I see the rearranged Port Vale game is now next Tuesday. That should reduce the attendance of the Club Meeting by about 2 people.

Don't recall any protests outside British Aerospace, Morfax, Datchet Rocket Research, Culham Labs. Greenham Common protest back in the 80's was huge, yes, but since? Lots of MOD contracts out there. Wonder why a Wimbledon/Merton one has all of a sudden ruffled CND's feathers?

?? Indeed, Pete.

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I wonder how many different ticket prices there are around the stadium altogether allowing for season tickets, concessions etc. I'd suspect it is close to or over 100 .

JG- I agree with your comment below- I don’t at all disagree with setting ticket prices to increase revenue, but that is absolutely not the same as setting them “as high as possible”. An increase in prices would probably (again, we would need some research on this, though not an impossibly-complicated ticket auction system) but, after a certain point attendance would fall sharply, and revenue would fall, as prices were raised. I therefore very much doubt that the profile of our demand is such that the club could ever be made profitable just by increasing ticket prices.

Russ et Al get my vote. Resoundingly sensible and achievable IF we can break free of the “fan owned ideology” death grip.

With Chelsea out-growing KM, I could conceivably see them looking to be co-owners/ owners giving us a long lease. They'd build the stands for the 20k advertised eventual capacity and build the infrastructure to help fund it. The reality of that is we'd get a bar, a shop and few bits required to operate as a EFL club. But the training facilities would get a heap of cash available from the improved gate take.

Russ and all. Yes, Pitch/ trademark ownership with the trust or some supporters body and lease to the club in return for representation on the board and maybe a small stake in the club or something. That is exactly the kind of thing we would need to sell beyond 50%. Get 50%+1 in first and in a couple of years we will be ready. Or if we go into admin any old or young random could buy us?

Nick - I definitely don't think it implausible and for whatever reason it does seem to be currently trendy to own an English football club. I can't imagine why?? I think we can both agree that whoever buys Wimbledon will at least attempt to reach break even within the medium to long term. They will definitely pitch ticket prices & concessions at a level where they/we maximise revenue and gross margin; ditto the charge for watching matches abroad on Dons TV. No stone would be left unturned - so I can't see why we don't do much of this groundwork now.

A4E - if I’m reading it right, we could actually go up two places tonight!!! More likely not, of course…

Fan ownership? Fucking dead just like the dinosaurs. And investors will not come near us. They are happy to wait until the inevitable administration.

Pitch owners as a subsidiary of the Trust, club gets a peppercorn rent lease to use the pitch with caveat of a board place for the Trust. Trust focuses on fan engagement and liaison and none of this strategy or enshrinement malarky. No need to worry about PLC articles of association changing and removing trust board membership, as board place is stipulated as part of lease agreement.

United, not unionised... that doesn't need a subscription based membership, maybe a one-off affordable fee, or Wish type membership.

Now that we aren’t playing this evening, what are the odds on us being in the relegation zone later…? 👀

The 50.01% should be the catalyst in getting a coherent sell on plan in place. This could look to be having fans representations on the board, but not the current dtb, both tainted and enshrined. Pitch protection and evolved new fans "backed and involved" story to rework the great story in.football stchik. We should be viewing things in terms of sustainable football, not in short(ish) term league places. Any deal with an out-right purchase can still be held to ransom by unionised fan membership, where pitch protection and the threat of withdrawn support making the business operations challenging could be a useful reminder to new owners to give fans their ear.

But gutted as I was looking forward to the trip but at least they made the decision before many will have started their journeys.

That's handy, might be able to go to the rearranged fixture now

Port vale game is off.

Game off !

Yeah can totally understand that and we should be very aware that if a when we go back to private ownership we may well experience bits of everything good, bad and ugly along that road.

I go for entertaining top 10 finish in the championship,with wealthy owners and better players than average league 1/2 players,loans for cheap players and bore non attractive boring struggling football with the begging bowl 🥣 constantly put out.

(Sorry spit I didn’t mean to leave you out)

I agree with Timmy, OI and Hash - it’s a real sticky situation we’re in. 50+1 only buys time and with our debts increasing it would take someone’s hearts over heads to pump a decent amount in for zero return. Staying fan owned would be great but it’s been ruined by people who don’t really care about the football club they just care about their own status and pockets. And if selling out is impossible then that means administration seems the most likely future scenario which puts us back into the “who would give us money now?” cycle because anyone who does has to accept there’s a good chance they’re not getting all/any of it back.

50%+1 will buy us some time and we can use that time to come up with a 'unique solution' (sorry don't mean to use koppel phrase) where we can sell beyond 50% but keep Plough Lane etc safe. Don't run before you can even crawl let alone walk. 50%+1 will barely get through at best. Selling completely won't get through yet or even close.