parkfieldowl14 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 2 minutes ago, CharlieOwl said: I think we are just about as marmite as a club gets. I'm from Rotherham original so I've had to listen to the brain dead bile they spilled out at regular intervals but since moving to Lincoln for University I've found some people actually have a bit off a soft spot for us as well. Got a few friends that are Leicester fans and they always check on the results and wanting us to go up. I think a lot of it is down to where you are. If your living in Yorkshire there such a high concentration of Wednesday haters it's hard to see past it. It's not just Toytown that seems to have a problem with ourselves,You've only just got look at Idiots like " Derek The Donkey Fan " who comes on FH and says utter tripe like " We're Still The Premier Team in The Radio Sheffield Area " What a utter Plank Derek is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastleigh Owl Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 This local rivalry is something which happened recently. I remember one night match in the 60's playing rovrum at Hillsborough and they might as well have been from the other side of the world. Since our demise they (local teams) have had the chance to compete evenly, they loved it but are now terrified that the normal service is about to resume. Oh, the game, rovrum won 0-1 with a Frank Casper scoring a cracker iirc. He was a decent player. Pissed it down all night. Can't remember what year exactly, i'd guess at 1967. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OasisOwl72 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 (edited) 30 minutes ago, HIGHERSTATE said: How about ken the asthmatic blade..trying to blame us for the hillsbro disaster..mick tried to expose him for that..literally ANY stick they can think up..the hatred and bitterness is in some of their fans dna..for some its what gets them out of bed in a morning..they cant wait for us to lose to jump on facebook..its kind of irrational. He was an absolute disgrace the other night. As bitter as pork can get but then again he is a pig and sounds like this..... Edited January 15, 2017 by OasisOwl72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike312 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 I think we're hated locally because we're the biggest club. Leeds hate us because we are a similar sized club and therefore rivals. Other clubs further away such as Huddersfield and Hull probably realise that ultimately we are a bigger club than them too. The Brighton thing is odd, can only be down to last season and their need to generate rivals as they have none (Palace?!) We have more than our fair share of idiots though who think we're bigger than we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkfieldowl14 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 5 minutes ago, OasisOwl72 said: He was an absolute disgrace the other night. As bitter as pork can get but then again he is a pig and sounds like this..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asteener1867 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Bloke I used to work with was a big Leeds fan, he was in a pub in Leeds when Wednesday played Man utd in the rumbelows, said the whole pub went up when Wednesday scored, now maybe thats as much them hating Man Utd as liking us, but I have never had a problem with Leeds. Huddersfields hatred baffles the f.ook outta me cos I never even look for their results, Charlton and Brighton?...even harder to understand. The local clubs?, well Uniteds is understandable and is reciprocated for all the same reasons, its the only Derby, it always will be, maybe thats what p*sses Barnsley, and Toytown off, they will never really understand it, nor be a part of such as it, neither will Leeds United, thats why they have a fabricated hate for Manchester United, who will never give a flying f.ook about them. As for clubs outside our immediate area, and I include Leeds United in this, I don't think they are bothered unless they are playing us, and I don't hear many bad words against Wednesday from fans of most other clubs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flo Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 I thinks Brighton hate us because they never beat us and because of this: Brighton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitechapel Owl Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 As others have said we are disliked by all the local sides but that's because we are by far the biggest club. Have lived in various parts of the country and would say we are actually quite popular with most people I've met. Those that have no connection to Sheffield generally prefer us to the pigs (although with many of them it's due to Colin) We've been out of the top flight now for so long that many people would be happy to see us back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddogbob Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Locally but yes, but alot of that has to do with the size of the club. So we are the main focus. Nationality I really don't think anybody cares really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coyt Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 41 minutes ago, parkfieldowl14 said: Michael the Bitter Pig you mean also i'm just disgusted at the way he'd tried to use the issue to score cheap points over ourselves on Thursday night's FH. Most definetly and i thought it was very poor RS gave him the airtime to spout his nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkfieldowl14 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 The Truth is that the other local clubs are starting to worry about them being able to compete with us both on and off the pitch.That's why they spew so much bile towards us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkfieldowl14 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 1 minute ago, Coyt said: Most definetly and i thought it was very poor RS gave him the airtime to spout his nonsense. I'm surprised at that tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddogbob Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Just now, parkfieldowl14 said: I'm surprised at that tbh. They might be going the talksport route. Wind up as meny as you can to get callers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asteener1867 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 I suppose a lot of our perspective is gleaned from off Owlstalk, and lets be honest, we can be a right bunch of fannies on here....but for every P*ssed off Charlton fan, there have been fans like our Baggie friends, who took it in good humour and became a part of the forum, and in doing so, made me for instance, shout for West Brom when they are playing whoever the f.ook, simply because of their liking for our club. I always look for Herefords result, cos of wotsisname. Owlstalk is probably not the best of places to come and suddenly join in, even for Owls fans at times... I can remember years ago reading a post from a Chelsea fan, who did the usual, "Chelsea fan in peace" wotsit, then launched into about 10 paragraphs about supporting Chelsea, Ken Bates, The shed end, this that and the other...the first reply he got on here was... C8.nt! I thought it hilarious...he didn't post anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkfieldowl14 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 2 minutes ago, Maddogbob said: They might be going the talksport route. Wind up as meny as you can to get callers. That's perfectly true my friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitechapel Owl Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 It also goes in waves as to how successful your club is currently doing, As we've been rubbish the last 17 years we've not been any sort of threat to the bigger clubs so I often hear complimentary things from Prem club fans about how we are a well supported side and how they liked so and so that played for us in the 90s etc. I always used to hate Forest when they were in the Prem but as they have had a very similar last 20 years to us I feel sorry for them these days, same goes with Portsmouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BULGARIA Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 most folk i meet always say they have a soft spot for the owls, apart from the blades fans and other local clubs that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor John Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 I don't really sense any widespread or deep-seated antagonism to our club. Maybe I am insulated from this because I no longer tweet and don't bother with Facebook. I go to most away games and don't lately recall any type of antipathy on the part of the home supporters there. I think globally the Hillsborough disaster put us on the map for all the wrong reasons, but police rather than club are seen to be largely to blame. I think the most disliked clubs are the ones who are either neighbors or are most successful; the former is attributable to needing to be top-banana, while the latter is arguably down to jealousy and the British love of the under-dog. At any rate, the teams I most like to see trashed are the Blunts and Man United! Wednesday win, United lose makes my weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrie Madden Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 14 minutes ago, Coyt said: Most definetly and i thought it was very poor RS gave him the airtime to spout his nonsense. He's absolutely on tenterhooks waiting for Sheffield Wednesday PLC or whatever the incarnation was called back then to be prosecuted He will be like a kid at Christmas when / if it happens as it probably will IMO the fact that that Company has nothing to do with the present day will matter not to the hateful little bastad He couldn't say that the other day because that would probably count as Libel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBridgfordowl Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 (edited) I've lived and worked up and down the country for the last 25 years and never heard a bad word against Wednesday. There's no love for the pigs that's for sure. Seen as a nasty little club with nasty fans. Being the biggest club in the area means we'll be unpopular with the little clubs around us, but it's absolute nonsense to say Wednesday are hated anywhere outside radio Sheffield land Edited January 15, 2017 by WBridgfordowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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