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  • thankfully its a failed model. Winkleman was never able to put in enough money to make it sustainable in the championship and a couple of seasons ago he drastically cut the amount he was throwing at it because he could see the writing on the wall and cut it further this season .
    They are desperately trying to get a Premiership rugby team to take up residence (sound familiar) but have been knocked back by Northampton Saints.
    I really can’t see much of a future for them once Winkleman decides to pull the plug.

  • Franchise can't go bust soon enough as far as I'm concerned, finally drawing a line under they sorry saga that was the FA-sanctioned murder of Wimbledon FC.
    Maybe any bereft Franchise 'customers' can form a new club (maybe 'Milton Keynes City') and try to build the club from scratch and work their way up the leagues, building support as they go along.
    If they need any pointers, there is a club in south-west London who did something similar about 15 years ago who I'm sure would be happy to... well maybe just point and laugh.

  • Whilst there will be short term rejoicing nothing good will come of the whole episode. It will be like post War when our grandfathers came home heroes but we're so traumatised that they beat the shit out of their kids who became alcoholics and took it out on their kids and so the cycle goes on. Nobody able to look you in the eye because they had to go to a match involving mk. People will continue to pay a fat greedy Australian more than they can afford so they can watch commercial bodies that used to be football clubs sulk on their tv screens. Meanwhile 8 unelected people will change the rules of football forever largely unnoticed. No protest because people just do what they are told. And the human accident goes on clinging to a rock that just happened to have the right conditions for life spinning through an empty void.

  • Well that escalated quickly.

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    Please let us not be in the same league as them next year.
    We can't have the same debate about them for the 2months surrounding the games v them again.

  • @LX1 said:
    Whilst there will be short term rejoicing nothing good will come of the whole episode. It will be like post War when our grandfathers came home heroes but we're so traumatised that they beat the shit out of their kids who became alcoholics and took it out on their kids and so the cycle goes on. Nobody able to look you in the eye because they had to go to a match involving mk. People will continue to pay a fat greedy Australian more than they can afford so they can watch commercial bodies that used to be football clubs sulk on their tv screens. Meanwhile 8 unelected people will change the rules of football forever largely unnoticed. No protest because people just do what they are told. And the human accident goes on clinging to a rock that just happened to have the right conditions for life spinning through an empty void.

    Wonderful post! Thank you

  • @ReadingMarginalista, of course we beat Milton Keynes City 4-2 at home in the B & B semi-final in 81/82. The first incarnation of that name, 1974-85, came from the renaming of Bletchley & WIPAC (founded 1956) and Bletchley Town (1957). Known as The Gladiators, they played at the City Ground, Manor Field in Bletchley, and competed in the Southern League and the South Midlands League. The Wiki history has this rather interesting entry:

    "In 1979, after yet another poor season which saw the club finish second from bottom, Ron Noades, then chairman of Wimbledon, claimed to have entered talks with the Milton Keynes Development Corporation, although this was denied by the Corporation, about the possibility of moving the south London club to Milton Keynes. Noades purchased a controlling interest in Milton Keynes City and installed fellow Wimbledon directors including Sam Hammam, Bernie Coleman and Jimmy Rose as directors on top of their identical roles at Wimbledon, which at that time was still legal under the Football Association's rules. His intention was to merge the two clubs to produce a club based in Milton Keynes using Wimbledon's place in the Football League. This idea was never seriously developed and was abandoned when he sold his interest in Milton Keynes City the following year. Further poor seasons followed with no financial backing and eventually the club was wound up five years later at the end of the 1984–85 season."

    The second incarnation, 1998-2003, grew out of Sunday League side Mercedes-Benz and played in the Spartan South Midlands League at Wolverton Park.

    "As with Bletchley in the 1970s, City's directors believed that they could build their club up to be accepted as representing Milton Keynes as a whole, but a severe lack of local interest in this plan meant that they never achieved it."

    The third incarnation came in 2005 when Milton Keynes City Youth renamed itself to Milton Keynes City, for boys U-7 to U-16, girls U-7 to ladies. Now that is a team I can respect, a proper local team, rooted in the community. Perhaps we could adopt them as a feeder team, that might stir things up.

  • I completely forgot that we beat Milton Keynes City 2-0 at Loakes Park in the FAC 2QR in 74/75. Also, the various incarnations of Bletchley have a longer history than 1956.

  • In that meeting between club officials and supporters in 2015, to discuss the proposed friendly with the Franchise, it was pointed out to Andrew Howard that they were recruiting fans in the south of the county. He rather liked the idea of us playing pre-season friendlies against non-league teams in the north of the county. It never happened though.

  • @Malone said:
    Please let us not be in the same league as them next year.
    We can't have the same debate about them for the 2months surrounding the games v them again.

    Don’t know how you post a survey on here but what will be the status next season?
    A) we are in different leagues (us 1, them 2)
    B) same league - 1
    C) we are in different leagues (us 2, them 1)
    D) same league - 2

  • 100% the same league...to try and reverse jinx ourselves, let's make it league 2. So D.

  • I’m with @Malone’s thinking

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