Ferret - Yep. Why?

Does WISA have any sort of agreed stance or a path to one Lou? I do think you need a WISA or similar now to stop the turkeys abolishing Christmas (thanks Nick).

Aha thanks Leigh

Sorry Kev

Lou - I'm guessing Anuk.

Are you a DT member KD?

This is it. We don't want people like Kevin Rye 'running the club' any more. We're too big now.

Scotty: Was that Kevin Rye?

Personal issues always come first. But should we have DTB representation where an unelected member of the board who choose not to stand in December appears to have missed five of eight board meetings, wasn't present last night and I think attended one of the two meetings pre Christmas.

I didn't get sufficient seconders last time and can't be arsed nowadays, but I'll stand by my two resolutions. Resolution 1: To instruct the Dons Trust Board to instruct each of the Theme Group Leads to, within a month of the AGM, publish the Theme Group's terms of reference and the annual plan that was previously ratified by the Dons Trust Board, showing their annual objectives, and to provide an update on the progress against those objectives with a narrative that describes the work delivered and outputs. Resolution 2: 30 calendar days prior to future AGMs, Theme Groups will publish their previous annual plan, showing the last year's progress, and the proposed annual plan for the forthcoming year, with the next year's annual plan comments on by the Dons Trust Board and a recommendation made to DT members on:a) Whether each individual Theme Group is still required to support the Dons Trust meet their strategic objectives; b) Whether to approve each individual Theme Group's annual plan for the next year; c) Expected budget for the Theme Group to meet its goals; The recommendations made by the Dons Trust Board are then to be voted on by DT members at the subsequent AGM for each Theme Group.

Yes Hardon,hence my 10/20% ST price rise post a couple of weeks ago,

Having seen the very unpleasant treatment meted out to those standing on a platform of change I would be very surprised if many people are willing to put their heads above the parapet on this, which is why there is unlikely to be any change in governance - this is a case where the turkeys actually control whether Christmas comes along or not

IIRC The name change idea was raised in the same meeting the ST bundling was first publicly (to my knowledge) raised. That one got quickly buried but could easily have had similar or more support than the idea they ran with. It’s very hard reading the tea leaves to work out WTF are the real motivations in all of this.

So does this mean my ST in the middle of the West Stand will be circa £600 next season? Erm, well worth it......

Glad there's agreement on some of this, anyone fancy standing on that platform and getting it sorted? Would need a full slate of candidates, prob over two election cycles. I'm not really up for being on the board at this time for various reasons, but happy to help in whatever way anyone would find helpful.

I can see why they want to rebrand the DT. I'd also make it 'AFC Wimbledon Trust' (the Trust - which owns the club) and 'AFC Wimbledon Board' (the Board - which runs the club). Two very different things, and people can get them confused.

More Wrexham publicity. At least AFC Wimbledon get a mention. [Link]

I also support the idea - cut the DTB back, directly elect reps to PLC board - DT to only provide oversight of PLC and no side projects or funding for other things. Anything that is deemed worth doing can be done outside the DT structure (e.g. DLAG) or funded via the PLC. Simples.

Agree. Direct elections for DT member representation on PLC Board. Not sure whether there remains a role for a DTB?

Totally agreed, cut the number of DTB members, and directly elect the 3 reps to PLC board.

Needs to happen. The AFC Wimbledon board is where the big boys/girls play.

KD - direct election of our reps to the plc board is a must, but I doubt turkeys will vote for Christmas.

nicander I'd agree about Little. As said just now, when Biler was RB we had to devote a midfielder to covering him. That generally was either Little (or CLE). Little bailed him repeatedly with little nick the ball type tackles that did a lot to get us to where we were in January. It's the kind of stuff that people don't remember but actually without those 2 covering that right flank we'd have been way off the play offs in January.

On our style of play, a couple of things. One, we played that way with AAH up front. We played long balls to allow him to chase behind. He was a championship level player at L2 level. It worked well with him. We haven't changed it as much as people perceive. BUT the other half of the equation is that we lost the defenders who were comfortable on the ball. So we played a more conservative game and that included playing long balls to Bugiel (who generally wins them) and Curtis (also good in the air). But when they weren't playing it's difficult for L2 players to just change their style. It also doesn't help that our midfield gets split. When Biler was at RB we had to put a midfielder to cover defensively all the time. It's better with Ogundere but not much better. Reeves also spends most of his time in possession facing our goal which you can't really blame the manager for. He comes deep to collect and often things go wrong from there.

It’s not even just that they’re unelected. They’re bad people as well.