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?”

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.