[Albion] Massive fan in peace

[Peter Grummit]

Great post and i agree entirely. Absolutley right about the looking down the noses stuff but its just petty jealousy really.

A big (not MASSIVE - 99% of us know that) club who have had nearly 2 decades of failure on and off the pitch who console ourselves with our better history and feel aggrieved that we turn up in our masses to watch crap football (granted previous 2 seasons much better) yet still languish in the second or third tier. Seeing every other small mill town of the north making the premier league is a bitter pill to swallow!

Tbf, a lot of fans on Owlstalk also gave us a lot of credit when we beat you at H. - Dunk in particular getting rave reviews.

Lol. I have just spent a weekend in Huddersfield and the contrast with Leeds and to a lesser extent Wednesday could not be greater. Everyone friendly, in a no-nonsense way, superb support concentrating on the positive rather than slagging others off. Despite getting dicked, was a top weekend.

PG

 

[Pavilionaire]

I can't believe Wednesday aren't in the Prem, and maybe if Gary Hooper had shoved a few Hull defenders in the back they would be.

 

[Easy 10]

It doesn't take much to set a club on a slide that way though - a relegation to Lg1 with an expensive squad, plus owners / Chief Execs who don't give a shit and then want their money back can easily lead to a spiral of decline.

There is if the egotistical chairman gets bored with owning a football club and decides to cut his losses and start asset stripping. Do you really think that this ex Charlton bird has been brought in to implement popular decisions?

Would give her one though.

I'm not saying there isn't the potential for a rough ride there. But at the time of our Fans Utd we were anchored to the bottom of the 4th division, our ground had been sold from under us, we had nowhere to play the next season and frankly didn't even know whether we would even have a club by then anyway.

Chansiri and this Meire bint would really have to go some to get SWFC to that point from where they are now.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

The recruitment structure at the time certainly didn't help, but my god, Hyypia didn't help himself either. Tactics that seemed to involve our fullbacks being parked no further back than the halfway line, leaving the freedom of the park to gleeful opponents as our CB's desperately tried to patrol the alarmingly wide-open spaces around them. An insistence, week in week out, on maintaining our Axis of Feeble, JFC and Gardner in the middle of the park. Post-match interviews so monotone and morose after the latest defeat, it led to reports of some fans self-harming on their way home from games. Added to the fact he generally carried himself with all the energy and charisma of an elderly badger cripplingly afflicted with the latter stages of bovine tuberculosis.

He may not have had the advantages afforded Sir Chris. But nothing he has done since leaving us would lead me to believe we passed up a gem there.

I agree he may never have been a gem but i do feel it wasn't all down to him, he was hardly given the tools for the job in hand.

Sammi was mono-toned i agree, but probably only one octave between him and Chris!

 

[Hampster Gull]

Shef Utd are a bigger club anyway

 

[Lush]

Come on, they're hardly about to lose their ground or go out of business. There'll be more years of underachievement (quite standard by now) and maybe even another dip into the 3rd tier, but lets keep things in perspective. Their very existence is not under threat.

Exactly. And we can't all be winners

 

[LlcoolJ]

Can't see the ground getting sold from under them. That area is a right dump, who'd want to buy it.

 

[Easy 10]

Exactly. And we can't all be winners

Indeedy. We can't all appear on the main front sports page of the BBC website either

 

[Easy 10]

Can't see the ground getting sold from under them. That area is a right dump, who'd want to buy it.

Someone who wanted to level it and build an Ikea ?

Anyway, its probably a listed building. Or something. They'll be fine.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Someone who wanted to level it and build an Ikea ?

Anyway, its probably a listed building. Or something. They'll be fine.

Luckily, Sheffield has already got an Ikea.

Wednesday did some improvements just this summer, so the ground is fine, although the river Don could flood again.

 

[theboybilly]

Thought Leon Worst came in on loan after Hughton arrived (he'd played for him before, hadn't he?)

He did indeed. Rotherham away was one of those games, where at the time, we needed three points as we were in a real pickle. Leon Best just went through the motions and we lost 1-0 with not much more than a whimper

 

[dazzer6666]

He did indeed. Rotherham away was one of those games, where at the time, we needed three points as we were in a real pickle. Leon Best just went through the motions and we lost 1-0 with not much more than a whimper

That was an horrendous game

 

[LlcoolJ]

Someone who wanted to level it and build an Ikea ?

Anyway, its probably a listed building. Or something. They'll be fine.

We've just got an Ikea near Meadowhall. There's a retail park just up the road from the ground and three big supermarkets nearby. The only option I can think of would be housing but see above.....

Seriously, yes they will be fine in the long run but to say the natives are restless would be a MASSIVE understatement. I know quite a few really sound Wednesday fans and they are suffering, particularly because of how United are doing but also because their season is in danger of turning from being "a bit shit" into "a total and utter disaster".

However, I also know plenty of entitled dicks who were lauding it when Chansiri took over and were convinced they would be walking the Championship within a season or two (and who would ignore me when I said it wasn't that simple). These are generally the same fans who hadn't got a clue about FFP when I mentioned the salaries of Fletcher, Hooper etc and that was before the Rhodes deal. They shrugged it off saying that Chansiri was loaded so it didn't matter how much they spent............. Oh dear.

The CEO appointment seems baffling but the chairman appears to have been on the verge of chucking his toys out of the pram for quite a while now after various schemes to screw more cash out of the fans failed miserably. Can't help but think that she's been employed as a buffer for him to make some really unpopular decisions, seeing as that's the only thing she seems qualified to do.

I would be very concerned if I was a Wednesday supporter.

 

[nicko31]

I honestly cannot believe how little other fans care about who runs their club.

We are so bloody lucky.

Yes we are so lucky, the envy of many clubs

Many fans don't care as long as long as the owner has deep pockets and the team are doing well

 

[LlcoolJ]

Luckily, Sheffield has already got an Ikea.

Wednesday did some improvements just this summer, so the ground is fine, although the river Don could flood again.

Fans I've spoken to reckon they would still need to spend at least £20m on improvements if they ever actually got promoted. A lot of it is still a total dump.

 

[Biscuit]

Yes we are so lucky, the envy of many clubs

Many fans don't care as long as long as the owner has deep pockets and the team are doing well

I guess a lot don't have our history, and haven't learnt the lessons of the past after seeing what's happened to many clubs with dodgy owners.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Would give her one though.

I think we need another POLL.

(Y)

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Fans I've spoken to reckon they would still need to spend at least £20m on improvements if they ever actually got promoted. A lot of it is still a total dump.

We had to spend £5M on upgrades to our modern stadium to meet Prem requirements.

 

[Brian Munich]

We had to spend £5M on upgrades to our modern stadium to meet Prem requirements.

Would you have sex with the Charlton/Wednesday CEO though?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Would you have sex with the Charlton/Wednesday CEO though?

No, I'm straight and married.