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What's the closest you've come to losing interest in Wednesday?


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Looking through some old programmes last night I realised how few games I went to during the Shreeves and Yorath eras: I was attending just four or five games a season. Looking back, I can hardly remember a thing about many of our players during this time and only went to games if my dad asked me to go along with him. 

 

I was 15/16 at the time and my abiding memory of Wednesday during that period is one of overwhelming blandness; there seemed to be so many more exciting options for a teenager than sitting through the uninspired performances being served up at Hillsborough, or maybe I'd been spoiled to have first followed the club in the glory years of the early 90's and found the harsh realities of our postmillennial malaise a bit hard to swallow.

 

I still kept an eye out for our results, but my interest in the team reached an all-time low during that period, to the point where I didn't even know who we were playing some weekends. For most of my life either side of these few years, I've followed every match I can, either at the ground or at least on the radio.

 

Thankfully, supporting Wednesday is a way of life and I snapped back out of it in time for Paul Sturrock's brief but wonderful reign.

 

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So what's the closest you've come to losing interest in Wednesday? What caused it and what pulled you back in?

 

 

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Last season towards the end of the DJ tenure. We played away at Derby and lost 3-0 and it was the most inept performance I'd seen in an awful long time. If Derby had been on song they would have been into double figures we were that bad.

I was pulled back in though about 5 minutes later due to the approx. 5,000 following support singing at the top of their lungs.

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I've never came close to 'losing interest' completely.

 

But last season I was adamant that I wouldn't go to another Wednesday game whilst DJ was in charge, this was the week before we played Reading at home.

After much persuasion I went and we obviously went on to win 5-2. I still wasn't convinced though and that showed when our poor form carried on.

If MM hadn't sacked Jones when he did I probably would have gone on to miss a few home games, and I may have thought twice about renewing my ST.

 

Stuart Gray brought back my enjoyment of watching Wednesday for sure. 

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I was close to losing interest during our period of decline from the premiership, one season after the other was just getting worse and worse, that would set us up for another poo 15 years after that  

 

I've got used to it now though, lol.  

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Never truly lost interest but had some tight finances to deal with around '06-'07 and couldn't get to all games, especially away. As a result I sort of fell out of the habit a little and even when money got a little better I still didn't always go. Always still listened to the games but maybe only attended about 12-15 games in two seasons.

Rather shameful really. Thankfully I got hooked again.

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During the legal action against fans. Truly disgusting and the lowest, most embarrassing episode in our club's history.

 

Hang your heads in shame Dave Allen, Kaven Walker, Bob Grierson, Geoff Hulley and Keith Addy.

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You can't just support the team when their doing well, makes me laugh when people boycott the games.

I didn't boycott the games at all; I just lost interest, as I imagine many teenage lads discovering alternative ways to spend their Saturday afternoons might. I'd hardly call the Chris Turner era us 'doing well', either!

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