RIP Chuck Norris, 86.

On a different note, does anyone follow Netball? My youngest son’s latest girlfriend is a British Netball player and plays for a club called London Pulse. They play their matches at BoxPark in Wembley and apparently regularly get 4500+ fans paying an average of over £30+. He went to a match last week and says the atmosphere, razmataz and entertainment was electric. Money is apparently pouring into the Sport. He thinks coming to Plough Lane is incredible dull by comparison – particularly for an occasional, relatively neutral fan. Sometimes it’s good to look outside the box.

I haven’t voted – not because I don’t love the Club – but because I believe that this vote has nothing directly to do with me or the Club. It is simply the vote of an outdated “Collective” Industrial & Provident Society (or Community Benefits Society, or indeed any nightmarish name you wish to dress it up as) to determine not whether, but the extent to which they continue to tyrannise, trample & overlook the interests of 5000+ minority fan owners by selling some of their 75%+ shareholding. If the RMT Union owned 75%+ of the Club and automatically enrolled me as a member (without an Opt-In mechanism) I would take the same view. Supporting the Club doesn’t mean that we have to participate in the internal affairs of such a body. The Club is doing a lot of things right and beginning to put its financial house in order, but is having to do so with one hand tied behind it’s back due to a number of non-commercial ideological restraints dictated by this “Collective”. An industrial & Provident Society no more represents Fan Ownership than the Socialist Unity Party of Germany represented ownership by the People.

Naz - I just succeeded in renewing, my season ticket, certainly not easy but eventual success.

do I understand correctly that we are been asked to vote to remove the 15% limit, but with no other limit set instead?

Florida - I received an e-mail on 4th March with a link to follow. I would give you that link but I think it would go to my account. So maybe try [Link] But, as I say, every time I try the page gets stuck on the delivery method. If you manage to crack it, do let us all know!

Can somebody point me at the season ticket purchase page please. I can't find it. TIA.

I agree with OI

You at least need a rolling contract to supply 'working capital' for a period, e.g. 1.5 million per annum with a 3 year notice period. Asking for this would probably make investors run for the hills.

Stuart D- I agree, unless you get someone who would buy a minority and at the same time agree to fund our losses (which investor I doubt exists, and if you did get someone like that they would in effect have taken control of the club, by the simple fact that they could threaten to turn off the money tap if they didn’t get their way on anything). Much cleaner and clearer to just sell control and be done with it.

Selling equity to a minority investor is just kicking another can down the road.

Season ticket renewal online still getting stuck at the delivery modes page. And I thought the club was keen on getting money in early.

Timmy, their comms are 100% accurate. The key word (see my earlier post) is "help" and i think I've shown how. WE NEED OTHER INITIATIVES TOO.

RK- totally agree, getting some cash to reduce the debt is all nice (and it pushes the administration horizon back a little bit in time), but unless we either find a way of eliminating, or someone to cover, our ongoing losses it is purely a can-kicking exercise.

RK, well the clubs comms could be construed otherwise “To help enable a more competitive playing budget”

The debt to equity initiative is NOT about subsidising our operational spend. How many times has this been said? It takes out debt and the need to accumulate income from player sales etc to repay debt redemptions, and also reduces our operating spend by about £400,000. That last bit enables us to reduce operating losses NOT eliminate them

When you look at Oxfords figures, you realise that the 2 million from selling equity probably ain't going to wipe our arses for long. [Link]

Nice pod. Reaffirmed my voting decision

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Don't mess with the mighty Padds. 😁

Oi, Trig

Hey it’s no problem you can’t remember which way you voted or whether you voted at all it happens.

Trigger- I realise that I didn’t express myself very clearly, my apologies. I don’t recall whether I voted no or abstained on the constitution - I could probably go back and look it up but I won’t, because I don’t care / it doesn’t matter and so I can’t be bothered to spend my time doing so. I am sorry if that leaves you in suspense but I am afraid it’s all you are going to get from me on that - from my perspective life is simply too short to spend any of it worrying about the DT constitution.

Ok so you said you didn’t vote on it but now you say you voted no and you don’t really recall and then pull out the “doesn’t really matter” argument.

Totally agree with Paddington’s last post- if the 50% vote is so critical why muddy the waters by throwing in the constitutional change (which absolutely didn’t “have” to be done now)