Gleadless Owl

1 hour ago, Winco said:

We’re always recruiting pal 😄

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2 hours ago, HoylandOwl said:

Every club has its fair share of whoppers, but the problem is all ours are out in force at the moment on both sides of the 'divide' because that's what it's increasingly becoming. 

Funnily, I saw a twitter feed this morning which appeared on my timeline from a shitty nondescript football site, which asked which side's fans were the worst? 

Surprisingly!!!!?? The first post was from a Rotherham fan and he named us, then there were some blades mentioning us too... Then people started sniping back. 

I wish folks would just grow up. Leave the idiots without oxygen by NOT REPLYING TO THEM!

Twitter, Facebook etc is all the same. "I'm right and you're wrong" is all it amounts to. Don't think we're worse than anyone else, it's just more noticeable when it's our club. 

In what way do you think his tenure is ending any time soon? 

Only the 3rd test and it's already on a par with 2005 for drama. Still enjoyable to watch even though our chances of getting anything out of the series are slim. I always think modern players in any sport have it a little bit easier and get a bit more attention than any of their predecessors ever had. But fuck me Stokes has got to be up there with the all time greats 

Cost me £485 to renew in the North in the first window. Bearing in mind that could still have been in League One I thought it was a decent price. Seeing how the same ticket has gone up to over £700 doesn't seem right to me. A lot genuinely won't be able to afford to go more than 2 or 3 times a season.  

As has been mentioned though, train tickets, hotels, a full weekend in London etc came easy enough for Wembley for the part timers. A lot of those will be the ones shouting loudest on social media 

Bruce and Pulis managed at a higher level, so why wouldn't they be paid more?

On 17/06/2023 at 08:51, HoylandOwl said:

Barca (H)

They've had some class kits over the years, that's one of their worst 

2 hours ago, Tank_Owl2,0 said:

Back to the manager situation - very hypothetical question, but would you rather have  10/10 coach with a 6/10 squad or vice versa.

I think we had a 6/10 manager this season and his players won him most of the games despite his tactics. I'll give him massive credit for how he prepared them for the 2nd leg against Peterborough and made them believe it was possible 

3 hours ago, Tylluan said:

Neal Ardley has walked away from Solihull Moors. 

 

Following in Hockaday's footsteps to Leeds hopefully 

1 hour ago, Winco said:

Didn’t think guns and roses was your century pal.

They look and sound shite 

4 hours ago, Billysboy said:

Strange really, Palmer, Hirst and Waddle are probably my 3 favourite players in my time watching but as people I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.

Not sure what Waddle's done to annoy you, but having Palmer above Sheridan in your top 3 makes you a bit of a clown any way 

7 minutes ago, 80s Owl said:

He seems to make the managerial role less and less of an attractive proposition each year.

There will always be managers who back themselves to produce some sort of success at clubs like ours irrespective of who the owner is. Whether it's someone the fans want is a different matter (or if they are an improvement on Moore). Most modern coaches at the younger end wouldn't be put off by a committee bringing players in 

Not a fan of the early declaration as I don't see what we've gained. Would rather have an extra 30 or 40 runs for them to chase as I think it's a series that will come down to fine margins. Not really the conditions for our bowlers at the moment so would have liked to have see us pile a few more runs on.

However, I've spent a lifetime watching football and cricket on the whole with safety first managers so it's refreshing to see us go for it and stick two fingers up at the opposition

Came across well on Undr The Cosh. Generally players like him who've had to work their way through the lower leagues appreciate their careers more. Don't mind a bit of timewasting and shithousery either. Something we seem to have spent years complaining about other teams/players doing and rarely done ourselves 

Delighted for the likes of Palmer and Dawson. I don't think they're good enough for the Championship (hope they'll prove me wrong), but as Wednesday fans it doesn't get any better for them 

2 hours ago, HappyOwl said:

Just some over hyped nob who said we aren’t singing enough and asked where we’d been all season even when I showed him my season ticket wanted to have a pop. I offered mi hand and said WAWAW he wouldn’t take it told me to fuck off his mates were all apologetic but then proceeded to stare at mi wife all through second half. But guess what windass scores and were all best mates fuckin prick 

Wasn't some bald twat with his shirt off by any chance was it?

There's no disputing we've got a large number of fans who are only interested for the big games and anyone who tried returning tickets for Derby or the 2nd leg is an embarrassment. But if Everton, Leeds, Newcastle, Villa to name a few had been in the third tier three times in 20+ seasons and won fuck all in that time I don't think their average attendances would better ours 

Got mine this morning. Missed out on 2005 and 2016 so chuffed with that

San Francisco about 4 or 5 years ago. Buying tickets for Alcatraz and had to give my address. Lad was only in his 20s and he said "Sheffield, Sheffield Wednesday! They are my English team" 

Zante in 2004 first pub I went in was called The Red Lion. Run by a family of pigs and he hated our group. Proper miserable fucker. Didn't appreciate multiple renditions of Hark Now Hear The Wednesday sing after 10 pints for some reason 

Funny thing is I don't think we actually played that well from a footballing perspective. It was just a proper old fashioned putting them under pressure and bombarding them job and they wilted. Sort of thing we haven't done enough over the last 20 years 

Been critical of DM this season, but he deserves massive credit tonight. Had our wing backs high up forcing their full backs back and Palmer in centre mid was the legs we've been missing. Thought we would be knackered after 65 mins, but still found something after conceding in extra time. Can't think of a game I've been to at Hillsborough that comes anywhere near that, especially after how fucked off I was on Friday night 

1 hour ago, Chelters said:

All fair, but it also means we’ve done as much as any team would expect to do and just fallen short. Disappointing but no justification for the way some fans have abandoned the team recently. 

The run of games after Barnsley couldn't have been any better, so I think the fans are right to be pissed off with the manager or players at how automatic promotion has been thrown away

Should've gone at the end of last season. When we beat Plymouth thought he was going to prove me wrong this season. His insistence on 3-5-2 when we haven't got the players at the moment is killing us. Even the Burton lot on ifollow knew he had no plan b. 

2 hours ago, Owling_Wolf said:

4th time, Shirley?   Promoted under Big Jack, Luggy, Meggo / Dave Jones & back here again now. 

3rd time for me I should've said. I started going in 1986 

8 hours ago, Mark said:

 

Warnock would have come in 6 matches ago and probably have got us promoted. But I wouldn't be there to see it. I'd rather stay in League 1.

 

Can't stand Warnock, but rather stay in L1? 3rd time we've been in this division and it gets shitter every time. I'd have Warnock manager, Tony Currie doing the half time borefest and Sean Bean pom pom dancing in front of the kop if it meant we never had to play in this shithole of a division ever again