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On This Day in 1959Eddie Reynolds fires home one of his side's four goals as the Dons thrash second placed Wycombe 4-0 in an Isthmian League match at Plough Lane. Left half and captain Jim Wright was the hero after he opened the scoring with a brilliant 40-yard drive that many observers described as the best goal seen at Plough Lane since the war. Victory meant there were just two teams left in the title chase - the Dons and Dulwich Hamlet who were to meet, home and away, in the weeks ahead.
Click here for On This Day at historicaldons.com
As the Premier League clubs grew richer 30 years ago, little Wimbledon struggled to survive. Despite a good start to the 1995-96 season, an alarming autumn slump saw the Dons flirting with relegation before victories at Stamford Bridge and Highbury within a four-day period over Christmas lifted some of the gloom. Progressing through to the FA Cup 5th round, only a late, late equaliser from Efan Ekoku at Huddersfield kept hopes alive before a memorable quarter final with
Chelsea. Four wins in the five games after a replay defeat ensured survival for another year. Every match is celebrated with the memories of Ekoku and many others in the latest edition of the Historical Don.
30th Mar 2026 19:42:02
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On sale from outside the club shop at the Luton, Plymouth and Huddersfield games for just £2. With printing costs soaring, the price will increase next year so grab it while you can.
Dust your boots down, guys - this is your chance to play on the hallowed turf of Plough Lane. The WAWF Cup takes place on May 31 and we are looking for fans to line up to play along side the likes of Jon Main and Mickey Haswell (more TBC), in teams managed by Mark Robinson and Terry Brown. Full use of stadium/changing rooms etc. Hampshire referee etc. West Stand open for fans, Phoenix open for thirsty fans/players. Photos of the day and probably a few bits thrown in tbc too. And if you can't play, why not be an assistant manager or a mascot for the day... All proceeds to the playing budget, too. [Link]
26th Mar 2026 12:37:56
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Whatever happens, I hope we have a better summer recruitment than last year, although with our budgetary constraints there will be no room for error. Aside from Seddon, it wasn't a great window last summer. Bishop is average and the rest were poor. Only resigning players who were out of contract with us or previously on loan have been any good. It may be unfortunate or bad luck but when we have spent money on players (even if they worked with the current management team before) they have been disappointing (Davison, Kelly, Orsi, etc). As for loans, at least Stewart has finally surfaced but what a waste of time and money Brodi Hughes has been.
23rd Apr 2026 12:16:53
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We lost at home to Wigan when they had not won away for about 18 months and we got lucky away at Huddersfield having Goodman in goal for them as they battered us. We had a full strength squad then. Now we are in tatters. My fear is if we end up in administration and get deducted points, it will be in League 2 and that will put us back in non league.
Oh and yes I got the replacement QR code email for my Wigan ticket as well so I don’t think it’s anything dodgy.
23rd Apr 2026 12:06:54
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Yes while I’m looking forward to whenever we meet York next the attraction now is the city and the plethora of bars and eateries. Used to be a pleasant walk out through the streets to Bootham Crescent but now it’ll be a cab to a retail park same as too many grounds these days.
23rd Apr 2026 12:05:43
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Still a good trip I’m sure and I do like the Yorkshire culture cos you can have a proper ding dong with someone and nobody pretends to be offended.
REPD - the King Power Stadium looks a bit of an identikit from the pictures I've seen but for me it would be a new ground and the opportunity to visit one now watching AFCW now we have stagnated (regressed?) is limited.
23rd Apr 2026 11:39:38
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I never went to Filbert Street either. I've been to York's new ground while it was being built, as a subsidiary of the company I used to work for did the M&E and I used that as an excuse to do a leadership site visit. Bland is an understatement and it is a good 3 miles out of town next to a shopping centre.
Hackford and Foyo are both under contract next season. This is a frightening prospect. Nelson is on loan and doubt he would want to stay. No idea about Sasu. I would happily see the back of all of them. Sasu has not been given the opportunity to develop with us and played in a multitude of positions. That, coupled with limited talent and a lack of physicality for someone so tall has killed his career.
23rd Apr 2026 11:32:39
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At least Ogundere and Johnson are both under contract as I fear a major rebuild will be required in the summer for financial and ability reasons.
Whatever division we are in next season, there is no place for Sasu, Hackford, Foyo and Nelson poor work rate, commitment and the inability to hit the target from 15 yards have been a big part of our demise.
23rd Apr 2026 11:18:00
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If Browne plays in one of the next two games we could get something out of one especially if Omar could partner him up top.
@meadow thank you for promoting the DTb to upload minutes. The Plc board minutes are now near enough up to date and I see febs DTB ones were released earlier this week
23rd Apr 2026 11:13:21
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Shame they have to be chased/ reminded. This is surely one of the more basic tasks/ responsibilities to get done.
$6m - having been to the King Power, it's nothing special
23rd Apr 2026 11:13:06
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But yes, want to play there in a League fixture next season. Something that is still very much in our own hands
It will be a shame if we go down but I'm pretty much resigned to it. If we do we deserve to. That's life. I would have liked to have visited the King Power Stadium next season. Bromley will be in the same division as Leicester next season. Think about that.
23rd Apr 2026 11:08:56
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I want York to win the National League and for Barrow and Harrogate to stay up. York and Harrogate are nice places to visit and I just like going to Barrow for some reason. I suspect I will get to go to none of them if we go down.
Anybody else get an email from the ticket office pointing out the ticket they downloaded from their account for the Wigan away game had a bar code error and attaching a new PDF? I'm always suspicious when I get something like this such as is it genuine, although I can't see why it wouldn't be.
23rd Apr 2026 11:04:02
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I wondered how they identified there was a bar code error and how it impacted on my ticket as the covering email said it only impacted a "handful of tickets".
Keefy I can see it being delivered similarly to last time maybe even the same three wise men. “We’re not telling you who the investors are, because of an NDA and you lot don’t deserve to know anyway, but if you vote no the club will die.”
23rd Apr 2026 10:48:06
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Well it didn’t die last time, it just plunged us into long term financial stress. I expect this time people will vote yes and then we’ll see what’s been done to the club once the investors are identified but it’ll be too late to change anything then.
Morning all. I do wonder what will happen off-field should we go down. Not in terms of, will we go into admin or not (I think we'll avoid it but I believe we would anyway), but whether it finally forces through the changes needed like what happened when we put in a DoF. Because it's going to feel very much like yet another blown opportunity to set ourselves up as a L1 side.
23rd Apr 2026 10:46:54
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As for on-field, one wonders what the likes of Browne and Smith might be thinking right now (the latter said he wouldn't sign for us if we were still in L2 this season, apparently...)
York would be a new ground as well.
23rd Apr 2026 10:43:37
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Although I suspect Rochdale will make full use of home advantage on Saturday. Hopefully York come up via the playoffs if so.
Trigger, we are stuck in the slow lane with every decision that has to be made. We still must approve of who is investing, how long will the vote on that take to organise?
23rd Apr 2026 10:28:07
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If we go down hopefully Cambridge and Barrow will still be in L2. If we stay up, Leicester and Sheff Wed here I come. All new grounds for me.
23rd Apr 2026 10:26:08
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Laurence - are you missing any of the 91 now?
But either way, last time we dropped out of L1 SW19 wrote something along the lines of “AFC Wimbledon is a small minded club run by small minded people.” Nowadays we have a whole different set of problems with the people running the club. And it’s worse than just being small minded.
23rd Apr 2026 10:18:01
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Let’s cross that bridge if we come to it.
23rd Apr 2026 10:09:58
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Keep the faith and carry on
23rd Apr 2026 10:07:14
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Nah, they’ll be no questions asked. Will just be swept under carpet as we had lowest budget and actually over achieved by finishing 21st
23rd Apr 2026 09:49:53
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Trigger - if relegation happens? There will be some serious questions asked.
23rd Apr 2026 09:42:58
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I’m still holding out hope that we might be able to shock everyone including ourselves and do something different. But I’ve not seen any evidence of that since Lincoln away (when we were very unlucky to not get a point) and then the Luton game destroyed the squad.
23rd Apr 2026 09:35:08
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I certainly don’t blame JJ for us getting relegated if it happens - but I do understand the point about him not really showing any signs of being up for the challenge. Imagine he’s as cheesed off as anyone.
Trigger - I have just accepted that we will be relegated. Too many factors conspiring against us
23rd Apr 2026 09:01:09
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Yes as I've said wigan and Huddersfield score goals ,we don't or keep clean sheets. Going to be incredibly hard to gather anything unless a few more star players return. JJ Tactics need to be spot on,which they haven't been for i while.
23rd Apr 2026 08:47:52
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No surprises looking at the form table to see us rock bottom W0D0L6 (if it makes you feel any better Northampton are the same but to snatch away any semblance of positivity they’re above us because WE’VE ONLY SCORED ONE GOAL in those six lossss.) Wigan are a happy and heady seventh in the form table having W3D2L1 of their last six. More worryingly they’re even higher (fifth) in the home form table W4D1L1 but ecstatically we go up a place in the away form table on account of a single draw in our last six away games. We’ve only scored three goals in those matches.
23rd Apr 2026 08:30:28
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So it’s pretty clear that we are going to lose at Wigan. Exeter are at Burton who could make themselves safe with a home win but Exeter appear to have fire and belief in their bellies. Being glass half full, we can’t be relegated on Saturday worst case scenario is it goes to the final game of the season with us needing to win and rely on other results. Morning all.
Happy ST George's day 🏴
23rd Apr 2026 07:29:40
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