Guest domSWFC Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 (edited) Saw THIS article on BBC about players with strange numbers. Bendtner - 52 Ronaldinho - 80 Buffon - 88 ... Wildsmith - 2 Then shows the entire Wednesday Sqaud for this season! Edited January 17, 2017 by domSWFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ash60s Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 On Davids shirt did anyone see the prat after the 1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroswfc Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Some are bizarre. But they don't really matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flo Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozzy85 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 numbers at end of the day. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. If that's the biggest change DC wants to make (back to stripes Mr C please) then I'll be happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owl 44 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Sam Hutchinson said the numbers at the start of the season were all chosen by DC and based on birthdays and lucky numbers. They were even sent off to a Buddha. Bannan and Hutch's numbers are apparently lucky. Hutch likes his number. This possibly explains why all the new signings are taking the lower numbers because all the birthdays have been taken up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Ron's Sovereign Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I think they're utterly stupid, As for the home shirt This season should've started with us straight out of the blocks and all as one. But the majority of us were thinking WTF about the numbers / Ipswich kit. I'm not generally one to criticise at Wednesday but these 2 decisions are utterly ridiculous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I don't like and never have liked the whole squad numbers thing. Nothing wrong with 1-11 in my eyes. "It's to help people recognise the players," I was told. "That's why they have names on the shirts too" Which I found, then and now a weak reasoning. Crikey, if you can't recognise a player by his running gait and his haircut then there's something not right. All a bit of an Americanism for my tastes. TV driven. Commercialism the main factor. Nothing to do with recognition of players for the man in the stand. That's a nonsense.. But............... seeing as it's here to stay then I couldn't careless if the Chairman wants to pick them. Why not. It's his club. If your centre forward isn't a number 9 and your centre midfielder isn't a number 8 then it stops making any difference anyway. They could have three digits on their backs these days for all it matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthowl Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I like the 0. Maybe Urby or McGugan should have had it too. If Buffon wasn't allowed 00, he should have gone for 1001. Cant think why a forward hasn't had 6041 as his number yet. A little bit of tinkering with the font and you have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthowl Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 4 minutes ago, Lord Snooty said: I don't like and never have liked the whole squad numbers thing. Nothing wrong with 1-11 in my eyes. "It's to help people recognise the players," I was told. "That's why they have names on the shirts too" Which I found, then and now a weak reasoning. Crikey, if you can't recognise a player by his running gait and his haircut then there's something not right. All a bit of an Americanism for my tastes. TV driven. Commercialism the main factor. Nothing to do with recognition of players for the man in the stand. That's a nonsense.. But............... seeing as it's here to stay then I couldn't careless if the Chairman wants to pick them. Why not. It's his club. If your centre forward isn't a number 9 and your centre midfielder isn't a number 8 then it stops making any difference anyway. They could have three digits on their backs these days for all it matters. Good points there. The thing about "recognising players": now that shirts have players' names on the back, there is no longer any need for any number at all. Can just do away with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwlofOliveGrove Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Lord Snooty said: I don't like and never have liked the whole squad numbers thing. Nothing wrong with 1-11 in my eyes. "It's to help people recognise the players," I was told. "That's why they have names on the shirts too" Which I found, then and now a weak reasoning. Crikey, if you can't recognise a player by his running gait and his haircut then there's something not right. All a bit of an Americanism for my tastes. TV driven. Commercialism the main factor. Nothing to do with recognition of players for the man in the stand. That's a nonsense.. But............... seeing as it's here to stay then I couldn't careless if the Chairman wants to pick them. Why not. It's his club. If your centre forward isn't a number 9 and your centre midfielder isn't a number 8 then it stops making any difference anyway. They could have three digits on their backs these days for all it matters. Agreed! It's all much of a muchness really. If it's the difference between our Chairman being happy and continuing to invest or the opposite, then he is welcome to plaster whatever number he wants on the players. Not as if we don't know who they are and where they play anyway. Edited January 17, 2017 by OwlofOliveGrove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Jack Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I would like to see a hell of a player wear 666 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalamunda Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 5 minutes ago, Big Jack said: I would like to see a hell of a player wear 666 Armageddon that on the back of my next shirt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh_weds_we_love_you Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 19 minutes ago, Tamworthowl said: Good points there. The thing about "recognising players": now that shirts have players' names on the back, there is no longer any need for any number at all. Can just do away with them. The numbers help the referees when noting goalscorers/bookings/sendings off and writing up their match reports. Having numbers on the back of shirts, especially with the introduction of squad numbers, generates a fair amount of cash for clubs printing them on replica shirts. Just two reasons why we'll never do away with numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul.. Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I'm not sure I could possibly come up with a less significant thing to fret about, the response when the squad numbers came out was embarrassing IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 37 minutes ago, Tamworthowl said: Good points there. The thing about "recognising players": now that shirts have players' names on the back, there is no longer any need for any number at all. Can just do away with them. Though I do think it fantastical that someone can't recognise Glenn Loovens, stood 6"2 tall with his foppish hair hair heading things away from our box. But they can read the letters on the back of his shirt! 16 minutes ago, oh_weds_we_love_you said: The numbers help the referees when noting goalscorers/bookings/sendings off and writing up their match reports. It's not as if it was hard to write a number 5 in your book and then check it against the name on the team sheet when you write up you're report later though was it. 19 minutes ago, oh_weds_we_love_you said: Having numbers on the back of shirts, especially with the introduction of squad numbers, generates a fair amount of cash for clubs printing them on replica shirts. Just two reasons why we'll never do away with numbers. And this is the real, and only genuine reason for it. (after the early SKY-ism of it it's induction) Though I believe that they would still be able to sell the numbers and letters without designated squad numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfsmith Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 In the 1933 FA Cup final between Manchester City and Everton, numbers were worn on players' shirts for the first time: Everton's players were numbered 1-11 while City's shirts went from 12-22. In 1939 numbers on the back of players' shirts became mandatory in the Football League for the first time although Arsenal had experimented with numbered shirts earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopePiusX Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I blame Bomber Brown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S36 OWL Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 18 hours ago, domSWFC said: Saw THIS article on BBC about players with strange numbers. Bendtner - 52 Ronaldinho - 80 Buffon - 88 ... Wildsmith - 2 Then shows the entire Wednesday Sqaud for this season! What was wrong with the traditional system of numbers 1-11 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Ron's Sovereign Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 We (and the Arse) were the 1st to have the squad numbers. Maybe DCs madness comes from seeing Hirst at No5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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