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 The site in my moral (sorry, but not done a link before) includes a clear chart of the dip in attendences from the 70s to the 90s for all English clubs.

 The winners of the Hanworth Villa v AFC Wimbledon Yoof Cup tie get a trip to Sheffield United in Round Three.

 Naz - no, not unless the Doncaster team can't get down here tomorrow

 Are there any hints from anywhere that tomorrow's game may be rescheduled because of the floods?

 Spartan - fair point, and average attendances now and then even in L2/fourth tier are a bit of an eye-opener to compare it to. Also, these days there is more TV coverage of L1/L2 and even Conference.

 Also, everyone (press, media and others clubs fans) used to go on about how small our attendances were back then, but if you were to look at attendances up and down the country at other clubs at that time and compare them to more modern numbers, they were all a lot smaller than they are now.

 REPD - I think one of the main reasons for our (WFC) small attendances in the 70's and 80's and up until the premier league started was because we were a small club that came a long way in a very short space of time and the crowds needed to grow over a sustained period of time. Plus we were competing with big clubs with established fan bases that they'd built up over many years and unfortunately our local area is inundated with Chelsea supporters. Also as intimated by some of our fans, they had supported other bigger clubs before changing to WFC. I liked Spurs in primary school when I started getting into football because my best friend supported them and i didn't even know there was a team on my own doorstep. As soon as I realised WFC was my local club there was no turning back, even though they were only in the Southern league at the time.

 Good to see our reserve squad making an impact out on loan

 I was quite pleased when we reverted to all blue strip for 81/2 season

 Youth cup tie at Hanworth Villa will be on Monday 18th Nov

 Pretty sure I wasn't the only one who didn't like the idea of dropping our old blue & white kit. Think the reason given for changing it was that too many other FL teams wore blue & white already.

 Managed to get to the Halifax game. Due to travel distance, didn't arrive til HT. Remember they had a ginger headed winger who was giving us a few probs.

 Unless you want a free Saturday on 30th November please don’t play any kids tomorrow, I want a cup run and as many gnarled pros as possible playing

 KT2 - many things about the whole Franchise move were tragic, but one of those was how back before then we were just starting to realise the potential of what support we could have

 REPD - just saw the KFAQ ad on facebook and thought exactly the same thing. Used to bring my mates with me for those games at Selhurst (recall they always seemed to be against Barnsley), and a couple of those mates still like coming to KM with me when they can.

 A4E - don't need to get the fitters sorted out until now

 RIP SALAD ALWAYS X

 Curzon Ashton away Sunday midday KO freezing cold 4-0 down when salad went to sit in his cab to warm up a bit

 And as I post that, the club announce KFAQ for tomorrow

 KT2 - yeah, we definitely managed to cultivate a lot of our current support back then, and a lot of them managed to stay the course through the whole WFC/AFCW changeover. Also proves just what a good marketing tool Kids For A Quid can be if you use it properly

 oops connection playing up !

 good news that Zack and Finlay have been recalled to be on the bench for the cup game. We have a lot of good young uns coming through so lets benefit from them. good to see the young Zack and Finlay have been recalled tp be on the bench against Doncaster. We have a lot of good youngsters lets get them involved

 Aye you can count me as one. Became armchair fan in 1996, started going around 1998 - never seen a home game but never wanted anything else for Wimbledon more than i've wanted to see us play in Wimbledon.