New Order tickets booked for Halifax Peace hall in September, as long of Covid stays away!

Sorry LD, but you don't score almost 30 goals in the championship with low footballing intelligence, whatever that means. Is he as good as Josh King? Josh King robbed a living here, refused to play, but made a decent fist of it at Bournemouth when he took his head out from up his own backside, pace and an eye for goal. Be interesting to see how he progresses, I think he'll do ok, I just wish he'd sod off and allow us to crack on.

Sorry J*B but I don't agree with that at all. The game against Oxford, with all the cheap tickets flying around? It was a tremendous sight to see Ewood full, but that lot could have turned nasty very easily. Even for our mild mannered lot, it could have been a tough day for Balaji and king fu panda.

Balaji Roe has just been seen leaving Barcelona airport, no medallion, man boobs, no Centenary Attaché case and no shirt on his back. A fool and his money are soon parted...... Messi to City anyone?

The former England manager who arranged it was bent, brown envelopes everywhere, bungs and would only buy players where he personally benefited from future sales and they belonged to 1 agency, otherwise he wouldn’t deal with them. Not much different to today really, but the club was in the Premiership, so hardly anyone gave a toss.

Balaji Roe seen arriving at Barcelona airport 30 minutes ago, medallion, man boobs and Centenary Attaché case. Watch this space.

Oh Jimmy Jimmy........

I don’t think he does need replacing bluebruce, we go with what we’ve got. The defence is where we need to strengthen, if a decent manager walked in the door tomorrow he’d be after defenders, that’s where you start and manager after manager has failed to fill those gaps. Big Ben and/or Gallagher play upfront for me, we strengthen from back to front. 28 goals last season and we finished nowhere, that tells it’s own story.

Why on earth are why trying to get another striker in to replace Armstrong? We are crying out for quality in the centre of defence, we've been crying out for quality in that area for 10yrs, how about a hard tackling quality midfielder in exchange, anywhere but up front surely. This obsession with strikers when we leak goals like a sieve.......

Don't forget the owners are just badly advised, eventually they'll get it right (Head, desk, BANG)

The new regime has only just been appointed Jim, but you're quite right, batting has been poor for a while now, something needs to change.

I’ve never known it for the first game tomphil I’ll give you that.

Whilst you 'Don't think so'...... I had club away travel cancelled due to lack of interest many times, so have others that post on this site, but don't let that stop you posting nonsense.

Thats always happened, even when Paul Astley was running the away travel.

Lambert had a decent record, plenty of experience, sold a pack of lies by the owners and left. Mowbray has a Premiership promotion under his belt and plenty of experience. We have nobody at the club who couldn't appoint and decent manager Rev, they rely of 3rd party agents who only appoint from the pool of shite they have on the books, sack, line pockets then repeat....

Realism, realism, realism You can count on one hand the number of clubs that have actually done that in the past 10yrs, I bet none of them had bonkers owners either. We can have ambitions as fans, but the clubs a basket case from top to bottom, anyone who thinks the club post 2011 will get anywhere near the Premiership isn't being realistic. Nothing improves until the owners leave, 7 failed managers proves that, how many more before people wake up to the real issue.

Mate of mine drove to Blackburn on Saturday (60 miles round trip) to buy the new kit for his 4 kids, the club shop was shut, on a Saturday having just released a new kit? He told me the opening days, as advertised on the door, are Mon, Tues, Weds and Friday....... He should have checked first, but make of that what you will.

Glorified salesmen tomphil and a blight on the sport, allowed to operate with impunity for the most part. Footballing governing bodies have a lot to answer for, but whilst they're in the VIP section at Wembley, complements of the middlemen, fans of clubs like ours and Sheff Weds worry about the future and indeed if we have a future at all.

I thought it could well be ‘Mushy’ but I wasn’t sure. Hope you and the family are well pal.

Thats one positive thing he did say Sparks, you're right.

I was talking to a Sheff Wednesday season ticket holder yesterday who had been trying to buy Weds v Udders tickets online for almost a week without success, apparently the system has been offline due to them not paying the bill and when someone did pay the bill the system crashed, thousands queueing outside the club shop yesterday as a result. He was also telling me how many of the players hadn't been paid for 4 months, the club came very close to not playing this season as the majority of players were out of contract, the club was in breach of contract due to not having paid wages, it was an absolute shambles. Last season Wednesday were originally deducted 12 points after breaching rules surrounding the sale of Hillsborough to the owner, it was reduced to 6, but they still went down to division 2. The date of the sale was the problem here, they were found to have breached the EFL’s profitability and sustainability regulations for the three year accounting period up to 2017-18 as a result, the owner couldn't even get that right, the fans suffer. Last season they had three different permanent bosses (Monk, Pulis and Moore), one long-term caretaker (Neil Thompson) and two emergency stand-ins (Andy Holdsworth and Jamie Smith) due to Covid issues. Sheffield Wednesday made an operating loss of £24 million and paid £2.5 million to rent Hillsborough, the latest set of accounts for the 2019-20 season reveal. The club still hasn't refunded season ticket money promised to fans from last season either, but they have sold 13,000 tickets for the new season which is a good effort considering the above. The common denominator, useless foreign ownership, its a blight on football across the globe and it needs putting a stop to or great clubs like Sheffield Wednesday and Blackburn Rovers will cease to exist. Ps - Some good news, they got Wednesday home shirts delivered a month or so before we did, the bad news, many have been taken back due to stitching coming away. When it rains it pours.....

Mowbray talked about trying 2 different formations in each half and getting recovering players on the pitch, makes complete sense to me. Lets hope he starts as he means to go on

Thanks chaddy, much appreciated.

Just finished watching The Staircase, went on a bit, but compelling. In 13 episodes I never saw Michael get angry once, but 2 staircases and 2 murders……. Great Tv, but not as good as The Jinx. Thanks for the recommendation. Watched ‘The Widower’ recently, another bonkers US crime must!

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