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?”

If the rumours of us being rich soon come into fruition,do you think JJ has earned the right to have a go with a decent budget or is it time for a refresh?

Laurence - incompetence and unwillingness to look at the big picture. When was it that Buckley was supposed to start looking for his replacement, 2021 or 2022? How is that going? How is the review on governance started in Spring 2025 coming along? How come that after a year of being asked the DT can't even get the Volunteer Code of Conduct on the website? Isn't it embarrassing that the last elections needed an independent person to review them? Is it a worry that three weeks ago they were still looking for someone to run the ESG, when election preparations should be under way? Given our continuing annual losses, should we at least not know what the implications of selling a majority stake would be?

Spit- the rest of your comments are reasonably valid, especially about this season’s awful displays.

Spit- we finished 5th in the play-off winning season 2024-25.

I'm not sure that anyone suggests JJ is a great manager, given a reasonable squad he seems a competent manager. The big question for me is whether our new manager will be able to keep us in League 2 next season. I fear they are less likely to than JJ.

First season just about saved from relegation back to non-league,second season,spectacularly blew finishing in top 7, 3rd season just managed to get the 7th spot and that amazing defence got us up on 1-0s. 4th season ok in periods but dreadful in others and a late wigan winner kept us up. 5th season,doesn't know best team, dont play or look like a team,and probably relegation as in 4 and a bit seasons afc wimbledon 0 has been the biggest problem and we are know shipping goals.

Feel like we’re in a phase where it’s difficult to judge how well or poorly JJ is actually doing so all viewpoints are valid. Let’s see how the new players affect the team and performances.

Well if we dont have a few points by Christmas, we all know how our 2nd half of seasons go.

Trig - spot on with the logic, otherwise how would Mansfield put 5 past Luton on Sunday and then ship 5 against Reading last night

Agree with Silk, as I'm struggling to see where JJ has failed in his remit at all (recover after relegation and rebuild for two seasons, promotion in his third and stay up last year). Yes, we play with shackles on more than not, but when we do have periods unshackled it's not that bad (start of last season and the run around the time of Bradford at home being examples of that)

One thing I will say. McDonnell set up his wall last night as if he’s never done it before and has no idea how it’s supposed to work. Their player spotted it straight away and passed the ball into the net.

I don't think it has helped that we haven't had a full week yet to work on aspects of attacking play in training but saying that, we have looked poor from day one when we had a whole pre season. Missing Reddington maybe?

Thought we were the better side until we scored then it all just kind of unraveled and we weren’t really a side at all.

That is a dreadful result against such a poxy club as Burton. Add to the mix the utter meltdown economically post CrashandBurnham’s Oct 28th Budget and we are in for a very grim winter. “Doomed” as Private Fraser would say.

But there's definitely something wrong with the coaching. Multiple new players and we're still fcking boring, with virtually no attacking threat. Still early days I guess.

We've signed so many players it's going to take 10 months to work out our best XI. But the first few games have been shit (including the ones we didn't lose).

Sorry Laurence not worth a debate with you we have polar different views on the future of the club.

Give your heads a wobble, JJ is doing an ok job with the resources and structure of this club

We also have to remember we are not doing this with the best squad in the league and were favourites with Bromley to go down who are also shipping goals. Burton were horrible to play against and we have to be same in my view. They knew how to get free kicks and to get away with fouls.

I think even a private owner would hold off on sacking JJ at the moment. This is the man who steadied us at our lowest ebb as an EFL club, improved us and got us back in League One. He kept us up and would have been safe earlier without the injuries we had. This season we need to look at the formation and being tighter but he has earned the time to try and fix things.

Keefy suggests: 'Trust is is holding this club back.' How is the Trust holding the club back, please?

I'm not sure what was more shit - the game or the journey back home