Are people getting into a flap about birds?

Pete - it is and has always been an eagle.

The Luton supporters said Cormick was very quick, so maybe a good signing albeit one with injury risks

Don't know where teacher got the idea it was a phoenix on our crest. I was always under the impression the Wimbledon double headed bird was a chough. This link can't make it's mind up between eagle or chough [Link] whereas this one says eagle [Link]

You could make a case that we played a squad team last night - two best CBs, two strikers, new Cornick, Junior and first choice GK did not start. That's a lot to leave out (for whatever reasons). Sasu started as he is fast and fit - so could hassle their defenders and make it harder for them. Stockley would have been out on his feet before HT if he'd had to get through the work Sasu did in H1. Right subs - could have been made 15 mins earlier.

No one in that pic wearing shorts either

OTD - always amuses me how formally some supporters used to dress back in the day!

Keefy-quite easy to get tickets in the Riverside stand and for a fiver extra you didn’t have to stand all match. Normally tickets in there cost 100 quid, I was expecting a uniformed waitress to bring me salmon en croute with an endive salad but sadly that didn’t materialise. Great view over London too, you could see Canary Wharf

Kite - spot on, I remember some of the Chelsea fans acted as if they’d won the actual World Cup final when they scraped past us!!

For me, the Fulham fans replicated those from Chelsea. We had the same reactions from Chelsea when they went 2-1 as Fulham at 2-0, thinking how well they'd done beating a L2/L2 side

Airsy - eewwww, I’m so glad I didn’t see that….

Naz - I wore our new light shirt, but it’s definitely cream rather than white - I don’t buy more than one new shirt per season, and my most recent blue one is probably two years old, plus I like the design of the cream War Child shirt. It generated a couple of conversations last weekend when I wore it on Saturday at Green Man in Wales, especially as the festival has its own ties with War Child - one person thought it was an Austria shirt at first, until I pointed out that it’s a phoenix and not an eagle…

A4E - not as weird as the guy half a block along from him who decided lift his shirt and play with his nipples.

Fulham fans did try "2-0 on your big day out", which didn't really hit the spot against us. Though "3-2 in your cup final" (referring to their game against Chelsea) might have been a funny retort, if they'd worked it out.

Well done to all our fans last night. (If you didn't go, Bert posted a vlog(is that the term?) last night.) But I wonder why quite a few Wombles chose to wear our white shirts against a team who play in white.

6M - I hadn’t read the OS when I posted that, but you’re correct, they did at least get the day right… Worth people remembering that it’s a 2pm kick off on Sunday - a few might get caught out by that.

6M - also this - "with Issue Three of the 2026/27 season available at this Sunday's home game against Wigan Athletic" followed by "Our second issue includes an exclusive interview with summer signing Steven Sessegnon"

I found the atmosphere really good last night - we sang relentlessly, whilst the Fulham fans looked bemused, and clearly couldn’t think of a song to sing… There was a weird kid trying to goad the Wimbledon fans by holding up his fingers to indicate the score, as if them beating a team two divisions below them was somehow a monumental achievement - they pay about two grand for their season tickets in that swimming pool stand, so I’m sure his daddy drove him home safely in the Porsche afterwards, and he thereby avoided getting his head kicked in as would probably have happened in the 1970s/80s…

Good point. Sunday. At least they got that bit right, even if I didn't.

6M - also, isn’t the game on Sunday?

Why do the OS articles about Saturday's programme keep referring to it being our first home league game of the season? I knew a 0-0 against Reading wouldn't live long in the memory but even so.

Lewis has painted himself into a corner. Decided he could do better than us, but it seems he can't. I'd have seasons 1 and 2 Lewis back without a second thought though.

Tim, you would have to pay off all the managerial staff, not just Jackson, include Asst & Coaches. These pay offs are typically negotiated with salary * length of contract in mind. Bear in mind that if we pay £140k, there won't be a long queue of experienced and upcoming managers though

Lurker - probably agree. Just feel that MS offers a bit more grit/steel based on his time last night and what I saw against Charlton

Whilst I think Lewis’ ceiling is higher (and he’s a bit quicker) the gap from him to Sweeney isn’t the issue I expected. The issue is after him and Johnson we have a small full back that we think is a centre back and not sure what other options