Basically, if we can manage to finish where we did this season or a place higher, that will be an absolute result!! Must looking forward to a small number of away trips to grounds I’ve never been to - can’t manage too many, but hopefully Leicester, Wednesday, and maybe even Blackpool… I don’t really care how shit the ground is or how poor the atmosphere, it’s just for the experience - even better if I can grab 2 or 3 days or more in the area to look around (Peak District, Lake District, etc…) 🥳

 Gaity, Yes an interesting set of stats. Turnover probably £11m+ this year 25/26. Totally agree that we need a hard look at the non-player bit which last year was £5m COS and £4.2m Admin

 It’s an interesting question as to whether or not we are a big or small club in L1? Depends I guess on how you measure it. Last season’s playing budget of £3.6m was the 2nd or 3rd smallest. However, our revenue of £10m put us in the top 10 and was nearly 40% higher than some of the smallest revenue producing clubs. Interestingly the ratio of our playing budget to revenue was the lowest by nearly 30% and our % spend on non-playing budget expenditure items was the highest.

 Silk - maybe us defending set pieces (or at the very least not conceding goals from our own ones) would be a good move next season too. FWIW, we were a L2 level squad in the campaign just gone, and they did well to get us over the line

 From OTD - Eddie Reynolds "remains to this day the only man to have headed four goals beneath the twin towers". This is a record that can never be beaten now, since the Twin Towers are no longer there.

 Play 4-3-3. Have a big lump up front and fast guys either side of him and play either balls to the lump in the air or low balls down the flanks for the fast guys with two workhorses either side of a goal scoring midfielder. Nothing fancy just effective. 4-3-3 in attack and 4-5-1 in defence.

 RK - perhaps we'll raid the PFA training camp again?

 REPD, yes my hunch is just that plus fingers-crossed that we won't run into an injury crisis like this season

 We got 25 points more than I was expecting this season., so I see as agood season.even if only February was the only month of sexy excitement entertaining football.

 Morning all. Perhaps the squad will have a small (or rather not as big as it should be) nucleus of L1 level players, a few from last season like Stevens and the rest a mix of "promising" youngsters?

 I think we'll get the retained/released list by the end of the week. Will be an early insight into what the budget will look like

 Nonsense headline of the day won by the i paper. "State pension triple lock under threat if UK goes to war with Putin". Yeah like all us old fogies will be worried about a few £££s whilst sheltering from nukes

 I’m only worked up for selfish reasons- we have a better chance of survival if someone starts in negative territory ! Also, we’re trying so hard to do things the “right” way, but poor owners and overspending overlooked here..

 I’m pleased for the Wednesday fans they’ve shown some real character through this season. Just makes it harder for us.

 Elsewhere there is a link suggesting Chansiri tried to stop the deal going through. I can't get that worked up either way about the points deduction, there are enough other sticks to beat the EFL with.

 I’m not sure of the details of the decision Timmy - assumed that the new owners had met the criteria in terms of how many pence in the pound they paid the creditors and previous owner.

 You’d expect Huddersfield and Reading to perform better next season. Then Leicester and Wednesday in the division as well. Interesting to see whether it’s a step too far for Bromley and then obviously whoever comes up via the playoffs. Surprised how badly Peterborough did this season as well (other than being our worst result of the season).

 Outrageous that they avoided the 15 points deduction. EFL used their “discretion” ridiculous

 Those stats not a surprise given our budget. Hard to see how next season will be any different especially now Sheffield Wednesday appear to have avoided any further points deductions and the franchise have financial backing that Winkleman was never prepared to put in.

 If anyone is interested in the plight of a pub which is very much connected to our football club, this is the first part of a two part film [Link]

 Interesting statistics HD - basically makes the point that we are always going to be a relatively small fish in League 1 - it does sort of show what a good performance we had in 2016-17, undervalued at the time. In retrospect it is very clear that that promotion-winning team was the best that we have had as AFCW (no doubt at a budget that we couldn't actually afford!)

 On X stayting the stench of bad farts on the terrace is getting worse? Could be early starts as not having a proper number 2 before leaving home and hanging it in or bad chemicals in the beer these days anyone else notice this?

 Interesting to compare the stats. Whoever is in charge, we struggle to compete in League One. 16-17 15th 57 pts (Neal Ardley) 17-18 18th 53 pts (Neal Ardley) 18-19 20th 50 pts (Neal Ardley/Wally Downes) 19-20 season curtailed with the Dons in 20th place (Wally Downes/Glyn Hodges) 20-21 19th 51 pts (Glyn Hodges/Mark Robinson) 21-22 23rd 37 pts (Mark Robinson/Mark Bowen) 25-26 19th 53 pts (Johnnie Jackson)

 Bert - I don't have a Facebook account, sorry, but do have a b&w of the OTD pic. Wonder how many of those guys are still around? Not many, I'd guess. A great day in Dons history.

 Pete: [Link]