Milton Keynes FC

ptbap · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:39 pm

I know there's a lot on here who don't like the whole Wimbledon/MK thing, but you can't fault this...

"MK Dons fans snapped up their initial allocation of 26,000 tickets for the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final in just five days. (Telegraph)"

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:42 pm

Maybe so, but what's that got to do with Milton Keynes FC?

http://www.clubwebsite.co.uk/pbmiltonkeynesfc/

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:53 pm

I couldn't give a toss how many they have sold!!!! confised

Obafemi-Obsession · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:06 pm

They should be expelled from the league and Wimbledon reinstated. Bunch of twats.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

Thats exceptional support for a new club and all this franchise stuff is very tedious. Lots of people pontificating about something they know sod all about. Nobody liked the old Wimbledon and now they get upset that MK's took it over.

For those interested in anything like the truth; Wimbledon were bankrupt, groundless, fanless and about to cease to exist until the MK lot saved what was left. Fair play to the people of Milton Keynes for supporting their home town club.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:45 pm

Speak for yourself....I liked the 'Old' Wimbledon!!!! :evil:

I even wrote off to the club for tickets for the 88 Cup Final!!!! :grin:

Never got any like!!!! :roll:

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

MutleyRules wrote:

[color=#000080]Speak for yourself....I liked the 'Old' Wimbledon!!!! :evil:

Must have been just you then Mutt........... everyone else in the world hated them. dirty fouling bastids.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:14 pm

Mr I wrote:

For those interested in anything like the truth; Wimbledon were bankrupt, groundless, fanless and about to cease to exist until the MK lot saved what was left.

If that is true Mr I then they should have been left to die quietly. There were plenty of other long-established clubs who could have taken their place, so why favour the MK solution? You can't even say it was for continuity (unless you count footballers' contracts).

Obafemi-Obsession · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:21 pm

If Milton Keynes wanted to join the Football League they should have been made to do exactly the same as every other club - work their way up through the pyramid by getting promotion after promotion. Not by buying a place in the league at the expense of another. I stand by saying they are a bunch of twats and I hope they fold and Pete Winkleman goes with them too. rage

ptbap · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:33 pm

Hmmm, I didn't know there was a Milton Keynes FC, although I couldn't find what the PB stood for. I've always thought it would only be a matter of time before MK Dons dropped the Dons part, perhaps not. Suppose they could be AFC Milton Keynes.

Richard M. Head wrote:

Maybe so, but what's that got to do with Milton Keynes FC?

http://www.clubwebsite.co.uk/pbmiltonkeynesfc/

ptbap · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:40 pm

Whatever people say there does appear to be plenty of support amongst the locals for their new football club.

I'd like to see what happened if they started to struggle like, they'll be no hard core support, but in a time when the premiership is struggling to hold onto its audience and family focused club in an area with such a huge catchment of potential fans could turn out to be quite a force in the lower divisions.

Mr I wrote:

clappp

Thats exceptional support for a new club and all this franchise stuff is very tedious. Lots of people pontificating about something they know sod all about. Nobody liked the old Wimbledon and now they get upset that MK's took it over.

For those interested in anything like the truth; Wimbledon were bankrupt, groundless, fanless and about to cease to exist until the MK lot saved what was left. Fair play to the people of Milton Keynes for supporting their home town club.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37182

Mr I wrote:

clappp

Thats exceptional support for a new club and all this franchise stuff is very tedious. Lots of people pontificating about something they know sod all about. Nobody liked the old Wimbledon and now they get upset that MK's took it over.

For those interested in anything like the truth; Wimbledon were bankrupt, groundless, fanless and about to cease to exist until the MK lot saved what was left. Fair play to the people of Milton Keynes for supporting their home town club.

...and if somebody wanted to buy Pools and relocate them to Stevenage, would you still be congratulating the fans of Stevenage Harts...?

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:39 pm

Snowy wrote:

...and if somebody wanted to buy Pools and relocate them to Stevenage, would you still be congratulating the fans of Stevenage Harts...?

Or relocate HUFC to Scarborough?

I have no time at all for MK Dons, although contrary to that I would prefer to see them promoted at darlow's expense in light of their current league positions.

I do regularly look out for AFC Wimbledon's results though and think it would be nice if they could get back to Conference / Div 4 level. They get crowds of 2k+ in their current division (1 below Conference South) so crowd wise they do deserve a team at that sort of level.

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:12 pm

Technically they're not really a franchise. I don't think they have the rights to the history of Wimbledon FC or any trading rights to the name.

I'm completely indifferent to them. Sooner or later MK was to get a team. It's just a shame that there isn't a measure in place to make other teams cough up a tiny, tiny amount (or percentage) of their weekly taking to bail teams like Wimbledon out.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

Snowy wrote:

Mr I wrote:

clappp

Thats exceptional support for a new club and all this franchise stuff is very tedious. Lots of people pontificating about something they know sod all about. Nobody liked the old Wimbledon and now they get upset that MK's took it over.

For those interested in anything like the truth; Wimbledon were bankrupt, groundless, fanless and about to cease to exist until the MK lot saved what was left. Fair play to the people of Milton Keynes for supporting their home town club.

...and if somebody wanted to buy Pools and relocate them to Stevenage, would you still be congratulating the fans of Stevenage Harts...?

Probably not but they aren't and I don't remember all of the bleeding hearts coming out in support of Pools during the many times we almost folded. As for MKD/Wimbledon, I care not a jot about either. It's about as relevant to me as some old biddy popping her clogs in Peru.

Loid Haw-Haw of Sussex · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:16 pm

Sorry chip.. but it was that league-2 morecockles fc :grin:

Matty_Robson's_Chin · **Joined:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:57 pm **Posts:** 2155

Chances of them folding is small to be fair. if they struggled a bit they'd just have to arrange a friendly with Man Ure or some other 'big' club (darlington??) to fill that monster stadium up to give them a few hundred thousand £££'s

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:55 pm

MadJohn wrote:

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

It's just a shame that there isn't a measure in place to make other teams cough up a tiny, tiny amount (or percentage) of their weekly taking to bail teams like Wimbledon out.

There used to be one: 4% of all gate receipts put into a pot for redistribution across the league. This was back in the day when revenue from TV deals was also shared across the 92 clubs.

I've just been reminded of one my favourite football quotes, one that demonstrates the sheer brass balls of some of the people at the top:

"The smaller clubs are bleeding the game dry. For the sake of the game they should be put to sleep"
- Martin Edwards, Manchester United, 1982

...

Seriously?

I hate Man Utd even more than I used to now. Christ, that's just grim.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:26 am

And I thought Martin Edwards was an ok sort of bloke!!!! banghead

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