| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" 13:22 - Apr 13 with 1309 views | Miaow |
That's a shame. |  |
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 20:19 - May 3 with 1039 views | Miaow |
19th.
Amusing. | |
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation on 20:26 - May 3 with 1017 views | MattinLondon |
I don’t like the fact that MK Dons didn’t earn their place in the football league. But they now have a generation of fans who were born after that clubs formation and don’t care at all about how they were formed. The franchise FC ship has sailed.
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation on 20:37 - May 3 with 983 views | Keno |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation on 20:26 - May 3 by MattinLondon |
I don’t like the fact that MK Dons didn’t earn their place in the football league. But they now have a generation of fans who were born after that clubs formation and don’t care at all about how they were formed. The franchise FC ship has sailed.
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not sure sailing is the right word, sinking may be more appropriate |  |
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation on 21:08 - May 3 with 931 views | MattinLondon |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation on 20:37 - May 3 by Keno |
not sure sailing is the right word, sinking may be more appropriate |
If I happened to have lots and lots of cash, liked football but didn’t really support a club, I’d invest in MK Dons. A great stadium, a lot of potential and a sort of blank canvass as well.
Change the kit to purple, design a much better badge and I’ll oversea footballing success. | | | |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 22:49 - May 3 with 789 views | Edmundo |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 20:19 - May 3 by Miaow |
19th.
Amusing. |
Not amusing enough. Why should they be there, even 19th in L2, ahead of the likes of Bury FC? |  |
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 12:34 - May 4 with 512 views | GeoffSentence |
MK Dons get a bad rap for what happened to Wimbledon FC but they were screwed by a combination of circumstances and people a long way from Milton Keynes.
The consequences of the Hillsborough disaster meant that Plough Lane was unviable as a home ground, they could not get permission to build another ground locally.
Sam Hamam was hawking the club out to all and sundry, at one point it was muted that they would move it to Dublin of all places and the club ended up looking at grounds outside London but nothing came off. The norwegians turned out not to have deep enough pockets to sort it out.
Milton Keynes had a stadium and in Pete Winkleman and willing backer. So far as I recall there wereno other options available. Heaven knows what would have happened if they had not moved to MK, probably just gone out of business. |  |
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 12:43 - May 4 with 500 views | solemio |
Worth remembering that before the formation of the MK Dons, Milton Keynes was the largest place in Europe without a professional football team. Largest by population and area. |  | | |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 12:58 - May 4 with 469 views | WinchBlue |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 12:34 - May 4 by GeoffSentence |
MK Dons get a bad rap for what happened to Wimbledon FC but they were screwed by a combination of circumstances and people a long way from Milton Keynes.
The consequences of the Hillsborough disaster meant that Plough Lane was unviable as a home ground, they could not get permission to build another ground locally.
Sam Hamam was hawking the club out to all and sundry, at one point it was muted that they would move it to Dublin of all places and the club ended up looking at grounds outside London but nothing came off. The norwegians turned out not to have deep enough pockets to sort it out.
Milton Keynes had a stadium and in Pete Winkleman and willing backer. So far as I recall there wereno other options available. Heaven knows what would have happened if they had not moved to MK, probably just gone out of business. |
Many clubs go out of business due to bad leadership - big ones include Rangers, Bolton etc but they start again from the bottom. Wimbledon fans would have lived with that - they started again anyway. If Winkleman had funded a smaller local club, it would have taken a few years but they would be in a far better position than they are now.
I don’t expect that they’ll still be around in 5 or 6 years time, certainly not as a league team. [Post edited 4 May 13:05]
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 13:04 - May 4 with 450 views | MattinLondon |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 12:58 - May 4 by WinchBlue |
Many clubs go out of business due to bad leadership - big ones include Rangers, Bolton etc but they start again from the bottom. Wimbledon fans would have lived with that - they started again anyway. If Winkleman had funded a smaller local club, it would have taken a few years but they would be in a far better position than they are now.
I don’t expect that they’ll still be around in 5 or 6 years time, certainly not as a league team. [Post edited 4 May 13:05]
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MK Dons might well spend a few seasons in L2 but I doubt that they’ll go out of business. And I doubt that they’ll slide into non-league football.
Potentially MK have a big catchment area to draw support from but it takes at least three generations to build up that support. | | | |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 13:40 - May 4 with 399 views | NeedhamChris |
Kingstonian fans will be more upset about AFC Wimbledon.
For a club that plays the victim quite happily, they sure treated kingstonian as collateral damage. | |
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 13:47 - May 4 with 393 views | vapour_trail |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 13:40 - May 4 by NeedhamChris |
Kingstonian fans will be more upset about AFC Wimbledon.
For a club that plays the victim quite happily, they sure treated kingstonian as collateral damage. |
This is a myth. |  |
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 13:48 - May 4 with 384 views | vapour_trail |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 12:43 - May 4 by solemio |
Worth remembering that before the formation of the MK Dons, Milton Keynes was the largest place in Europe without a professional football team. Largest by population and area. |
I’m not sure why that is worth remembering really.
Who has replaced MK now in Europe as that location and should we move someone else’s football team to their town as well? | |
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 13:49 - May 4 with 380 views | NeedhamChris |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 13:47 - May 4 by vapour_trail |
This is a myth. |
Ah really? Heard that so so many times.
Fair enough if not the case. | |
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 14:02 - May 4 with 352 views | You_Bloo_Right |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 12:34 - May 4 by GeoffSentence |
MK Dons get a bad rap for what happened to Wimbledon FC but they were screwed by a combination of circumstances and people a long way from Milton Keynes.
The consequences of the Hillsborough disaster meant that Plough Lane was unviable as a home ground, they could not get permission to build another ground locally.
Sam Hamam was hawking the club out to all and sundry, at one point it was muted that they would move it to Dublin of all places and the club ended up looking at grounds outside London but nothing came off. The norwegians turned out not to have deep enough pockets to sort it out.
Milton Keynes had a stadium and in Pete Winkleman and willing backer. So far as I recall there wereno other options available. Heaven knows what would have happened if they had not moved to MK, probably just gone out of business. |
MK Dons get a bad rap because they have tried to usurp a different team's history. |  |
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| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 14:04 - May 4 with 349 views | WinchBlue |
| MK Dons set for their lowest league finish since their "formation" on 13:40 - May 4 by NeedhamChris |
Kingstonian fans will be more upset about AFC Wimbledon.
For a club that plays the victim quite happily, they sure treated kingstonian as collateral damage. |
I don’t see anyone being a happy victim - pretty sure that Wimbledon fans would have preferred none of this to happen. I certainly wouldn’t expect Wimbledon to be Kingstonians benefactor - or any club for that matter. Kingstonians couldn’t afford their ground and lost it. Happens all the time in non-league football. Most recently in Basingstoke & Poole (near me anyway). That’s a bit different from relocating an established league club to a different part of the country. | | | |
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