THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

You mean xenophobic not racist but I agree we don't know the full story. It appears to me that people are upset at how Lewie has been treated but are fully prepared to treat Robbie terribly. Double standards.

Nice to know. Keep reaching for the rainbow champ!

Sorry but the moment you openly ask a man to sack a manager is the moment I can’t sign this.

I don’t like particularly want Neilson around here if this all carries on in the same manner but literally asking a man to sack someone in a letter is a bit ott. Tweets and discussions etc are different. That’s a bit formal and the wrong way to go. In my opinion.

I & understand and appreciate your passion & sentiment Filthy, and would suggest a review of your draft open letter again with some fresh eyes & perspective in the morning before finally sending, to ensure that your passion & genuinely held feelings are expressed as precisely as you'd wish.

Actually I agree with Alby, how about changing it to ask Winkie to get Nielson to change his attitude and philosophy. If Nielson is reluctant to change then perhaps that would bring about the change most people want without going full out and asking for him to be sacked.

Nothing like a good witch hunt..........

Dear Football club, please can you air your dirty washing in public and give us the inside track to what is going on ? We need to know-No we demand to know and we want all of the dirt and please sack someone, anyone, just show us you're doing something.

Seriously ? Yes Lewie is a Club Legend, does he deserve the right to get playing time at the moment ? Not our decision to make.
Has RN shafted Lewie and left him with nowhere to go ? We don't know and why should we ? Maybe Lewie has undermined RN in front of the squad, which has left RN with nowhere to go other than to enforce a breakdown in the relationship.

Yes the football is dull at the moment, will it get better ? Fuck knows, unlikely I' say tbh, Pete picked Robbie, Pete knew what he was getting and also knew that a major overhaul was needed- we all did, didn't we ? Was it going to work first time around ? Unlikely, maybe lower your expectations a little and let people who are paid to make these tough decisions, make them.

Fair play for doing what you're doing Filthy, but it's not for me.

If you must send one, then I agree that the tone should be far less demanding. However I am completely against the whole idea. I like social media, but I think one of the worst side effects of it is the ease (and consequently regularity) with which it allows fans to organise petitions, protests, etc. A lot of the blame for the short-term thinking in tean selection and sackings is blamed on the increased money in the game. And it does share some of the blame. But the increasing ease with which fans can voice their organised discontent also must share the blame. Clubs are being urged to sack managers by fans at an increasing level and that's wrong. Everyone's entitled to their individual opinion, but when that spreads into an organised voice to out people from jobs, etc, then it crosses the line for me. In our brief history we have been a bottom 2 division club. We are currently 16th in league one, in the FA cup 3rd Rd and still in Checkatrade Trophy so might still go to Wembley. Yes there are issues of dissatisfaction, but if we feel we are at the petition and ultimatum stage now, how many more times will we be in the future? It's a low period but not one that calls for something that was, until the rise of social media, the very last resort. I know from most it all comes from love of the club and frustration of the situation, but I don't think it's a helpful part of the modern game and I don't think we should go down that route.

I totally agree. I would like to know what happened to make Lewie train at Charlton and allegedly PW to broker the deal, but the club aren't going to wash their dirty linen in public as Woburn says. As for the rest of letter it's just online forum grudges being expressed.

Why is it "just" online forum grudges? Are fan concerns not as legitimate a concern as any? Without paying fans, there is no MK Dons.

We as fans know this club more than many. Those of us that have been around since 2004 fully "get" what this club is about, even more so than Neilson does in the space of a year, so think our views are worth something to the board.

Yes you had a opportunity to go to the fans forum and attend Supporters Association meetings, but to campaign against the club and the manager is in my eyes wrong. There has been no malpractice and on the whole the club is well run. What we have is a bust up between the manager and a long serving player. Both may have said things in the heat of the moment and Lewie training at Charlton is wrong, but I'm not going to start blaming and campaigning against the club and the manager, especially when I don't know the full facts.