Wouldn’t be funny if the player the fans had to chipped in for was a Terry Ablade or Tomas.

There seems to be on big age difference when it comes to censorship. We ancients may not like what you say,Sir, but will defend to the death your right to say it. George and Rees are of the cancelling generation.

Given there's no record set atm for number of players per side tennis match, if we could get say 100 per side on tge pitch at PL, could somehow make money and the news during Wimbledon fortnight...

At least they've had the wit to get you to front this, Doobs ;)

Morning all. £250k paying January transfer prices won't get you a great deal these days...

Plan first, donation later.

Now get donating, brothers and sisters, or it will be your fault if we get relegated.

Aw, that’s so nice. The church plate. Bless you Doobs, our Good Samaritan.

If helpful, I’ll be back online around 7pm tonight so happy to answer any questions I can then. Be like a live WUP Q&A but with some dingus waffling on about how £2 a week gets us the next Rambo or some such. Hope you can join in

Actually you might assume that Martin has a higher opinion of this place than the other DTB members apart from Ian. It is a small percentage of fans who post here and there is more 'rough and tumble' than some of them would like. I still contend it is a mistake to ignore us and I hope any current DTB member appearing to drum up votes in the autumn get short shrift.

The trouble is that when the DTB can get something such as simple communication with the membership so badly wrong, wtf is it doing with the more important issues!!!

The thing is this was predicted when it was announced. Its not a wanting things to fail, quite the opposite, but the overall experience from previous dealings with it, or, for me, in my wife's case was woefully lacking and a generally unpleasant event. She's more savvy with this stuff than I so trust her judgement on these things.

When Martin is the mouthpiece on here for the DTB you know things have gone badly wrong

Discord may be fine for a message board system (particularly one where the top priority seems to be the facility for censorship/ "moderation" of discussion rather than encouraging access) but it is clearly not the system that you would use for online meetings, given that there are a couple of applications for this which are pretty universally used in the real world (ie Zoom/ Teams). That said, I realise that the DT probably don't care that much about member engagement (particularly where that would take the form of questioning their decisions and asking awkward questions) and that having a meeting from which 95% of members have self-excluded is probably not considered a problem. Really, though, if you are having a meeting which 95% can't attend it's probably better just to drop the pretence and not have the meeting at all.

When the use of Discord/Dischord is inevitably abandoned in favour of something more sensible/manageable, just watch when we are told “…it’s not because it failed, it just proves how we are always listening sympathetically to the membership….” 🤪😂🤷🏻‍♂️

Martin - just give it a break and accept the DTB have got it very badly wrong with Discord which is now the problem and not the solution. Try listening to the Membership for once and stop talking AT it - that ain't working and won't work with intelligent people. And, with your continual refusal to understand the situation, perhaps you should consider standing down from the DTB.

I hope you didn't run it over, I know what you cab drivers are like. :-)

Nice to see large hedgehog 🦔 in the front garden tonight, haven't seen one around here for over 30 years

Pads - Louise is definitely a she. 👍

Excellent re Ferret. (She's definitely a she, I believe ) . That's encouraging.

Hopefully Ferret can answer questions on the new constitution as I understand they have been involved in the new version.

Please answer that,Martin.

I don't/won't join Discord because I don't want to download an app onto my phone and share personal details with it. Does that mean that under the new constitution, which is presumably only being discussed on Discord, that I will be disenfranchised?

Yes but Leddy anyone can post on here and, within reason, can post what they like. People agrrr and disagree with people all the time. I can disagree with you on subject a bit agree on subject z. I know some don’t like the disagreements but isn’t that better than the censorship and awkward collective self-muting on discord?

I have used zoom a fair bit over the years whilst communicating with clients in Australia and America and always found it an excellent communication tool and my company always thought it was good value, do we have the right people in place negotiating plans and costs?