McDons

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

Looking like there on their way out, now just need Wimbledon to win their game.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22661

Why? what affinity do you have with Wimbledon or Milton Keynes?

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

I'd like to see the real wimbledon do better than the MK Dons - is that such a bad thing???

And i do a connections with MK, is that ok with you boss? :roll:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:05 pm

Matty_Robson's_Chin wrote:

I'd like to see the real wimbledon do better than the MK Dons - is that such a bad thing???

I agree with you....you Hull knive wielding loving bastard!!!! :coool:

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

Next time at pools i'll wield my knife infront of your face if you want?? I'm highly skilled and could take the 6 o'clock shadow off in seconds!

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:07 pm

MutleyRules wrote:

Matty_Robson's_Chin wrote:

I'd like to see the real wimbledon do better than the MK Dons - is that such a bad thing???

I agree with you....you Hull knive wielding loving bastard!!!! :coool:

Don't forget the brawling as well, come to 'Ull, it's only slightly worse then Hartlepool for getting a right good kicking

parmopooly · **Posted:** Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:07 pm

make sure it's got fish spread on this time though!! I don't like jam on its own!!!

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22661

The real Wimbledon? You mean those thugs who kicked lumps out of everyone they played? The most hated team in living memory? Now of course there's lots of people with rose coloured glasses who scream franchise without haveing the first idea what it means. The choice was to move or go bust.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:11 pm

Yep....The Real Wimbledon....who I like(d)!!!! :coool:

But I understand what you're saying like about going bust etc!!!! confised

I think it would have been better if they ended up in Dublin....what a cracking away game that would've been!!!! :coool:

Expensive like!!!! confised

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:13 pm

Mr I wrote:

The choice was to move or go bust.

So they should have gone bust and left their place to an established viable club, right?

garthwd · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:23 am **Posts:** 793

Richard Head wrote:

Mr I wrote:

The choice was to move or go bust.

So they should have gone bust and left their place to an established viable club, right?

Absolutely agree Mr Head. The only reason Winkleman took them to MK was so he could make money building a retail park and he wouldn't have got planning permission without a sports stadium being included.

chessington · **Posted:** Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:10 pm

Plough Lane has now been developed into 500+ flats (empty ones at that!), very sad. Merton Council did Wimbledon no favours, they simply weren't wanted in the Borough.

3Quid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:11 pm **Posts:** 1791

Mr I wrote:

The real Wimbledon? You mean those thugs who kicked lumps out of everyone they played? The most hated team in living memory? Now of course there's lots of people with rose coloured glasses who scream franchise without haveing the first idea what it means. The choice was to move or go bust.

Exactly. No-one liked them when they were in the league. They were the biggest anti-football team walking the planet.

I couldn't care less about them. Never have, never will.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22661

Richard Head wrote:

Mr I wrote:

The choice was to move or go bust.

So they should have gone bust and left their place to an established viable club, right?

Almost, they should have died a very slow death.

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2008 12:58 pm

MadJohn wrote:

Good luck to the AFC Wimbledon fans, who went the right way about trying to reestablish a club for themselves.

Fully agree with that.

Never cared much for them when they were hoofing their way around the Premiershit but that was due to them being cockerneys rather than owt else. Since they've reformed I've kept an eye out for their results and would be happy to see them re-establish themselves as a Conference / 3rd / 4th division team for all of the hard work that their supporters have put in. They're getting the kind of crowds that could see them comfortable at that level too.

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

MadJohn wrote:

The few who decided to follow the new club in MK are a strange example of football supporters.

'Few' being the important word there

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:21 pm

Tax Paying Poolie wrote:

MadJohn wrote:

The few who decided to follow the new club in MK are a strange example of football supporters.

'Few' being the important word there

Owt from MK is strange. :laugh:

MKDon · **Joined:** Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5

glad to see you are not all haters of the franchise! I supported Wimbledon but followed them when they relocated to Milton keynes as did a significant number of other. the demons were the council and the so called supporters who stopped attending matches and we see it that Pete Winkleman saved our club. It will take time for other clubs and fans to accept the MK Dons but slowly and surely we are getting there. Just wish the press and media would get there facts straight before trying to cause problems that don't exist anymore

Look forward to playing you on Saturday but if we play like we did against Bradford you'll have a walk in the park
Best of luck to AFC Wimbledon in the cup as well

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37371

MKDon wrote:

glad to see you are not all haters of the franchise! I supported Wimbledon but followed them when they relocated to Milton keynes as did a significant number of other. the demons were the council and the so called supporters who stopped attending matches and we see it that Pete Winkleman saved our club. It will take time for other clubs and fans to accept the MK Dons but slowly and surely we are getting there. Just wish the press and media would get there facts straight before trying to cause problems that don't exist anymore

Look forward to playing you on Saturday but if we play like we did against Bradford you'll have a walk in the park
Best of luck to AFC Wimbledon in the cup as well

how can it be your club anymore when it's upped sticks and moved, it's not Billy Smarts Circus... any club has to be part of the community and shipping it 60 miles up the M1 kills that one stone dead. Bigger mug you for following it.

MKDon · **Joined:** Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5

when you visit us at MK you'll see just how much the MK Dons have done for the community - many fans of clubs travel more than 60 miles to follow their team. Milton Keynes is 35 minutes by train to London hence so many London clubs attract supporters from here. Now though MK Dons are building on continued support and have a very local fan base

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:08 pm

Yeah but you still stole Wimbledon's place in the Football League. They day franchises were allowed was a very sad day for football.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:35 pm

MadJohn wrote:

If some mercenary tw@t took a struggling Pools and relocated them to Harrogate and I went along with the move and supported the new club there would be a lot of people I could no longer look in the eye. I am not a shallow enogh person to do that just for the sake of league football. The only possible next step would be to let Pools die and support an AFC Hartlepool in the Northern League (or wherever) and do everything I could to discourage people from supporting the people who had stolen my club's identity.

Wimbledon fans who stuck by their club when they shat on the Football League by resigning from it, and then started supporting the club that stole Wimbledon's corpse because they lacked the backbone to start again from scratch are beyond help.

In my humble opinion like :wink:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37371

MKDon wrote:

when you visit us at MK you'll see just how much the MK Dons have done for the community - many fans of clubs travel more than 60 miles to follow their team. Milton Keynes is 35 minutes by train to London hence so many London clubs attract supporters from here. Now though MK Dons are building on continued support and have a very local fan base

'visit' you... never. Milton Keynes may not be Hell, but you can see it from there. If all clubs followed your reasoning, the idea of following your local team in your community would die, we'd have franchises moving aroud the country to provide a local football service on a five year contract. MK Dons is no more part of that overgrown service area on the M1 than i am, it's an adopted baby that the real parents wanted to keep, but the adoptive parents could afford take off them.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:04 pm

so.....a MK fan whose real club was Wimbledon.....who will be in the league within 10 years I believe, and probably playing against MK somewhere along the line......sorry but AFC Wimbledon should be your team!! If you were from MK then I could understand you following MK.... but to follow that club in direct opposition to the club you started supporting is....well....you've got lost somewhere along the way haven't you?

MKDon · **Joined:** Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5

you're a friendly lot aren't you?

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:18 pm

We are. But we don't like MK Dons on purely footballing principles. It's nothing personal.

MKDon · **Joined:** Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5

just hope if you meet some of our fans you will realise we are as supportive of our team as you are of yours. I just wish people would read all the facts about the demise of Wimbledon and the relocation before forming such strong views. Me and many others made our decision to carry on supporting our team and many people can't understand that.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:13 pm

it ceased to be your team when it moved to MK.... most people could see that but you couldn't. You have changed your allegiance, simple as. To me it's crystal clear what would have to bve done if we were ever put in the same situation. I support Hartlepool, therefore the club has to remain in Hartlepool. There have been rumours of the club moving to Wynyard, and the day that ever happened AFC Hartlepool requires to be immediately started up. It's not the first time as Vince Barker (previous club chairman) threatened to move Pools to Scarborough in 1981. What a success that would have been.
AFC Wimbledon was formed under exceptional circumstances and that was the correct thing to do - and you should have been one of them in my opinion, based on what you have said on here.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:49 pm

End of the dream, for now, AFC Wimbledon have gone out of the FA Cup tonight to Wycombe 4-1.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:06 am

They are still in the play -off zone for the blue square south division, so there's every chance they could be in The Blue Square Premier next season. Their rise has been the most rapid of all clubs banished to the wilderness, only six years to go through four divisions, and now just two divisions lower than League Two. Their attendances are excellent for that level of football, between 2,500 and 3,000

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:48 pm

Just a half please wrote:

Wwinkleman decides to relocate a further 60 miles north. Will you follow him again?

Cool. If he keeps doing that we might end up with derby rivals worth the name. :wink:

parmopooly · **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:51 pm

Berwick Rangers Dons :laugh:

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:52 pm

KS Dons

(Kirby Stephen)

You know it makes sense 'Winky'.

Spender · **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:55 pm

2012, the Shetlands Dons....... :roll:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37371

Port Stanley Dons...... supporting a team where away matches are closer than home matches is a sign you've lost the plot.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:48 pm

hence the clarity of vision of who you are, where your loyalty is and what you are prepared to stand up for as a fan - this comes before the convenience and sham pride of "supporting" a higher level club for the sake of what it looks like;
and believe me it doesn't look good from any angle.

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