From memory (and its been a while since I looked) the 1.8m operating loss number was a bit of a fallacy, I think the accounts included quite a few one off write offs e.g. asset depreciation which aren't "real" losses but need to be accounted for. I believe the actual operating losses were closer to 1 than 2 (which still isn't great of course)

A bit like when we cinished 3rd in 2003 - our promotion was denied due to a not totally dissimilar piece of wording.

DO totally agree. And surely if you're not eligible for promotion there's a point where you shouldn't be considered for play offs and the places get reorganised to account for that. And if no one was eligible for promotion then that would be a case of the league needing to look at their rules.

If 14 National League sides were ineligible would the top relegated side go into the playoffs ;)

If my team had finished one place below play offs in NL, I'd be annoyed that the play offs weren't the top six eligible sides rather than as many of the top six that are eligible. Imagine if 5 of those 6 had not been eligible - no play-offs at all!

RK - I wholly agree with your post of 21:02, but I would note that the £1.85M loss before player sales, which you note, doesn't include interest costs (which appear further down the P&L). Taking account of these (£0.42M) the loss excluding player sales was £2.27M. As Silk rightly said, those figures are a year old now and it will be very interesting indeed to see if we have improved things this year.

The National league re-jigged the play offs due to Gateshead not being able to take part. Halifax now travel to Solihull instead of Altrincham, who now go straight into a semi final at Bromley due to Alty finishing highest of the P/O qualifiers. The winners of Solihull v Halifax are away to Barnet.

Thanks Meadow, guys - that was tough and my knees are very upset with me, but I am totally stoked to have got round. Thank you to everyone who sponsored me or gave me words of encouragement, means the world and literally helped get me round today 🙌

Wonder which one was harder for the man unt co-owner[Link]

Cheers,just dropped of a family of Coventry fans with their flags.destination,Gander Green Lane about 2 minutes walk from sutton unt entrance.

The Coventry owner made a very good point today when asked in an interview about the FA Cup replay debacle. He said “…if the Premier League clubs don’t want to have to play replays they should field a strong side and win the match.”

Spit (dog), good for Charlton then but you have noticed that they have a moneyman loaning them this dosh. We haven't (last time I checked)

Well done Doobs - hope you've got tomorrow off

Silk "the idea that we are losing £2 million a year is a fallacy". No it's from the audited accounts 22/23 and is the number (£1.85m actually before transfer fee income (£2.6m). The financial strategy is to breakeven BEFORE fee income. Profits made on selling Al-Hamadi, Assal, etc are put towards repaying bond debt. If we don't achieve this, the fee income instead goes to sustaining our operations to compete at Lge 2, which is exactly what has been done here. The one-off costs you mention would be mentioned in the Director's Report, if they were significant. I can't see any. Analysing the accounts my only conclusion being that the cost of sales (£5.6m) & Adm Exp (£3.7m) are the run-rate of operating AFC Wimbledon stadium, business and football in L2. It's the £2m (or if you prefer the £1.85m) which has to be managed down. Some relaxtion is possible with depreciation charges (£0.75m) which are non-cash but I'm not aware whether the finance strategy is to include these are not

Spit, yes very entertaining along with a couple of own goals.

Seeing some of the marathon heroes in Morden,guy could hardly walk to the cab.

Least you see some entertainment Keefy😂

Went to Palace today, West Ham were so poor.

Timmy Magic, Do they get more funding by becoming women?

Well done Doobs!!

Doobs completed the marathon in just over 6 hours. Good going considering he's been suffering with serious knee problems.

It must be getting close to Saint Totteringham day.

North London Franchise? Rubbish.

Rebel - anyone but the North London Franchise

And hope Arsenal win the Premiership