Good news - Angus Fox was unanimously re-elected chair of the Dons Trust.

 Anyone remember Mark Dennis?

 O do wonder about going into administration and the likelihood of a business buy us with a view for Chelsea ladies taking over the ground and us being shipped back to KM as a part of their agenda. Chelsea would love to double their youth/ladies ground size and a club in free-fall that administration would bring and might even be able to justify saving the club by aligning us with a more sustainable environment? Just putting it out there...

 Fans owned might of worked in league 1 and 2 for us , if we had done better homework and not built the expensive west stand ,had a very poor ticket system and actually had a 14k capacity ground..still that can't be changed now.only opinion is sell out!

 The current state of football below the Premier League is a big problem. Maybe it changes and you can run at break even in at least some EFL leagues, but I don't see a current route towards that. If it doesn't then the owners cover losses or sell and our current 'owners' are clearly not willing to cover losses.

 Your previous moral…

 I agree with your moral Silk but it highlights another common problem with fan ownership - getting reliable, accurate and balanced information appears to be very challenging.

 Mike Ashley is the leading contender to take over at Sheffield Wednesday. Would you want him running our club?

 Russ - Harrogate have lost £5 million since they have come in the league which they owe to their owner. No matter what our ownership model these problems remain until football gets its finger out of its arse and addresses them.

 We had a successful, promotion-winning season last year in L2 and ran at a loss.

 Fan ownership is failing while we are in league one and two - we are losing millions each year. Let alone talk of champ/prem (although we would be sustainable as a fan owned club in the prem, given the tv revenue). All is good while we have more equity to sell, although that won’t be the case for much longer.

 And finally, yes I think we need to ask all DT members what is their poison. Is it to sell out in the hope of success or to accept our meandering about as we are.

 For my part I think both us and Exeter can compete in L2 and look to survive in L1 - just like Northampton really.

 Trigg - agreed; I’m not really interested either, and I certainly didn’t watch it - but I did quite like a comment I read earlier describing the outcome as a powerful illustration here regarding "influencers" vs. "experts"…. 😂👏

 Fan ownership only fails if you think that success is being in the Premier League or the Championship. If you are quite happy spending some time in L1 and some time in L2 then fan-ownership can work. And Northampton, who are not fan-owned, also share the same L1 and L2 life as us.

 Fan ownership has shown me lately that there’s not enough differentiation from private ownership. All the same problems and the same amount of ability to do anything about it. The main difference is clear - far less money.

 Anyone know when Issue 52 of Historical Don is out?

 Fan ownership just highlights how unequal society is. With a few individuals able to accumulate far more wealth to spend on a football club than thousands of hard working fans in good jobs.

 So good, he said it thrice ;)

 I can’t bring myself to have any interest in those things A4e I understand why a boxer may want to do it (for the money) but I don’t understand why anyone wants to watch it. Seems plenty do so fair enough but, like Strictly, it’s not for me.

 Exeter and ourselves are both proving that fan ownership doesn't work at this level with the current way the EFL is set up. If that doesn't change, and I don't see how it will, we change voluntarily or by financial force

 I agree with you completely Surbiton and Trigg - oddly, we looked reasonably confident for a while after equalising, but being unable to take advantage of our brief period of superiority has once again cost us…. 🙄 Boxing Day could be embarrassing…..

 Nice to see Anthony Joshua giving Jake Paul credit for his valiant effort in entering the ring against him - presumably Joshua could have finished the fight earlier if Paul had engaged, but with the event having a $300m purse, perhaps there was some contractual obligation to keep the paying viewers engaged for longer… 🤷🏻‍♂️

 That Bugiel penalty miss against Burton a real turning point but losing to Gateshead in the FA Cup a real frustration, could have at least given us something to look forward to in January.

 Still more than us CW