THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

Precisely this. This is an embarrassment to the vast majority of our fans. If this petition must be sent please ensure that it only represents the views if the handful of fans who sign it and DOES NOT represent the views of the majority. I do not want my name associated with this embarrasing move.

As a matter of interest, can any Tom, Dick or Harry sign this or is it restricted to forum members? My concern is that the likes of AFC, Luton or Posh fans could sign it just to make it look worse than it already is. Has anyone even considered this?

Good to see some quality new posters on here, think ReturnofMoo has contributed a lot too (not sure if he was under a different name on the old forum).

Up to 42 signatures now..

Just got in from work, and have read all the replies and indeed the letter.

I'm fundamentally against this. I'm not a fan of Neilson, never have been. The footy's shite, dull, boring and ultimately uninspiring. But calling for someone to be sacked goes way beyond the pale in my opinion. What some folk fail to realise is that MK is a third division team. A mid table third division team. We're where we should be. In fact we're above where we should be. I've said before that I couldn't care less what happens anymore. I'll admit that the Lewington situation has been handled appallingly, but I still believe that there's probably fault on both sides.

You believe that the clubs in the shit at the moment, well I'm a Rangers supporter. Now that's a club that's in the shit, and has a world wide supporter base. Or what about Blackpool, or even Krobbo's new home! These are clubs that are in genuine danger of folding. We've a manager who's not very good a managing. It's not the end of the world. Didn't he state that he only took the position so that his name would be better known in England! Hardly a long term prospect. Like you've said, we're here, he'll be gone soon enough, we'll still be here.

At the end of the day, it's only a fucking game.

In all my years following the Dons, I’ve never heard so many accounts of mayhem and discord behind the scenes.

There are many readers who would like me to list everything that I’ve heard, but after discussing it with fans I trust and know well I’ve decided that it would be counter productive to do so.

First Post, Had to register just for this thread alone, plus some other things.

I am Milton Keynes born and bred, been watching them since the national hockey stadium days and I have been a season ticket holder for 4 years and for many years to come. I go to most cup games and try to get to as many away games, I also commute from East Northamptonshire to watch the Don’s at home so feel I have as much a say as anyone else.

So firstly on the Dean Lewington situation, mostly all we have is rumors and hearsay. Especially this one about a bust up at Bury, well if the bust up was that bad why did he play at LB against Oxford in the Checkatrade Trophy in November!!!! In which by the way he was terrible as I was one of the 101 home fans there. He gave Rob Hall a few kicks which was nice but he also gave away the penalty.
All we have to go on is what Neilson said to 3CR on Saturday which by the way 3CR totally took out of context typical small media speculating Dean had played his last game for us. You can hear the interview for yourself and can hear him mention nothing of the sort. Who cares about reading between the lines, listen to the facts we have.

I like many love Dean Lewingtons loyalty, passion and is without a doubt is a club legend, however I feel at the moment with some of our fans it’s a “who do I like most” competition and really has given those #neilsonout campaigners something to cling on to. However at times I feel some of our fans can be really two faced, last season people were really slagging Lewington off, saying he is passed it, living in fear when he was being played at CB this season he was booed away at Peterborough and one of our fans shouted “get that ginger #### off the pitch”

I for one am not in the Neilson camp here, I am also not in the Dean Lewington camp either. Could Neilson have handled the situation better, yes. Could Dean, oh yes, neither have covered themselves in glory here. If that picture of Dean is true then I am absolutely disgusted with him. At the end of the day whether you like it or not Neilson is the manager. By posting that picture he has only one thing in mind, it’s a childish poke at the manager, it’s to cause unrest with the supporters and the players under Neilson, in a hope that the club will fail and sack the manager. If Lewington was a legend and MK through and through then he would have understood that he is 3rd choice LB, not going to get any game time respected the managers decision and wished the club the best and work really hard to help this club be successful not cause more unrest for selfish reasons. Again if the picture is true the guy has gone down in my estimations.

Linked to this I saw Karl Robinson on Saturday in the car park after the game, I personally shook his hand and said “thank you for everything you have done for this club” as I don’t feel we ever got a chance to say that because the last time he walked on to that pitch as the manager fans were chanting for him to go and booing him. Anyway, he is at Stadium MK a lot and I really don’t think this is helping the situation at all.

Finally the fans, I mean no disrespect to anyone on this forum or twitter, FB etc, however it’s no wonder they call us plastic fans, all this “I am not renewing my season ticket” “I won’t be back until Neilson has gone” “Can I hand my season ticket in now” how about just supporting your club through thick and thin. I am fed up with all the keyboard warriors and now we have a bloody petition. There was one guy on Saturday tweeting 3CR (almost missed a Chuck Aneke goal while doing it) something about “surely Winky can see now, out played, outnumbered and out sung by Maidstone, he need to act soon” well for one we were not out played, we were just not clinical enough in the 1st half, 2 it was bloody Maidstone not Manchester United of course they were going to bring a lot of fans, this is a cup final to them but to us it’s a playing a team 2 leagues below us and I did not see him sing at any point.
We talk about the MK way, do we really have one? That’s not me saying “no we don’t” We are technically 13 years old, 6 of those 13 years we played a particular style under a particular manager. I feel we still have that vibrant youth feel to our club, look at the academy guys who are getting a chance under Neilson. We are not playing attractive football but who knows where the future takes us. At this moment in time the most qualified tactician out of all of us is Robbie Neilson and until that changes he has my support as I support this club.

This ridiculous petition talks about how the club is run and how we should have more insight, it mentions fan forums that have not been attended. Let’s attended them then rather than the British way of sending a strongly worded letter. Some people have also been talking about a disconnect between the players, manager and fans. Well maybe the manager is a little more moody than our last manager however I have not seen that with the players, every player that scored on Saturday went over to the fans. One of you has a GIF of Agard running the length of the fans in celebration!

I for one disagree with this letter, it would appear the letter will be sent anyway. I am a supporter of this football club and fundamentally disagree with some of the points on that letter so I am begging you to remove all statements that say “supporters feel” or “supporters think” and especially “Supporters feel that decisive action needs to be taken by the board – with serious consideration given to the termination of Robbie Neilsons Contract” I am a supporter and don’t want you talking for me.

I am very sorry for the long rant and that’s what it is. I am just really passionate about this club, yes I am not happy with where we are at the moment, yes I want us to win every game, yes I am aware Robbie has changed his tune and now we are talking about a 2/3 year plan, he is a young manager and we have a really promising young squad so I am willing to wait. We have seen some good performances under Robbie. I for one will never be handing in our season tickets we are lucky we have a great local club to support that in my opinion is fairly well run. Jesus we could be Coventry or Blackpool!

As a matter of interest, can any Tom, Dick or Harry sign this or is it restricted to forum members? My concern is that the likes of AFC, Luton or Posh fans could sign it just to make it look worse than it already is.

Just got in from work, and have read all the replies and indeed the letter.

I'm fundamentally against this. I'm not a fan of Neilson, never have been. The footy's shite, dull, boring and ultimately uninspiring. But calling for someone to be sacked goes way beyond the pale in my opinion. What some folk fail to realise is that MK is a third division team. A mid table third division team. We're where we should be. In fact we're above where we should be. I've said before that I couldn't care less what happens anymore. I'll admit that the Lewington situation has been handled appallingly, but I still believe that there's probably fault on both sides.

You believe that the clubs in the shit at the moment, well I'm a Rangers supporter. Now that's a club that's in the shit, and has a world wide supporter base. Or what about Blackpool, or even Krobbo's new home! These are clubs that are in genuine danger of folding. We've a manager who's not very good a managing. It's not the end of the world. Didn't he state that he only took the position so that his name would be better known in England! Hardly a long term prospect. Like you've said, we're here, he'll be gone soon enough, we'll still be here.

At the end of the day, it's only a fucking game.