FA CUP - 1st Round

[Don Caster]

Yes, he can read this (https://mkdsa.org.uk/archive/history.html) if he wants more facts about MK City or anything else related to the move.

I am sure he is well aware of the fact Wimbledon owners in 1980 helped establish the link to Milton Keynes and MK City FC, actually contributing to their eventual demise more than Winkelman did (no, thought not), but I assume he will choose to instead remain an ill-informed AFCW puppet (muppet?) instead and continue to comment on things he is clueless about, which is a shame as I like Doncaster Rovers as our Don cousins.

To help him out a bit, I have pulled one excerpt https://mkdsa.org.uk/archive/1981Excerpts from Dons in the League.pdf...

• "In 1980 Chairman Ron Noades claimed that the Borough of Merton did not want the club and that he was in talks to take Wimbledon FC to Milton Keynes. Chairman Ron Noades and directors Jimmy Rose, Bernie Coleman and Sam Hammam were voted onto the board of Milton Keynes City FC. Noades stated there was no future for Wimbledon FC at Plough Lane. Noades acknowledged that Milton Keynes had long term potential and could support a multi-purpose stadium."

Out of interest did you (& the other Franchise customers on here) support Wimbledon or get hoodwinked by the promise of a football frenzy which never materialised or did you just bin off your team & plump for a more local option? I'm not in the slightest bit arsed that you don't mind DRFC but I can safely say that a good percentage of Rovers fans despise everything you stand for as do most football fans in general.

 

[Scum.]

I mean the book you quote is written by a one of a family of life long Wimbledon fc/afc wimbledon supporters so hardly ill-informed afcwmuppet as you seem to lime the document.

Why are you quoting yourself and what are you talking about? I was referring to the Doncaster fan as ill-informed

 

[Scum.]

Out of interest did you (& the other Franchise customers on here) support Wimbledon or get hoodwinked by the promise of a football frenzy which never materialised or did you just bin off your team & plump for a more local option? I'm not in the slightest bit arsed that you don't mind DRFC but I can safely say that a good percentage of Rovers fans despise everything you stand for as do most football fans in general.

None of what you said. I’m 30 so MK Dons are my first and only team given they were founded in 2004 when I was 9 and I went to my first game at that age. A few on here are ex Wimbledon (probably about 500 or so made that journey we would estimate), Dippy is the same as me, and others I don’t know but to your point, in every city/town you will get a few folks who support a Premier League team but turn out to watch some live football in their local area - you cannot be that deluded to think you don’t have people turning up at Doncaster who are also armchair supporters of Man Utd, Liverpool, whoever…every lower league team has that. For example, that ‘Chelsea’ fan who went viral on social media last year for getting knocked out at West Ham after giving it the biggun’ was also an AFC Wimbledon fan ffs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...lsea-game-electrician-supports-WIMBLEDON.html

Also, why does the success of my local club over the last two decades dictate whether I should support them? There is certainly no “football frenzy” in Doncaster based on your attendances and league positions over the last few years, but you still support your team…

If most football fans despise us, then so be it (the actual reality is “most fans” didn’t give much of a fuck in 2004 and give even less of a fuck now…do you really think the majority of people in this country who watch football give any care to a L2 club moving cities 20 years ago?). The fact a handful of weirdos online make the same ill-informed comments over and over again, isn’t really a concern. If football fans really gave a fuck, they’d boycott our ground, but it’s been one of the most visited stadium’s in the lower leagues since we moved there in 2007 and we rarely hear a peep out of fans from other clubs singing about AFC, franchise or anything else move related…so I would say the evidence shows otherwise.

 

[Ainsty]

Is there any club that don’t have Harrogate as a bogey team?

It feels like they are everyones. They've certainly been ours for the past 5 years or whatever it is.

I don't think we have achieved particular success as a bogey team. It's more likely that the supporters of some big clubs expect to be able to beat a tiny club with a weird father/son ownership/ management set up and no football league history. It's a bit like ASDA being upset when the family run corner shop has a few better offers. When results don't always go their way it doesn't seem right, it rankles.

As a season ticket holder who attends most away games, I watch a lot more defeats than victories.

 

[Meadow]

Is there any club that don’t have Harrogate as a bogey team?

It feels like they are everyone's. They've certainly been ours for the past 5 years or whatever it is.

Not us - yet. Played 4, won 2, both at home and drawn 2 at theirs.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Is there any club that don’t have Harrogate as a bogey team?

It feels like they are everyone’s. They've certainly been ours for the past 5 years or whatever it is.

Everyone who comes to Blundell Park is our bogey team…

 

[F!RTHY]

Everyone who comes to Blundell Park is our bogey team…

 

[northstandexile]

I can honestly say I do not know one single Forest fan that attends stags, a lot like to see us do well I think, more to do with Clough than anything else.

A guy who sings in the worship group at our church has two season tickets at Stags and two season tickets at Forest. His son goes to the stags with him, while his daughter goes to the Forest with him.

 

[Conker]

A guy who sings in the worship group at our church has two season tickets at Stags and two season tickets at Forest. His son goes to the stags with him, while his daughter goes to the Forest with him.

That sounds expensive.

 

[northstandexile]

That sounds expensive.

He has been doing it for years, but his kids are adults now and pay for their own tickets.

 

[ROVERS⚽️]

The demise of Milton Keynes City FC had nothing at all to do with Wimbledon moving to Milton Keynes, they were a works team originally (Mercedes Benz) and then became MK City, then decided to fold. So did Doncaster climb the leagues? Or were they elected into the football league? All those years of being an established club and your average attendance is lower than MK Dons, that's progress...

I’m abit late to the party here, but firstly your average attendance this season and last are marginally lower than ours at Doncaster, just to respond to your comment there. I personally don’t have any dislike towards Mk Dons myself, I enjoyed the visit to your stadium when we played you the other month, but you can’t speak about which teams were elected into the football league when that was a thing 50/100 years ago or until the 1980s or whenever promotions became a thing from non league. Did a team dissolve due to Doncaster being elected into the football league a 100 years ago?. I get you are defending comments made towards your club but you must accept the forming of MK dons will go against most football fans values, people will always have opinions, it will probably remain that way for a while.

 

[northstandexile]

I’m abit late to the party here, but firstly your average attendance this season and last are marginally lower than ours at Doncaster, just to respond to your comment there. I personally don’t have any dislike towards Mk Dons myself, I enjoyed the visit to your stadium when we played you the other month, but you can’t speak about which teams were elected into the football league when that was a thing 50/100 years ago or until the 1980s or whenever promotions became a thing from non league. Did a team dissolve due to Doncaster being elected into the football league a 100 years ago?. I get you are defending comments made towards your club but you must accept the forming of MK dons will go against most football fans values, people will always have opinions, it will probably remain that way for a while.

The last time Doncaster were elected into the football league was in 1923. In the early 20th century they were a yo-yo club being elected and failing re election a number of times. However in 1923 they were elected into Division 3 North because the division expanded from 20 teams to 22 teams

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