Wimbledon game

[niels]

0-0 half time. City on top for most of the game but McDonnell saved a penalty on half time. Shabby booked for the pen.

[DrAgony]

Well done Danny! Glad Shab didn't see red...

C'mon City, beleeeeive!

[niels]

Wimbledon score. Constant pressure from the start of the half. Failed to clear a corner

[niels]

2-0

[DrAgony]

I think I'll just keep quiet...

[niels]

Wimbledon keeper saves from Adaggio and injures himself badly in the fall. Sub keeper on.

[niels]

City ripped open and both strikers hit the post. Still 2-0

[niels]

Bambton on for Fitzpatrick. 15 minutes left. Come on City an Adaggio hat-trick will do it

[Tim Munslow]

11 minutes to go, still 2-0 to Wimbledon

[Tim Munslow]

Barnes booked - his tenth yellow card of the season. A two-game suspension will now follow.

[ac]

Feb 24, 2009 21:20:52 GMT niels said:

Bambton on for Fitzpatrick. 15 minutes left. Come on City an Adaggio hat-trick will do it

A Heeley hattrick would be good!

[niels]

Dodd off Bridges on

[Tim Munslow]

Attendance : 2,695. Leberl booked for Wimbledon and Bampton for City in quick succession. Louis Bridges replaces Matt Dodd.

Four minutes of added time.

[niels]

Finished 2-0

City dominated first half - couldn't score
Dons dominated second half - could score

[Tim Munslow]

Final score : 2-0 to Wimbledon

[DrAgony]

The squad he had meant that RD had few meaningful tactical options. Tale of two bank accounts, I guess.

[bigsteve]

Good game and City held their own for long periods but so slow at the back. When Wimbledon turned Barnes it was like watching a carthorse. Lucky Shab had the pace to cover. But how did Shab stay on the pitch for the penalty? the guy was going to put the loose ball in from a yard out when Shab bundled him over? Great penalty save from Danny as it was a decent penalty and he went low to his left to stop the shot and then also got to the ball before the striker hit the rebound. When Wimbledon listened to there manager "get the ball on the bloody ground" they looked a good team. I was impressed with their left back who they should have used more.
Why only 3 subs and Carl? where are all the youth and reserve players?

[Deleted]

I wonder about Dodd. He does a couple of things a game - and that's it. I'm not sure it's his fault entirely, there was a couple of times last night when a through ball to him on the floor was spurned in favour of a long range shot. He's got the pace but if he's not brought into the game he's an unused luxury. Their substitution at half time sealed it. Then we resorted to hoofball.

Good to visit a well run club with a couple of vibrant social clubs.

[prestonwcfc]

Think the lads can hold their heads up high following last night. First half we were definitely the better team. Shab was lucky not to go for the penalty although I suspect it was due to the striker not having control of the ball that saved him.
Thought Wardy and Matt Dodd had excellent games, but was concerned about the the normally reliable Jon Richardsons second half performance. Certainly at fault for one if not both goals. Difference between the two sides was finishing. They did / we didn't !!
Overall left the game with real optimism for the future. I we can keep this young squad togeather things look bright for next year if we can just add a poaching goalscorer

[voiceofreason]

Feb 25, 2009 10:00:05 GMT bigsteve said:

Good game and City held their own for long periods but so slow at the back.
When Wimbledon turned Barnes it was like watching a carthorse.
Lucky Shab had the pace to cover. But how did Shab stay on the pitch for the penalty? the guy was going to put the loose ball in from a yard out when Shab bundled him over? Great penalty save from Danny as it was a decent penalty and he went low to his left to stop the shot and then also got to the ball before the striker hit the rebound.

When Wimbledon listened to there manager "get the ball on the bloody ground" they looked a good team. I was impressed with their left back who they should have used more.
Why only 3 subs and Carl? where are all the youth and reserve players?

Except it was Never a penalty! That odious little toerag Main, pulled down Shabs, not the other way round!

They were the better team, but a side like that who're going to run away with the league are going to cheat so blatently, then f*ck 'em.
We paid a heavy price for not making more of our first half possession, when we could have nicked a couple of goals?
Wilding's effort was again questionable;though when he can/does do so, it makes a difference. But he doesn't seem to want to play up front? And put in the effort that entails.....


Off the field, they have a good set-up, but ironically they've parachuted themselves into someone else's failing club which is something some of their more conceited fans* would do well to remember!
Though to be fair, they* were in the minority......

[bigsteve]

get real I doubt you'll see a clearer penalty The Wimbledon forward had a tap in after Dannys save had put it into his path. No complaints from Shab just a look of relief when the yellow card came out although where i stood the card looked like it was red. Wildings effort was not questionable it was nonexistent. Marco can't be expected to do it all himself.
Who's failing club have they parachuted themselves into?

[voiceofreason]

If you say so....Main definitely fouled Shabs though, so by that logic he should have been booked too.
Wilding did try, only about 20% of the time, lazy fecker?

As for the failing club, look at the venue!

[mb]

Feb 25, 2009 14:39:54 GMT voiceofreason said:

As for the failing club, look at the venue!

Kingstonian you mean? They had major problems when we moved in as tenants but are now top of the Ryman South so not doing badly.

Could you read the following 2 links please? Hopefully they'll go a little way to correcting your misconceptions.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsmeadow

www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/newssearch.php?Psection_id=2&Psub_section_id=74&squad=

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Anyway, I was pleased to chat to a couple of your fans last night, very nice people, and I wish your club all the best with your off-field troubles.

Oh. and helloooooo Daza

[bigsteve]

I don't think they parachuted into a failing club as you put it

It was those celebrating supporters who had formed the club six years earlier, during the hot summer of 2002, after an FA Commission inexplicably announced it had given the owners of Wimbledon FC permission to move to a new town in Buckinghamshire. The outraged Dons diehards, stunned that 113 years of history had been allowed to end overnight, took just six weeks to raise funds, secure a groundshare, appoint a manager, hold player trials and gain election to the Combined Counties League.

The men and women behind the new Dons were determined not to allow the spirit of the club to die. ”Doing a Wimbledon” had become football parlance for what a so-called smaller club could achieve against the odds. Starting in the mid 1970s with the arrival of manager Allen Batsford, the men from SW19 had taken the football world by storm, taking just a decade to move from the Southern League to join clubs like Manchester United and Arsenal at the top of the English game.

Dave Bassett’s feat of leading a side from Division Four to sixth place in Division One inside five years may never be repeated. Despite his departure, the Dons not only won the FA Cup in 1988 but kept their place among the elite for fourteen seasons and became founder members of the Premiership. That they did it without having a multi-millionaire backer and by importing players from lower divisions or the cast-offs of other clubs makes their journey unique.

Men such as Dave Beasant, Dennis Wise, Vinnie Jones, John Fashanu, Nigel Winterburn, John Scales, Warren Barton and Marcus Gayle all made their names in yellow and blue and went on to become internationals. But when Sam Hamman sold the club to two Norwegians the dream turned sour. Egil Olsen was put in charge of the team and by the time he was sacked, in the millennium year, relegation had become inevitable. Once back in the Championship, the vultures began to hover.

The rebirth, at level nine of the football pyramid, saw the new club travelling to teams such as Cove and Merstham for the first time. AFC Wimbledon quickly reached the Ryman (Isthmian) League, which their predecessors had left 40 years before. After winning Division One at the first attempt it took them three successive playoff battles to move another step back to the Football League. It looked as though it would be third time unlucky until those wonderful final eight minutes at Wheatsheaf Park.

More like started from scratch to build a football team from nothing but a dream. And they've done pretty well through a lot of hard work. I think you're being very unfair towards real non-league football fans with that remark.

[rushwickdon]

Firstly, thanks for letting me travel on the supporters coach last night (even if the bloody thing did break down on the way home!!). Being an AFCW fan living in Worcester, it was more than handy for me.

Can't really comment on the penalty as it was down at the opposite end to where I was standing, but it would have been very harsh if we had gone in 1-0 up at the break. At the start of the second half, it looked as though 11 new players had turned up for us, and for the first twenty minutes of the half, I think it is fair to say that Worcester were getting absolutely pulverised. There was a cast iron penalty for AFCW in the second half too, but the referee, as most seem to be nowadays, didn't want to give the same team two penalties and so waved the protests away.The rest of the game seemed to peter out a bit, although (being biased) it looked as if AFCW could score again if it was vital to win 3-0.

Anyway, if you get three points on Saturday against the Richmond franchise, then we will love your team forever!!

[rushwickdon]

Another AFCW view of the game, at sw19s-army.derrymeeleen.com/news.htm

[Tony is not to despondent now.]

Feb 25, 2009 10:08:48 GMT @ealing said:

I wonder about Dodd. He does a couple of things a game - and that's it. I'm not sure it's his fault entirely, there was a couple of times last night when a through ball to him on the floor was spurned in favour of a long range shot. He's got the pace but if he's not brought into the game he's an unused luxury. Their substitution at half time sealed it. Then we resorted to hoofball.

Good to visit a well run club with a couple of vibrant social clubs.

Ealing I think you have summed up Dodd very well. He is somewhat of a disapointment. And the City paid a fee for him.

[bigsteve]

I disagree with you about Dodd He's a very good player but not used enough. and that is often the case with wingers. Its not that he's a disappointment its as Ealing says, he's just not used to his best. when he did get the ball he caused a lot of trouble which resulted in dangerous freekicks.

[Mark]

Matt Dodd looks to me as if he has the potential to be a good player. What I feel he lacks is confidence in his own ability - he is better than he thinks he is. The result of this lack of confidence is disappointing performances (for me).

He appears to be unable on most occasions to beat his man so with the pace that he has why not try knocking the ball past the man and running on to it? (play to his strengths). Many times when I have seen him play I have wondered why he does not try it.

I say this having only seen him play at home. Maybe he is fantastic away from home.

[Deleted]

Or get others to play the ball through ON THE FLOOR for him. And get him to stay out wide. He gets crowded out when he's pulled into the middle.