| One slightly amusing thought… 07:24 - May 9 with 3312 views | hoppy |
Stadium:MK will be hosting League 2 games next season. |  |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 07:37 - May 9 with 3230 views | Ely_Blue |
Whilst the sh!te hole that is Kenilworth Road could be hosting premier league games |  |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 07:48 - May 9 with 3165 views | hoppy |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 07:37 - May 9 by Ely_Blue |
Whilst the sh!te hole that is Kenilworth Road could be hosting premier league games |
What is their capacity there? | |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:02 - May 9 with 3081 views | Churchman |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 07:48 - May 9 by hoppy |
What is their capacity there? |
I think it’s about 10,000. They are building a new stadium but I’ve no idea when for.
Kenilworth Road was always a dump of a ground. Despite roofing what was the open end, it still is by the look of it.
As it goes, hav8ng watched Sunderland yesterday, I suspect we will be playing Luton again next season. |  | | |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:04 - May 9 with 3043 views | Funge |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 07:48 - May 9 by hoppy |
What is their capacity there? |
About 11k.
Went there for a Carling cup game against them maybe 6 years ago - Waghorn's debut, Woolf's too, I think.
Think we won 2-0.
It's obviously a pretty crap ground - but I'd rather have 10 trips there than, say, 1 to Reading. |  | | |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:16 - May 9 with 2988 views | Ftnfwest |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:02 - May 9 by Churchman |
I think it’s about 10,000. They are building a new stadium but I’ve no idea when for.
Kenilworth Road was always a dump of a ground. Despite roofing what was the open end, it still is by the look of it.
As it goes, hav8ng watched Sunderland yesterday, I suspect we will be playing Luton again next season. |
new stadium is a minimum of 3-4 years away |  | | |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:18 - May 9 with 2965 views | hoppy |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:16 - May 9 by Ftnfwest |
new stadium is a minimum of 3-4 years away |
They could always do a ground swap up the road for now! | |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:20 - May 9 with 2954 views | wkj |
Even more amusing is that we got promoted and don't have to go to The Madejski hell hole! |  |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:24 - May 9 with 2923 views | wkj |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:02 - May 9 by Churchman |
I think it’s about 10,000. They are building a new stadium but I’ve no idea when for.
Kenilworth Road was always a dump of a ground. Despite roofing what was the open end, it still is by the look of it.
As it goes, hav8ng watched Sunderland yesterday, I suspect we will be playing Luton again next season. |
I looked this up and was surprised. The Premier Leagues minimum required capacity is 5000 with 2000 seated which is a Football League rule that applies to L2 and above. It seems crazy really. | |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:30 - May 9 with 2891 views | Fixed_It |
I drove past Stadium MK yesterday. My only thought...what a waste! |  |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:50 - May 9 with 2829 views | Radlett_blue |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 07:37 - May 9 by Ely_Blue |
Whilst the sh!te hole that is Kenilworth Road could be hosting premier league games |
Luton Town should merge with Milton Keynes & move to their stadium. Sorted! |  |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:56 - May 9 with 2783 views | Keno |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:30 - May 9 by Fixed_It |
I drove past Stadium MK yesterday. My only thought...what a waste! |
Did you need to include the Stadium in the post? |  |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 10:01 - May 9 with 2639 views | ADStephenson |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:30 - May 9 by Fixed_It |
I drove past Stadium MK yesterday. My only thought...what a waste! |
Maybe dropping down a division will revitalise their fan base and see them drawing huge increases in home support. They might even get 2000 home fans for a couple of matches...
Is there any chance that our total away support over the past few seasons will exceed the total away support for all of next season? What sort of numbers do League 2 teams take to away games? |  |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 10:08 - May 9 with 2584 views | Funge |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 10:01 - May 9 by ADStephenson |
Maybe dropping down a division will revitalise their fan base and see them drawing huge increases in home support. They might even get 2000 home fans for a couple of matches...
Is there any chance that our total away support over the past few seasons will exceed the total away support for all of next season? What sort of numbers do League 2 teams take to away games? |
Bradford and (weirdly) Carlisle both travel in good numbers in that league, both regularly take over 1k to away games, and I'd imagine that Wrexham and Notts County (if they make it) will travel in numbers too....
Otherwise, as we've seen with FGR, Morecambe, Accy and Burton - you'll be looking at a couple of hundred, at most.
I'd be surprised if there were more than 7k away fans, in total, at MK next year. | | | |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 10:19 - May 9 with 2550 views | Sharkey |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 10:01 - May 9 by ADStephenson |
Maybe dropping down a division will revitalise their fan base and see them drawing huge increases in home support. They might even get 2000 home fans for a couple of matches...
Is there any chance that our total away support over the past few seasons will exceed the total away support for all of next season? What sort of numbers do League 2 teams take to away games? |
Some regular away fans still decline to give MK their money. Northampton have been promoted and will not be in that league, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of their fans would have refused to go there.
On the whole though, League 2 fans travel in good numbers. if Notts Co come up, their revitalised fan base will probably make the shortish journey in large numbers. I suspect Wrexham will hugely increase gates everywhere they go because I think this soap opera is going to grow and grow . Bradford (if they're still down and going well) can take big support. Stockport js another team with a very enthusiastic fan base at the moment.
Even the likes of Grimsby and Colchester can take a thousand there if it's at the weekend, so I very much doubt that the Town total wouldn't be caught pretty easily.
(Edit - just re-read the post I replied to, and I see it was the Town support 'over 'he last few seasons'. That of course is more difficult to match. What would it total? ) [Post edited 9 May 2023 10:31]
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 12:51 - May 9 with 2268 views | HighgateBlue |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 08:24 - May 9 by wkj |
I looked this up and was surprised. The Premier Leagues minimum required capacity is 5000 with 2000 seated which is a Football League rule that applies to L2 and above. It seems crazy really. |
I love that even an entity like the Premier League, which has been all about money since its inception, and only getting worse in that regard, lets teams in on footballing merit. I've always been dismayed by rugby union's unwillingness to let teams into the top division even where they win the league below, based on excessive criteria relating to ground and facilities.
Luton is a pretty horrid place and a ramshackle stadium, but I'd far rather have that in the Premier League (and many of us remember them in the old division one), than the likes of MK or other plastic stadia teams of a not dissimilar size. |  | | |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 14:29 - May 9 with 2085 views | ADStephenson |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 10:19 - May 9 by Sharkey |
Some regular away fans still decline to give MK their money. Northampton have been promoted and will not be in that league, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of their fans would have refused to go there.
On the whole though, League 2 fans travel in good numbers. if Notts Co come up, their revitalised fan base will probably make the shortish journey in large numbers. I suspect Wrexham will hugely increase gates everywhere they go because I think this soap opera is going to grow and grow . Bradford (if they're still down and going well) can take big support. Stockport js another team with a very enthusiastic fan base at the moment.
Even the likes of Grimsby and Colchester can take a thousand there if it's at the weekend, so I very much doubt that the Town total wouldn't be caught pretty easily.
(Edit - just re-read the post I replied to, and I see it was the Town support 'over 'he last few seasons'. That of course is more difficult to match. What would it total? ) [Post edited 9 May 2023 10:31]
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I have no idea, but went to MK three times (did we only play there 3 times with one cancelled due to covid?). If it was 3, I would say 15,000 would be a fairly conservative estimate, maybe closer to 18k or even 20k. If we went there 4 times, obviously even higher. So my question was, will MK get more away fans than that over their 23 home games next season? | |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 16:41 - May 9 with 1930 views | Sharkey |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 14:29 - May 9 by ADStephenson |
I have no idea, but went to MK three times (did we only play there 3 times with one cancelled due to covid?). If it was 3, I would say 15,000 would be a fairly conservative estimate, maybe closer to 18k or even 20k. If we went there 4 times, obviously even higher. So my question was, will MK get more away fans than that over their 23 home games next season? |
Shouldn't think so, unless the fixtures throw up a fixture list with, say, Wrexham first game up at the end of July, Notts County on a bank holiday weekend, and then Bradford going for promotion.
But there are plenty who'd say that throwing lots of money M.K.Dons's way is not something to crow about anyway. I doubt AFC Wimbledon will take many. | | | |
| One slightly amusing thought… on 17:09 - May 9 with 1865 views | J2BLUE |
I think we can all hope that MK Dons are only in league two for one season... |  |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 18:30 - May 9 with 1741 views | pointofblue |
Not for the first time - they've had three seasons in League Two already (2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2018/2019). |  |
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| One slightly amusing thought… on 20:29 - May 9 with 1531 views | hype313 |
"Build it and then they will come"
Unless it's Milton Keynes. |  |
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| If Wednesday and Sunderland both win their play-offs.... on 20:55 - May 9 with 1469 views | olimar |
then all 4 teams from the L1 Play-offs last season will be separated across all 4 divisions.
Sunderland- PL
Wednesday- Championship
Wycombe- L1
MK Dons- L2 | | | |
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