MK Dons are suffering - Fan action has desired effect!

[MbrunoB]

Wimbledon still has no team as AFC have never played a home game in the borough.

 

I dont like a couple of teams that we have played and my choice was to pay admission and not another penny as I was supporting MY team.

[Duke of York]

I hope you protested by getting the student rate? I've done this every time York City visit Oxford United - they are rip-off merchants. It's not bad being able to get away with this at 39? Can you believe they want £20.00 for a normal, away supporter's pay on the day ticket next season?

 

The other main offenders in the rip-off stakes are Leyton Orient and Wycombe Wanderers.

[Gazza]

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Duke of York said:
I hope you protested by getting the student rate? I've done this every time York City visit Oxford United........

Never guess you were from Yorkshire would we! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/busted.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laughuncontrollable.gif" alt="" />

[andyetfc]

39 indeed!!! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Gazza]

Morning Dad, your up early, did you get locked out of the nursing home again last night?

 

Fancy 9 holes this morning at Melbourn?

[andyetfc]

Would have done but only picked up your message just now. Anyway, Australia's a bit far for me in my condition!

 

I'll give you a ring from my nursing home at the Priory.

[Gazza]

The Priory? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Blimey I have been wondering what that direct debit was that id been paying!

Can you not make do with the local Derby & Joan place?

[MbrunoB]

I'm just glad people were more helpful to us when we went against tradition and broke away from the old club to form a new team!

[Gazza]

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Brunob said:
I'm just glad people were more helpful to us when we went against tradition and broke away from the old club to form a new team!

Exactly!

[lovely stuff]

I don't get what you're infuring.

 

Are you both talking about AFC Wimbledon or MK Dons??

 

Niether of whom,broke away from the 'old club' in order to ensure football was kept alive in their own community.

[Gazza]

I was refering to the whinging on this thread about MK Dons & people telling others not to go, to pull out of matches, to protest & all this fans united comrade crap!

[The Horse'sMouth]

Chances of us getting to play MK Dons is pretty low, so dont see what the problem is.

 

For the record I think it is excellent that the other teams supporters have put the boot in to MK like this.

[MbrunoB]

So you want to see football fans suffer?

[Arkwright]

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The Horse'sMouth said:
Chances of us getting to play MK Dons is pretty low, so dont see what the problem is.

For the record I think it is excellent that the other teams supporters have put the boot in to MK like this.

Is it also excellent that some supporters won't come & see the Town because we formed a new club away from EFC?.

[lovely stuff]

But MK dons didn't form a new club.They franchised their own club to the highest bidder,moved halfway up the country and changed their name of the club.Effectively wiping out their original fanbase in one fell swoop.It was shamefull that the FA allowed them to do this.So if the authorities are to gutless to stop this sort of behaviour.It is up to genuine football fans all over the country, to make a stand,and say that that sort of franchising and movement of traditional clubs is NOT acceptable.(of course AFC also lost the moral high ground by choosing the play outside their own borough as well.)

 

[Uncle Urchin]

if one takes a parallex view then the same cristism could be aimed at ETFC...you formed a breakaway club and moved into a league outside of your home county....you had no need to do so as your club already existed and was still playing football in its home county....you also had a need for finance and raised it the way that you deemed appropriate...still the highest bidder tho' was it not...

 

same applied to MKD...they sold the club which they were entitled to do...as are you entitled to do just that should you so choose......our friend the DOY may well reflect that his own supporters trust have just sold his club back to a single owner...they know the risk of someone developing the ground but still they have sold out...

 

good innit... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Arkwright]

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lovely stuff said:
But MK dons didn't form a new club.They franchised their own club to the highest bidder,moved halfway up the country and changed their name of the club.Effectively wiping out their original fanbase in one fell swoop.It was shamefull that the FA allowed them to do this.So if the authorities are to gutless to stop this sort of behaviour.It is up to genuine football fans all over the country, to make a stand,and say that that sort of franchising and movement of traditional clubs is NOT acceptable.(of course AFC also lost the moral high ground by choosing the play outside their own borough as well.)

Next you'll be saying that all Premiership fans should boycott Arsenal as they became a franchise when they left South London???

[MbrunoB]

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lovely stuff said:
But MK dons didn't form a new club.They franchised their own club to the highest bidder,moved halfway up the country and changed their name of the club.Effectively wiping out their original fanbase in one fell swoop.It was shamefull that the FA allowed them to do this.So if the authorities are to gutless to stop this sort of behaviour.It is up to genuine football fans all over the country, to make a stand,and say that that sort of franchising and movement of traditional clubs is NOT acceptable.(of course AFC also lost the moral high ground by choosing the play outside their own borough as well.)

They didnt wipe out all the support in much the same way as we didnt wipe out EFC when we left and now we have supporters who NEVER followed EFC in the same way that MK Dons now have fans that never followed Wimbledon but some people still want to stop them watching their team.

Thank you Uncle, that was the point I was hinting at when I said that I was glad people were kinder to us.

[The Horse'sMouth]

ETFC were set up to move ourselves back into the borough of Enfield.

 

Arsenal stayed in the same City at least. In mileage terms not that far.

 

MK move was purely a financial decision without the backing of the vast majoirty of the fans. If the people of MK wanted a football team why didnt someone put some money into Milton Keynes City (Think that was the name)

 

UU Enfield were not playing in their own County at the time of the split. Boreham Wood is in Herts last time I looked.

[lovely stuff]

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Uncle Urchin said:
if one takes a parallex view then the same cristism could be aimed at ETFC...you formed a breakaway club and moved into a league outside of your home county....you had no need to do so as your club already existed and was still playing football in its home county....you also had a need for finance and raised it the way that you deemed appropriate...still the highest bidder tho' was it not...

same applied to MKD...they sold the club which they were entitled to do...as are you entitled to do just that should you so choose......our friend the DOY may well reflect that his own supporters trust have just sold his club back to a single owner...they know the risk of someone developing the ground but still they have sold out...

good innit... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Thats the funniest and most way 'off the mark' post i have EVER read on this forum.Well done Urchin <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applaus.gif" alt="" />A classic.

Town had to enter the ESL,as there were no Middlesex or Ryman/Southern leagues at step 5.The level dictated to us by the FA, that we HAD to start at.So we were forced to opt for the nearest league to our area.

Town was set up with one intention.To preserve and maintain football in ENFIELD.We decided to reform,because the chairman of our original club had stripped our club of every single asset,moved the club away from the local community and was systematically killing the club and its fanbase season by season,and he showed no sign of ever relinquishing control of the club,before it was disloved and elimiated.He would rather have folded the club, than let the fans run it.The situation was forced on the fans of Enfield football club, who voted overwhelmingly to regroup,as the only viable option of maintaining any longterm hope of football for the local community.

We didn't sell to the highest bidder.Every fan has one share.A democoratic collective of supporters own the club,and it has NEVER been available to the highest bidder,and it will NEVER move out of the borough of Enfield.

MK Dons should be held up as an example,of the complete OPPOSITE of Enfield Town and everything it stands for.How someone has the cheek to compare the clubs,is not only laughable but mindblowing.