Kiwi Owl

37 minutes ago, Gamblor said:

Leeds beating Middlesbrough 3-2 at HT, unless Boro win their season is done and only Coventry and Hull (who play in a couple of days) will be able to catch West Brom. 

4-2 at the moment and going 2nd

Probably a better result given that means Ipswich have to keep winning. Ipswich needing a win against Huddersfield is better for us in the event we fail to get anything against West Brom.

The goal difference could swing our way that day after seeing how they fell apart against Swansea

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/george-byers-sheffield-wednesday-blackburn-rovers-4599238

Discount Stoke and QPR from that list

Blackburn need one more point and they're all but safe. 50 points will easily be enough

Absolutely no way Huddersfield or Birmingham will win their last 2 games to get the 6 points required to trouble the 50 point teams. Especially with Huddersfields' goal difference

1 minute ago, mkowl said:

The point being if QPR and Stoke thought they were safe, maybe not. 

Next Saturday is a fucking tough game, West Brom looked good v Leicester and we have to play to the absolute top of our game.

They're safe

No way are Birmingham getting more than 3 points

Plymouth and Blackburn are the two sides that'll be looking over their shoulders now

And we will beat Sunderland. We won't lose that game

Fantastic!!!!!!!!

Out of the bottom 3

Bar their equaliser, defensively we were magnificent. 

Should have buried that there

Dreadful game of football so far

Two very poor teams playing. I cannot believe this is the same Blackburn Rovers side that put in a very good performance against us at Hillsborough earlier this season. 

Attacking play is non existant. Our defence is terrified of playing the ball forward. I think the Liam Palmer effort was the only attempt after they equalised.

That is a fantastic finish!!!!!

Better than Brunts at Leeds

Burnley have scored 37 goals so far this season

A quarter of those (approx) have come against one club

Surely that's honours board material

RIP Bricat

Enjoy having a few beers up there with CDLF 

1 hour ago, Tylluan said:

If we're in L1 then a Championship club will pick him up but if we're still in the Championship and he thinks he can get regular football at a lower end Prem or top end Championship club then he needs a reality check on why we were the only ones to offer him a contract this season and a one year at that 

Thought the one year was what he requested?

Only a 2 point deduction for buying players and then not bothering to pay monies owed for them

They've got off lightly 

Not much of a deterrent that. Were the panel Leicester City supporters? 

Coming back from 2 down against a side who should have been out of sight, will hopefully bring a bit of confidence going to the next match at home to Stoke. 

Special mention to Paterson who changed the game. Worked his socks off to help drag us a vital point. 

A goal from a set piece without Bannan taking it!

Honours board addition 

Kept Klopps Liverpool to only one goal in 45 minutes.

I'll never forget Dads words for this match. We went to this game with him and a school friend of his. Sat in the leppings lane end in the lower tier and were at the side Neville Southall was warming up.

Oh no, not Nev in goal his words were. Both adults then went on a memory trip of what a fantastic goalkeeper Neville Southall was and one of, if not, the best goalkeeper in the 80s. 

He didn't play that well, but neither did the Everton team. Even with Mike Walker in, they were struggling and looked a side low on confidence. 5-1 flattered them from memory. We should have scored a lot more

Remember one fan in that end telling Southall to give up and get his crutchets after we made it 2-0.

Also the 'Down with United' chants we sang at them. I was certain they would be relegated and couldn't believe it when they survived. Then I saw the Match of the Day highlights and Hans Segers' goalkeeping masterclass 

Doncaster got another win I see, beating Wrexham 1-0. The thought of being on that Welcome to Wrexham documentary next season is as bad as having to play in that Johnstones Paint Trophy again.

Seen Stockport and Mansfield are 1st and 2nd in that division. Not surprised at that, given both sides completely outplayed a "championship" team away this season. 

10 hours ago, Chezzi said:

Oh yeah he definitely made his mark in the world! If anyone has any photos with him, I'd love to see them and show them to the rest of my family. I only have one really old photo of Uncle Ricky, my mum, grandad, Amelia (Ricky's daughter) and my two brothers and me. 

Also, something that always confused me about him, he was always at Wednesday games but I always thought he was banned from attending. How does such a massive bloke manage to get into games he's banned from?! Haha I guess you can't keep a man away from his beloved team! 

My mum told me he was the one who coined the 'we're all Wednesday aren't we' motto and I saw it mentioned in an article in the paper too, so I can confirm that. He was 60 when he passed and I'm not sure at what age he got into SWFC, so I'd guess the motto has been around for 40 or so years, give or take.

I've enjoyed reading the stories about him, its so easy to picture him getting into all the shit you guys mention! My mum could definitely tell me a story or two, as could Uncle Andy (his brother). 

Again, thank you all for sharing the love.

WAWAW 🙂

Quite a few fans that were banned used to go to the host of where Wednesday were playing but never went to the match.

As an example, a chap called Paul used to come with us on some away journeys but never attended the game whilst his sons did. He just found a pub and stayed there for the duration of the game. We'd then catch up with him after the game before heading back to Sheffield. 

Ricky may have been like that. Happily sit in a pub near where Wednesday are playing and wait there till the game finished. Then head back with away fans to Yorkshire.

I assume we're also getting the blame for that Newcastle supporter spitting at the players when we took a 1-0 lead.

1 hour ago, Hirstys 12th Pint said:

As he is for someone showing a picture of a cancer stricken child, two Numpties gesturing to Kasey Palmer and Youths throwing their Fruit Shoot bottles at Meslier.

May as well add climate change, the Ukranian 'conflict' and Barbie missing out on an Oscar to his list to blame for.

Makes a change from blaming Conservative Brexit voters for everything

"But Mummy, but mummy, but mummy - I only threw a pool ball because I found it so nasty that those Leeds fans dared celebrate their victory at Hillsborough. Had they not celebrated their goals, it wouldn't have happened". 

Seriously, what the fuck goes in someones braincell to think throwing pool or snooker balls at opposition fans would be funny? 

I remember Paddy Kenny used to goad us a lot when he played for United. The Hillsborough crowd gave him grief and he gave it back. All good humoured banter

Same when Benik Afobe returned to Hillsborough with Wolves. He scored from the penalty and gave the crowd a bit of jip. He got the reaction he wanted. I remember he actually tweeted about it saying he enjoyed the to and fro with Wednesday fans after we beat them 4-1.

Part and parcel of the game. If fans cannot take it, well kindly fuck off and find something else to do. No justification for acting like little wankers over that mean player celebrating. 

I'm struggling to remember if this is the same Ricky or not

Derby County away when they beat us 1-0 under Brian Laws (90th minute winner). We were in a pub not far from their ground and a Ricky comes in saying there's an even better pub to go to in the city centre. We decide to follow him there as apparently a karaoke or something like that was about to happen.

Well it was a pretty crap pub to be fair and no karaoke so we walked out after one drink and headed back to where we were. Word got round that around 15 minutes after we left, Derbys' firm arrived in that pub and beat the crap out of him and a small minority of Wednesday fans that stayed. Quite glad we moved on

Think you cannot underestimate the impact the Huddersfield thrashing had on the team. Pretty certain there was words exchanged afterwards, which seemed to be taken the correct way.

2 hours ago, Tylluan said:

Pep gives him the freedom. Southgate, if he plays him, will set him up to be so rigid he might as well not be there. 

England need to persuade Pep to be the next manager if they want to see the best out of this current crop of players. 

Eddie Howe would do a decent job with the England team. 

Although Newcastle fans won't be happy about that.