AFC Wimbledon 3-0 Cambridge United

In his programme notes, chief executive Erik Samuelson discussed the surge in scouts.

The problem, he explained, was down to accommodation. Too many spies, not enough seats. If you want to come in, it's standing room only.

Samuelson may need to start misplacing some of the fax requests when they land at the Kingsmeadow offices.

For Wimbledon at home are as unplayable as they are stylish. Yes, they take some time to get up and running. But once that wall is eventually knocked down, prepare to collapse with it.

The maths for this one were pretty simple. With the Dons so good on their own patch and Cambridge horrific on their travels, a home victory was a big possibility.

And, like Crawley last week, it was another second half show that did it. Two goals from half-time substitute Fraser Franks and another from Chris Jolley were indebted to Danny Kedwell's endeavours. The Tempest End again their friend, no chance for travel sick Cambridge this evening.

Manager Terry Brown was thrilled with a fifth home win from six attempts. But like his CEO, fears his players' performances won't go unnoticed.

“The transfer window doesn't mean too much when big clubs come calling I'm afraid, look at Chris Hussey last season,” he stressed.

“But we need to try and keep players here. If this young team are going to make the play-offs, then we need to keep everyone together.

“Kidderminster after Crawley was a major disappointment to us. We are very proud of our home record this year and we wanted to keep that going so to win in this manner, I'm chuffed.

“It was important we bounced back and once we got our noses in front tonight there seemed to be no stopping us. We took a long time to get going in the second half after a good first 45 minutes but what a difference having some width back makes to our team.”

Wimbledon went ahead after 69 minutes when Franks, the half-time replacement for the injured Ismail Yakubu, nodded home Kedwell's flick on after Sam Hatton's corner.

The shackles were off. Ryan Jackson's cross from the right was put back into the danger-zone by workhorse Kedwell and Jolley applied the close range finish. Franks iced the cake with a striker-like third.

Cambridge manager Martin Ling said: “On paper I do not think Wimbledon are better than us in any position but tonight they performed superbly as a team and we didn't.

“We made schoolboy errors. We talked about set plays at half-time but we've switched off so many times and you can't afford that attitude here. We are nearly men.”