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I hoped I’d feel less despondent this morning, but I don’t. A defeat is a defeat, and it always hurts, however well we’ve played. To have lost in the 92nd minute, our fifth added time defeat this season, makes it all the more painful. Yes it was a fantastically entertaining, end to end, gripping game of football, but we lost – and that is always…[Read more]

PS I meant to mention LTB. There were question marks early in the season over his commitment, his fight, his morale. Today put pay to all those simmering doubts: he really got his mojo back. He seems to have accepted without any sulking or despondency now that he’ll be rotated and has to play a squad role. He smiled and laughed throughout the…[Read more]

I’m not sure that in my decades of watching the Dons I’ve seen a more dominant and exquisite display of football as the first 45 minutes at Peterborough. We were quite frankly brilliant. Our control of the game was supreme. It was sheer joy to watch the silky passing, the tough tackling, the killer passes, the high pressing, the outrunning,…[Read more]

Setting off soon to get the train to Peterborough, strangely calm about the outcome. The three points at Bury settled a lot of nerves, and allow us to approach this game with a determined and reassured confidence – but if there’s an upset, it won’t be the end of the world. The key clearly is going to be tiredness after the overnight trip back from…[Read more]

Final thought for this amazing night, albeit someone else’s but well worth highlighting:

This time last year we were 16th in L2 having just been hammered 5-2 by Morecambe. The Frannies were 16th in the Championship.

Incredible. Happy days.

Wow, just wow. After the flat feeling at the end of the Swindon game – as dull an affair as you could ever dread to see – tonight’s performance and result were utterly exhilarating. I listened to the WDON commentary of the whole game, and we thoroughly deserved the three points. At last we got some just rewards in added time to make up for the…[Read more]

What a day. 3-1 win against a bogey team we had hitherto failed to beat in the league, and critically another key moment in the history of our club. To have started again in the ninth tier, and now to be above the franchise imposters…well, it’s just incredible. An emotional milestone. It’s moments like this that make this neverending tale of…[Read more]

Did we come of League One age yesterday, or did we luck out on coming up against an out-of-sorts Gillingham? Maybe a bit of both, but I’m going with the former. Yes Gillingham were not the great threat I thought they would be, that their league position and record threatened, and yes they were without some injured players and lost Bradley Dack…[Read more]

See you there Windlesham – and Liam. I share your gut feelings Wind. I went Coventry thinking we’d get a point; today, like you, I think we’ll come away empty handed. I hope I’m wrong, but they just look too strong for us. I just hope today won’t be our first spanking. We’ve managed to get through every game so far, apart from our opening one at…[Read more]

Hi Liam. Yes, it would be good to say hello and chew the Dons fat. I’ll try to find d you in the bar at 2ish. It could be a tough afternoon. I still haven’t quite got over the sucker punch of that 94th min Coventry equaliser. Blatant offside not given by worst linesman I’ve ever seen. Grrrrr.

Joy, ecstasy, relief – just wow! The Dons really are coming home. Only a Judicial Review could thwart us, but the expense and legal reasons to go down that route make it highly, highly unlikely. I think this is really going to happen now. Looking forward to the trip to Coventry even more now. A raucously happy away crowd just needs three points…[Read more]

I left Nottingham at 1230 and drove 150 miles, rather fast, to watch a dire League Two football match, with equally poor League Two refereeing – and arrived 15 minutes late so missed our only goal. I was already rather upset after settling my daughter in to her new university and saying goodbye to her childhood, so I had rally hoped for a Dons…[Read more]

Windlesham, I may well miss tomorrow’s game – if so, it would be the first home league game I’ve missed this year. I’m taking my daughter up to Nottingham for the start of university; and only if she doesn’t want embarrassing old dad around will I get back in time for the game. If I do make it, I’ll certainly look out for you.

As for the game, I…[Read more]

And now we know where Ryan has gone:

http://www.eastleighfc.com/2016/09/21/ronnie-makes-first-signing/

I hope it works out for him there.

Wow, that was a thunderbolt. Ryan Clarke terminates his contract. He clearly never felt any love at the club, and I suspect the chants of “there’s only one James Shea” at Charlton on Saturday must have been too much to bear for Ryan sitting and listening on the bench. A final nail in the coffin of the horros he’s endured since joining the club.…[Read more]

What a win, what a day! I was fortunate to be one of the 1714 Dons fans who crossed south London to watch a great game of football in an impressive, “proper” stadium – and enjoy the buzz of coming away with a snatch and grab win from a losing position in the last 12 minutes. It was simply wonderful.

There’ll be match reports elsewhere that you…[Read more]

Mac, I agree with your comments the BTDH letter. I think it missed a few key points, and decided to write my own letter (while incorporating a bit of the BTDH letter in solidarity with the campaign). Here’s what I wrote:

I am writing to express my strongly held view that Merton Council in London remains the democratically appropriate body to…[Read more]

A home defeat usually sends me in to pretty despondent post match blues, but not today. We were outplayed, outfought, and outclassed by an excellent Sheffield United who thoroughly deserved their win. In truth, we could have been clobbered and conceded seven or eight; only profligate shooting and finishing by their attackers prevented a…[Read more]

Liam I’ll try to find you! Take your brolly ☔️Awful weather today, I hope it won’t add to any match misery. United are going to be a tough nut to crack. An exciting 2-2 would do me!!

It’s a pretty miserable forecast for tomorrow – well for the weather at any rate! We’ll be pitting our wits and battling the odds against the Blades in lashing rain at the meadow of Kings – and I fear it be hardgoing for our Dons warriors. But we shouldn’t fear the foe: if Neal plays an attacking team and we go for it, I don’t see why we…[Read more]