THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

Last night was simply appalling. 'Real' football fans, both on this forum and others, can bang on about the lower leagues 'till they're blue in the face. That was totally unacceptable.

No mid-field. A striker up-front that was so anonymous that we were almost playing with ten men. Constantly loosing out on second balls, the list could take up the rest of this thread on its own.

The irony of employing such a defensively minded manager, while being unable to keep a clean sheet, hopefully won't have gone unnoticed in the stands.

And speaking of the stands. At one point last night I happened to glance around me. The amount of folk on their phones, or quite literally looking around themselves was the most telling thing about the whole game. When you've had a stressful couple of days at work, including a phone call at the gates of the stadium, you look forward to a couple of hours of escape from the tediousness of everyday life. At one point last night I was desperate for my office to call. If only to add some excitement.

The decline in this club in the space of two seasons is a worrying sign. I have absolutely no idea what the long term plan is anymore.

I can't for the life of me think that Pete can be happy with what's going on.

Last night was simply appalling. 'Real' football fans, both on this forum and others, can bang on about the lower leagues 'till they're blue in the face. That was totally unacceptable.

No mid-field. A striker up-front that was so anonymous that we were almost playing with ten men. Constantly loosing out on second balls, the list could take up the rest of this thread on its own.

The irony of employing such a defensively minded manager, while being unable to keep a clean sheet, hopefully won't have gone unnoticed in the stands.

And speaking of the stands. At one point last night I happened to glance around me. The amount of folk on their phones, or quite literally looking around themselves was the most telling thing about the whole game. When you've had a stressful couple of days at work, including a phone call at the gates of the stadium, you look forward to a couple of hours of escape from the tediousness of everyday life. At one point last night I was desperate for my office to call. If only to add some excitement.

The decline in this club in the space of two seasons is a worrying sign. I have absolutely no idea what the long term plan is anymore.

I can't for the life of me think that Pete can be happy with what's going on.

I think lots of us need to wake up to the fact that we’re just a bang average League One side with no money.

We can’t have exciting campaigns all the time, we have to take good with the bad.

This is our level. Take away the stadium, and we’re no different to the Rochdale’s and Oldham’s of this league.

Wow what a supporter you are #Neilsonin

I agree, I'm a great supporter. I'm also incredibly bored of Neilson and incredibly bored of going to Stadium:MK to watch this shit. I've been a season ticket holder since the Dons showed up in MK, I'm 21 now and I'm seriously considering not renewing for next season for the first time. I have absolutely no desire to go anymore, I don't even really celebrate when we score anymore, because who cares? There's no excitement at all.

I think lots of us need to wake up to the fact that we’re just a bang average League One side with no money.

We can’t have exciting campaigns all the time, we have to take good with the bad.

This is our level. Take away the stadium, and we’re no different to the Rochdale’s and Oldham’s of this league.

Maybe so, but fan expectation is that we are better than that, especially after a recent season in the Championship. 99% of sides relegated from the Championship last few seasons have either gone straight back up or are firmly in the top 6 of this league.

Pete has said numerous times he wants to get back up to the Championship, and that he has long term Prem ambitions. Neilson himself said he was aiming not only for promotion, but to win the league. Why shouldn't fans be disappointed if we aren't coming close to achieving that?

We have a healthy budget for this level (regardless of what some have said, we are firmly a top 6 budget team in this league and have been for a while. Not many could afford to pay or sign the likes of Sow, Gilbey, Agard etc.

We apparently have a good squad of players for this level (most ex-Championship, and have won numerous promotions), yet we are playing like an non-league side and mediocre. That has to be down to the manager and his tactics.