I dont hate wimbledon but.....

[Stevecr2]

I find myself slightly confused about wimbledons game at bradford,because i dont hate them and generally have no opinion on them,but i would like them to go down.
how do does everyone else feel?

[Strictly Palace]

I do not dislike Wimbledon, but from a Palace point of view it is a disaster having them at Selhurst and in the Premiership.

The fact is that most people whose first experience of Selhurst is now at a Dons match not Palace. The longer they remain a top flight club it will eventually eat away at our supporter base. This is something Wimbledon recognise and have tried to exploit. In the nine long years they have been at Selhurst they have not seriously tried to move because they have benefitted from Palace being unable to stay in the top flight. With loads of Press Notices announcing they were about to move all over the place or slagging Merton Council off, it merely deflected the issue that their attendences rose to levels they could not have dreamed of, and they were content at Selhurst. There most realistic relocation options of the Plough Lane speedway stadium or a development at old sidings near Basingstoke station were quickly dismissed with less effort than bogus talks about a move to Dublin. The Dons have no intention of leaving our great round.

Now they are in the poo. Relegation would impact as hard as Goldberg's tenure at Palace. They will have to sell sell sell as the attendences will be a joke.

Serves them right.

[Big Fella]

What a top bloke John Hartson is. Knowing he will be at Spurs next season, he decides he has had enough of the dongs and gets himself sent off, therefore blowing any chance they have of winning and almost certainly staying up. Then he slags off Olsen who ends up getting the sack. Nice one bruv.

[dickie]

If they do get to join us in the first one assumes their fan base and income will drop, will they still be able to afford selhurst, what would be the impact to us if we reclaimed the ground soley for us?

[Strictly Palace]

Ron Noades would be the biggest loser.

I believe the Dons pay a peppercorn rent to Altonwood, and Ron makes the rest up by taking a percentage of takings. Palace do not benefit financially one jot from this arrangement, and lose a lot of goodwill from the neighbourhood, who believe it is Palace who let Wimbledon share the ground.

[dickie]

yup, wouldnt we all love to see premier footie back at palace but given that we are in the first, the good thing about the Dons is that we can still see the premier teams with relative ease if palace arent playing or we cant get to the match.

[LP]

I would love them to go down. All their pathetic band of fans do is slag off Selhurst and Palace, they have even had the nerve to call us 'scum' everytime we've played them. It is their total ingratitude and inability to realise that without Selhurst they would not have a Premiership club to support and maybe even no club at all. Also if Noades loses money then good, it was he who rigged it so that Palace would subsidise the wombles sucess in the first place. I feel it is one of the most disgraceful episodes (and their have been many) that have happened at Palace. Come on you Villa and Saints....

[The Glazier]

Totally agree with you LP, a spell in the 1st Div. would show them what its like to be a real football supporter, following your team through thick and thin, as I'm sure a lot of them won't be there next season...... a bit like their playing staff really http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Bud Eagle]

I want the Dongs to go down. However, there is a problem with that.

If the Dons go down and can't afford Selhurst any more, the problem is that the value of Selhurst for Ron will drop. He can sell the land to developers who will pay a HUGE amount for it, way more than the ground is valued at.

Could that be more tempting for him, or is Ron's heart in the right place?

Food for thought?

[Ian of Chatham]

Not only that, but the Dons' relegation may rekindle talk of the famous "Selhurst Sharks" merger.

[DUTCH]

I think Wimbledon may have a lot of trouble getting back if they do drop.
They have the smallest average crowd in the Premier league including Bradford, Watford & Southampton, this would fall through the floor if Palace fans & fair weather fans didn't go ot their home games.

[John from Beare Green]

I can't see that a Palace/Wimbledon merger would make financial sense. The new club would have just one lot of TV income, but initially would have twice as many players to pay. It would have to put every player on the transfer list to cut the wage bill, and then would be left only with the players that nobody else wanted.

So I don't think we need to worry about that.

Palace would be worse off without Wimbledon sharing as there is a clause in the lease that says Palace have to pay a higher percentage of gate receipts to Altonwood if there is no sub-tenant.

I Hate WIMBLEDON - SKUM SKUM SKUM!! ha ha, hope you get relegated and we slap you 4-0 twice next season, oh yes, and both times in front of about 15,000 palace fans!! never mind, life's a bitch. Steve'y Coppell, we luv ya!!


Originally posted by Stevecr2 on 04-30-2000 01:27 PM
I find myself slightly confused about wimbledons game at bradford,because i dont hate them and generally have no opinion on them,but i would like them to go down.
how do does everyone else feel?

In the same way i dont give a **** about the clowns from the pikey land that is Greenwich, i dont give a **** about the ***** who have a pointless existence. Wimbledon are as good asthey'll ever get. Their ridiculous fanbase jokeclub status wll make sure they will never ever come anywhere near the potenmtial we have.
It would be funny though, playing them away next year. They'll be around 3000 wimbledon fans and 15000 palace spread over all 4 stands.

PALACE TIL I DIE, IM PALACE TIL I DIE

[Vic Eagle]

I really don't know why any of us should hate Wimbledon. Hopefully soon normal service will be resumed with Wimbledon being a 'nursery' club, developing half decent players only for us to come in and buy them - only mistake we made before was buying Thorn and Young after they'd won the Cup Final.

Charlton on the other hand I never have liked, but only because it was such a pain in the arse to get to the Valley by bus from Croydon. But then apart from the footy why would anybody want to go to Charlton anyway?