Should probably have said pretty much all of who remain good friends today - there’s just a few in the photo!
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Ian Harrison
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A truly special night, and it was just great to be around all the fans/friends it wasn’t certain we’d necessarily see again after 28th May, a few of who are still good mates now and looking very fresh faced in those photos!!
AFC Wimbledon@AFCWimbledon
On this day 23 years ago, the Dons played our first game as a fan-owned football club. 🫶 #AFCW 🟡🔵
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@paddy_metro Haha, yeah the smuggled Champagne went down a treat! 😂😂
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@coyd88 @WomblesDream Just be a fan if that’s what you want! There is no obligation to be an owner. Turn up, support the team, meet mates, buy a shirt (if that’s what you want, your call!), it’s no different to any other fan of any other club if that’s what you prefer. It’s your choice!
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@ArryHarrison @WomblesDream No it's not mate, I was a fan for over 23 years and then became an owner. The pay £25 and you're an owner is nonsense. You become wanted when the club needs money, the club does what it wants when it wants no player of the year awards etc.
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@coyd88 @WomblesDream The ‘fan not an owner’ thing is your own internal hurdle to overcome mate. Every club has an owner and every fan has to ride whatever waves the owner sends in their direction. Ride the waves or make the waves at our club, but you can absolutely just surf if you want to
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@WomblesDream Not a popular view as the old guard and some of the new will keep banging the drum and be frothing. I want to be a fan not an owner. How do the majority of the clubs that are owned all survive. Yes incredible debt but they carry on. Not all owners are bad. COYD
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@leewillett88 @WomblesDream I should have paid more attention to the off the field noise but was caught up watching us defy the odds. Ultimately he was in charge for 19 years and yes his parting finger up was the Norwegians but Idk if he really thought that would bring us to our knees
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Absolutely bang on and does not get said often enough (on Twitter at least!)
Conor Daly@ConorHDaly
@9yrspodcast Very important point that people are missing ND. Two big things for me are: 1. We are on a sustainable pay-down of the debt that will leave us in a much stronger financial position 2. Football regulator is coming and we are on the right side of any potential changes #AFCW #COYD
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@adamhodsoll @AFCWimbledon We honestly won’t be any happier as a fan base for having a bigger playing budget than we have now. Enjoy the days out with the lads as that’s the main thing! My mate is a die hard Brentford fan, hates being in the PL already and misses what we have!
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@AFCWimbledon If you cant rely on cup runs and selling players. Then you cant rely on fans putting their hands in their pockets every time. Get outside investment now
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COME TOGETHER: KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE.
Owning a football club is a privilege, but it comes at a cost.
Read how you can help support the Club and shape our future. 👉 tinyurl.com/2d37r9ar
#AFCW 🟡🔵
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@WomblesDream @Donsboy1988 @GabrielPurves @slough_womble @sammymacuk @KentWomble @ChrisOraa @HawkeyeWasTaken @rezla @AFCWimbledon @DonsOnTour @itizjake @jimhampshire @SaikouJanneh17 @mrchrislennon @WombleNinja @PloughLaneByNum @9yrspodcast WHAD spent more time reading this lads Twitter than me then - I only responded to correct fake news! - but loving the AFCW story & taking the time to make flags for the Women’s Team, etc, sounds like a net positive rather than negative to me, regardless of if he likes Liverpool!
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@ArryHarrison @Donsboy1988 @GabrielPurves @slough_womble @sammymacuk @KentWomble @ChrisOraa @HawkeyeWasTaken @rezla @AFCWimbledon @DonsOnTour @itizjake @jimhampshire @SaikouJanneh17 @mrchrislennon @WombleNinja @PloughLaneByNum @9yrspodcast “some lad who clearly loves his club and its history”
Gab’s first club and die hard club is Liverpool.
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@Donsboy1988 @GabrielPurves @slough_womble @sammymacuk @WomblesDream @KentWomble @ChrisOraa @HawkeyeWasTaken @rezla @AFCWimbledon @DonsOnTour @itizjake @jimhampshire @SaikouJanneh17 @mrchrislennon @WombleNinja @PloughLaneByNum @9yrspodcast Criticise the DTB all you want - and I’m sure you will - but suggesting some lad who clearly loves his club and its history is a sycophant for saying it out loud is just daft!
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@ArryHarrison @GabrielPurves @slough_womble @sammymacuk @WomblesDream @KentWomble @ChrisOraa @HawkeyeWasTaken @rezla @AFCWimbledon @DonsOnTour @itizjake @jimhampshire @SaikouJanneh17 @mrchrislennon @WombleNinja @PloughLaneByNum @9yrspodcast Oh dear, someone else had been reading the Dons Trust Board guide to gaslighting. Next you’ll be telling me I can’t criticise the board until I stand for election.
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@WomblesDream Yeah, not one of my favourites but is genuine..
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@ArryHarrison Fair play. It’s a monstrosity but fair play
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100% this is an AI image.
Never seen it at the ground and it just doesn’t look right
Gabriel Purves 💙💛@GabrielPurves
@WomblesDream @FPLEdgeworth Right I mean I have made 3 flags at 17 with zero funding from anyone else The chequered yellow/blue one for the tifo, the one for the women's team and this one
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@BatemanNi @charlietabloid @PloughLaneByNum @StuartdDeacons @ConorHDaly @MisterGLS @boyceyyyy Yep. There surely has to be a limit to how much money gets chucked on first team squad wage bills.. They seem like good lads on the whole, but they’re not saving lives and League 1 football clubs aren’t generating the money society is apparently expected to spend on them!
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@ArryHarrison @charlietabloid @PloughLaneByNum @StuartdDeacons @ConorHDaly @MisterGLS @boyceyyyy The bubble will burst. It's just a case of how long it takes.
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Selling 25% if a one-off hit. The investor never puts in another penny, as we’ve seen. The debt isn’t paid off (albeit interest reduces). And next time we want £500k, nothing left to sell but the club/ground.
Vote for it by all means, but let’s not pretend it means we keep Josh.
50 Shades Of Graham ✘@MisterGLS
I don’t think now is the time to shit the bed and sell up. Let’s look at what we can do to increase playing budget. Let’s look at how feasible expanding a stand might be. Let’s attract investment without fucking ourselves long term. We do it together, fans and club. LFG. 💙💛
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@LouCK2012 I love the tropical planting so would be great to see that! There are a few hardy bananas in gardens round our way but never seen any bud up.. Think it was the very warm spring tricked ours into thinking it was somewhere else!
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@ArryHarrison Amazing - there’s one around the corner from me in Tooting I will take a photo for ya 👌
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Been amazing seeing the Japanese Banana we planted 4 years ago coming into flower this week! It’s not common to see them flower in the UK, and as we’d grown them for the height and foliage this is an added bonus really! Shame they’re not edible..
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@Dan197834 Haha! Yeah, I’ve not turned my back on it since it started to bloom!
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@ArryHarrison That’s a cucking triffid! It’s gonna eat
Someone when you’re not looking
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@boyceyyyy @Donsboy1988 @StuartdDeacons @ConorHDaly @MisterGLS Ah ok, missed that! Yep, lost money on that one, but for the most part we bring in and lose/release players without any registration costs. Tilley probably one of those where his impact in the end was worth more than the transfer fee - but won’t always be the case!
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@ArryHarrison @Donsboy1988 @StuartdDeacons @ConorHDaly @MisterGLS We paid a fee for Tilley btw. Not sure what, heard a rumour of 50k but either way we have still lost money there.
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