I may be wrong, but IIRC Turvey got loads of abuse, inc on here, over Darlo(?)gate. He may have been an old buffer in a blazer but he had stuck up for us with the FA, so in my view some respect and thanks were due; he was only sticking to the (admittedly stupid) rules.

6M - only kidding (hence the 😉), although I confess my attention span isn’t great 🤪 I find it hard to focus on JG’s posts as they’re often “listen to me I’m a hugely successful businessman and I definitely know best ok….” 😯

OI/Woking - yes, I know, hence my 😉 emoji… 😬

Wasn't the other two Raj Parker (the FA's legal representative) and Steve Stride (Villa director)?

6MDM - at least Turvey voted in our favour as part.of the infamous 3 man commission, not that it helped in the end.

A4E if you're not interested and can't skip the posts why not go and wash your hair? Discord is not there for sensible discussion only censored views that suit the DTB and their minions

You know most don't use Discord a4e. I'm sure you can actually manage tl;dr quite well.

A lot of TL;DR on here today… 🤪 Maybe take it to Dischord…? 🫣😉

If this were a normal business and a handful of owners could dictate next steps, nothing is off the table. This isn't. It is effectively wearing a straightjacket that nobody can remove. The thing you hate with a passion has saw to that. Even if the majority of engaged supporters and the DTB wanted rid of it, to do so is nigh on impossible for reasons that have been repeated ad nauseam. Therefore, only administration will see any meaningful change and the hope that whoever brings us out of it does so with the best of intentions and not for something sinister. I don't care if they see the club as a mechanism to self-publicise or to massage their ego as long as they get it on a stable footing and it becomes viable. If we had a bit of success on the pitch too that would be nice as that's the whole point. £43 for an adult ticket in the west stand, which is what my seat will cost on a matchday, to watch crap on the pitch most weeks is not value for money either.

How would you insure you were on the Board and had the power to implement your plans after a rights issue JG? You'd presumably have to buy a big shareholding and line up like minded parties to give you the power to run the club/company. You couldn't fix it a price that would attract me so I am irrelevant but I imagine a large part of the take-up might not want your approach adopted.

6MDM - i don't actually disagree with you in your synopsis that "insolvency is a certainty unless something changes". But the key phrase is "unless something changes". I would be extremely confident that I'd have the club at a break even level (with an increased playing budget) within 2 full seasons. You might not like what I would implement - but that is a different story. Needs must and we need to become more Commercial. What does that mean in practice (here are some examples): 1) Allow all matchday and season tickets to find their market level without the need for automatic concessions; 2) Allow all Club admin salaries to be dictated by prevailing market rates and not enhanced by £140,000 to the level of the London Living Wage; 3) Ensure that all parts of the Club's activities (the academy and Women's team) stand commercially on their own two feet without cross subsidy; 4) Generate increased revenue from non match day fans i.e. Livestream and access to Dons TV. Nothing is inevitable - if one tackles the issues head on commercially without sentiment.

I don't think you will ever get your rights issue JG largely because of people's inherent self-interest. I still believe most wouldn't go near it because it doesn't solve the problem that almost all EFL clubs make losses most seasons. You'd need it underwritten and then you'd probably have a majority shareholder afterwards.

The talk of insolvency as a certainty unless something changes is exactly that. Nobody point talking about rights issues as only 23.6% of shares are available to sell. The directors can't do anything about that unless the members if the trust remove a restricted action, which isn't going to happen. Selling only 23.6% isn't enough. It will raise a bit of short term cash but that is all. When that runs out there is nothing left to sell. External financing, if we can even get any, will be expensive. No lender will deal with a business that is destined to make ongoing losses with no plan other than a hope and a prayer. Any lending would have covenants. We would breach them and the lender would recover their money by forcing us to sell the ground. Get the idea? This is why administration is inevitable as our constitution will mot let us sell out and that is the only hope (not guarantee) of remaining solvent and a going concern. We could not even do a sale and lease back on the stadium as it is a restricted action and, in any event, would just buy us time until we run out of cash again but this time we would be left with nothing.

I think the format makes sense for the National League given the relatively small quality gap between that division and League Two. But it’s silly for the Championship when even runaway champions from that league can end up getting smacked straight back down the next season.

Apparantely, the Championship clubs have agreed to implementing tje six-team playoff format that the Nat League introduced recently. Inevitably, L1 & L2 will follow, maybe even for next season

JG- I would say that when it comes to questions of insolvency it is all about the ability to pay debts as they fall due (ie what you refer to as the cash flow test). Having a lot of fixed assets (ie the stadium) is all very well but won’t fend off administration (unless you sell the asset).

You can’t buck the market. Capitalism works because human nature is inherently self-interested. People aren’t motivated to contribute through a Collective – and any such structure is ultimately doomed to fail. Let’s at least give true fan ownership the chance to prevail through a rights issue.

A lot of talk of insolvency. The Club has a net balance sheet of £18.6m, so a long way from being insolvent, based on a balance sheet test. Even if last year’s losses of £2.8m were repeated each and every year going forwards we wouldn’t become insolvent on this test until 2033. However, we might run out of cash before then and therefore fail a cash flow test – although £1.8m of the £2.8m loss was depreciation which is obviously a non cash flow item. I take a little comfort from knowing that this year we will receive an additional circa £1m revenue for being in League 1 and that finally someone has had the good sense to start the process of increasing ticket prices. Assuming the average bum on seat revenue per match is £5 more than it was in the 2024/25 season this would represent a further circa £1.2m in gross profit which when added to the additional £1m for League 1 status (assuming we stay up) enhances cash flow and reduces our overall losses significantly (all other things being equal). But if the Club’s directors allowed the Club to reach a position of insolvency on either test – without seeking refinancing through a shareholders rights issue – they would be deemed grossly negligent.

Technically insolvent = don’t have enough cash to pay your debts as they fall due. We were told at the recent meeting that we would have reached that point by June, but are fending it off by (eg) selling season tickets early and potentially taking short term loans. Regardless of not knowing the exact date (sorry, LD), as OI says, if we continue to make losses without someone to cover them, administration is unavoidably a case of when, not if.

Our record in the AFCW era against Northampton Town is awful. We've already lost twice to them this season and I've witnessed some truly horrendous games with them, both in terms of results and entertainment. It was not always like this. In the WFC era we achieved our first league victory (after 7 previous league games without a win) following election to the 4th Division in 1977 against them. Phil Summerill, on his debut, and Billy Holmes scored in our 2-0 win, which we quickly followed up with a 3-0 win over Newport County a few days later.

Three of our next fixtures are the home games against the teams currently 23rd, 20th, and 21st respectively - we can either drag ourselves virtually to safety or be dragged into the relegation battle across these games… After that we have yet another home game, but it’s against Peterborough - that’s 4 home games in the next 5 matches… 😯

Eesh I didn’t know that stat Ric 😬

We do at least seem to be a somewhat different team from the one back then Spit. I did feel up at Mansfield recently that both teams were trying to play the ball a bit too much but hey with 25 goals in our last 6 games it’s at least more entertaining than the 0-0s

We have a dire record over the years with them. 3 wins out of 21 and only 1 at home. It would be very nice to change that but can only see a draw at best.

Well im going Sunday trigs, we never win,just hope it's better than my last game the 0-0 with Mansfield back in December, one of the most boring matches ever .