mkowl

11 minutes ago, Otto_Man said:

Go on, I'll bite, if he's not the worst then who on earth is?

I mean even Peter Eustace was better

On 17/05/2024 at 15:27, Malcolm Darling said:

Mrs taking me and the dog up to Northumberland for some serious dog walking, real ale, cracking seafood with a curry or two chucked in

Not a bad spot

I still haven't been forgiven by MK Jr for refusing to drive to the game despite buying tickets.

I am still convinced that me turning up would somehow have lead to an early goal for Peterborough and a miserable damp squib 90 minutes for the other 30k of you. 

Totally zero logic but them football gods work in mysterious ways 

2 hours ago, Tewksbury said:

I've said all along that Xisco had to leave us. He failed. It's that simple.

However, I've followed Dun Streda since he joined them and he had a similar shaky start there, obviously not as bad as ours, but in roughly the same vein.

Since then he has turned the draws into wins and took them up to 2nd.

It's just interesting that he stuck to what he said he was going to do and pulled it off in the end. 

Did he need to go? Yes.

Do I want him back here? No.

Do I think he's the worst manager we've ever had? No.

Why is there such a combatative mentality on Wednesday's social media?

The bloke has got a new job and dine well, doing what he tried here. That's it.

Thought it was interesting.

Why is everyone reading so far into everything?

Think we offered too many contracts to flaky players, now I'm 1867?

It's getting daft now.

Can I give you some advice *, mix up your negative views with the odd positive comment, also drop an argument you ain't winning. Or play the long game 

Everyone else sees Xisco as a huge mistake and frankly don't want to be reminded about those 3 or 4 months, even less what he has done elsewhere.

* and that is from me as the resident Mr Misery 

24 minutes ago, Tewksbury said:

Xisco just finished second in the Nike Liga and qualified for the Conference League.

Took over when they were 6th, just having been beaten 5-1.

Funnily enough he did what he said he was going to do here, sorted out the defence first, making them hard to beat, a lot of boring 0-0s early on, looking questionable, then gradually picking up more wins and finishing strong winning the last 4.

Well apart from not sorting out our defence and being very capable of us getting 0 his plan worked marvellously 🫣

You presume Oxford will immediately be favourites for relegation, but not many will fancy a trip to the Kassam stadium.

Playing as a team works wonders for sure. 

There is always a balance between continuity and fresh faces. 

Let's not pretend that every new signing, even with the data due diligence undertaken these days will fit in. 

The retained players did perform OK, some will argue they produced play off level capabilities, I personally think it overstates a tad, but its about adding quality not quantity for me. And options because the one thing Rohl showed is the ability to go different styles as required

7 hours ago, Tewksbury said:

1. Bonuses are there for rewards, not contracts.

2. DR said that his release list will be based on the market and who he thinks he can get in to replace them.

3. Johnson is on there. DR has spent half the season trying ro replace him with a proper LB, why would we keep him?

4. This takes us to 16 squad places filled. We will use 5 for loans. That leaves only 4 spots for permanent long term players. As opposed to 8 players who will be over 30 at this time next season.

Not really going to rebuild the team in his own image with 4 players. Say we get Ugbo, Poveda and McGuire, that leaves 1 player, when we really need long term replacements at CM and LB on top of that at least.

Perhaps point 2 is pertinent, that they are not seeing vastly better options out there.

Within our budget and wage structure

Why the presumption that we will have 5 loan players leaving only 4 permanent spots ? 

Because you could have no loan players and 9 permanent players meaning very much Rohl could shape a side to his liking

Probably going in the basis a third of them will not accept the new terms, already have offers in place. 

So we'll see what arises 

Johnson is the interesting one given the rumours about attitude toward the end of the season, but its good Rohl sees beyond it. 

Good balance between continuity and potential new signings 

8 hours ago, fOWLmouth said:

Let’s hope they fuck up again.They’ve had six attempts and lost every one.

Get that all over social media, get the fuckers worried 

At least they are demanding he "runs it properly" rather than demanding he sells - even if it left us up shit creek without a funder.

Perhaps some of the comments on here have given some sort of reality check 

Owlsonline 1 Stalk 0

3 minutes ago, Hirstys 12th Pint said:

Basham, Baldock, Norwood, Foderingham and Lowe released by the Blades.

They will do well at Trumpton fire station 

1 hour ago, lyn_owl said:

Why not abolish offside altogether?

The unintended consequences of that though 

The game would descend to being like basketball or handball in about 6 months - Pep's master tactic of 80 yard balls to Haaland stood a yard in front of the keeper in their dynamic 5 0 5 formation 

7 minutes ago, Andyben said:

If offside becomes automated, like in UCL, then there's no need for VAR.

Each team will know the parameters for offside before first match of the season and it will be the same for every match so no stupid punditry.

I'm certain the current VAR policies  have been driven by Neville and Carragher etc who scrutinised every decision with all their technology and critised the refs and VAR teams

Doesn't really matter now as we've always been too shit for it to affect us.

Embarrassing 

Certainly true that Sky for years basically called for VAR as they highlighted the blatant errors and thought the TV camera would resolve it all. 

It doesn't because you are taking a 3D world being judged on a 2D screen. Offsides can depend on the camera angle, they say its calibrated, who knows.

So if the tech is automated it works. The question is whether you still want it for other decisions eg was a challenge a red card. Because the on field ref can easily get that wrong due to his position or lack of clear view. That is of benefit 

The problem is simply you are still putting humans in charge of the decision making - so it is still judgement calls half the time. The Anthony penalty call last night being the latest example. Did the VAR focus on Casemiro's challenge missing the rack down the achilles. 

The one absolute truth is that it loses the spontaneity of the moment in the stadium. Do the EPL care because it adds to the tension for the armchair fan.

53 minutes ago, Hirstys 12th Pint said:

The run up to the Tottenham v City game have been an embarrassment mainly from the media pushing the narrative constantly of Spurs fans wanting City to win.  For god sakes these teams will play each others rivals throughout the season - do they want their own team to lose against teams in and around their rivals all season.

Can totally understand Postecoglou being totally peed off as was constantly been questioned about it.   

The fact is and we know if the crowd is up for it eg v West Brom there is an energy transmitted to the players. At times they had an attack or a corner and many in the crowd barely reacted. 

The players are often mocked by the Spurs fans for lack of effort or a bit feeble, I would be throwing that back in their face. You have lost any argument who is the bigger side if you are more concerned with them losing than you winning 

And they will be griping about Levy saying they can't attract Champions League quality players but you basically gave up the fight  

3 minutes ago, BraddersTim said:

Disagree about Lee, there was nothing wrong with his injury record until Carlos ran him into the ground.

Well that was Carlos the **** for you 

6 hours ago, Owling_Wolf said:

One of the worst 'own goals' of my Wednesday supporting life, in my opinion, lead to the best football playing era - the early 1990s team - being ended unneccesarily early. Simply put, half of the promotion, L.C. winning, Europe, 4 x Wembley side needed replacing for reasons of advancing age, taking manager / coaching roles elsewhere, etc.  Unfortunately, Trev somehow managed to lose us virtually all of the then first team, not just the necessary ones.  Whilst he then brought in a couple of good players, this action ultimately lead to him losing his job and - later - us being on the slippery slope to losing our status.  Too many changes, too soon.   (Big hints of similar from Xisco too: tons of new, unfamiliar players brought in whilst all of the established players were destabilised at the same time by changing the type of football to an unfamiliar one. Needed the former, probably didn't need the latter at the same time. Baby / bathwater syndrome.)

So, to avoid that happening again now, whilst multiple players are released and others potentially sold or loaned out, multiple others are welcomed to the fold by whatever means, lets not make the same mistakes again.  Retain at least SOME of the older, reliable players as foundations to slot the newcomers around and amongst. Then, when the newbies are (hopefully) successful, they can become the foundations to slot more newcomers around whilst the 'old faithfulls' fade away or ride off into the sunset.  Evolution not revolution. With our current manager and his team of advisors deciding and judging the pace of change.

I accept the thinking, but there have probably equally been times that players have been retained and its backfired. The likes of Lee and Hutchinson in recent times, decent players but with appaling injury records and general lack of availability.

Notwithstanding the assertions that it can become a powerful clique that undermines the manager - possibly both those reasons were behind Francis decisions.

I never have strong views as to an individual player, if they leave so be it, if they choose not to join so be it. 

Good to see the manager calling the Spurs fans out on it. Don't get me wrong I hate the Blades with a passion, but if Wednesday winning somehow helped them I would take the Wednesday win everytime.

The 2 Spurs fans doing the Poznan should have been marched to that walkway on the roof and thrown off. To me it's evidence that you are accepting you are permanently in their shadow

Anyone else think the Spurs fans have been a disgrace. Support your own side FFS 

Very strange game so far 

2 hours ago, mkowl said:

Well that was shite

Well that was shite 

Well that was shite

26 minutes ago, Andyben said:

**** 

😃