OI I guess it would depend on why they are investing - if they are investing because they want to directly make a profit out of their investment then you are right, they won't. But they may have other motivations and rich people are weird anyway, they have weird motivations sometimes and there could easily be something us non rich people can't think of.

Hash - I get all that but even somebody rich, maybe especially someone rich, doesn't want to invest £1.5 million or more with the high probability of losing it all in a year or so. I'll vote for 50%+1 but don't see people investing without safeguards to protect them. Maybe LD's idea that it would put them in prime position to make an offer for control if we did run out of money (i.e. a prepack administration) would be their safeguard

OI - I tend to agree, they caused Browne to be off the pitch, so it’s up to them to be sufficiently aware that his return was imminent, and adjust their defence accordingly - the fact that they didn’t do that was looked upon sympathetically by the referee, whereas if play had continued and we’d scored, the ref could justifiably have said to their players “Well you knew he was about to come back on, why weren’t you ready for that…?” 🤷🏻‍♂️

OI on your 50%+1 question, I don't know any more than you and probably know much less but the way I see it is this: We can vote for 50%+1 and there is a chance, however slim, that we might find someone who wants to be a Nick Robertson type stewardship investor because a) it will help with their image / profile or b) it will help them make or build contacts or c) it will help them avoid some tax or d) it will be some fun / a hobby or e) some other reason i haven't thought of. Or we can vote against 50%+1 and we definitely won't find anyone and will have to either stump up £1.5 million ourselves as a fanbase or slide back into the conference, the first of which won't happen and the second of which i definitely do not want to see.

Maybe an argument about a player needing to be off the pitch for 30 seconds having suffered a foul for which a yellow card was shown, yes. Must admit at the time I didn't even think there was a foul on Browne and I'm not sure I've changed my mind having seen it back.

You can argue Doncaster were taking unfair advantage of an injury they caused, and earned a yellow card, by allowing their left back to leave his defensive responsibilities. They should have been aware that Browne would be allowed back at any moment and had a covering defender. The fact they didn't is entirely their fault.

I'm sure if we go into administration, some one like Mike Ashley might come looking. He tries for Sheffield Wednesday, Reading and derby. Living in London as well might help

NickD - possibly true, I suspect you’re correct there, but it would be nice to hear from him after that game, wouldn’t it… I also wonder whether the foul on Browne should have been a red card rather than just yellow - it was, as they say, “robust” at best…

Naz - can’t wait for the day when Chelsea sell KM for about £100m to some housing developer…. 👀🙄

a4e - No I'm not saying that by the letter of the law he did the right thing. I'm saying in the context of what happened, he applied common sense correctly. As you say, he appeared to apologise for creating the situation by allowing Browne on when he did, but it seemed unlucky as it was almost as if he waved Browne on at the exact split-second a hoofed clearance just happened to land straight into Browne's path.

100% with Naz

NickD - you might be right that we’d have been furious if that had been the other way around and play had been allowed to continue… However, it would be nice to hear a lovely clear explanation from the officials after the game, but that never ever happens, so are we all expected as fans to be fully across every little nuanced detail of the entire rule book for football? And if the ref did get it right, why on earth did he make the “Sorry guys, that’s on me, I screwed up…” hands gesture…? It suggests to me that he did screw up, and that the thousands of people chanting “You don’t know what you’re doing!!” were the ones in the right. We probably wouldn’t have scored from that attack in any case, but the ref isn’t to know how bad we really are… 🤪😬

But we won't.

Having being a supporter of fan ownership and a founder Dons Trust member I have now reluctantly come round to the opinion that to stay in the league we almost certainly need a sugar daddy to buy the club and stadium (but not the pitch). Look at what's happened with Wrexham; by comparison we are a far more attractive proposition because: we are in London; the name Wimbledon is known internationally; we have an intriguing and appealing history; and because of that we have quite a few worldwide fans already. Step forward John Green, me if I win Euromillions… or even John Gault! Fan owned would work in non league, although we'd probably have to sell NPL to Chelsea for their women and get Kingsmeadow plus cash back in return.

I agree with whoever earlier said that this week would be a good time to hear from either Mick Buckley or Angus Fox on what the current financial situation is and what options and/or plans exist.

Forever and a day, football fans have asked match officials to show common sense. In that Browne incident, stopping the game was the right thing to do. Yes it was to our detriment but had it happened at the other end, we'd have been going absolutely mental if play had been allowed to continue.

Silk, definitely more than 30 seconds, I was thinking that the ref was delaying it unreasonably compared to normal timings.

Re Browne, I thought that if a player is treated on the field for an injury where the offending player is booked, he doesn't have to leave the field. So Browne shouldn't have had to go off in the first place. Adds another level to the ref's meltdown in that passage of play.

Browne had been off the pitch for over 30 seconds. The ref waved him back on while the ball was in play. The problem was the ball went straight to him in oceans of space and so he gained an unfair advantage. The ref can stop a game at any point he wants. The rules are a bit woolly around this incident but as no offence had been committed the game restarted with a drop ball.

Any old WUP planning to Rotherham next weekend? Moke may be tempted to come along!

Here's one for the conspiracy theorists. The hierarchy know we can't compete or raise enough money, even with the pointless 50% + 1 vote, which may never even happen. They hope but don't expect to stay up this season. They expect most senior players to leave in the summer. Jackson and his team will decide to leave (there is enough management churn for him to land another job at league 1 or 2). When we go down we'll probably tumble straight out of the league. Maybe getting Robinson back is just to allow him to familiarise himself with the current pool of players. He takes over from Jackson in the summer (I don't buy all this academy consultant smokescreen - Hamilton would never stand for it if it was true if he has any backbone). We then run with cheap and youthful first team until our income matches our costs and we find our level. Robinson lives local and will be cheap. You don't go from working at Chelsea or being a League 1 manager to just being an academy consultant at a struggling League 1 club. I would hate for this to be true as we would hardly ever win but it might explain a few things.

The EFL rules clearly states that a player treated for injury has to spend a MINIMUM of thirty seconds off the pitch once play has started before being allowed back on the field of play. So if the ref had waved him back on as soon as play resumed or within thirty seconds then he would have to stop play to comply with the amended rules.

Agreed Hash. If it was the other way round we'd probably have wanted the ref to halt things. There seem two answers (1) the ref beckons the player back on when there is no danger of them being in an immediate goal scoring position and (2) teams treat the player as if they were on the pitch anyway, i.e. mark them

a4e, agreed but ref definitely signalled for Browne to come on!

Thanks Steve