Good point Bert, unless there is a special dispensation for tennis balls but not rolled up paper.

Only if Reading are expelled from the league, $6m!

I think the fact that we can smash 5 past a woeful Walsall (who were still in with a chance of the playoffs on the last day) shows just how poor the standard of league 2 is and how we should have made the playoffs (even without AAH), had we been a bit more positive and played like we did today and in the first half of the season instead of playing hoofball. Overall I am quite happy with where we finished, as I thought that the best we would attain is 16th and maybe in hindsight, it may prove to be a blessing in disguise that we didn't go up this time because I think we'd have probably come straight back down and now we can make a few tweaks and possibly go for automatic promotion next season, though I will set my sights slightly lower at a playoff place as our target for 24/25.

Was there a reason the FA Cup replay banners were removed before the game started? Was that the choice of those behind the goal or were they told to remove it? I hope they were photographed and they get plenty of press coverage. There is an article in The Mirror online (warning - it contains a picture of the Fair Game CEO who is not universally popular in these parts).

I hope the club do not get into too much trouble over things being thrown on the pitch. The referee is bound to include it in his report, especially as he picked a few things up before their penalty.

Come on the farmers!

Time to unleash the AAH

Posty, I see Tadley Calleva finished 4th and play Knaphill in other semi. I went there just as lockdown was kicking in although you couldn't tell from the crowded bar. Basically a clubhouse behind one goal and one bus stop type stand

There was some mention of that on their forum yesterday OI - basically, make sure we finish 23rd and benefit from such an eventuality

So if Morecanbe went bust would Sutton's injury time equaliser get them back into League 2.

Good game today with the jersey bulls winning 3-0 so in the playoffs with afc stormy Croydon next sat now eating a bowl of french mussels and its pissing down

Villa taking the last Champs Lge place.

Ah, thanks Meadow, that's a real shame and it was a nice gesture to have the applause in the 8th minute (and does make it seem oddly insensitive for us to have scored in the middle of it!) - I don't use twitter so I hadn't seen that. I think that there was a tannoy announcement at the time to explain what was going on but, as I say, I couldn't make out what was being said (either then or for any of the other announcements).

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“Walsall dominated most of the game…” 🤷🏻‍♂️🤪😂😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️ In other news, some decent work today in a game where they could have coasted - obviously some of those players will leave, but overall it bodes quite well for next season. If we can pick up two or three proper players (better than Davison…), and if we manage to hang on to most of the better ones we’ve got, I don’t really see why we shouldn’t challenge right from the off. Naturally it’s tempting to say we should have made the playoffs (if we hadn’t lost to Sutton, Newport, etc etc), but that means fans of Gillingham, Walsall, Bradford, and Barrow should all be saying the same, not to mention that fans of 3 of the playoff teams will also end up disappointed…. I’m usually a pretty negative person, but all in all I feel reasonably positive - must be something in the beer… 🤪

As well as Ronan's Goal of the Season award there should have been non-goal of the Year for Harry at the fixture...

Nick - 8 year old Walsall supporter has recently died. The club (I think) and various other Dons supporters retweeted earlier on in the week.

Pell will go to Bromley

Ipswich 1-0 up

sort of expected Pell to move on but still a bit odd. I'd guess someone else will offer him good money to be the main man, maybe a non league side.

It was an odd atmosphere as we had nothing to play for in retrospect the ref’s terrible decision for their pen got the players and crowd going so he might have done us a favour in an odd sort of way

Must say that I didn't know what the applause was for around the first goal, as oddly the tannoy now seems to combine being both too loud and impossible to make out what is being said, so that (at least in the East Stand) pretty much all of the announcements were incomprehensible.

Peculiar atmosphere today. Felt like a post season friendly. Maybe it was just me but I felt embarrassed at the timing of our first goal, right in front of the Walsall fans in the middle of the minute's applause for their young supporter who passed away. Most people just continued with their minute's applause, including our supporters, so it was a very muted goal celebration.

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Well done JJ and Cope. Been a very enjoyable season. Hopefully we push forward next season