irishrover
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Post by irishrover on Jul 18, 2016 11:15:16 GMT
Can the person who voted "Boycott for another reason" explain please? I wasn't the one that ticked that box but I would have done because the main reason I wouldn't go is that I don't like Milton Keynes. I don't like Franchise FC either but, irrespective of that, I still wouldn't go even if they were a fan owned collective who had fought their way up from park football and reinvested all their profits in blind orphans I still wouldn't go on the basic that it would still involve having to go to Milton Keynes.
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Post by severnbeachline on Jul 18, 2016 11:25:28 GMT
I don't like MK Dons obviously but they're established now, a boycott of some fans over a decade after the fact isn't even going to be on Pete Winkelman/The FA's radar I'm afraid.
Also I need to tick the ground off.
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dido
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Post by dido on Jul 18, 2016 11:36:36 GMT
"...Also I need to tick the ground off..."
What's it done wrong now?
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warehamgas
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Post by warehamgas on Jul 18, 2016 12:14:46 GMT
There are so many things wrong about football from a fans perspective. Being charged exorbitant prices in poor conditions (continually), having a ruling body that sells out for 30 pieces of silver (replays in the FA Cup quarters, JPT Premiership teams) just to please the PL, allowing the PL to take over football gradually over 25 years are just some of my gripes. But if I worry too much about any of these I come over as a bad tempered old git! The MK Dons thing was bad but it seems to me that at the time the gates at Wimbledon were poor and it looks as if the community had turned their backs on the club. What's happened was sanctioned by the FA and FL and it's great that it galvanised the Wimbledon community into action and helped give them a cause to fight back and if the AFCW fans can go there.... Good luck AFCW but I have no special ill feelings towards MKDons. All my feelings are positive towards Rovers! UTG!
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Post by Igitur on Jul 18, 2016 12:23:28 GMT
There are so many things wrong about football from a fans perspective. Being charged exorbitant prices in poor conditions (continually), having a ruling body that sells out for 30 pieces of silver (replays in the FA Cup quarters, JPT Premiership teams) just to please the PL, allowing the PL to take over football gradually over 25 years are just some of my gripes. But if I worry too much about any of these I come over as a bad tempered old git! The MK Dons thing was bad but it seems to me that at the time the gates at Wimbledon were poor and it looks as if the community had turned their backs on the club. What's happened was sanctioned by the FA and FL and it's great that it galvanised the Wimbledon community into action and helped give them a cause to fight back and if the AFCW fans can go there.... Good luck AFCW but I have no special ill feelings towards MKDons. All my feelings are positive towards Rovers! UTG! There is some contradiction here.
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warehamgas
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Post by warehamgas on Jul 18, 2016 12:45:30 GMT
There are so many things wrong about football from a fans perspective. Being charged exorbitant prices in poor conditions (continually), having a ruling body that sells out for 30 pieces of silver (replays in the FA Cup quarters, JPT Premiership teams) just to please the PL, allowing the PL to take over football gradually over 25 years are just some of my gripes. But if I worry too much about any of these I come over as a bad tempered old git! The MK Dons thing was bad but it seems to me that at the time the gates at Wimbledon were poor and it looks as if the community had turned their backs on the club. What's happened was sanctioned by the FA and FL and it's great that it galvanised the Wimbledon community into action and helped give them a cause to fight back and if the AFCW fans can go there.... Good luck AFCW but I have no special ill feelings towards MKDons. All my feelings are positive towards Rovers! UTG! There is some contradiction here. Not really. The FA will agree to the list I said and they agree to Wimbledon re-locating. The consideration of the fans comes fairly near the bottom of any FA / FL considerations in whatever context they are making decisions about.
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Igitur
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Post by Igitur on Jul 18, 2016 13:19:48 GMT
There is some contradiction here. Not really. The FA will agree to the list I said and they agree to Wimbledon re-locating. The consideration of the fans comes fairly near the bottom of any FA / FL considerations in whatever context they are making decisions about. Fair enough, I read it as the FA giving some kind of rightness to the disgraceful establishment of the legitimacy of franchises.
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warehamgas
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Post by warehamgas on Jul 18, 2016 15:04:31 GMT
I think they accepted it because they couldn't do anything to stop it. There was nothing in the rules about it and they didn't know how to react and so did nothing. Wimbledon was Winkelman and there was no AFCW. By accepting it they gave a legality to it so fixtures, clubs and everything could carry on. The morality and "rightness" of it is, of course, a different matter! UTG!
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