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".

Fact 3) The £23 seat for the Peterborough game was the cost of the ticket for the seat next to mine in the East Stand – very close to the halfway line. The seat was occupied by an American Professor of Law at Yale University. He was attending a conference in London for a few days and wanted to attend a London Football match. Both he and his wife attended although they weren’t sat together. How do I know he’d paid £23 – because he dropped his printed ticket which I then picked up for him. And I have just checked for the forthcoming Plymouth game and there are plenty of seats available for the over 66s in the East Stand for the even lower amount of £19 (Block 127, Row F, Seat 13 as an example).

Fact 2) “Concessions” or “Bursaries”. I tend to think of a concession as a marketing discount aimed at increasing overall sales and revenue. For example, Dobbie’s Garden Centres on a Monday (their quietest day) providing OAPs with a 10% discount or free coffee. Its purpose being to attract shoppers who wouldn’t otherwise be customers. In contrast I think of bursaries as a form of charitable subsidy. Assuming that most of the over 66s would still otherwise purchase their ticket without such a discount and on the basis that even if they didn’t you could fill their seat with a full paying supporter – then the giving of such a discount definitely falls into the latter category. It has a real cost to the Club – one that I’d estimate is the equivalent of around £350,000+ per season. It has a real monetary cost – aka a donation. If no such discount existed and the club, whilst losing £2m+ pa, determined to donate £350K to Help the Aged I suspect most fans would be appalled.

I want to address three disagreements we had yesterday over “facts”. There was a suggestion that I might be prone to embellishment. Fact 1) The Wimbledon Football Club Supporters’ Society was established as an Industrial & Provident Society. It is not structured as a Trust. It could have been, but I assume that a Trust wouldn’t have met the idoalogical criteria deemed wanted. In 2014 under the Co-Operative and Community Benefit Society Act it legally became a Community Benefits Society but existing Industrial & Provident Societies were allowed to carry on using the IPS description. It is therefore far more misleading to refer to it as the Dons Trust (which it most certainly isn’t).

Vars adjudicating on the Gazza bollocks crush would of been funny

Yeah true,and all them 22 player brawls would of taken 30 mins to sort out;-)

Was thinking the same thing Spit but if all those bad decisions had been corrected by VAR we’d have still finished games with 8 or 9 men most weeks.

Them first few years on div 1 in late 80s would of been interesting to VAR., some terrible penalties and decisions against us back then. The refs had made their minds up before kick off ,only have to look at that Everton game in 94.

The late 90s was where it started to feel like refs were more than happy to give dodgy decisions against us. It was still better than having VAR.

Blimey, that's an interesting one. Jermain Dafoe is the new Woking manager. I've been told that Neal Ardley wasn't at all happy there.

RK - that'll be why they are probably going to miss out on the play offs, especially if they looked like that against a struggling Sutton side. I'd just like to see us play a Halifax team again (I missed the FA Cup game there when Bassey was interim manager for personal reasons, which was really frustrating for me as I wondered if I'd get another opportunity to go there). No doubt if I ever do it will be underwhelming but I generally enjoy my trips to Yorkshire.

€6m, I did see Halifax at Sutton Utd this season and thought they were a bang average NL side

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Didn't we have a goal 'not allowed' away at Wrexham in the cup in 1998 when it was going in as the ref blew the final whistle?

That will be one helluva game TF. York have scored 106 goals with a +67 goal difference but are 3 points behind Rochdale. If the gap stays as it is until the end of the season then that what a game in prospect. I'd like York to come up and maybe draw them away in a cup game (or we find ourselves in the same division the season after next) as it is a lovely part of the world. Shame it will not be Bootham Crescent anymore as their new stadium at Monks Cross shopping centre is a glorified sports centre. Parking is also a bot tricky too and it is about 3 miles outside the town centre, so a longer walk from the station. I wouldn't begrudge Rochdale coming back up as the 4th division doesn't seem the same without them. The top 7 (6 of whom are ex-league clubs) in the National League look fairly set already. I'd like the current incarnation of Halifax to break into it for sentimental reasons (my first WFC game was against them at home in 1977 and I've never been to The Shay) but I don't think they will.

Just seen it’s Rochdale v York on the final day of the National League season - could be winner takes all.

Could be a write up of yesterday’s game, Pads.

I hope Sean Dyche tells them where to go if Tottenham approach him.

Thanks for asking.