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Relegated from the Premiership

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    #21
    Originally posted by TonyEnglish
    "What we lack in quantity we make up for in quality. According to a study by De Montford University, in their Premiership days Wimbledon had the most educated fans in the league"

    Shame they could only muster crowds of 7 or 8 though.
    That's because there's nothing for the glory hunters here, Tony!

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      #22
      I'll tell you it was a long bloody hunt for that glory. I started supporting them in 74 when they got relegated. I only picked Man U because some big kids used to come into our yard at school and throw stones at all the kids who didn't support them. I only fell for that one once.
      Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.

      I preferred version 1!

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        #23
        Originally posted by wendigo100
        Behave yourself!

        What we lack in quantity we make up for in quality. According to a study by De Montford University, in their Premiership days Wimbledon had the most educated fans in the league.

        Obviously some other clubs didn't take a lot of beating on that score!
        Actually, I was referring to the 'one' who continued to support them when they moved.

        I lived in LBM, I was well chuffed when they won the cup (even if I did have to walk 4 miles home because the traffic was going nowhere), but like (almost) everyone else I thought that they sold out.

        tim

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          #24
          to marcus, from the other Watford supporter. The good news for us is that we're using all that lovely premiership money to build a new stand, from which we can both watch the mighty Hornets.
          "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


          Thomas Jefferson

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            #25
            Originally posted by tim123
            Actually, I was referring to the 'one' who continued to support them when they moved.

            I lived in LBM, I was well chuffed when they won the cup (even if I did have to walk 4 miles home because the traffic was going nowhere), but like (almost) everyone else I thought that they sold out.

            tim
            Not me - the 'one' must be that nutter who hands out xerox copies of his new songs for the crowd to sing, most of which are longer than a medium-sized opera.

            You'd be surprised how many old fans come up here. Why, only last week for the Walsall game, two very attractive young ladies poured out of the station in old Wimbledon regalia.

            As for selling out, I'd describe it more as giving up in frustration. Let's see what happens when AFC apply to join the league, get told that Kingstonian's ground is miles below standard, and spend 13 fruitless years trying to get planning permission to build a new one in south London. It appears that MK wanted the club and Merton didn't.

            It's not that Wimbledon had many fans anyway - they usually had the lowest crowds in the Premiership, and only Sam Hamman kept them afloat. After he left they were slowly going bust, so doing nothing wasn't an option. At least they didn't go to Dublin!

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              #26
              Originally posted by wendigo100
              Not me - the 'one' must be that nutter who hands out xerox copies of his new songs for the crowd to sing, most of which are longer than a medium-sized opera.

              You'd be surprised how many old fans come up here. Why, only last week for the Walsall game, two very attractive young ladies poured out of the station in old Wimbledon regalia.

              As for selling out, I'd describe it more as giving up in frustration. Let's see what happens when AFC apply to join the league, get told that Kingstonian's ground is miles below standard, and spend 13 fruitless years trying to get planning permission to build a new one in south London. It appears that MK wanted the club and Merton didn't.

              It's not that Wimbledon had many fans anyway - they usually had the lowest crowds in the Premiership, and only Sam Hamman kept them afloat. After he left they were slowly going bust, so doing nothing wasn't an option. At least they didn't go to Dublin!
              Doesn't matter what you say, Franchise FC are not a real football club, full stop. They're an invented entity to placate those stupid enough to follow. All the people I know from the MK area are Rushdon & Diamonds, Northampton or Luton fans, and rightly so. MK Dons are a disgrace and should never have been allowed to be in the league. They should have been forced to have started at the same level as AFC Wimbledon, anything else is being utterly unfair to all the other new clubs that get formed up and down the country every year - and yes, MK Dons are a new club by every definition.
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                #27
                Originally posted by Ruprect
                to marcus, from the other Watford supporter. The good news for us is that we're using all that lovely premiership money to build a new stand, from which we can both watch the mighty Hornets.
                I remember going to Vicarage Road a few years ago to a game proudly holding tickets to Row Z. Problem was, there was no row Z, it had been removed the previous season for safety reasons. Shame no-one told the ticket office. We were lucky, we manage to grab unfilled seats from other rows. Others weren't so lucky...
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                  #28
                  Originally posted by Cowboy Bob
                  Doesn't matter what you say, Franchise FC are not a real football club, full stop. They're an invented entity to placate those stupid enough to follow. All the people I know from the MK area are Rushdon & Diamonds, Northampton or Luton fans, and rightly so. MK Dons are a disgrace and should never have been allowed to be in the league. They should have been forced to have started at the same level as AFC Wimbledon, anything else is being utterly unfair to all the other new clubs that get formed up and down the country every year - and yes, MK Dons are a new club by every definition.
                  Well, tough luck on you then, eh?
                  Last edited by wendigo100; 5 April 2007, 22:31.

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                    #29
                    Righty ho, bang on with that observation. No conotations of homosexual high jinks amongst the rugby fraternity at all, ever. Umm ....

                    Gis 52 minutes of yer time on a pitch and I'll see what I can do to relieve you of your weird notions BGG. Which leg do you fancy walking on for the next couple of months?
                    Ok ok ok.......you made your point. Sorry and my apologies.

                    They are both poofball games.

                    Apologies for being singularist.
                    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

                    C.S. Lewis

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