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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2024 9:42 am 
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Despite me being adamant I was not renewing for next year after 11 years I have now renewed. My anger* at the club\Wanky has been tempered by several chats with those that I go with that have reminded me that a very large part of why I go is social. I get to spend time with my kids and close friends doing something outside of “normal” life. I don't want to lose that.

* As I have previously stated, MK are my second club. I am a supporter rather than a hard core fan, my anger is as much as anything else a realisation that the club has got under my skin a bit. You’ll never catch me in a Dons shirt\scarf\hat or saying “we” but I am far more involved and vocal than I used to be.


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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2024 1:19 am 
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This thread says it all. So much dissatisfaction when it comes to the ownership, but when it comes down to it:

Gers wrote:
I go because it's become what I do


East Wing Don wrote:
Will keep going no matter what. Full time fan, not just when its good.


DonnieAndMooie wrote:
I still go to every home game and will continue to next season. Much like Gers, it's just what I do. Don't know what I'd do with my Saturday afternoons otherwise.


SOUTHSTANDER wrote:
Of course I still go , and will continue to go.


Beardhidesboy64 wrote:
As displeased as i can get, i couldnt be without it. I support the team, not the manager, chairman or staff but the badge and the name on the league table. I will continue to go as long as we continue to play.


For as long as attitudes like this exist, things won't improve, and PW will continue to take the piss out of you by putting the bare minimum effort in. Like just about every football club owner in the country, he's got you by the emotional short and curlies.

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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2024 5:46 am 
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I found a certain sense of relief last season when we actually weren't at home. Actually looking forward to not going. I like the ritual of going, meeting with friends, chewing the fat, couple of pints, etc' etc' etc', that part I like, but the football has been so shit for the last two years that I couldn't care less about the team. I couldn't name more than half of them. Wouldn't be able to pick them out of a lineup. And couldn't tell you who we were playing up until I arrived at the stadium. I never listened to one away game on the wireless. Not one. I used to listen to every single away game.

Most will know that I've had a dreadful couple of years health wise, but I doubt that would've made any difference. The club has become so stale that I doubt anything would excite me where the football side of things is concerned.

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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2024 6:24 am 
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Gers wrote:
I found a certain sense of relief last season when we actually weren't at home. Actually looking forward to not going. I like the ritual of going, meeting with friends, chewing the fat, couple of pints, etc' etc' etc', that part I like, but the football has been so shit for the last two years that I couldn't care less about the team.


W14 D5 L4 at home last term. I dread to think what an average season would have done to you :lol:

Think yourself lucky you were spared the away days. That was truly shocking and enough for me to question my sanity.


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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2024 8:09 am 
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Camdenite wrote:
Gers wrote:
I found a certain sense of relief last season when we actually weren't at home. Actually looking forward to not going. I like the ritual of going, meeting with friends, chewing the fat, couple of pints, etc' etc' etc', that part I like, but the football has been so shit for the last two years that I couldn't care less about the team.


W14 D5 L4 at home last term. I dread to think what an average season would have done to you :lol:

Think yourself lucky you were spared the away days. That was truly shocking and enough for me to question my sanity.

Questioning your sanity is a very good point…….although I did over half the away games, I did say no to a few purely on the basis of distance, I figured being fucking miserable for a three hour journey home would be detrimental to my health and state of mind.

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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2024 5:08 pm 
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Lieutenant Dan wrote:
This thread says it all. So much dissatisfaction when it comes to the ownership, but when it comes down to it:

Gers wrote:
I go because it's become what I do


East Wing Don wrote:
Will keep going no matter what. Full time fan, not just when its good.


DonnieAndMooie wrote:
I still go to every home game and will continue to next season. Much like Gers, it's just what I do. Don't know what I'd do with my Saturday afternoons otherwise.


SOUTHSTANDER wrote:
Of course I still go , and will continue to go.


Beardhidesboy64 wrote:
As displeased as i can get, i couldnt be without it. I support the team, not the manager, chairman or staff but the badge and the name on the league table. I will continue to go as long as we continue to play.


For as long as attitudes like this exist, things won't improve, and PW will continue to take the piss out of you by putting the bare minimum effort in. Like just about every football club owner in the country, he's got you by the emotional short and curlies.


Exactly why I stopped going nearly 10 years ago. Pete still hasn’t got my message because others haven’t followed me.

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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2024 5:38 pm 
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Lieutenant Dan wrote:
This thread says it all. So much dissatisfaction when it comes to the ownership, but when it comes down to it:

Gers wrote:
I go because it's become what I do


East Wing Don wrote:
Will keep going no matter what. Full time fan, not just when its good.


DonnieAndMooie wrote:
I still go to every home game and will continue to next season. Much like Gers, it's just what I do. Don't know what I'd do with my Saturday afternoons otherwise.


SOUTHSTANDER wrote:
Of course I still go , and will continue to go.


Beardhidesboy64 wrote:
As displeased as i can get, i couldnt be without it. I support the team, not the manager, chairman or staff but the badge and the name on the league table. I will continue to go as long as we continue to play.


For as long as attitudes like this exist, things won't improve, and PW will continue to take the piss out of you by putting the bare minimum effort in. Like just about every football club owner in the country, he's got you by the emotional short and curlies.


Thank god you don’t support the majority of teams in the EFL, you’d have walked away years ago.

This is why we get as much stick as we do. Unbelievable amount of fickle fans that stop supporting their club because they don’t agree with all the decisions their owner makes. You wouldn’t find this at most clubs. Fans stick by their club no matter what.


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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2024 5:44 pm 
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East Wing Don wrote:
Lieutenant Dan wrote:
This thread says it all. So much dissatisfaction when it comes to the ownership, but when it comes down to it:

Gers wrote:
I go because it's become what I do


East Wing Don wrote:
Will keep going no matter what. Full time fan, not just when its good.


DonnieAndMooie wrote:
I still go to every home game and will continue to next season. Much like Gers, it's just what I do. Don't know what I'd do with my Saturday afternoons otherwise.


SOUTHSTANDER wrote:
Of course I still go , and will continue to go.


Beardhidesboy64 wrote:
As displeased as i can get, i couldnt be without it. I support the team, not the manager, chairman or staff but the badge and the name on the league table. I will continue to go as long as we continue to play.


For as long as attitudes like this exist, things won't improve, and PW will continue to take the piss out of you by putting the bare minimum effort in. Like just about every football club owner in the country, he's got you by the emotional short and curlies.


Thank god you don’t support the majority of teams in the EFL, you’d have walked away years ago.

This is why we get as much stick as we do. Unbelievable amount of fickle fans that stop supporting their club because they don’t agree with all the decisions their owner makes. You wouldn’t find this at most clubs. Fans stick by their club no matter what.

Cheers John.

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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2024 6:04 pm 
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Gers wrote:
East Wing Don wrote:
Lieutenant Dan wrote:
This thread says it all. So much dissatisfaction when it comes to the ownership, but when it comes down to it:

Gers wrote:
I go because it's become what I do


East Wing Don wrote:
Will keep going no matter what. Full time fan, not just when its good.


DonnieAndMooie wrote:
I still go to every home game and will continue to next season. Much like Gers, it's just what I do. Don't know what I'd do with my Saturday afternoons otherwise.


SOUTHSTANDER wrote:
Of course I still go , and will continue to go.


Beardhidesboy64 wrote:
As displeased as i can get, i couldnt be without it. I support the team, not the manager, chairman or staff but the badge and the name on the league table. I will continue to go as long as we continue to play.


For as long as attitudes like this exist, things won't improve, and PW will continue to take the piss out of you by putting the bare minimum effort in. Like just about every football club owner in the country, he's got you by the emotional short and curlies.


Thank god you don’t support the majority of teams in the EFL, you’d have walked away years ago.

This is why we get as much stick as we do. Unbelievable amount of fickle fans that stop supporting their club because they don’t agree with all the decisions their owner makes. You wouldn’t find this at most clubs. Fans stick by their club no matter what.

Cheers John.


I highly doubt someone of John’s age would even know what a forum was, let alone how to access it.


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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2024 6:07 pm 
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East Wing Don wrote:
Lieutenant Dan wrote:
This thread says it all. So much dissatisfaction when it comes to the ownership, but when it comes down to it:

Gers wrote:
I go because it's become what I do


East Wing Don wrote:
Will keep going no matter what. Full time fan, not just when its good.


DonnieAndMooie wrote:
I still go to every home game and will continue to next season. Much like Gers, it's just what I do. Don't know what I'd do with my Saturday afternoons otherwise.


SOUTHSTANDER wrote:
Of course I still go , and will continue to go.


Beardhidesboy64 wrote:
As displeased as i can get, i couldnt be without it. I support the team, not the manager, chairman or staff but the badge and the name on the league table. I will continue to go as long as we continue to play.


For as long as attitudes like this exist, things won't improve, and PW will continue to take the piss out of you by putting the bare minimum effort in. Like just about every football club owner in the country, he's got you by the emotional short and curlies.


Thank god you don’t support the majority of teams in the EFL, you’d have walked away years ago.

This is why we get as much stick as we do. Unbelievable amount of fickle fans that stop supporting their club because they don’t agree with all the decisions their owner makes. You wouldn’t find this at most clubs. Fans stick by their club no matter what.


Fans are entitled to support their club however they want. This isn't just an MK Dons thing. At every club up and down the country there will be fans that drift and don't go to games so often as they feel frustration with their club, for all manner of reasons. That doesn't mean they're not fans, or are bad fans, it just means they've decided there's other things they'd prefer to do with their Saturdays. And that's OK.

The very fact that Dan is on this forum all the time tells you he is a fan, and he cares about this club, even if he doesn't feel the same connection to the club as he once did. I, like you, will still go to every home game no matter what, but that's a personal choice. It doesn't make me any more or less of a fan than anyone else.


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