I saw that article and very nearly posted the link, but with feeling on the Keighley match day thread about the performance I decided against it. There was enough folk rightly annoyed with the game without adding 'our Leaders' diatribe. The team have performed very well in this second half of the season and got themselves into a good position (and done it without the club Captain and what he brings to the game). I can only comment on the turnout at Rochdale which was excellent and those good folk deserve better. Mr Hall you are out of order running to the press with those childish comments and I can tell you on here that your stock is not that great amongst some of us and this will not help in the slightest. Very poor from you.

Good Post and one that certainly needed saying.

As someone who attended the Keighley game who consider's himself a True and Loyal Supporter i'm sorry but i find those comments made by Carl offensive and believe they will also be offensive to the vast majority of Dons followers.

And for the record i do believe the Dons have exceeded all expectations this season and apart from the Oldham and Keighley away games the lads have done us proud.

But I believe Carl needs to think very carefully and engage his brain in the future before making comments of this nature to the press--- and to Carl that is not meant as having a go it's meant as sound advice.

Criticise the fans face to face if they upset you.
Criticise the postings on this forum if they upset you.
But please don't go to the press
All it creates is negativity for the club for potential new fans and alienates older fans.

So is it not the true loyal supporters who spend there hard earned cash to go to games HOME AND AWAY GAMES, which in this day and age costs a lot of money.

The fans who watched that performance last week have a right as a paying customer to make whatever comment they want about the game, whether good or bad, its called freedom of speech.

Maybe the board needs to communicate MORE and get involved with the fans and the supporters trust, instead of making comments in the press which does not do any good.

There were talks of keeping fans involved, well when was the last fans meeting held???

It must be a critisism of fans on the forum, because where else would he read these comments, which just goes to show that Carl reads the forum, Shame we dont see anything positive coming from the club re: the fans.

I think in these times the club would be trying to keep fans and not slag them of in the local press.

I have now edited my original post because I don't need to justify my support.

Carl is entitled to his opinion as is everyone else - and with that we should all stand by our comments.

So if that is how Carl feels then fine....

I am however abstaining from the forum until end of season as to be honest life is too short to get wound up on a sat morning by something like this.

Good luck lads for the rest of the season

COYD

Bang on. Said my bit, what is more important to me is a play off final place and to show all the 'true' fans, the naughty fans and the once a flood fans that this side is actually quite good.

If you stop posting on here, or anyone does for that matter, he wins a small but unjustifiable victory.
This is a FANS forum for goodness sake, as I have said many times when someone doesn't like what's being said and has a go.
It doesn't belong to the Don's management ... they have their own site. And short of breaking the laws on defamation and libel, we can say just how we feel with due regard to common decency and a weather eye on respect and courtesy and the AUP.

To look at the world through rose-coloured spectacles might be fine in theory and I suppose if someone wants to go through life in an 'ignorance is bliss' state of mind then that's their choice.
Most of the rest of us realise that life is not like that. Sh/te happens and it's how you deal with it that matters. Pretending it didn't happen is just burying your head in the soil.

The very fact that we don't all have the same point of view is what gives life some extra spice, some extra interest. And that's what is so good about this forum, it is a window where we can voice our opinion in a relatively safe environment and have a bit of fun without the fear of someone kicking-off and resorting to physical violence.
It's a temporal medium.

Finally, as I always say, to imagine that in some way the people who post on here have any bearing on the general support for the Dons numerically or financially is quite wrong and the thinking of some paranoid mind.
To then go and bring it to the attention of the media about a handful of fans who voice discontent with shabby performances and to somehow extrapolate that into a team of wreckers hell-bent on personal damage to players sensibilities is farcical.
We ARE the supporters for Christ sake.
Or at least a cross-section of them with some computer skills and an urge to communicate.

So my recommendation would be to read and take notice and debate the bits that are unpalatable and don't spit out your dummy Mr Hall.

COYD.

Life is indeed,'too short'.............so stop whinging about such trivialities and grow up !

I am now leaving for the regular three and a half hour trip to Toulouse to see my nearest team,relegated from the Championship to the LER probably to see them get hammered yet again for their penultimate home game to undoubtedly prop up the division - it doesn't give me pleasure to see them in this position but as a RL nut I know they will at least give 101% for the likes of me & the missus - if the chairman or whoever wants to criticise me for criticising their display then fair enough,who cares ?

Well done to Carl,Tony,Ray & Jackie as well as the players of course for the incredible improvement in the past twelve months

Come on TO13 and COYD !

And well done to the fans for the support home and away

Here is the link that Trotsky could not put on. www.thestar.co.uk/sport/boxing/s ... _1_3639949 Maybe slagging of fans in the press was not a good idea.

Here is the link that Trotsky could not put on. www.thestar.co.uk/sport/boxing/s ... _1_3639949 Maybe slagging of fans in the press was not a good idea.

I hope Carl has got the message , its def. a no no running to the press to air his thoughts on some of our fans.Even though I'm sure others agree some of the posts have been over critical of the coaching, management staff & players .

Lets all get this out of our systems before next w/e .

COYD

Who's falling out?

But do I detect a bit of blame shifting here?
That it is whinging fans that are at the heart of any poor results that may ensue, because it affects morale.
Yeah I can see that, since we had won 7 out of 8 and the fans were really getting on the players backs.
Their confidence must have been crippled.

They didn't lose at Keighley because they were blatently short of an experienced half-back to aid Spaven ... Oh no!
And pointing out that this very good side would have been already promoted with such a signing is knocking the Dons ... Oh yeah!

Enough!

COYD ... marmalise Whitehaven.

I may be new to this great sport but the comments said was uncalled for I pay hard earned cash to watch are mighty team who we all want to do well. I travelled to Keighley and was disappointed in the lack of get up and go from are players.

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