Extra Promotion place this season

[Seagull Stew]

If, as reported in the News Of The World, Wimbledon go bust within a fortnight (And let's all hope that they do), will this mean an extra promotion place for second division clubs at the end of the season or will the FA relegate one less team from the first?

 

[bhaexpress]

If, as reported in the News Of The World, Wimbledon go bust within a fortnight (And let's all hope that they do), will this mean an extra promotion place for second division clubs at the end of the season or will the FA relegate one less team from the first?

Of all the clubs who need sympathy over their financial plight I doubt that there's any more deserving than Wimbledon. They may have been over acheivers in their time but it's a crying shame just the same.

We've been exploited by an uncaring and self interested board of directors and I for one sincerely hope that the NOTW has got it wrong as usual.

Besides which, who cares how many promotion places there are ? We're going up as Champions end of.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Won't happen anyway, just the usual NOTW sensationalism.

 

[Seagull Stew]

No sympathy from me I'm afraid. This isn't the same Wimbledon that over-achieved in the Eighties and Nineties but A fake club from Milton Keynes who has cheated it's way straight into the First Division and getting away with it by holding onto the name of an existing member of the First Division (For Now).
The Real Wimbledon are doing rather well at the top of their league, albeit under-achieving as a non-league outfit.

 

[Citrus]

AFC Wimbledon will be a league club in no time at all!

 

[bhanuts]

How can you say you hope a football club goes bust?

The arrogance of some people just beggars belief!

 

[Seagull Stew]

Because they're NOT a football club.
They are everything that is wrong with football.
They are franchised.
They are not about the people of the community.
They are product placement.
Their own fans have turned their back on them and formed another club.
Without the fans a club is nothing? Not the case now is it when there is a market place out there ready to fill a stadium with plastic fans who have absolutely nothing to do with the original Wimbledon FC.
And the FA are powerless to have prevented this from happening.
Wimbledon RIP. Long Live AFC Wimbledon.
Arrogance? My Arse!!!

 

[marvin]

Because this is not a genuine football club, it died last year and this Burke and Hare lot have stolen the corpse and are trying to breathe life into it.

For the good of Football this club has to die, AFC has to live on and have the right to call themselves Wimbledon Football Club.

No arrogance just sympathy for those who have had what belongs to them stolen. Just like the Goldstone (RIP) was stolen from us. I still hope that those who own, occupy or work, shop at the old dear have several afflictions cast upon them. Without these partners in crime it would never have had a value, no buyer for stolen property no thieves. Sad I know but quite honestly I don't give a f*** what people think about it.

 

[Brovion]

Re: Re: Extra Promotion place this season

Of all the clubs who need sympathy over their financial plight I doubt that there's any more deserving than Wimbledon. They may have been over acheivers in their time but it's a crying shame just the same.

We've been exploited by an uncaring and self interested board of directors and I for one sincerely hope that the NOTW has got it wrong as usual.

I think you've been in America too long mate. Wimbledon are doing fine, they're playing to huge crowds every week and I think they're top of their division.

The other club (Rump FC, Franchise FC, MK Dons etc) are hopefully going to die a painful and public death

 

[The Great Cornholio]

How can you say you hope a football club goes bust?

The arrogance of some people just beggars belief!

Well as we are arrogant all ready - here goes :-

Learn something about football before coming on here accusing people of arrogance. If you are happy to see franchising of teams and would be happy travelling to Truro to watch Truro Seagulls in a few years then support away.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

It would also be hilarious to see that tit Pete Winkelman lose all the money he ploughed into his fake, plastic MK club.

 

[Mr Popkins]

"Die MK dons, Die!!

this will be great news to the football world if they go bust, it will show you just cant up and move a club to where you like!

 

[DTES]

Anyway, after all the arguing, I think the answer to the original question, is that one less team would be relegated from division 1. I'm sure last season we were "hoping" they'd go bust in the hope it would spare us going down. I think one less team would be relegated from each division, which would ensure they each still contain 24 teams.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Anyway, after all the arguing, I think the answer to the original question, is that one less team would be relegated from division 1. I'm sure last season we were "hoping" they'd go bust in the hope it would spare us going down. I think one less team would be relegated from each division, which would ensure they each still contain 24 teams.

I think you are probably right. Which makes the arrogance claim look stupid. I wouldn't want us to go up that way anyhow. I just really hope that MK Franchise United go bust. How many original Wimbledon fans now go to MK? Probably 100. I feel sorry for them but no-one else.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

We're all football supporters.

That means that we meet up every week or so and have conversations that usually include a sentence that starts with the words "Remember when... ?"

(As in "Remember when Darren Freeman scored the first goal of the millennium?" - or whatever)

Now try to imagine a similar conversation between two members of the audience at the National Hockey Stadium.

That's all they are ... "members of the audience".

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

The test of whether this is arrogance or altruism is with the feelings of the fans who used to go to Plough Lane. With a very, very small number of exceptions, they almost all support AFC Wimbledon and want MK to go bust. If that's the attitude of the fans of the club itself, how can we possibly think anything else?

You're way off on this one, bhanuts.

 

[Brovion]

'bhanuts' - an appropriate name!

Seriously though bhaexpress, bhanuts and BrightonBird (who has expressed previous sentiments in the past) why are you so supportive of the MK version of 'Wimbledon'? If our past had been only slightly different would you have supported a 'Brighton' team at say, Woking, owned and run by Archer and Belloti over a fans' team playing at Withdean? If so you are in a very tiny minority.

 

[Seagull Stew]

I think a more appropriate way of equalling numbers in the league would be to promote an extra team from each division below as far down as the conference.
Then to fill the gap created in the conference, allow promotion to it from another non-league division.
Say this one:

COMBINED COUNTIES LEAGUE
PREMIER DIVISION

P W D L F A Pts GD
1. AFC WIMBLEDON 11 11 0 0 47 9 33 +38
2. CHIPSTEAD 12 9 2 1 31 10 29 +21
3. SOUTHALL 13 8 2 3 32 12 26 +20
4. FELTHAM 12 7 1 4 21 15 22 +6
5. WALTON CASUALS 8 7 0 1 26 9 21 +17
6. ASH UNITED 11 6 2 3 24 13 20 +11
7. AFC WALLINGFORD 9 5 3 1 15 10 18 +5
8. BEDFONT 9 5 2 2 16 14 17 +2
9. SANDHURST TOWN 9 5 1 3 24 17 16 +7
10. CHESSINGTON & HOOK 10 5 1 4 21 17 16 +4
11. NTH GREENFORD UTD 10 5 1 4 20 17 16 +3
12. HARTLEY WINTNEY 10 4 2 4 18 13 14 +5
13. WESTFIELD 10 4 2 4 15 23 14 -8
14. READING TOWN 7 4 1 2 15 9 13 +6
15. COBHAM 9 3 3 3 16 17 12 -1
16. RAYNES PARK VALE 9 3 0 6 20 24 9 -4
17. WITHDEAN 2000 12 2 2 8 14 35 8 -21
18. GODALMING & G 9 2 1 6 9 19 7 -10
19. FRIMLEY GREEN 12 1 4 7 11 34 7 -23
20. MERSTHAM 10 1 3 6 6 11 6 -5
21. COVE 10 1 3 6 12 25 6 -13
22. HORLEY TOWN 11 1 3 7 9 29 6 -20
23. CHESSINGTON UNITED 10 2 0 8 12 34 6 -22
24. FARNHAM TOWN 11 1 1 9 14 32 4 -18

 

[Storer68]

Rule 12.2 of the League's regulations state that if a club fails to complete its agreed matches and "retres" from the league during the season, then its record is expunged from the records and it is automatically regarded as a relegated club (ie it finishes 24th in its division.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Seagull_Stew -

I think you'll find that filling the Conference positions for next year is already more complicated than anyone can understand.

From next season, there'll be a national Conference league, plus two regional Conference leagues (north and south), offering the possibility that teams like Lewes (currently leading the Ryman League Division One South) could reach the Nationwide Third Division as early as 2006.

Hopefully we'll have half of Sussex heading upwards.

Details here:-

http://www.thefa.com/static/thefa_files/AllianceCriteriaDocument.doc