Would be good if it’s not uncontested, otherwise people who some people may not want to be re-elected to the DTB will get on unopposed

I hope some people do Timmy, as much as the members of the DTB we need people willing to use the election to discuss the issues that get brushed aside. I also hope we have a properly constituted ESG (it would be nice to know the membership). Three weeks ago they were really scraping the bottom of the barrel in the search ;)

I was wondering that Timmy but thought I might have forgone the right to be curious by leaving the DT.

Anyone on here going to stand for DTB elections ? Think they’re due to launch very soon

CW - Sasu is under contract. We either send him out on loan or keep him in the squad. Possibly no-one in the National League wants him on loan? Or if they do, won't pay a meaningful % of his wages? Maybe we want to wait until Cornick and Stevens are fit and Richards gets some competitive minutes to see how they compare to Sasu? If we keep him, may as well try to find his best position.

If Sasu is the answer I don’t want to know the question 😀

Airsy - and Stockley nearly got a second headed goal from a nigh impossible position. He has the skillset to be a latterday slower-paced Fash - but needs the service. If we go 4-4-2, maybe repurpose Sasu as a winger?

We don’t have enough pace in the team all round which is why we miss Ogundere when he’s not playing as he covers well at the back

DO, also. Yesterday's goal came from a direct, flat, cross put in by Tilley (rather than a cut inside and dinked ball). Created two other good chances in the second half doing the same thing as well.

Main reason we're not scoring is we are too ponderous and lack vision. So many times we break from defence, there is an opportunity to play an early ball and it is not taken, we end up letting them get their defence back and it comes to nothing. Both our League goals so far have come from quick movement.

A rookie coach and a tourist assistant manager isn't helping. Is training and preparation another issue? We had an extended summer break, so can't blame lack of time to recover and prepare. In fact, we had too much time and seem to have wasted it. We were lucky to beat Newport, who barely stayed up in League 2 last season and beating Wigan who missed a hatful of chances isn't papering over the cracks all can see. Stuffed by Huddersfield and Burton. I don't agree that our formation is rigid. At times we do look like we're playing 4 at the back. Whether that is intentional or players drifting out of position I don't know. We are too slow and ponderous when we have the ball and give it away with aimless hoofs to nobody. Other than away to Fulham, virtually the same underpeforming players keep getting picked each game. How poor do they need to play to get dropped? Something needs to change as if we get gubbed by franchise at home the levels of toxicity will go through the roof.

Pete if it’s anything like the Sunday league team I used to run the young footballers stopped going down the pub more than ten years ago. More likely to find the leaders via console headsets and GTA Online these days.

We can get just about get away with Johnson if Ogs is playing as he has the pace to cover. With Ogs coming back from injury, it is his absence that derails the defence more than anything else. Hopefully he'll be fot and will start on Monday!

I was in the north end tavern worcester pk watching the game last Night, wish I hadn't bothered,.although having wimbledon blood, I will be back in there Monday night for the Bromley match

So, a bunch of players, pretty much strangers to each other, play like a bunch of strangers to each other. No surprise, getting tonked then. Answer? Send 'em all down the pub, for starters. What's to lose? Then, train them hard. Find who, if anyone, is the natural leader, give him the armband. That's how the old Dons would've bonded them. Of course, the ability to play football would help. Anyone can just boot a ball anywhere. The trick is to to do more with it than that.

SAR

JJ is a stickler for staying with a system when it is obvious to most that it isn't working. That includes keeping personnel in place to long. No coincidence that things picked up when captain Jake was having a mare week in and out. Johnson will be another blind loyalty retention player, when its clear he's been struggling for pace in this league for some time. He was fantastic in L2, but last season and thus far in this one, he's having a higher percentage of 5 out 10 performances than we can afford to continue with. Thats my my view, and appreciate not everyone will share that. One thing is clear 352 doesn't help him in that regard.

6 million - agree. I would add the release of Hardbottle and failure to sign Lewis (who imo was better than Johnson)

Lurker - I'm sure one could make a longer list ... criticisms from the resigning secretary, Shane's fairly damning SCR(correct acronym?) of which he has only quoted a few snippets.

It doesn't quite have the feel of Terry Brown's last season but there are similarities. Bringing in loads of average players without a clear plan and losing better ones. Getting stuffed away to Burton (I stiill remember being 6-0 down there at one point and fearing it could be double figures). Players we've kept being out of form. Johnson is the glaring liability at the back but seems undropable. He just looks slow, immobile and a mistake waiting to happen. We've signed Tilley on a 3 year deal and we've got the poor version of him rather than what he was like on loan last season. Smith does nothing. No idea why Nelson was signed as he was poor last season. Sasu gets kept on. Forget a loan. Just release him. Stevens has barely played this calendar year and is approaching Nightingale levels of injury prone. Aside from an aging Stockley, the attacking players we've brought in hardly have glowing goal scoring records. One that had one good season is currently injured and not played yet. Browne is hit and miss and another sick note. Nkeng didn't fit into the way we played so selling him was sensible. No idea why Maycock isn't getting more minutes.

OI fair summary of current situation. When you add in using at that time not in place volunteer agreement, that didn’t apply to that person anyway, to stop someone standing for the DT. Then rewriting them and the election rules to allow themselves to be cunts. Then not even finishing that job. Useless cunts would seem to be the best description.

At this point 4 from 4 games is ok. It is what happens rest of September that really matters.

Considering how many players we’ve brought in during the past few days I think we need another week or so to see everything start to gel. World Cup does mess with lower clubs as everyone is somewhere on a chain for majority of transfers.

Having been one of JJ’s biggest critics early on I think he’s earned the right to have a go if we’re suddenly flush with playing budget*. If the investors are football people they may have their own person in mind of course.

Perhaps a tougher question to answer would be “how is the board taking us forward?”