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On This Day in 1973
Dave Armstrong heads for goal as the Dons are well beaten by title chasing Yeovil Town in a Southern League match at the Huish ground. With nearly 4,000 in attendance and a well-funded 'Elect Yeovil' campaign to secure Football League status in full swing, visiting supporters could only look on with envy as their near penniless club slipped still further down the pecking order.
Click here for On This Day at historicaldons.com
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As the Premier League clubs grew richer 30 years ago, little Wimbledon struggled to survive. Despite a good start to the 1995-96 season, an alarming autumn slump saw the Dons flirting with relegation before victories at Stamford Bridge and Highbury within a four-day period over Christmas lifted some of the gloom. Progressing through to the FA Cup 5th round, only a late, late equaliser from Efan Ekoku at Huddersfield kept hopes alive before a memorable quarter final with Chelsea. Four wins in the five games after a replay defeat ensured survival for another year. Every match is celebrated with the memories of Ekoku and many others in the latest edition of the Historical Don.
30th Mar 2026 19:42:02 
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On sale from outside the club shop at the Luton, Plymouth and Huddersfield games for just £2. With printing costs soaring, the price will increase next year so grab it while you can.
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Dust your boots down, guys - this is your chance to play on the hallowed turf of Plough Lane. The WAWF Cup takes place on May 31 and we are looking for fans to line up to play along side the likes of Jon Main and Mickey Haswell (more TBC), in teams managed by Mark Robinson and Terry Brown. Full use of stadium/changing rooms etc. Hampshire referee etc. West Stand open for fans, Phoenix open for thirsty fans/players. Photos of the day and probably a few bits thrown in tbc too. And if you can't play, why not be an assistant manager or a mascot for the day... All proceeds to the playing budget, too. [Link]
26th Mar 2026 12:37:56 
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Trigger - in fairness I should have acknowledged that you had this idea first. To me it makes sense, as we don't seem to have anyone who we can reply upon to score but keeping a clean sheet against poor sides like Burton, and Wigan (and Huddersfield, who will probably having nothing to play for by then) should be somewhat easier to manage (though made much more tricky by having so many defenders out). Either way, it's a time to dig a metaphorical trench and defend for our lives - no worrying about trying to play entertaining free-flowing football, just "don't lose" at all costs
7th Apr 2026 14:51:12 
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Kanye West stays West.
7th Apr 2026 14:44:58 
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Lurker - spot on about their first goal. Reeves got skinned in the build up
7th Apr 2026 14:40:38 
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AfE - might be wrong but I think we have a terrible reckon away to Burton
7th Apr 2026 14:39:34 
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It’s got home win written all over it!
Just read that a match official who was due to run the line at Sutton v Southend on Monday, had travelled to Sutton Coldfield in the midlands by mistake. 🤣
7th Apr 2026 14:14:35 
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I do think not being able to score from the 2/3 really solid chances in their area early on made that result as well. They really didn’t have to fear us. They’d done their homework. They crowded Nkeng and Bugiel. And they were able to crowd anyone in the box. On the flip side they ran players into our box easily. Couldn’t score but could just keep going believing they would. Whereas we looked like we never would.
7th Apr 2026 14:01:06 
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What pissed me off on what you said Trigger was Reeves, who has no pace, kept shooting out onto their passes that he was never getting to and they ran into the gap he left. But the stood off when they were lining up shots. The difference between what we had with Smith, Hippo and Maycock is huge. Their first goal came directly from their player being able to hit the ball down the line and skin him. And not in a direct race. They ran the long way and he tried to run the shorter route that a defender should run and they still got their easily first. Hutchinson got caught a few times later on like that as well. The legs we don’t have in the squad were an issue.
7th Apr 2026 13:55:21 
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Tilley clear.y went over chasing a ball off the pitch. Browne was a contact injury in their area. Hippolyte looked like he just went down but actually he’d had an issue since a couple of challenges about 10-15 minutes earlier. Lewis was a contact injury. Bauer looked like a contact injury. Bugiel was the only one you could say was strain from the way he plays chasing everything. Not sure we can just throw this lot at the training ground/methods like Cope brought up a couple of years back.
7th Apr 2026 13:50:57 
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Said similar yesterday Nick W - two banks of 4 and just keep the ball away from our box. Two forward players there to chase scraps from clearances and try to hold the ball up for as long as possible.
7th Apr 2026 13:48:55 
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Something they were unable to do against Luton who then passed straight through our scattered midfield. Shut up shop and go for the 0-0.
Laurence in our case I’d say there’s a lot of this from how we’re having to play to make up for difference in quality and depth. I looked at Lewis’ heat map. And pretty much the entire pitch between our penalty area and half way is at least yellow and most is shades of red. He covers a huge amount of ground chasing through balls and breaks in that. Plus when he comes back we have to try and get him playing again. He’s just one example. But also depends on the type of injury. You absolutely can say that contact injuries are bad luck.
7th Apr 2026 13:47:18 
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Laurence- you may be right- you probably know better than me, but whether by bad luck or incompetence the glut of injuries is killing us, especially as the squad was so thin to start with.
7th Apr 2026 13:46:38 
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For information: Please join us for a community meeting where we will be able to share updates and plans, for the SAVE THE TRAF Campaign. 15.04.26 at 7:30pm St John the Divine, High Path, London SW19 2JY Retiring to the Traf after for a well deserved pint or 2. There is also a facebook group: Save the Traf, where will be sharing updates and news going forward. [Link] Hope to see you there. Thanks again Jourdan, Jules, Leah, Steve & Andrew. (aka Team Save the Traf)
7th Apr 2026 13:45:00 
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A4e I think we could sign several unemployed players now as we should have registration slots. But I’m not 100% sure. What we can’t do is any kind of transfer.
7th Apr 2026 13:44:20 
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Nick - Teams are not unlucky with injuries. Often the route cause is the training schedule and lack of overall fitness.
7th Apr 2026 13:42:29 
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Mark I think it’s a big comment on how thin the squad is that we only had those 2 that were viable to free the money.
7th Apr 2026 13:41:47 
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We really probably only need 2 points to stay up (though not guaranteed even then). We seem very unlikely to score, so probably the best approach to get those points is to go ultra defensive and play for 0-0 in every game, of course the flaw in that plan is that we have so many defenders missing as well, but it’s the best we can do. All in all we have gone from thinking we were nearly safe in mid table to real relegation worries in the course of a fortnight or so. Overall this is just down to a combination of us being unlucky with injuries and having had a thin squad in the first place, due to our financial constraints
7th Apr 2026 13:31:45 
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Reeves is fit so he has to play, experience is key at this stage and he won’t win with a bunch of kids
7th Apr 2026 13:31:10 
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Thought the team gave up the ghost after Luton's first goal yesterday. Poor show really.
7th Apr 2026 13:28:24 
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Reeves just cannot get another start this season. Thanks but now not good enough.
Are we allowed to get any emergency loans in given the number of injuries we have? I think if Browne was fit, we’d be fine - I still fancy us to win at either Burton or Wigan…
7th Apr 2026 13:20:37 
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Any reason the club didn't have resale for yesterday's game? We ended up with one spare ticket and one empty seat.
7th Apr 2026 13:12:05 
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Resigned to going down now because of the plethora of injuries. At least it's a good chance for our youngsters to be bloodied.
Lurker - just reading back - apologies for not answering yesterday. I get that, the bleak reality is what you’re saying is that the opportunity cost of Tilley is Hardbottle. It just reaffirms the sorry state of play and finances are in as I guess that neither are that expensive in the scheme of things in league 1
7th Apr 2026 12:08:34 
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Sandy - I was astonished we didn't make one or two subs at half time and was astonished at the unprofessionalism of Bugiel and our bench in not getting him off with theother two as he was obviously injured 5 mins before the subs were made.
7th Apr 2026 11:48:29 
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“Hopefully, there's a little bit of good news in that regard with a few of the lads that have been out that perhaps might be available to us and assess the lads from today - Joe, Pat and Omar, whether they can play any part. But it’s unlikely, when you've come off on a Monday through injury, to be able to go again on Saturday. That's a quick turnaround. So, I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.”
7th Apr 2026 11:45:54 
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From the JJ piece on the OS. Desperately need that good news for the Burton game.
Time to start the journey back to Cornwall…
7th Apr 2026 11:45:28 
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the womble of bodmin moor
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I wonder if we've got any decent under 12 CBs at the club...
7th Apr 2026 11:37:00 
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:-)