Championship Season 25-26

[KentExile]

44 minutes ago, arbitro said:

I heard on the radio travelling back from West Brom that Sousa has also gone. I completely missed that one.

He was one of the top three Championship midfielders for me.

Wouldn't surprise me if they lose Hamer before the window shuts too.  Some very big shoes to fill in that squad

[arbitro]

15 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Wouldn't surprise me if they lose Hamer before the window shuts too.  Some very big shoes to fill in that squad

We said similar yesterday. O'Hare could be another to leave.

Sheffield United still have parachute payments coming in which makes selling so many players whilst not spending much seems odd.

[KentExile]

11 minutes ago, arbitro said:

We said similar yesterday. O'Hare could be another to leave.

Sheffield United still have parachute payments coming in which makes selling so many players whilst not spending much seems odd.

I think the case with Hamer, Souza & Ahmedhodzic is that they are all much better than Championship level, so whilst they may be prepared to give igt 1 year to get promoted, they were always likely to be off if that didn't happen.

Personally see O'Hare as being a little below their level, still very good for the Championship, bugt not quite as glaringly playing below his level as the 3 I mentioned above

The others they have lost were either loans (Gilchrist, Brereton, Souttar, Rak-Sakyi, Clarke, Holding) or players not from their first 11 (Moore, Brewster) if I recall rightly.  Still a huge turnover of players though

Edited 7 hours ago by KentExile

[Ossydave]

Fair play Sheff Weds, a well executed protest and getting the coverage on Sky, good support from Leicester fans too for it.

As an aside their first corner was better than we’ve mustered up for a while despite all their issues, better team here as well….

[JHRover]

I enjoyed watching the Sheff Wed supporter protest today. All but a very small number of the 3000+ at Leicester refused to take their seats until 5 minutes of the game had gone, leaving an almost empty away end at kick off. Good to see the Leicester fans in support of the protest and applauding the Wednesday fans as they arrived during the game. 

Sadly it seems people only equate 'fit and proper' to whether an owner pays the bills on time and assume all is fine and well here. 

[RevidgeBlue]

6 minutes ago, Ossydave said:

Fair play Sheff Weds, a well executed protest and getting the coverage on Sky, good support from Leicester fans too for it.

As an aside their first corner was better than we’ve mustered up for a while despite all their issues, better team here as well….

Probably wouldn't happen but it would be nice if we could have a game on Sky where our fans didn't come in until the 15th minute to symbolise Venky's 15 years of ownership.

[RevidgeBlue]

3 hours ago, arbitro said:

We said similar yesterday. O'Hare could be another to leave.

Sheffield United still have parachute payments coming in which makes selling so many players whilst not spending much seems odd.

For me Sheff U made a very strange choice of manager - at least Wilder has bags of experience won promotion previously and has been there done that and got the T shirt. In most seasons they'd have gone up automatically with their points tally. Not sure if the new man has ever achieved anything.

Reading a BBC article it seems part of the reason for Wilder's departure was his refusal to go all in on the current obsession with data led recruitment and new AI technology for same whereas the new guy made a point of making a point of how it needed to be embraced.

Worked well yesterday didn't it!

[RevidgeBlue]

Wednesday 1 up at Leicester and deservedly so.

[Ossydave]

12 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Probably wouldn't happen but it would be nice if we could have a game on Sky where our fans didn't come in until the 15th minute to symbolise Venky's 15 years of ownership.

Nope it made me think what sort of uptake there would be from our fans for the same and it wouldn't be as effective, although as much as I hate to say it, at this point their situation is a bit worse, for now. 

Imagine a joint protest when we play them and an empty ground, all piling in at the same agreed time, they'd probably postpone it.

[Mattyblue]

Wouldn’t work here, as the few hundred protesting wound he faced with…

‘Why they protesting? Totally wrong time when we are sitting {pick any position in the league from 1st to 24th}’

‘Pathetic, we’d be Bury or Morecambe without them’.

’Who else is going to put in 20 million a year?’

’We are punching above our weight anyway with our crap crowds’.

[wilsdenrover]

58 minutes ago, JHRover said:

I enjoyed watching the Sheff Wed supporter protest today. All but a very small number of the 3000+ at Leicester refused to take their seats until 5 minutes of the game had gone, leaving an almost empty away end at kick off. Good to see the Leicester fans in support of the protest and applauding the Wednesday fans as they arrived during the game. 

Sadly it seems people only equate 'fit and proper' to whether an owner pays the bills on time and assume all is fine and well here. 

We could do a leaving early version of that.

Perhaps the Riverside could lead the way. 😁

[simongarnerisgod]

10 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Wouldn’t work here, as the few hundred protesting wound he faced with…

‘Why they protesting? Totally wrong time when we are sitting {pick any position in the league from 1st to 24th}’

‘Pathetic, we’d be Bury or Morecambe without them’.

’Who else is going to put in 20 million a year?’

’We are punching above our weight anyway with our crap crowds’.

there are loads of brainwashed fans,the protests will only be effective if we start losing every week,even then it would be limited to a few hundred,it would only main momentum if it went completely **** up and we got relegated then struggled in league one,maybe that will happen,the state of the incomings this season may well hasten our departure from the championship,it`s a clear downgrade,no matter what the happy clappers say

[RevidgeBlue]

Leicester  v Sheff Wed game 1-1.

[Exiled_Rover]

20 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Wouldn’t work here, as the few hundred protesting wound he faced with…

‘Why they protesting? Totally wrong time when we are sitting {pick any position in the league from 1st to 24th}’

‘Pathetic, we’d be Bury or Morecambe without them’.

’Who else is going to put in 20 million a year?’

’We are punching above our weight anyway with our crap crowds’.

Unfortunately, by hook or by crook, they keep paying our bills and that's enough for many fans.

[RevidgeBlue]

Sheff Wed down to ten men on 76.

Barry Bannan (unluckily imo) given a second yellow for winning the ball first but catching his man with the follow through.

Probably the right decision to the letter of the law now.

[RevidgeBlue]

Leicester 2 Wednesday 1

At least we haven't got to make up 3 points on Wednesday already.

[Ossydave]

Probably fallen victim to their limited pre season here Sheff Weds, Leicester over running them now. Fair play to them though they've given it a good go.