...was a good idea and had to happen for the club to survive.

I'm fecked off with some of the totally negative TV reporting and comments - eg 1) Person pictured burning shirt, but no mention of the 1000 who travelled from London to join the other 5000 locals; eg 2) "Only 6000 fans turned up and didn't fill the stadium" - yes but Wimbledon have averaged 2500 and only 1054 in their last game.

I understand the 'franchise football' worries, but surely its better for a club in administration with £25m debts despite 4000 season ticket sales in MK, to live on somewhere else instead of die out entirely ?

For what its worth I reckon they should always keep the Wimbledon name.

Yeah a bloody good move for the local supporters who live in Merton :rolleyes:

There is a site,the old plough lane or the Local dog track which has been put forward and with a local council who want Wimbledon FC to play their matches there but due to WFC arrogant and money grabbing chairman its been blocked.

If he worked with the council to sort this out they might be playing back in Wimbledon...Btw Merton council have blocked Safeways (new owners) move to build on the site cos they want to see it as a new football/sport stadium,so you can see who's the problem! :rolleyes:

Ground sharing was fine for the local supporters so why go all the way to MK.



[Edited by planky - 9/28/2003 7:02:33 PM]

Fair points. Couple of questions:-

1) When did Wimbledon leave Plough Lane ?
2) Assuming its been a few years now, is it any wonder that they are in such a mess financially with average gates of 2500 and the last match 1054 ?
3) If Winkleman and co hadn't been interested, when do you think WFC would have gone out of existence ?

1991 and they were doing fine in the early to mid 90's so we can't really blame the move to Selhurst Park for the problems they have now.

They closed the stadium due to the Taylor report recommendations which WFC couldn't afford to implement and Sam Hammam sold it to Safeways for £10mil,i wonder what happened to that money???

There has always been on the table a site for a new stadium in Merton but Koppel has always made it clear he will not fund the new stadium or even pay towards it and he wants Merton council to pay which of course they cant afford so thats why there has always been a stalemate.

I live in MK and I will go and watch the Dons when they play decent teams - I don't like the idea of giving £28 to a club I don't support though just to watch..

:D

If you mean Premiership Teams, you will have to wait a while unless they draw one in the cup and 'us season ticket holders' will probably snap them up first !

They played the top of the league last night (Sheff Utd). Where were you - they'll be in the Premiership next season ?!

I was really looking forward to the Dons coming to MK, and was planning to go see them regularly, or even get a season ticket, but there's NO WAY I'm paying more for a ticket than I pay at Old Trafford!

After the first match they reduced the day ticket prices from £34 to £28. Is United similar ?

By the way, did you notice that they 'revised' the crowd from 5500 to 7300 for the first match !! (6016 for the Sheff Utd Tues match)

I'll be there for the Watford visit !

The cheapest tickets at Old Trafford (which tend to be the ones way up in the stands, and which therefore tend to be the only ones you can get if you're not a season ticket holder) are £22.
IMHO, Wimbledon are charging roughly double what they should, even at £28. It's all well and good to quote "supply and demand", but they should be looking to build up loyal support in the area, not trying to fleece punters for every penny.