It’s the Brexit question. You know what we mean – we don’t even have to say it. So, what does the future hold for AFC Wimbledon? Do we have a plan? Do we need to lose control to turn the ship around? Is the new Managing Director the solution to all our problems? Nick and Stu shoot the breeze, as well as talk a little bit about the football. The blogs we referenced are linked to below!
Nick and Stu discuss the dispiriting defeat to Northampton, and the concerns that it has raised – on and off the pitch. We’re not trying to catastrophize, but there are issues and they need sorting. There’s also a cracker of a question for Jackson Five, to lighten the mood, and we look ahead to the trip to Carlisle…
Nick is joined by Kevin Borras, Chris Draper, and Mark Hendrikx to discuss football and finances, and for a crack at Jackson Five.
Somewhat tardy – we do apologise – but we have this week’s podcast for you just in time to preview our visit to Stockport. Nick and Stu discuss the signing of Ryley Towler on loan from Bristol City, and what he brings to the side, before looking at our limitations as our squad, as evidenced in the defeat to Barrow. We also have our regular features, including a favourable (for Stu) edition of Jackson Five.
Erm, Josh Davison is on the show this week. The clue is in the title. Our new number nine talks about the win at Crawley, his partnership with Nathan Young-Coombes, his time at Swindon and Charlton and Forest Green, his dad’s memories of John Fashanu, and the potential of renationalising the railways. Either side of that, Nick and Stu have all the usual, including a happy memory of smashing Watford. Absolutely smashing them.
We are determined to have fun this season, so a 5-2 reverse at Mansfield on Tuesday was less than ideal. We address it head on and discuss the tactics behind the defeat, as well as the issue of a red card (which the FA has since determined was incorrectly given … !!!), but then we’re back to the fun with talk of Crawley, Sutton, other times we’ve conceded five, man-bags, and transfers. In the face of a disappointing week, we’ve tried to lift spirits (until Nick ruins it at the end).
Your common or garden podcast this week, as Nick and Stu review our draw at Hartlepool and League Cup exit to Gillingham. Are people reading too much into these two results? Should we not be happy with a team that is coming together nicely, if just a little lacking in front of goal? But more importantly – just how weird an evening was Tuesday night?! We also have our new features and Stu looks to improve his performance on Jackson Five.
Johnnie Jackson joins us this week to discuss the win over Gillingham. We also talk about the transfer window, away travel, family, switching off from football, and penguins. We also learn who he thinks is the best player he ever played with, his toughest opponent, and the dressing room that he thought was “a bit of a stinker”. Stu and Nick go on to preview the trip to Hartlepool, play our new game Jackson Five, and introduce our new feature, “On That Side Of It”.
Robin Bedford and Marc Jones join Nick and Stu at The Phoenix at Plough Lane to look ahead to the new campaign. We talk new players, departed players, culture, managers, and, of course, the new array of Hummel apparel that Marc and Robin were instrumental in planning. We also have an abridged version of our new game …
A brief Sunday morning muse that could have been a Twitter thread, but as a general rule, I’m not one for Twitter threads. News that the government is planning further restrictions on gambling adverts in football has got me thinking, see …
I have no issue with curbing the ubiquitous presence of gambling companies within the sport – although I will save thorough dissection of personal responsibility in an increasingly-authoritarian world when I have more time to do the subject justice.
But with the tobacco, alcohol, and gambling industries’ relationships with football all targeted by state intervention, I do wonder how arguably the biggest vice has escaped censure – that of the football clubs themselves.