2004-05

	Apps	Goals
Izale McLeod	48	18
Wade Small	50	12
Allan Smart	22	6
Gareth Edds	44	5
Ben Harding	26	4
Dean Lewington	48	3
Clive Platt	20	3
Ben Chorley	47	2
Malvin Kamara	29	2
Nick Rizzo	20	2
Gary Smith	28	1
Alex Tapp	15	1
Jason Puncheon	31	1
Steve Palmer	37	1
Richard Pacquette	7	1
Serge Makofo	2	1
Michel Pensée	18	1

Date	Opponents			Result	Scorers	Att	Pos
Sat 7 Aug	Barnsley	H	FL1	1-1	McLeod	4,720	11
Tue 10 Aug	Port Vale	A	FL1	2-3	Harding (2)	4,602	16
Sun 15 Aug	Swindon Town	A	FL1	1-2	Smart	5,060	22
Sat 21 Aug	Bournemouth	H	FL1	1-3	Smart	3,230	22
Tue24 Aug	Peterborough United	A	FLC	3-0	McLeod, Smart, Kamara	2,886
Sat 28 Aug	Oldham Athletic	A	FL1	0-3		5,066	23
Mon 30 Aug	Torquay United	H	FL1	1-0	Puncheon	3,015	22
Sat 4 Sep	Chesterfield	A	FL1	2-2	McLeod, Small	4,537	22
Sat 11 Sep	Doncaster Rovers	H	FL1	0-1		4,334	22
Sat 18 Sep	Colchester United	A	FL1	1-0	McLeod	3,460	21
Tue 21 Sep	Cardiff City	H	FLC	1-4	McLeod	2,266
Sat 25 Sep	Hartlepool United	H	FL1	4-2	McLeod (2), Small, Smith	3,685	20
Sat 28 Sep	Brentford	A	JPT	3-0	Pacquette, Lewington, Small	1,679
Sat 2 Oct	Sheffield Wednesday	A	FL1	1-1	McLeod	20,245	20
8 Oct	Bradford City	H	FL1	1-2	McLeod	5,060	20
Sat 16 Oct	Brentford	H	FL1	0-0		5,924	19
Tue 20 Oct	Hull City	A	FL1	2-3	McLeod, Chorley	14,317	21
Sat 23 Oct	Huddersfield Town	A	FL1	1-3	Chorley	10,709	22
Sat 30 Oct	Walsall	H	FL1	1-1	Kamara	4,247	22
Tue 2 Nov	Bristol City	A	JPT	1-2	Makofo	3,367
Sat 6 Nov	Bristol City	A	FL1	1-4	Small	10,717	23
Sat 13 Nov	Lancaster City	H	FAC	1-0	Small	2,065
Sat 20 Nov	Luton Town	H	FL1	1-4	Small	7,620	23
Sat 27 Nov	Tranmere Rovers	A	FL1	0-2		8,402	23
Fri 3 Dec	Cambridge United	A	FAC	1-0	Smart	2,000
Tue 07 Dec	Peterborough United	H	FL1	1-1	Small	3,913	22
Sat 11 Dec	Wrexham	H	FL1	3-0	Rizzo, Small (2)	3,601	22
Sat 18 Dec	Stockport County	A	FL1	1-3	Tapp	3,902	22
Sun 26 Dec	Doncaster Rovers	A	FL1	0-3		6,153	23
Tue28 Dec	Blackpool	H	FL1	3-1	McLeod, Palmer, Smart	4,943	23
Sat 1 Jan	Chesterfield	H	FL1	1-1	Smart	4,214	21
Mon 3 Jan	Hartlepool United	A	FL1	0-5		5,060	22
Sat 8 Jan	Peterborough	H	FAC	0-2		4,407
Sat 15 Jan	Colchester United	H	FL1	2-0	Harding, Small	4,943	21
Sat 22 Jan	Blackpool	A	FL1	0-1		5,798	22
Sat 29 Jan	Sheffield Wednesday	H	FL1	2-2	Platt, McLeod	7,325	22
Sat 5 Feb	Brentford	A	FL1	0-1		5,077	23
Tue 8 Feb	Bradford City	A	FL1	4-1	Small, McLeod (2), Harding	6,409	21
Sat 12 Feb	Huddersfield Town	H	FL1	2-1	McLeod, Platt	4,793	21
Sat 19 Feb	Walsall	A	FL1	0-0		5,888	21
Tue 22 Feb	Hull City	H	FL1	1-1	Lewington	4,407	21
Sat 26 Feb	Wrexham	A	FL1	0-0		3,406	21
Sat 5 Mar	Stockport County	H	FL1	2-1	Lewington, Edds	4,793	20
Sat 12 Mar	Port Vale	H	FL1	1-1	Platt	4,676	20
Sat 19 Mar	Barnsley	A	FL1	1-1	Pensée	8,111	20
Fri 25 Mar	Swindon Town	H	FL1	1-1	Small	7,019	19
Mon 28 Mar	Bournemouth	A	FL1	1-0	Edds	7,064	20
Sat 2 Apr	Oldham Athletic	H	FL1	1-1	Edds	5,426	20
Sat 9 Apr	Torquay United	A	FL1	0-1		3,509	20
Sat 16 Apr	Luton Town	A	FL1	0-1		9,000	20
Sat 23 Apr	Bristol City	H	FL1	1-2	McLeod	5,656	21
Sat 30 Apr	Peterborough United	A	FL1	3-0	Rizzo, McLeod (2)	3,742	21
Sat 07 May	Tranmere Rovers	H	FL1	2-1	Edds (2)	7,359	20

		Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
P	Luton Town	46	29	11	6	87	48	39	98
P	Hull City	46	26	8	12	80	53	27	86
3	Tranmere Rovers	46	22	13	11	73	55	18	79
4	Brentford	46	22	9	15	57	60	−3	75
P	Sheffield Wed	46	19	15	12	77	59	18	72
6	Hartlepool United	46	21	8	17	76	66	10	71
7	Bristol City	46	18	16	12	74	57	17	70
8	Bournemouth	46	20	10	16	77	64	13	70
9	Huddersfield Town	46	20	10	16	74	65	9	70
10	Doncaster Rovers	46	16	18	12	65	60	5	66
11	Bradford City	46	17	14	15	64	62	2	65
12	Swindon Town	46	17	12	17	66	68	−2	63
13	Barnsley	46	14	19	13	69	64	5	61
14	Walsall	46	16	12	18	65	69	−4	60
15	Colchester United	46	14	17	15	60	50	10	59
16	Blackpool	46	15	12	19	54	59	−5	57
17	Chesterfield	46	14	15	17	55	62	−7	57
18	Port Vale	46	17	5	24	49	59	−10	56
19	Oldham Athletic	46	14	10	22	60	73	−13	52
20	MK Dons	46	12	15	19	54	67	−13	51
R	Torquay United	46	12	15	19	55	79	−24	51
R	Wrexham	46	13	14	19	62	80	−18	43*
R	Peterborough Utd	46	9	12	25	49	73	−24	39
R	Stockport Cty	46	6	8	32	48	98	−50	26

Date	Name	From	Fee
01 July 2004	Gareth Edds	Bradford City	Free transfer
01 July 2004	Laurent Hervé	AS Beauvais
07 July 2004	Steve Palmer	Free agent
13 July 2004	Allan Smart	Free agent
31 July 2004	Izale McLeod	Derby County	Undisclosed
06 August 2004	Paul Rachubka	Charlton Athletic	Loan to 06/09/2004
24 September 2004	Richard Pacquette	Free agent	Free transfer
26 October 2004	Richard Johnson	Queens Park Rangers	Loan to 26/11/2004
19 November 2004	Nick Rizzo	Free agent
10 December 2004	Paul Mitchell	Wigan Athletic	Loan to 10/01/2005
17 December 2004	Matt Baker	Free agent
23 December 2004	Anthony Danze	Crystal Palace	Loan to 23/01/2005
01 January 2005	Michel Pensée	Free agent
12 January 2005	Clive Platt	Peterborough United	Undisclosed
24 March 2005	Craig Westcarr	Nottingham Forest	Loan to end of season
24 March 2005	Trent McClenahan	West Ham United	Loan to end of season

Date	Name	To	Fee
01 November 2004	Richard Pacquette	Released
03 March 2005	Mark Williams	Rushden and Diamonds	Loan

Back Row: Ben Harding, Julien Hornuss, Harry Ntimban-Zeh, David Martin, Nathan Koo-Boothe, Paul Rachubka, Dean Lewington, Malvin Kamara, Jason Puncheon.
Middle Row: Paul Heald (reserve coach), Shola Oyedele, Laurent Herve, Leon Crooks, Scott Bevan, Izale McLeod, Jamie Mackie, Gareth Edds, Tony Flynn (Physio)
Front Row: Steve Palmer (Player-Coach), Gary Smith, Allan Smart, Ben Chorley (Vice-Captain), Stuart Murdoch (Manager) Mark Williams (Captain), Wade Small, Alex Tapp, Jimmy Gilligan (Assistant Manager / First Team Coach)

Stuart Murdoch was born in Blackpool on 17 August 1950.
He worked with Glenn Roeder at Watford before moving to
Wimbledon in 1996 as goalkeeping coach and was appointed
as manager in June 2002 after a successful spell as caretaker,
replacing Terry Burton, who had criticised the club's owners
over the proposed move to Milton Keynes.
Murdoch led Wimbledon to tenth in the First Division in the
2002–03 season. After the move to Milton Keynes, the club
was relegated, finishing bottom of the First Division, suffering the longest run of defeats at this level. In the summer, the club was renamed Milton Keynes Dons. Murdoch was fired in November 2004, with the club in the relegation zone of League One.
Murdoch later worked in coaching roles at Bournemouth, Norwich City, Millwall, Southampton and Gillingham.
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Jimmy Gilligan was born in Hammersmith on 24 January 1964 and started his football career as an apprentice at Watford after joining the club at the age of 13. He went on to play for Grimsby Town, Swindon Town, Newport County (loan), Lincoln City, Cardiff City, Portsmouth and Swansea City before injury finished his league career.
He rejoined Watford as their youth coach in 1993, later becoming assistant academy director before leaving for Nottingham Forest with manager David Platt to become his reserve team manager.
He was appointed Technical Director at Wimbledon in February 2003 by Stuart Murdoch whom Gilligan had forged a friendship with from his coaching days at Watford.
With Wimbledon suffering financial difficulties and the move to Milton Keynes, Gilligan moved up the ranks at Milton Keynes Dons, becoming Assistant Manager to Murdoch. Following Murdoch's sacking in November 2004, Gilligan was placed in temporary charge until the appointment of Danny Wilson in December and left shortly afterwards.

Danny Wilson was born in Wigan on born 1 January 1960. He
started his playing career with hometown club Wigan Athletic
in the Northern Premier League, scoring once in eight
appearances before moving to Bury. He later played for
Chesterfield, Nottingham Forest, Scunthorpe United (loan),
Brighton & Hove Albion, Luton Town and Sheffield Wednesday
before joining Barnsley in 1993 as player-assistant manager
and later manager.
In the summer of 1998, Wilson returned to his old club
Sheffield Wednesday as manager but was sacked the following
March. June 2000, he was appointed manager of Division
Two Bristol City on a four-year contract. He left the club at the
end of the 2003–04 season after his contract was not renewed,
having failed to achieve promotion.
In December 2004, he took over from Jimmy Gilligan as the Dons manager. In his first season, he managed to save the club from relegation – they would have gone down had it not been for a 10-point penalty imposed on Wrexham who had gone into receivership but was not so lucky the next season and he was sacked on 10 May 2006.

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