Yeah, its returning.

Its taken a while for the new faces to bed in, they now seem to be up for the scrap a lot more, showing they want to do well and playing for the MK Dons shirt.

The likes of Gilbey, Pawlett and Nesbitt are fast becoming a big hit with the fans, alongside Aneke etc.

It does now appear its all re connecting, thats no bad thing, with the fans getting behind the team, the players are now showing more reaction with the supporters.

As welldon said Robbie has mentioned this quite often lately, he obviously senses the connection in a more positive light

Saturday at Charlton felt like a big turning point. Who would have thought that one of Robbie's teams team would have been outmuscled by one of Karl's. One thing Robbie did this summer was improve the apparent physicality of our squad. We now have some big guys in the team but from the first goal we looked outfought and second to everything. Bullied for the whole of the first hour.

And then what a difference in the last half hour. Great team spirit, great belief and we finished strongly with big noise coming from our 600. Might have been a bit of a soft penalty but he was tripped and, anyway, we deserved a point at least.

And then some proper team and fan bonding at the end. Loved it.

I know this sort of thing means nothing to some fans, but Neilson has alluded to it in recent weeks, and there seems to be a growing connection between fans and players, as was evident on Saturday when the goals went in and at the end of the game.
I suppose you could argue that the large numbers shipped out, and the new recruits brought in there was some sort of a break or lack in unity, perhaps that wound is starting to heal as the players have a growing sense of belonging.
Perhaps there is something in this needing to gel argument.