Mark Robinson issues defiant message amid AFC Wimbledon struggles

AFC Wimbledon have fallen into the relegation places and now find themselves sitting in 21st place in the League One table – but Mark Robinson has told London News Online that he believes he is a capable manager and that ‘adversity’ has hampered their season.

The Dons have ample chance to escape the drop zone, with the side having a game in hand over Gillingham who are just above them in the table. If they win that game in hand, then it would push the Gills back into the drop zone.

Wimbledon though are not in the best league form, having not won a league game since way back in December. They’ve picked points up through draws but have recently lost to Cheltenham, Lincoln, Plymouth and Wigan whilst only scoring one goal in those four fixtures.

It’s not made for good viewing and regardless of whether the club manage to survive or not, the capabilities of Mark Robinson to lead the club forward as boss have been called into question.

However, with a game against Cambridge pencilled in for this weekend, the current Dons boss has told London News Online that he ‘doesn’t doubt’ his own abilities in terms of taking the club forward and leading them higher up the table.

If he can keep them up, then it would be seen as a success for Robinson – but there are those who feel the club shouldn’t be in this situation in the first place. The boss though has put this down to ‘adversity’ and claimed: “The form is not acceptable – you would be a fool not to realise that it isn’t.

“But when the squad was assembled at the start of the season, if someone had told me that we would have sold Ollie Palmer, we would have lost Aaron Pressley through injury, Will Nightingale and Ben Heneghan would be out for a number of games, and we would lose Alex