As things stand, Man Utd could be in the same division as Stockport and Oxford United next season hahaha…

You’re now investing in a L2 club which may attract a few more people given the lower cost of entry. But dreams of 8th in the Championship are over, if they were ever really there.

Well said Secret Agent.

Know how the first 50+1 vote failed but the second one came back with the biggest vote in AFCW history? I get the same vibes about the next investor vote when that arrives.

Spot on Secret Agent. But the deal has to look like a better option than administration anyway.

I agree with Secret!!

REPD- let’s hope that you are right - I am pretty sick of that element of the fanbase and look forward to the point when their excessive influence finally comes to an end.

Time to sell up completely. I started watching in 1970 because Wimbledon was my local team, I watched us in the Southern League all the way through to the PL when we were owned by businessmen. Sure the franchising of the club meant a new way was required but we cannot maintain the dream any longer. Protect the stadium at all costs but the Trust has had its day and should sell up. Let’s take our chances as a normal club because if we carry on like we are we will end up at the whim of the administrators. And that will be it for me.

Wimborne 2 Crawley 0 not long to go

Worth watching York City’s first goal yesterday for anyone who can be bothered to google it

Nick Woking - TBH I think the "purity brigade" section, while annoying, probably don't have enough clout to stop anyone else coming in. The bulk of rich people/investors don't really pay too much heed to them (if Dr Omar did then perhaps he wasn't suitable after all). Funnily enough, I think all this has marked the card of the "enshriners" amongst the majority of support.

In other news, a great start by Yernited

Cray’s manager Tim O’Shea played 3 games for Spurs one of which was the infamous 2-2 draw at Plough Lane when Claesen dived to try and get one of our players sent off

REPD- you have a fair point, but on the other hand if you deal with an administrator you wouldn’t have to worry about the views of our “purity brigade” fans and would be able to take full control (and probably would get a lower price than you would have to offer in an agreed deal) and that would be a pretty strong incentive to wait it out. Seeing the approach of elements of our fanbase to the SSC deal would be enough to put off most rational investors from wanting to deal with the DT.

RIP Darren Beckford ex Man City, Port Vale and Norwich

I think I'm pretty much done after nearly 40 years watching the club. This last few months has really just made feel that the club has no hope really. Between the shit football, poor recruitment, DTB screwing up and sanctimonious enshrining fans I see the whole thing just going down the pan......I have no desire to be watching non-league football and I'm tired just watching us disappear up our own arses every time there is some important decision and being lectured about how we are the best story in football !! We're not we're the same as any other club and to be honest not even as good as that because most clubs have professional business people involved who can find there arses with both hands

I wonder whether Kjell Inge Røkke and Bjørn Rune Gjelsten are still around, and how much money they’ve got….? (quickly scampers back behind sofa….)

Let's hope the club makes plenty of money from the new play"How the Enshriners beat the majority:-)

Nick Woking - problem with administration for a potential investor is that you wouldn't get exclusivity by then - you'd be competing with whoever else is interested. And of course, you'd then have to deal with what crap has been left behind because of the process of admin - and by that I mean unpaid suppliers, creditors, any hidden little sinkholes. As tempting as buying a recently admin-ed AFCW would be, it wouldn't necessarily be better than doing so while we're still solvent.

Lurker- you may be right- though I think that even if this deal had gone through we would be unlikely to have got the cash in time to save our L1 status so they would have started in L2

Trigger- in effect we are now down to a choice of a worse deal than before (as investors know that we are going to be increasingly desperate) or no deal, and consequent administration, ending in either a sale by the administrator totally outside our control or the club ceasing to exist altogether if no sale can be agreed, either way our best option has gone now.

Nick if the club goes into administration the punishments would probably take us too far from the level investors want to be worth the effort. There are no shortage of clubs to invest in with this kind of a deal. Other than location rhe league one status would be the key thing.

REPD- I think what I would take from this if I was a potential investor is that anyone seeking to do a deal with the DT is going to come under this level of scrutiny (reasonable or unreasonable), therefore they would be much better off as an investor to wait for administration and buy the club at that point, without having to jump through a lot of hoops to satisfy our purity brigade or bother with fans having 50.1% control over the ground (or anything else)

Should the Bertrand Boys fail with another investor, anyone who wants to come in could really hold the club and the supporters to ransom. We're lucky so far that the SSF are happy to meet us in formal meetings, some of their members are seen at away games, that kind of thing - the next investor may think that's a waste of time

I think deep scrutiny is understandable and justified given this would have been a historic pivot for AFC Wimbledon. I’m sure fans of all other clubs check out their potential new owners in great depth because it gives you an idea of what they’ll be like once in charge. I agree that baseless accusations are unhelpful and unhealthy. We have to accept that there is still a group of fans who would vote for enshrinement if they possibly could and they’re willing to do anything to stay fan owned.