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« Reply #330 on: Saturday, May 24, 2025, 14:58:52 » |
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #331 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 10:10:28 » |
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Not sure I can be bothered watching the L2 play off between Wimbledon and Walsall, watched half of both semi's and my god the standard of football was shocking, it like suffering from toothache and less entertaining.
Would probably prefer Wimbledon to go up as Walsall fans were insufferable in January when they had won the league already, the absolute arrogance was unbearable on the League 2 pages on FB and since they won through to the final they have started again.
Whereas Wimbledon fans are aware they dont have an entertaining side and grind out results so have no heirs and graces.
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« Reply #332 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 10:12:14 » |
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The real dons for me, they need to be higher up than franchise.
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« Reply #333 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 10:16:05 » |
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Caveat this with the fact I barely went to any games, but Walsall at the County Ground were very impressive, easily the best team I saw. Clearly something with them went severely wrong as they finished the season in awful form. Wimbledon appeared to be organised but absolutely fell apart when we blitzed them late at the CG.
Couldn't care either way who wins.
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« Reply #334 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 10:35:17 » |
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Caveat this with the fact I barely went to any games, but Walsall at the County Ground were very impressive, easily the best team I saw. Clearly something with them went severely wrong as they finished the season in awful form. Wimbledon appeared to be organised but absolutely fell apart when we blitzed them late at the CG.
Couldn't care either way who wins.
Walsall absolutely were the only team to really tear us apart early on but they collapsed like a house of cards when they lost Nathan Lowe to his parent club in January. Wimbledon looked a bang average L2 side against us, but then so did Walsall when we beat them at their place in March. I dont care really who wins but the attitude of Walsall fans pissed me off so much and thats why I would prefer the real Dons to win. |
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« Reply #335 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 11:38:52 » |
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Pretty much all of the play off games have been an entertainment vacuum.
What's been notable has been the consistent failure of patient sideways passing when up against a solid defensive setup that has something to hold on to.
Wimbledon & Walsall are both decent away days & readily accessible.
Would favour the former for promotion as their fans are a very decent bunch.
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« Reply #336 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 12:16:41 » |
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Walsall absolutely were the only team to really tear us apart early on but they collapsed like a house of cards when they lost Nathan Lowe to his parent club in January.
Wimbledon looked a bang average L2 side against us, but then so did Walsall when we beat them at their place in March.
I dont care really who wins but the attitude of Walsall fans pissed me off so much and thats why I would prefer the real Dons to win.
Same here can’t stand Walsall fans, keep trying to force a rivalry with us and it would be funny to see them complete the bottle job second half of the season. |
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« Reply #337 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 12:36:29 » |
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Same here can’t stand Walsall fans, keep trying to force a rivalry with us and it would be funny to see them complete the bottle job second half of the season.
Having lived in the West Midlands and attended games at Walsall, the culture used to be pretty negative. So, if they go up, there wil be moaning about lack of suitable signings for League One. If they stay down, there will be moaning about another season in the basement. Either way, there will be moaning. Wimbledon, on the other hand, will be delighted to be in a higher league than the Dongs if they win, but will look forward to doing the double over the Dongs next season if they lose. |
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« Reply #338 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 13:02:43 » |
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I can remember there was an outbreak of Smallpox in and around Birmingham in the late 70’s and police chucking Town fans out of Fellows Park for inappropriate chanting😁
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« Reply #339 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 13:22:57 » |
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I can remember there was an outbreak of Smallpox in and around Birmingham in the late 70’s and police chucking Town fans out of Fellows Park for inappropriate chanting😁
Always got the impression that West Midlands Police were very keen on collaring away fans for little or no reason, both inside & outside grounds. The stewards in that area were the same as well. Head down, mouth shut & good peripheral vision was the the best approach in surviving a visit to their patch throughout the 80's in particular. Turned out that they weren't the most squeaky clean of police forces. |
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« Reply #340 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 13:30:57 » |
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Always got the impression that West Midlands Police were very keen on collaring away fans for little or no reason, both inside & outside grounds. The stewards in that area were the same as well.
Head down, mouth shut & good peripheral vision was the the best approach in surviving a visit to their patch throughout the 80's in particular.
Turned out that they weren't the most squeaky clean of police forces.
Spot on Bob, West Midlands Police have always been known to be heavy handed and a few years ago 10 Bristol City fans won an out of court settlement against them. https://thefsa.org.uk/news/bristol-city-fans-significant-victory-over-police-misuse-of-power/ |
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« Reply #341 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 13:33:17 » |
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Always got the impression that West Midlands Police were very keen on collaring away fans for little or no reason, both inside & outside grounds. The stewards in that area were the same as well.
Which in my experience is the exact opposite of the Met police who used to ignore most stuff at games and just leave fans to it. |
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« Reply #342 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 13:51:32 » |
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I am going to watch the 1st half and see how it goes, lots of empty seats around.
Its time the EFL used a smaller stadium like Villa Park or Arsenal etc for the play off finals in league 2 and the National league.
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« Reply #343 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 14:09:17 » |
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Im down in that London on a day off next Saturday so decided to go to see Oldham V Southend. Should be fun. Nice to see games and not give a shit who wins.
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« Reply #344 on: Monday, May 26, 2025, 14:11:27 » |
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Im down in that London on a day off next Saturday so decided to go to see Oldham V Southend. Should be fun. Nice to see games and not give a shit who wins.
It is sometimes, is that the reduced ticket game due to the underground closures? Each team limited to about 24k isnt it? |
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