In a hypothetical world, what would you be looking for TF? Obviously last year's election wouldn't be rerun, most of the winners have either quit or been re-elected anyway. I'm not sure a rerun of this year's election would be worthwhile. So apologies? Rule changes, which are being put forward anyway? The chance to fill the casual vacancy?

How arrogant to think that amount would prohibit you from continuing as I’m guessing they have no idea of your financial circumstances

That reads like a poorly veiled threat.

This “the suggested £2,000 deposit was a large enough sum to make him think very carefully about proceeding” bit is something I find disturbing (I’m assuming it’s a verbatim quote, yes?) - it implies that there is an agenda to price somebody out of a potential route to justice. There’s a word for it, but I can’t think of it….

Ideally the FSA would provide low cost, independent arbitration but there would always be some concern about just how independent they were.

Independant guest book at that. Freedom of speech within the law is essential in these troubled times.

Lefties at AFC Wimbledon shut down their own supporters Guestbook!!😂😂😂😂

Laurence - why is arbitration so expensive? If we can't find arbitration routes that don't involve thousands of pounds (maybe far more than 5K apparently) we have a problem that the arbitration defined in the constitution is only available to the rich, which surely must be totally against fan owned principles.

I'm not against criticism of the DTB, in fact the DTB if they have any sense aren't against criticism of the DTB. And if it is not defamatory, any threats should be pushed back against. What is bad is material that does look suffiiciently defamatory that it can be used as a threat against WUP so think about that before posting.

when did £5,000 become a reasonable sum compared with £500, one wonders?

it is strange to think we are all AFC Wimbledon supporters.

Trigg - I wonder what “alternative routes forward” means…. 🧐 It would have been better (and more polite/respectful, I’d argue) if that had been followed by “…such as, for example…”, and then a list of some of the alternatives….. Without that, it’s just too vague, and not helpful in any sense as far as I can see… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Meadow- that’s good to hear. People love this place and it wouldn’t be fair to the majority to risk it being shut down

Jumped up little Garden gnome

My priority is keeping WUP up and running. Any anti DTB posts are likely to get pressure to close it down. All Shane's posts are pretty reasonable but I'm not going to sticky them. That would endorse them and I have to remain neutral.

I am not happy that the Dons Trust are happy to risk losing £10,000 plus of AFCW supporters money to try to defend the indefensible. They should see sense and climb down now, before this is plastered all over press and they have to climb down anyway but in front of a much wider audience.

I don't think the actions of several people wrapped around this bullshit can collectively hide behind this and invoke a legal shield that the trust can cover, having chewed this over with a law bud.

I was hoping a rich person would bung Shane £10000, Spit.

Moderators please allow Triggers sticky

Surely galty will stump up 10k against the co-operative 😂

Today has certainly helped Pads.

I'm afraid OI and Karen are probably right, Trig.

Trebor - Kris was allowed to get away with that, only he didn't - Tom got elected he failed! The ESG at that time asked him not to indulge in personal attacks on other candidates but didn't force the issue to try and have a free and vibrant election.

I remember many years ago Kris Stewart asked me to nominate him for the DTB and I agreed, then I saw his manifesto in which he basically said, "Don't vote for Tom Adam - he's a bit shit, isn't he?" I wouldn't have nominated him if I'd known that! But there has to be a way that DTB members and other candidates are allowed to say "I don't think I could work with this person" and then the electorate deciding, rather than the ESG positioning itself as arbiter?

Shane they should not have any say whatsoever