Comedy gold. Talking of comedy gold the entrance price is £20.

suggest waiting a couple of weeks & it will be down to a fiver.

Good shout and with Gold Lounge included obviously. It has its own bar you know!

Anyone else think Loubser is quietly cursing Eccles and turning the side around? If we'd been relegated, he could have skipped off into Hockey Land citing "underfunding" and an "owners refusal to employ good quality staff', but instead finds himself having to plan for another season playing out of the white elephant that is the Cherry Red whilst paying for multiple other training facilities>
End of Season Dinner will be behind closed doors methinx.......gone are the days of people booking overnight accommodation at the Lensbury.....more like "Pie'n'Pint" night down the local spoons

Loubser is Hughes's man, he will stay as long as David owns the club.

He's doing so well

In all truth, Loubser is a CEO in name only.

From the newsletter

[iThe One Club Social will be held from 5.30pm in the Silver Lounge at the Cherry Red Records Stadium. Tickets cost £20 and include:
Q&A Session
An auction and raffle
One-course hot buffet meal
Your chance to meet your favourite players!
We’d love you to be part of this very special informal evening to celebrate the season and look ahead to 2023.[/i

Expecting in next weeks newsletter that tickets will be a tenner..... Wonder what the raffle prizes will be,
first prize three 2023 gold lounge yearly tickets
second prize two 2023 gold lounge yearly tickets
third prize one 2023 gold lounge yearly ticket
fouth prize 50% off 2023 gold lounge season ticket

Correction:

first prize one 2023 gold lounge yearly tickets
second prize two 2023 gold lounge yearly tickets
third prize three 2023 gold lounge yearly ticket

The raffle prizes might include a return train ticket to Hull. One that monkey did not use.

Thought Lobster was a Crustacean.

No, he is South African.

Not another spineless Saffa who ran away when things got iffy at home?

Without a shadow of a doubt the gold lounge will be in there. I wonder if they might also take the opportunity to finesse fans into all the volunteer roles they had lined up.
2nd prize - unique match day experience (translates hand out team sheets)
3rd prize - meet and greet with players (as they hand you their used kit to wash).
4th prize- get to go on the Plough Lane hallowed turf ( and put up the posts)

I am in absolute awe of how far the club have fallen......absolutely in awe.
Is it safe to assume that there will not be an awards dinner this year? It clearly states in the sponsors brochure that a table at the awards dinner is available for the main sponsor to BUY....how will our Global Travel Partners cope without this glittering black tie event in their social calendar?
A buffet.....a Q&A session and a chance to buy players shirts that went unsponsored all year......I paid £10 for Jamie O'Callaghans Quins Away shirt one year.....but that was just at a gathering after the last home game if the season.....no £20 or naff buffet back then, but an awards dinner at the Lensbury Club on the Thames.....think it was 2007. How far has Hughes dragged the club down that it is now essentially a husk of what it was just 15 years ago?
It's criminal.

To be fair, Hughes seems to have a think for inept African administrators...I see Worcester Rugby Union are now teetering on the brink.....he really had the anti-midas touch that fielding supremo ...lost fans by the thousands at sixways whilst there and Scottish Cricket is in a tailspin thanks to his guidance.

What’s this one course buffet thing. I thought with a buffet you helped yourself (as often as you wanted). Maybe that’s me. I wondered why they were giving me dirty looks at the hotel stayed in recently. Although to be fair it could one of a dozen reasons!

From this photo Attendance levels looking about accurate as well!

Like what they’ve done with the Gold Lounge though. Worzels the house band I guess. Could be worth getting a ticket.

Clientele far too smart to be our Gold Lounge.

The Q&A part of the event might be interesting.

I suspect it will be the players - Captain and Eccles who will do the A ing. Now if it was the previous coach and the management team it would be really interesting to know what they were thinking when they did what they did. In any event it’s been such a long season I doubt anyone has the energy to put the boot in at this stage. Let’s just hope through all the mistakes both obvious and unfortunate that they have learnt how not to do it and that next year is a decent season.

I have been to some great end of season do's. a couple at the Stoop first time round, Charlton, a big flash hotel in London and my favourite the BA Concorde Culb where the players (apart from Rusty) could not drink because they had playoff game at St Helens that week.

You rang.


1. How do the club believe they have performed against the KPI's set from the time the move to Wimbledon was announced? These would be specifically:
A Superleague aspirant side....challenging for honours and promotion with a solid coaching set up.
5,000 target attendance.....we were at 970 for our last full championship season at Ealing....where are we at the end of Wimbledon year 1?
Corporate hospitality income. We immediately discounted this offering after just 1 game. Has this resulted in a greater game day income? Did the departure of the commercial manager mid season impact the long term strategy?
2. How have our various landlords assisted us in 2022 and have Wimbledon agreed to give us full access to the stadium in summer 2023 or will we again be expected to vacate for nearly 12 weeks?
3. Will we continue to be part time, or has the 2022 season highlighted the reality that part time has not and will never deliver promotion?

There are literally 20 or more questions, regarding accountability for failings, but straight answers to these 3 above would be refreshing......