Palarse manager also sacked.

Oh wow, sir jimmy Anderson is now a Surrey cc player !

Couldn't agree more. I can understand why Bertrand sees us as a good opportunity to establish himself as a DoF and see if his approach/ideas work. Suspect he would then look to 'graduate' to a higher placed club and earn the big bucks whilst spending the even bigger bucks.

Trig - personally I think a club should always retain the option of removing the people in charge of football performance based on their results, but I appreciate there is no perfect solution to our woes.

How on earth do Barrada and Wilcox keep surviving?

Not sure if you saw it nick but after the first meeting with that weird AI video someone shared a video showing Mir ripping off a rubber face mask to reveal that he was in fact Pete W himself.

I wonder if Mr Winkleman would be interested in investing as he must have a few quid in the bank after selling our franchised league position for £60m to some shady Middle Eastern buyer?

There were rumours about Robbie Earle being part of one of the consortiums - hopefully they are still around and viable

Ah and Carrick has gone.

*now not no

I kinda liked that that's what they wanted because football performance should be the focus of any club ownership (see the Glazers' recent statement at an event that Utd would still be financially profitable for them regardless of their on-pitch results - kinda nice to know from a sustainability perspective but suggests they're not really fussed about winning football matches). But we are no beggars not choosers so you would hope at least one of the other proposals is worth pursuing.

There was an interesting answer from Graeme Price in the second meeting when someone asked a Q about why we would turn control of football over. Paraphrased, he said different potential offers wanted different areas of control (commercials, stadium etc) and football was deemed the least damaging option.

I'm sure there were at least 19 other contacts. Most of them would either have been demanding control or have clearly not had the funding. I'd be astonished if there were more than 3 or 4 which weren't fantasy.

Hash - indeed…. Also, I do wonder whether there really are/were 19 others… If there were other very keen potential investors, Mir disappearing would give them the chance to jump in and say “me next please…” - let’s see if that was all just bluster…

Hash,I agree. Regardless of outcome, this situation was a massive event in the club's history and does, in my view,need to be addressed. If nothing else but to stop disinformation and the speculation that we have seen recently.

Can we please have an update from the club? What is happening? Have we sent the broker to find more potential investors? Have we gone back to any of the other 19 we had already been speaking to? Are we still exclusive with SSF? What is going to happen in 4-6 months? If/when we get another investor, whether through SSF or another route, how are we going to make sure they are not complete timewasters like Omar Mir?

TWIO(F) looks like the postcode for Richmond. 😉😁

TS - it's the name of the company that owns the stadium. TWIOF stands for The Wider Interests Of Football, which was the name Erik came up with as a rebellious nod to that 3 man commission report.

What is TWIOF?

The picture in today's OTD was used as the cover photograph for Ian Cooke's testimonial matchday programme against Crystal Palace on 6 September 1977, except it was in black and white (as was the whole programme that cost 10p). I've still got it amongst my collection. Here is a link to it too [Link]

Lack of clarity Russ and let’s face it if the people that have brought us to this point AND sit on the PLCB AND the DTB AND are directors/officers of TWIOF then we can’t expect them to be honest about what they stand to gain out of the various scenarios going forwards.

Trigger - isn’t TWIOF a subsidiary of AFCW PLC at present and therefore its assets would come into play if AFCW PLC went into administration? Under the new model it would be lifted from there and sit under HoldCo so only an administration event at HoldCo would affect it, but if AFCW PLC went into administration under HoldCo then the stadium is separate.

Trigger, the great thing about the Traf welcoming away fans on matchday, is that the only exclusion is fans of a team from Buckinghamshire.

Thanks DO!

That is heartwarming nick and an indication that people do appreciate a proper pub still serving its purpose as a community hub. Probably lucky in its location in Wimbledon. Put the same place up in Rochdale and I imagine the amount raised might not have reached the same heady amount. Nothing against Rochdale. There used to be a pub between Bolton station and their ground which oozed character and had a barmaid that knew how to barmaid and a historic location but it had become surrounded by “progress” and on a Saturday lunchtime was dead. I think it’s marked as “temporarily closed” at the moment [Link]