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has anyone else noticed a difference in the way that club are viewed? everyone who was up in arms about their franchise seems to have just mellowed out and have started to accept them more. its at a point now where if i raise a point about the mcdongs, i get flamed and get called 'bitter' and such. meh, i dunno.

Well, I know where this is from :D

Hello again Leggers.

I'm over it, quite like them now. Hope they go up again this year.

London has too many clubs anyway yes?

Since they moved to MK, they've done everything right in reaching out to the community, giving young managers and players a chance...

Still, the original act was wrong and should never be repeated.

haha hello there nemo :D

Yes. I'd hate for them to drop down the leagues, get beat by Oxford. Twice. Then go bust.

Oh wait, no I wouldn't.

Nah there are still lots of people who hate them.

good. i'm glad i'm not alone :)

I wouldn't go that far. Maybe once each.

That Jack Torrance is a penis anyway, I wouldn't pay too much heed to what he says.

I'm 'Mo' on there.

i take it he's a sweaty?

I don't think so. At least, I think it'd be more obvious if he was.

I'd still very much enjoy it if they spontaneously combusted or if Satan came to earth and claimed them and their nasty ASDA WalMart property deal that the whole thing was about in the first place for his own and dragged them screaming to the very pits of hell about half way through their first game of the season. And I still wouldn't dream of setting foot in the place, unless it was to gloat at their bankruptcy auction. So yes, you could say I've mellowed.

Well if you are happy to see a league full of successful franchise clubs whilst down the road inner city clubs with 100 years of history struggle with their baggage then fair enough.

I just want them to go down far enough so that they can play AFC Wimbledon. Hopefully try and smash up their ground.

I hate them with a passion you can only dream of.  I'm sure I'll never change.  Moreover, I see it as my duty to explain to others why they should never accepted.  Fuck them, and the horse they rode in on.

I will never ever warm to them. I don't pace up and down thinking about them all the time but if asked then I will slate.

Seems to me that just because they've got some silverware and appointed big name managers that it's okay to like them nowadays. Even our shirt sponsors did an article the other month along the lines of "Is it now okay to like Franchise?", there was also that hideous propaganda article in one of the papers months back too.

They'll win the world other eventually, that I have no doubts - but I won't ever be a part of it!

good. i'm glad people still hate them as much as me :D

Meh, life is to short to be bitter but I don’t think fans should ever let McDongs off the hook for franchising a place in the league when other clubs and fans spend years and years of hard earned currency, blood, sweat and tears trying to climb up the pyramid, which Dongs with a little help from Tesco, effectively bought.

Certainly their older fans (not the young fellas or families) deserve to be ripped to shreds as the majority can’t have just found football and have blatantly traded allegiances for convenience.

It is a shame to see them being so well run although once Winkleman departs I can see the wheels coming off fairly quickly.

Rather than add venom-laden comments of my own, I'm just going to second Paul's.

I'm a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to Franchise FC.  I simply can't see past the theft of their league place...which runs contra to the entire ethos of the pyramid and promotion on merit.  Infact, I'm so dogmatic about it that if I was going to do a tour of all Premiership and League grounds, I'd consider the job done after I'd visited 91 grounds.  They will NEVER be accepted, at least not by me.

I'd like to echo what Ardiles and Paul D has stated.

If they ever went bust, they'd certainly be a party at my house !!!

add me to those that hate them.
a fucking disgrace is what they are

Do Swindon supporters still apparently give Franchise more grief than other?

couldnt give two fucks really, i hate them when they play us just like i hate every team when they play us, im concerned about Swindon Town and only Swindon Town

You really are too cool for school.