Championship Season 25-26

[rigger]

I bet Sheff Wed can't wait for December to come round.

[JHRover]

Impressive boycott at Hillsborough tonight. The place is empty save for the Boro contingent.

[DE.]

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

Impressive boycott at Hillsborough tonight. The place is empty save for the Boro contingent.

You either fill the ground and make it extremely difficult for the ownership week-in week-out with banners, chants, game interruptions, etc (will never happen with our fans - get behind the lads ffs, etc) or mass boycott (will also never happen for the same reason as the first suggestion). There isn't really an in-between that will get any attention.

Not that I think Venky's would care either way, and that's the biggest problem. Protests are only effective if it makes the owner(s) squirm. They just ignore it all as it's far away and has zero impact on anything they actually care about. It's tough to know what to do, but your typical crowd protests at the match aren't going to get their attention. 

[Mattyblue]

Yep, by now we should have all long realised that Ewood on a matchday is irrelevant as the will just isn’t there.

The only ‘squirming’ they’ve done in years was last season on the back of Glen et al’s social media/traditional media campaign - stick with that as it did get traction.  

[G Somerset Rover]

You’ll certainly get Pasha squirming if that ramps up again. Start another real campaign against him again, make his life and ‘job’ at Ewood a misery and see what happens. If we could somehow edge out their chief lieutenant the dominos could fall.

Would seem out best bet IMO.

Edited Thursday at 08:14 by G Somerset Rover

[Silas]

Shane Duffy doing Shane Duffy things:

https://www.balls.ie/football/shane-duffy-norwich-city-fan-642715

 

In the interest of balance, he did come out with a full apology after.

Regardless, there's only one knob, and it's the professional footballer getting into twitter spats with fans at the age of 33. 

[Mattyblue]

Calling people ‘gimps’ at 33.

 

[wilsdenrover]

Not knowing the difference between you’re and your at 33.

[DE.]

Love how the "apology" was blatantly written by somebody who has basic literacy skills as opposed to Duffy. Assume the club had a word with him and provided that statement for him to post. 

[Upside Down]

17 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Calling people ‘gimps’ at 33.

 

What a gimp.

[Bronzed A Donis]

Filing for Admin at Sheffield Wednesday.

Like many football clubs, it has been trading at a significant loss for many years, with those losses historically funded by the owner. Mr Chansiri is no longer willing to provide that financial support.

"While the recent fan boycott has not directly caused the insolvency, it has increased financial pressure on the club. As a result, the owner has chosen to place the club into administration.

[Penwortham Blue]

Preston doing what we haven’t been able to do for many a year, coming back from 0 2 to lead Sheffield 3 2. Has there ever been a worse time to support our team 😞

[47er]

Shef Wed in administration. Deducted 12 points.

[Upside Down]

11 hours ago, 47er said:

Shef Wed in administration. Deducted 12 points.

Seriously wish that was us.

[KentExile]

2 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Seriously wish that was us.

Yep, they are now in recovery, we are still on the way down

[Tom]

Coventry have a rocket strapped to them, 2-0 within 10 minutes 

[StHelensRover]

Sammie off again at Ipswich with a knee injury. He's not had a lot of luck since he left Ewood, shame to see.

[Mercer]

34 minutes ago, Tom said:

Coventry have a rocket strapped to them, 2-0 within 10 minutes 

Confidence and momentum everything in this league.

Coventry will take some stopping.

Lampard has done a terrific job.

[cesus]

17 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

Sammie off again at Ipswich with a knee injury. He's not had a lot of luck since he left Ewood, shame to see.

I think the season he saved us did some real damage to him. He played many games with injections towards the end of that season. 

[DE.]

A lot of managers who you'd think will likely already be very concerned, despite it being quite early in the season.

Marti Cifuentes is seeing things go from average to outright poor at Leicester. They have us next so will likely get some reprieve, but it's been a rough start for a team expected to go straight back up. 

Javi Gracia has lost two of his first three matches, so he'll soon be given the chop at Watford, one imagines. I only partially kid.

Birmingham's owners may have expected a better start, considering the money spent there. Really inconsistent form for them so far. It remains to be seen how much time Brady and co are willing to give before deciding to change things. It's possible they'll have learned from their first season the dangers of being trigger-happy. 

Wrexham kind of similar to Brum, but I get the feeling they'll have patience with Parkinson for now. I don't think there's quite the same level of expectation there, owing to Wrexham's smaller overall stature. I assume consolidation would be enough for them, this season at least.  

Will Still has had an awful start at Southampton, and without much history in his CV to point to, he might be vulnerable to a swift sacking. 

If a team had finished 7th the season before and was now struggling at the wrong end of the table you'd assume their manager would have concerns over his job. Not at Rovers though, so not even going to bother including Ismael.

Wilder will obviously be given time at Sheff Utd but it hasn't exactly been the start he'd have wanted. Probably the most concerning thing there is that they still can't at least save a point, even if they're unable to win. It's three points or nothing.

Liam Manning - surely must be under pressure? That Norwich team should not be 23rd. I read recently that the players are still "very happy" with Manning and "really enjoying" things. I am not sure that's what I would want to hear as a Norwich fan right now. 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by DE.

[sharpysharps86]

7 minutes ago, DE. said:

A lot of managers who you'd think will likely already be very concerned, despite it being quite early in the season.

Marti Cifuentes is seeing things go from average to outright poor at Leicester. They have us next so will likely get some reprieve, but it's been a rough start for a team expected to go straight back up. 

Javi Gracia has lost two of his first three matches, so he'll soon be given the chop at Watford, one imagines. I only partially kid.

Birmingham's owners may have expected a better start, considering the money spent there. Really inconsistent form for them so far. It remains to be seen how much time Brady and co are willing to give before deciding to change things. It's possible they'll have learned from their first season the dangers of being trigger-happy. 

Wrexham kind of similar to Brum, but I get the feeling they'll have patience with Parkinson for now. I don't think there's quite the same level of expectation there, owing to Wrexham's smaller overall stature. I assume consolidation would be enough for them, this season at least.  

Will Still has had an awful start at Southampton, and without much history in his CV to point to, he might be vulnerable to a swift sacking. 

If a team had finished 7th the season before and was now struggling at the wrong end of the table you'd assume their manager would have concerns over his job. Not at Rovers though, so not even going to bother including Ismael.

Wilder will obviously be given time at Sheff Utd but it hasn't exactly been the start he'd have wanted. Probably the most concerning thing there is that they still can't at least save a point, even if they're unable to win. It's three points or nothing.

Liam Manning - surely must be under pressure? That Norwich team should not be 23rd. I read recently that the players are still "very happy" with Manning and "really enjoying" things. I am not sure that's what I would want to hear as a Norwich fan right now. 

 

It would not be a surprise at all if Manning and Still both lost their jobs this week.

I suspect a Championship job came too soon for Still. Certainly Southampton as well given their record for the last 12 months, it's very hard to turn a ship like that around.

As for Ismael...well regardless of yesterday's win I still think he is out of his depth.

[Tom]

Is Will Still the lad that got his break from being good at data and championship manager or something like that?

[B16Rover]

Just now, Tom said:

Is Will Still the lad that got his break from being good at data and championship manager or something like that?

I think he joined a french team (Reims maybe) as assistant then caretaker without having the qualifications.  They didn't lose for about 10 on the bounce so they kept paying the fine.  He's joked about playing football manager growing up but unsure if he is that 'data-y' - he might just be ginger without being a nerd 

[KentExile]

5 minutes ago, Tom said:

Is Will Still the lad that got his break from being good at data and championship manager or something like that?

yes, that is the story, but that story is a little exaggerated

The below is a closer to reality, from his wiki

Still has stated that playing the Football Manager and Championship Manager video game series helped him to decide to switch focus from playing at the age of 17, and move to England to start studying to become a coach at Myerscough College in Preston

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[B16Rover]

To me the much more interesting football manager trivia is that we are Antoine Griezmann's favourite football manager team.  Wonder if he fancies a loan in Jan!