Every game we play is a game we play for pride. And every game we play for pride, we win.

I’m not generally big on moral victories. I don’t demand a treble every year, but I like quantifiable success in sports.

And while I do want promotions and silverware for the Dons, this isn’t a club for whom those are the only markers of success.

Every season since 2002-03 has been a success. Every one. Every season that we’ve said no to Winkelman, to the FA, to ASDA and concrete toilet boils and 60 miles up the M1 is an undeniable success.

Thirteen years ago people with an excess of money and power and a deficit of scruples saw something special that a community had and decided they wanted it for themselves.

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And since then, every football season, that community has gathered together to say: “No. This is ours, not yours. You can’t have it.”

The first season in the Combined Counties was a success. The season we got promoted to the Football League was a success.

The season where we were 20 minutes away from going back to the Conference was a success.

The season in which we beat the franchise and pushed Liverpool to the wall in the FA Cup and secured our place in the Football League with time to spare was a success.

Next season will also be a success.

Tomorrow we’ll meet one last time at Kingsmeadow as we try to beat Cheltenham Town and end the season on a high note.

Sometime in August, we’ll meet again.

In the intervening months, Neal will try to build a squad capable of challenging for promotion. And we’ll know whether our wait to go home is over.

This season was great. Next season will be better.

Until then.