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Quote: Smithers99 "Still very much at the assessment stage, but the club are hoping mid October which is our next home game (the three home games prior are now postponed). A switch to an away game for Accrington on Saturday was possible, but now looks like the aim is to find a venue in South West London. Loftus Road QPR looking highly likely.

Was suggested using a stadium 60/70 miles North, but few supporters would go that specific stadium!

Go Funding has now exceeded 50K. We will get up to 45% profits from the Cup match now moved to Newcastle. Newcastle themselves have donated 15K. Due to planning to repay some Plough Lane Bonds next year, the club does have nearly 2 million cash reserves from income in the last three years including some high price player sales. So cash flow per se not an issue in the short term, but could create challenges next year when only last week 2027 was regarded as our key year to manage our stadium build debt. That debt is 100% unsecured, so we could default if we wanted to; trouble is we would alienate and lose trust of many supporters. We are getting about 50% happy to roll their bonds forward five more years so the repayments can be spread and we can hopefully avoid any commercial loans.

We may get some big money in the future from Academy youngsters we have directly sold to Man City, Chelsea, Rangers, Wolves and Brentford amongst others. Those at the first four clubs are still teenagers and all regulars for England at age levels. I feel London Broncos have been hard done bringing through Super League calibre talent and getting no compensation from the clubs who recruit them.

The football tribunal moving the team from Wimbledon said the formation of AFC Wimbledon wasn't in the wider interests of football. Few believed we'd ever reach the Football League. It only took nine years. Even fewer believed we'd ever play again in Wimbledon. We have and back in Plough Lane. A bit (okay a lot) of water damage isn't going to stop us.

But until the do initial excavation of the pitch tomorrow, time and cost are big unknowns. Lots of theories to what happened, but the club are keen not to speculate until they know for sure. I think what is understood is that a large amount of water lifted the pitch and flooded all ground floor rooms. There is speculation that a system intended to manage the flood risk failed and effectively made it worse, but equally it may just be that the River Wandle was at its highest since 1968 and the water had no where else to go.'"


QPR size wise would be a good fit & easy to get to. They probably need the money as well. The Downside of the ground is watching with your knees under your chin. Hated it when Fulham shared there while the Cottage was being converted to all seater.

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Quote: Deadcowboys1 "QPR size wise would be a good fit & easy to get to. They probably need the money as well. The Downside of the ground is watching with your knees under your chin. Hated it when Fulham shared there while the Cottage was being converted to all seater.'"



I know what you mean about the seats at QPR - have only been there once ( GB V NZ test), don't think my knees have been right since!

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The football tribunal moving the team from Wimbledon said the formation of AFC Wimbledon wasn't in the wider interests of football. Few believed we'd ever reach the Football League. It only took nine years. Even fewer believed we'd ever play again in Wimbledon. We have and back in Plough Lane. A bit (okay a lot) of water damage isn't going to stop us.
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Good luck to you- I have nothing but admiration for AFC fans, what was done to your club was despicable but your response was the perfect two fingers up to the football establishment- long may you continue.

If it's the end of our time at Plough Lane, well thanks for hosting us - if we continue, and wherever we end up I think we'll have good memories ( especially the promotion season) of the place.

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The only figure mentioned so far is up to £1,000,000 to repair the ground by one of the original club founders on Talk Sport. That's an awful lot and to be honest I don't think anyone knows. Unless the underground work is excessive. Crowd funding now approaching £80,000.

Statement 128 of the FA Commission has always riled and pushed forward the club.

128. Furthermore, resurrecting the Club from its ashes as, say, “Wimbledon Town” is, with respect to those supporters who would rather that happened so that they could go back to the position the Club started in 113 years ago, not in the wider interests of football.

And also the driver behind the chant

"Two times out of non-league
We're never gonna stop
From Franchise to the FA
We beat the f***ing lot"

Appreciate the situation at the London Broncos is very different, but I hope there is a resurrection. On 28th May 2002 we had absolutely nothing.

Wimbledon beat Franchise this season, but nothing will ever match beating them last year in the 94th and final minute back home in Plough Lane. Like many I totally lost it. The team whose existence was deemed not in the Wider Interests of Football climbed all the way from the 9th tier of English Football to beat the team who really should have never have existed.

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Good news. The Plough Lane pitch seems to be fixed with AFC returning there tomorrow.

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