holdsteady
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Going off at a tangent but they are not the same club, that club died, the fans went one way and started a different club (fair play) and the league standing/position went to a another new club in a different town.
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League Two AFC Wimbledon Major Pitch Issues
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Going off at a tangent but they are not the same club, that club died, the fans went one way and started a different club (fair play) and the league standing/position went to a another new club in a different town.
What I thought was that when the MK Splitters went they originally took the 'Wimbledon History' with them, but this was subsequently returned to AFCW. Perhaps @Joey JoJo Junior Shabadoo could comment?
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werthersoriginal
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holdsteady
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I don't know if you can really "take" a history though, you are either the same entity or not, neither of these clubs are that entity. The whole claiming trophies seems a load of rubbish to me, do Accrington Stanley get to claim they were founding members of the football league because a team with a similar name from the same town were?
m
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Well they're playing Accrington.
Maybe they could get together and decide that given the pitch, the nights are drawing in, more rain is forecast, and it's a very long way in any case, it's really not worth the bother.
Everyone still seems to consider the current Newport County is the same team as the one that went bust, even though they had to work their way up again.
FWIW I don't care if it's the same club or not, the whole MK business should never have been allowed to happen and fair play to AFC they worked their way back into the league and are now reasonably well established. They're a fan owned club and deserve respect for what they've achieved. If I wasn't skint I'd probably donate but the best I can do is offer them a couple of sods of turf from my garden
holdsteady
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Do people consider it the same Newport team? Its a pheonix club, one that was started up by the fans of the old club, same as AFC in most ways.
The old Wimbledon wete still playing in London and called Wimbledon when AFC started up, how can it be the same club?
I do agree that MK Dons franchise shouldn't of happened, don't take them or their achievements seriously and never will but its long enough ago now that, unless you support either cub, I also don't really care. Its happened, old Wimbledon died and we have two new different clubs because of it.
My bosses son is a copper who policed the recent game at Plough Lane golf course, Barnet season ticket holder so knows a bit about lower league football, was a bit taken back by the hatred from the AFC fans though and had to google it as he is under 30 and its ancient history to him.
MarkG
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Me too.
Once AFCW got their trophies back and not sure but I think they have appropriated the original club's history too, it was time to move on.
I thought their thing about not putting MK Dons name on the scoreboard or the matchday programme was childish in the extreme.
werthersoriginal
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Anyway whether you 'like' AFCW I'm sure you wish them well and hope they can get their pitch sorted.
Kernow Yellow
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I definitely hope they get it sorted, especially now they've moved back to Plough Lane. I did read this in a recent BBC article though:
"[AFC managing director] Woodroof later confirmed to BBC Radio 5 Live that the club has insurance for the stadium and pitch, and were working closely with their insurers."
So I'm not sure why they need quite such a large whip round?
holdsteady
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Getting half the gate receipts from Newcastle away now after costs as well, so the begging bowl seems a bit cheeky, we don't even have our own round, how about they have a whip round for that.
Lost Marbles
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There's also the issue of the Just Giving target being increased several times. There's an update stating it was being raised "one last time" to £50k - it's since been put up again to £150k!
I feel this is a disingenuous. Ask for what you actually need in the first place (perhaps nothing if the club is indeed fully insured) rather than what you think you can get.
m
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I say we burn them.
The dogs will disagree.
Joey JoJo Junior Shabadoo
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Joey JoJo Junior Shabadoo
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Without wishing to make this thread drag on and on...
Wimbledon FC is dead. MK Dons had a claim to the badge / the name / the history, but once it was clear the move wasn't about saving WFC but instead providing a new town with a new football club, all links to the past were quietly done away with. I don't think AFCW can lay claim to the history of WFC either, to be honest. We can claim to be the continuation of WFC, but my old club has well and truly died.
And in terms of the begging bowl being passed round. Since our (re)birth in 2002, being a fan owned club meant that any time there was a crisis, us as fans had to put our hands in our pockets. What the creator of the gofundme appeal has done was a knee-jerk reaction to the damage to the pitch, and has automatically reverted to fundraising amongst the fans.
I am hopeful that there is enough insurance in place meaning that the only things we suffer are inconvenience and some embarrassment. If we don't suffer too much financially as a club, then I am very confident in the extreme that any surplus money will not go into the transfer kitty, but will instead benefit local charity initiatives such as the DLAG instead https://donslocalaction.org/
We don't get everything right as a club, and we do rub people up the wrong way sometimes, but we have been through the mill enough in recent years to try and do the right thing generally.
Anyway, much love to you all, and take it easy.
Wimbledon FC is dead. MK Dons had a claim to the badge / the name / the history, but once it was clear the move wasn't about saving WFC but instead providing a new town with a new football club, all links to the past were quietly done away with. I don't think AFCW can lay claim to the history of WFC either, to be honest. We can claim to be the continuation of WFC, but my old club has well and truly died.
And in terms of the begging bowl being passed round. Since our (re)birth in 2002, being a fan owned club meant that any time there was a crisis, us as fans had to put our hands in our pockets. What the creator of the gofundme appeal has done was a knee-jerk reaction to the damage to the pitch, and has automatically reverted to fundraising amongst the fans.
I am hopeful that there is enough insurance in place meaning that the only things we suffer are inconvenience and some embarrassment. If we don't suffer too much financially as a club, then I am very confident in the extreme that any surplus money will not go into the transfer kitty, but will instead benefit local charity initiatives such as the DLAG instead https://donslocalaction.org/
We don't get everything right as a club, and we do rub people up the wrong way sometimes, but we have been through the mill enough in recent years to try and do the right thing generally.
Anyway, much love to you all, and take it easy.
