AlexDon123 wrote:
voxish wrote:
Russybcool wrote:
voxish wrote:
suffolkmadness wrote:
Brentford are about to be bought in next few days. Attractive investment as current investors have played it well to get to where they are. We need to find a way to successfully complete that initial phase.
If that's our aim then we'd need to make ourselves sellable which means looking forwards not back. Not sure that being hated for no good reason is very attractive to potential investors.
I though this the other day. Not just about who does or doesn't buy us, but the players as well. Do they really buy into what us fans and to a lesser extent the club are selling. We are a franchise. One of the most hated clubs in English football, face it we are. Now whilst that doesn't bother us, does it bother the players? I can't imagine they are sold a dream when they are training on a school field and look at how much the club has fallen. They must all have opinions. They may get a lot of stick from their friends for being players of us and maybe they just see us as a stepping stone to bigger things. There must be a reason why we were destroyed by Crawley. I am hoping our biggest signing this summer is a sports psychologist as we desperately need one as there is something not right with their mindset when it comes to the crunch and really it is like fuck it they don't care (not my view, but do they really when they are shipping 5 goals against a team who finished 8 points less than us). I don't believe it is down to ability and tactics (though that is a factor). I have just been scratching my head as to how we were so abused in two games and why we continue to fail in the play offs with obviously different squads.
But hated for mostly made up stuff, for an outragous FA decision not of our making and we were never asked.
also added onto the fact that it’s normally just the people who live in the online bubble who hate us, i live in aylesbury and i don’t know a single person who actually truly hates us, all the old blokes at work who lived well before wimbledon FC was moved always tell me “i actually like you guys and wish you’d do well”, my dad who used to go to wycombe games as a teen when they played leatherhead every other week now prefers us over wycombe. it’s just the cretins who spend every waking minute thinking about how they can use our name to get clicks and likes on twitter/X that make up the loud minority of hating us.
Also proves it when nearly every manager in their interviews before they play us rave about how much of a fantastic club we are, and that most players nowadays aren’t even old enough to remember the move, so i don’t really think that players are put off signing with us by the stigma around the club whatsoever
Pretty much this. Much of the hate is performative and comes in the context of fans being cynical at football's wider authorities. See the "overseas domestic games" - nearly everyone in the UK hates that idea, as it's born out of sheer greed. Our club being born out of a desire to support a property investment is seen in the same evil, although many clubs in the league have dubious or cynical origin stories themselves; they're just forgotten as it's so long ago. And as for earning a league place, many legacy clubs first got their place in the pyramid by election as was the order of the day, not my merit/promotion.
It's usually forgotten that even most MK Dons fans would probably oppose another MK Dons-style relocation of any other club. Imagine Barrow were going to go under and they proposed relocating to suburban Manchester or something. Would anyone support that, really? It's hard to see any support for "franchised football" at all, anywhere, yet the performative bashing for twitter likes still comes. It's boring and just tilting against windmills. MK Dons is an accident of history - like plenty of other football clubs (Someone tell that ladybit John Green who sugar daddies AFC that his "first" club, Liverpool, was formed out of a cynical desire for Orange Order member John Houlding to sell alcohol to working class people?). It's all pathetic and sad really and better off ignored.
Nearly all ex players say they enjoyed their time at MK Dons and spoke highly of Winkelman. The city is a nice place to live, especially for peak-career professionals with a few quid and a young family. We're still an attractive prospect for players.
We do need a sports psychologist though. Either that or a change in leadership. I know which one is more likely.
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