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[mcmigo]

I am a season ticket holder at mkd and swfc. Likely this season last one as swfc. 

reality is that it is getting harder and harder to get to Sheffield - working in London during week knocks out mid week games and ferrying my son to play football every Saturday morning means I can only get up to Sheffield if he kicks off early or we kick off late ( I live down south).
 

I always loved going to see wednesday as a kid with my dad.  The reality is  that I can’t replicate that with Wednesday  on same regularity for my son due to the  above, hence why we started going to mk as well a few years ago when could not get to Sheffield in time for kick off. 

 

my two kids are now MKD fans really which is fine , that’s the team they see the most.  Think there are quite a few at MKD who are like me, exiled northerns who can’t get kids up to their club very often so go see mk instead- the fact kids get in free under 12 also means very cheap to do so in lovely stadium.  
 

 

 

 

 

 

[Socialist_Owl]

On 15/04/2022 at 16:52, trumbullowl said:

I never understood the hostility. Playing at Selhurst Park Wimbledon were going under. The hostility should always have been towards Merton council for not allowing them to stay at Plough Lane. The Football League had to chose between no club or a club moved to MK. Perhaps I've been in America too long.

Honestly, having the club go under would be a better pill to swallow than seeing them pack up and assume a new guise.

[victorturner]

10 hours ago, Quickly Kevin said:

 

When did MK Dons grow from the basement? 

From nothing then

[new zealand owl]

5 hours ago, mcmigo said:

I am a season ticket holder at mkd and swfc. Likely this season last one as swfc. 

reality is that it is getting harder and harder to get to Sheffield - working in London during week knocks out mid week games and ferrying my son to play football every Saturday morning means I can only get up to Sheffield if he kicks off early or we kick off late ( I live down south).
 

I always loved going to see wednesday as a kid with my dad.  The reality is  that I can’t replicate that with Wednesday  on same regularity for my son due to the  above, hence why we started going to mk as well a few years ago when could not get to Sheffield in time for kick off. 

 

my two kids are now MKD fans really which is fine , that’s the team they see the most.  Think there are quite a few at MKD who are like me, exiled northerns who can’t get kids up to their club very often so go see mk instead- the fact kids get in free under 12 also means very cheap to do so in lovely stadium.  
 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you go on Saturday? Bet it was an interesting household reaction either way!

[mcmigo]

5 hours ago, new zealand owl said:

Did you go on Saturday? Bet it was an interesting household reaction either way!

Was flying back from holiday so didn’t sadly.

 

the potential play off final between the two looming is going to be fun !

[mcmigo]

12 hours ago, Socialist_Owl said:

Honestly, having the club go under would be a better pill to swallow than seeing them pack up and assume a new guise.

Not much of a socialist are you ?

 

all those jobs created in MK as a result of the move, the stadium and surroundings being built etc . You would not have any of those and instead see the club go bust. 
 

Thatcherite owl. 

 

 

[Pulcinella]

10 hours ago, victorturner said:

From nothing then

Not from nothing. The history of MK Dons is they moved from Wimbledon (who didn’t have their own stadium) to many miles north of London to an entirely different part of the country. They then ditched the Wimbledon name and became Milton Keynes Dons. If they’d started from the bottom they would have started many leagues lower.

[Pulcinella]

That’s why they’re MK Dons (Dons) being the nickname for Wimbledon.

 

It’s like someone deciding to move Wednesday to Manchester and renaming us Manchester Owls. We wouldn’t be happy about that. Hence many original fans set up their own club AFC Wimbledon.

 

The point is that it’s mostly older supporters who remember all of this and at some point people will just treat MK Dons like any other club.

[mcmigo]

The good news is everyone ended up with what they wanted out of all of this

 

Milton Keynes has a league club with a fantastic stadium.

 

Wimbledon are back at Plough Lane in a lovely little stadium and back in league 1 which is pretty much where they were once they blew up. 

 

No losers in any of it.

 

 

 

[HOOTIE AND THE SHIT TU]

Perhaps having Dons in their name hasn't helped them

 

I've watched a couple of those Vlog thingies from MK supporters

 

The thing I noted most from them, most of their crowd are youngsters

 

They start a chant but it dies a death quickly

 

They don't have a great mixture of old and young like every other club

 

Having a majority of young support is much better than having a majority of old support for obvious reasons

 

They are a young club, it will take many many years for them grow a support worthy of the stadium

 

And what a great stadium it is, of all the modern stadia it is up there with the better ones

 

I wish we could have a stadium like it

 

Hillsborough will be forever be tainted by the disaster and we really need to jetison it if we are to progress

[Inspector Lestrade]

Just now, HOOTIE AND THE poo TU said:

Perhaps having Dons in their name hasn't helped them

 

I've watched a couple of those Vlog thingies from MK supporters

 

The thing I noted most from them, most of their crowd are youngsters

 

They start a chant but it dies a death quickly

 

They don't have a great mixture of old and young like every other club

 

Having a majority of young support is much better than having a majority of old support for obvious reasons

 

They are a young club, it will take many many years for them grow a support worthy of the stadium

 

And what a great stadium it is, of all the modern stadia it is up there with the better ones

 

I wish we could have a stadium like it

 

Hillsborough will be forever be tainted by the disaster and we really need to jetison it if we are to progress

 

Get thyself to the pits of hell where satan will quieten your evil vile tongue.  

 

Sacrilege.  

[xploreowl]

2 minutes ago, HOOTIE AND THE poo TU said:

Perhaps having Dons in their name hasn't helped them

 

I've watched a couple of those Vlog thingies from MK supporters

 

The thing I noted most from them, most of their crowd are youngsters

 

They start a chant but it dies a death quickly

 

They don't have a great mixture of old and young like every other club

 

Having a majority of young support is much better than having a majority of old support for obvious reasons

 

They are a young club, it will take many many years for them grow a support worthy of the stadium

 

And what a great stadium it is, of all the modern stadia it is up there with the better ones

 

I wish we could have a stadium like it

 

Hillsborough will be forever be tainted by the disaster and we really need to jetison it if we are to progress

I’d hate a soulless new build, our ground has character and history in abundance, I’d hate us to be on the edge of town on a retail park, with no traditional pubs and transport links close by.  

[Guest Jack the Hat]

On 16/04/2022 at 01:07, BetterCallSaul said:

 I had a nice humbling experience in Iceland last week. An Icelandic man asked me who I supported. MK Dons I Said, he just turned to me and said “I’ve never heard of them” about right 

I had a similar experience in Iceland a few weeks back. An Icelandic guy asked me who I supposed and I said Wednesday. We spent the next half hour talking about Siggi johnson and how good he was and this guy played with him at school. Then we talked about Waddle for the next half hour. Actually they were completely different experiences. But I bet we shared the experience of being cold and not seeing the northern lights though? (I’m convinced they don’t really exist)

[HOOTIE AND THE SHIT TU]

8 minutes ago, xploreowl said:

I’d hate a soulless new build, our ground has character and history in abundance, I’d hate us to be on the edge of town on a retail park, with no traditional pubs and transport links close by.  

I've felt the same for many years

 

Hillsborough has been my second home since the early sixties

 

I would have said demolish the Leppings Lane end, remove the pillars from the kop

 

But reality is

 

Our ground is in danger of flooding everytime there is a bad rain

 

The stadium costs an absolute fortune to run

 

The disaster has forever tainted Hillsborough

 

We need to move to progress

 

 

[sheffield_dave]

35 minutes ago, mcmigo said:

The good news is everyone ended up with what they wanted out of all of this

 

Milton Keynes has a league club with a fantastic stadium.

 

Wimbledon are back at Plough Lane in a lovely little stadium and back in league 1 which is pretty much where they were once they blew up. 

 

No losers in any of it.

 

Apart from the fact that "Milton Keynes has a league club with a fantastic stadium" is only the case because they exploited another teams league position. There are losers here and that's the Wimbledon fans who had to go through having their club stolen and then fight tooth and nail to rebuild the whole thing from the ground up. Just because they've done a cracking job of it and made it back into the league doesn't mean it wasn't an ordeal for them.

 

"Wimbledon were going bust" is not an excuse or a reason, either. Clearly Wimbledon is a big enough entity and an important enough asset to their community that they are able to sustain themselves as an EFL club. Wimbledon as it was would either have dropped through the divisions and eventually stabilised at this level, or totally wiped and had to build back like AFC have anyway. But either of those outcomes wouldn't have involved going through a franchising effort to drag what was left of their club 60 miles up the road to a different City and watch them steal a league position with the remains.

 

Milton Keynes is welcome to league football, a nice stadium and facilities etc. But they should have built it from the ground level. There has never been and will never be an excuse to achieve what they have now via someone else's identity.  

[Pulcinella]

52 minutes ago, mcmigo said:

The good news is everyone ended up with what they wanted out of all of this

 

Milton Keynes has a league club with a fantastic stadium.

 

Wimbledon are back at Plough Lane in a lovely little stadium and back in league 1 which is pretty much where they were once they blew up. 

 

No losers in any of it.

Hear, Hear. Both deserve to have football clubs. I'll probably always support AFC Wimbledon beating MK Dons though.

[Nero]

15 hours ago, mcmigo said:

my two kids are now MKD fans really which is fine ,

Im not knocking you personally and we are all Wednesday in our individual ways, but for me that really would not be fine. 

In my family its a generational thing - there is no choice involved, geographical factors included. 

[BetterCallSaul]

1 hour ago, Jack the Hat said:

I had a similar experience in Iceland a few weeks back. An Icelandic guy asked me who I supposed and I said Wednesday. We spent the next half hour talking about Siggi johnson and how good he was and this guy played with him at school. Then we talked about Waddle for the next half hour. Actually they were completely different experiences. But I bet we shared the experience of being cold and not seeing the northern lights though? (I’m convinced they don’t really exist)

Yeah bloody cold, northern lights were superb though. Defo worth the trip!

[Big Jack]

2 hours ago, Pulcinella said:

Not from nothing. The history of MK Dons is they moved from Wimbledon (who didn’t have their own stadium) to many miles north of London to an entirely different part of the country. They then ditched the Wimbledon name and became Milton Keynes Dons. If they’d started from the bottom they would have started many leagues lower.

Which is what should have happened as they were a brand new club. The football authorities should never have allowed it to happen in the way it did. Just imagine owners deciding to move clubs away from their local communities, would have been the death of football as we know it.

[mcmigo]

1 hour ago, Nero said:

Im not knocking you personally and we are all Wednesday in our individual ways, but for me that really would not be fine. 

In my family its a generational thing - there is no choice involved, geographical factors included. 

Been a generational thing for me as well and many amazing memories of seeing the mighty with my dad , my mates and my family.  But that’s when we all lived in Yorkshire and also before I had kids.

 

The choice for my kids is very little live football and follow Wednesday , or lots of live football and follow a team closer to us.  My kids deserve the memories I had of watching live football , so it’s the latter.  They still see a fair few wednesday games, indeed they were mascots at one of the last games before lockdown.