Nov 2025 10:04:05 
[149.lo.gg.ed] 
Running a football club in 2025 is expensive. Who'd thunk it?