OTD 1961 - I thought players generally wore long sleeves shirts until the late 1960s/early 1970s. Would be interested to see the original pre-AI photo.

Charming Sparty 😁 Passion for the club is passion for the club, as a special one once said.

OtD - that pitch really does looks like a mud bath. The Tooting player behind the keeper looks Chinese. Did they have a Chinese player at that time ?

Trigger - we don't want to hear your voice on here either, but we have to put up with it. Even in the written word you're far too noisy. 🤣 😉

Alan IoW - it makes sense that you went there as Shane’s seconder, but your description of it confirms that I made a good choice 😬

Re discord, the irony of course being the one person who would have certainly increased engagement on the platform was the one person they banned without justification or communication. They just don't want my voice being heard.

I see today seems to mark the start of L1 transfer business with Stockport, Barnsley, Doncaster and Bolton announcing signings. Until now it was mostly loanees returning to parent clubs.

I like your 'ragged edges', Alan. Beautifully put.

The recent colourised pictures are great in my view, but seeing it in action on the Victorian Murder Club on BBC iPlayer hosted by Lucy Worsley and the case of the Thames Torso Killer had some good examples brought to life with AI, superb stuff, with limited moments of being used, a case of less being more.

I thought the whole point of Discord was to encourage us 'legacy fans' to er go away and embrace vibrant new young hipster ones who 'shared their (undefined) values.

A4E, I did go to the dark side, due to being a seconder to Shane* I went there hoping to be proven wrong on two counts. The first, as warned by my wife its not a good platform, but as she'd say, since when have I ever listened to her... The second point, was against my own judgement and pre-discord musings, that the quality of discussions depend on the freedom to speak on the ragged edges of being controversial (without being a dick) and that the moderation is both fair and consistent, which it fails with on all accounts imho.

Port Vale tickets still not available to buy on their site.

Timmy - I'm sure Reece's metrics are totally objective and reflect no bias whatsoever.

Worked with Wally Pearson (OTD pic) around '77/78ish in Basingstoke.

“Should have been done properly”

It’s so hard to work out whether or not I (and many others…) did the right thing by never ever going anywhere near Discord…. 🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

I had one look at discord several months ago and thought fuck this not happening.

Reece should have moderated discord properly then the posts that may cause reputational damage to the Trust wouldn’t have been permitted. Again the lack of accountability across the Trust meant that the mutated approach to moderation was tolerated, enabled and even celebrated.

It's only the inner circle who care about the Dons trust.. interest has rapidly declined,what's the attendance for open meetings?😂

OI - Reece has consistently said discord has been a resounding success compared to ProBoards by all his metrics

well I have submitted my response to Ed Mayo before the 9th January deadline.Tried to keep it civil. No swear words were used, but by the time I finished I was seething with anger that we have got to a situation like this. I gave this lots of thought before responding.

sorry Trust not club, hard to tell them apart sometimes

I think George and Reece want to scrap Discord due to reputational risk to the club, someone might say something nasty and the club could get blamed.

I decided to leave the Dons Trust Discord about a month ago because frankly it seemed a bit shit. DTB members dont respond to anything but the most basic of questions like what sort of ciders we have in the bar. But, having left the discord, there's basically fuck all Dons Trust engagement elsewhere. Despite its numerous flaws and the board's apparent aspiration to scrap it, it is actually the only conduit for engagement with the board online. Board minutes come out 2-3 months after meetings. There's no engagement outside of SGMs. It's a shocking state of affairs at a time when they want to get various votes through and want to make people aware of the financial challenges we face.

Think I agree with your moral KT2