The Lounge

[Singapore Don]

And further agreement from me. Tuesday was a freak result and goals, which belied the overwhelming
stats in our favour. Sixteen years ago today we beat Cove 3-2 in our first Combined Counties win while Sunderland were lost 1-0 to Everton in the Premier League. It makes today’s fixture all the more incredible and exciting. Sunderland are clearly a giant in League One, and we’ll need to be at our sharpest best to get anything from the game. Our lack of goals is clearly a concern, so much will rest on our defence keeping out the Black Cat attack. For that, Deji has to start again or I fear we could be on the receiving end of a high scoring battering as Gillingjam suffered. If Deji doesn’t start, for whatever reason, we can assume he’s on his way to Zipswich or Bolton. The biggest positive for me today will be a Deji led defensive stormer that leaves us with a clean sheet. We can but hope!

[Devon Womble]

Well, despite the fact that we squandered lord knows how many chances, I have to hand it to the bent ref for missing another of the world’s great ‘hand of god’ moments on the Sunderland goal-line.
On that basis, I award the Numpty Refs the point we should have had from the game.
That makes it Dons 5pts – Refs 4pts.
Just think where we’d be if we had refs who actually wanted to referee and not play for the opposition.

[Windlesham Don]

Absolutely gutted about that result! We dominated for large parts of the game and deserved a draw as a minimum. Sadly we are missing too many chances at the moment and need to become more clinical if we are to win matches like this. Having said that there was a clear penalty not given by the ref, who was probably busy trying to get the autographs of Cattermole and Oviedo for his book – where do we get these idiots from?!

Everyone played well and I do not have any concerns for us if we continue to play like this – we are a breath of fresh air this season.

Roll on Tuesday and another biggie…

[Singapore Don]

Yet again, how did we get nothing from that game? Spitting mad at the shocking refereeing which he again robbed us of valuable points; and by our lack of killer instinct up front. Too gutted to comment any further. It’s just deja vu.

[MacWomble]

Watching Wolves get a handballed goal against Man City, and you can’t get over the fact that refs will make mistakes. I guess the positive thing is that we are creating chances. The luck will turn. Good crowd figure!

[onyadon]

Certainly can howl over the handball ‘non’ penalty and the linesman flagging offside for Sunderland’s equaliser as yet again refereeing decisions went against the Dons. Yet another salient early season stat is the poor finishing by our forwards. Against Coventry City Wimbledon had 13 shots (BBC) for no return; against Walsall 21 shots for one goal and against Sunderland 10 shots for one goal. So far from five league games it is a grand total of just three goals. Last season the Dons scored a total of 47 goals from 46 games. Unless Wimbledon find a way to finish off their chances more clinically, the club will struggle to hold down a comfortable league position. Also noticed that Kwesi Appiah was not in the match day squad for the Sunderland game. There were some reports that Appiah looked to have an injury when he was substituted late in the Walsall game. Haven’t heard much about Appiah since then and hope it’s only minor, but with him it is an occupational hazard. Hope Neal Ardley has that fourth striker lined up before the loan window closes this month.

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