pauli Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield. 19:45 Tuesday, 14 Feb 2017. TODAY’S OPPOSITES The town of Blackburn was founded in 10 million BC by a caveman, but he and his wives left behind no other evidence of their habitation than a Styrofoam cup with a tab end in it. More recently in 1832 the Government decided to section off an area for industrial activities. Hundreds of cotton mills were built or flown in, some having to be stacked on top of one another, due to lack of space. Unfortunately in the last fifty years or so, the demand for cotton has fallen as Kappa tracksuits started to be produced from crude oil by-products. Blackburn residents do not believe in the physics of planet earth as we know it. They simply believe that it is a small flat island floating through space. This is why no citizen of Blackburn has ever travelled beyond the limits of the town boundary for fear that they may fall off. This theory has existed since the very dawn of time and has been embellished by the local educational establishments, instilling those beliefs in the townsfolk from birth onwards. There have been unconfirmed reports of the townspeople taking it upon themselves to foolishly attempt the journey to the unknown (a.k.a. bus into Darwen) although none have made it so far. Several large companies have been in talks with Blackburn Council regarding the purchase of the town. German supermarket giant Lidl is one of those bidders. If successful, they plan to evacuate all residents to a specially constructed shelter beneath the town. Blackburn will then be transformed into one giant Lidl store, with aisles the size of cruise ships. The cheese counter alone will be bigger than the deck of an aircraft carrier with a selection of more than 25,000 cheeses. The Bakery section will stretch for six miles with baguettes the size of a single decker bus.....fully loaded with Peppereperporoni. They also have a football team which is how we come to playing them today. MATCHDAY THINGS Official Matchday Pie: A nice salad and two slices of wholewheat bread. Official Matchday Drink: 5 litre keg of Hobgoblin. Please drink responsibly. Official Matchday Song: “I Got The…” by Labi Siffre… Sheffield Wednesday striker Gary Hooper and defender Tom Lees will be assessed ahead of the visit of Blackburn. Steven Fletcher could feature after the striker served the last of a three-game ban in Friday's win over Birmingham. Blackburn are without on-loan Owls striker Lucas Joao, who is ineligible to play against his parent club. Rovers are without a number of defenders with Tommie Hoban (shoulder) and Gordon Greer (hip) injured, while Darragh Lenihan (illness) is a doubt. Head To Head ▪ The Owls have won four and drawn three of their last eight league meetings against Blackburn. ▪ Rovers haven't kept a clean sheet against Wednesday in the Championship since December 2013 (six meetings since then). ▪ Striker Jordan Rhodes scored 83 goals in 159 league games for Blackburn between 2012 and 2016 - though he is yet to score against them in two appearances since he departed in January last year. ▪ Blackburn haven't scored more than twice in any of their last 40 away league games since a 3-0 win over Leeds in April 2015. KING CARLOS’ PEARLS OF WISDOM “We don’t think that just because we won against the Birmingham, everything was perfect. Just the same that when we lose, not everything is bad. There are positive things when we lose and negative things when we win. For sure, there are more positives from Friday than negatives but all the time there are things to correct, improve and do better. Of this I am absolutely certain. This is why we are training all the time to prepare the games, to improve the team and to try to correct the mistakes and accuse a fish of heresy. But of course after the game we are more positive and have more confidence than when we started, absolutely sure. When we win two games in a row, confidence is more high. Confidence is very important to a player and to a team but we must all the time keep working and be 100% focused to try to improve, even when we are with a good win like last time. We are in a good place. We have a good win, we are sixth in the table, we have another clean sheet – our 13th of the season – and we scored three goals. We are higher in the table with more points, so I am happy. We started and finished this game very well. Birmingham had some good spells because this is normal. If a side from League One or League Two comes to Hillsborough, they will have chances – this is football. But we defended very well, we attacked very well and so I am very happy. The new players did very well, they showed good signals but they are only starting at Sheffield Wednesday. So they will get better as individuals for us and I am happy with the options that we have. If one striker drops out, another one comes in, it is important to have that kind of strength.” MINTYNESS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Tom Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Top job Pauli! I've just checked with the snail on my wheelie bin (this year's Paul the octopus) and he screamed WE'RE GONNA PANCAKE THOSE FRUMPS so I'd say it's all looking good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ash60s Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Gr8 stuff Pauli and nice Labbi Siffri chooooooon! 2-0 or 3-1 Wednesday, no Tuesday - you know what I meant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJH1867OWLS Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Brilliant OMDT once again Pauli We need to just keep winning so hopefully we get what we need today... But as all the signs are there suggesting we should batter Blackburn I'm gonna go for 1-0 to the Wednesday off the back of Carlos's head RELEASE THE LLAMA THE ROSES ARE BLUE IM SPENDING VALANTINES DAY WITH ATDHE NUHIU!!! COME ON WEDNESDAY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Ron's Sovereign Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 (edited) Edited February 14, 2017 by Big Ron's Sovereign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronio Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Morning all, Nice one Pauli. Think the winning run will continue, so I'm going for a 3 nil Wednesday win. Rhodes running riot scoring a brace against his former club, with Winnall completing the rout with a well timed header. LETS AVE IT!! COME ON WEDNESDAY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauli Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 (edited) Not mine. Go give love hearts to forum user Notwhattheyseem Edited February 14, 2017 by pauli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOLS Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Thanks Pauli. It's scary to start thinking we will beat Blackburn because we are doing well and we have a better team, because we know football has a way of throwing hope back in your face........But we are, of course, going to smash Blackburn Rovers 4- 0 . Jordan playing against his old team will be on the score sheet, and FF will astonish his doubters with a hat trick. Won't that be fantastic?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Accuse a fish of heresy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Sweet work pauli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroswfc Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 COME ON WEDNESDAY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Great OMDT Pauli. Not sure what the significance is of that huge green dildo though! Anyway onwards and upwards! Release The Colossus (Rhodes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 (edited) Morning Chaps, Magnificent history lesson on our unfortunate Lancashire neighbours, Pauli. And the floodlights. Ahh, the proper floodlights... A different time..... A bit like when we played in stripes... Still. Shouldn't digress. Got put that debate behind me today as we'll be playing in the away kit. Sorry 'change strip'. Whatever.... Owls to swoop with another clean sheet and a 3 goal haul. Wednesday 3- 0 Blackburn Rhodes 2 Winnall Come on Wednesday! Edited February 14, 2017 by Lord Snooty Drunkeness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmontonowl Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Went to the corresponding game last season. 2-1 then, can't see anything less tomorrow. Prob another 3-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmontonowl Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 1 minute ago, Lord Snooty said: Morning Chaps, Magnificent history lesson on our unfortunate Lancashire neighbours, Pauli. And the floodlights. Ahh, the proper floodlights... A different time..... A bit like when we played in stripes... Still. Shouldn't digress. Got put that debate behind me today as we'll be playing in the away kit. Sorry 'change strip'. Whatever.... Owls to raid Ewood with another clean sheet and a 3 goal haul. Blackburn 0 - 3 Wednesday .........................Rhodes 2 .........................Winnall Come on Wednesday! We're at home, yer lordship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogers Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 4 minutes ago, Lord Snooty said: Morning Chaps, Magnificent history lesson on our unfortunate Lancashire neighbours, Pauli. And the floodlights. Ahh, the proper floodlights... A different time..... A bit like when we played in stripes... Still. Shouldn't digress. Got put that debate behind me today as we'll be playing in the away kit. Sorry 'change strip'. Whatever.... Owls to raid Ewood with another clean sheet and a 3 goal haul. Blackburn 0 - 3 Wednesday .........................Rhodes 2 .........................Winnall Come on Wednesday! We're playing at Hillsborough aren't we? Any win will do, 1-0 scrappy win from an own goal. Bring on the moaners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 3 minutes ago, Rogers said: We're playing at Hillsborough aren't we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOOTIE AND THE SHIT TU Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Another 3-0 Rhodes, Bannan, Winnall Just a bloke, who used up all his luck in one go when he met his wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 1 minute ago, HOOTIE AND THE bobbar TU said: Another 3-0 Rhodes, Bannan, Winnall I would dearly love little Barry to bag one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevthelodgemoorowl Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Back in the day before Sheffield invented Football a group of 15 locals lead by Henry Bessemer took their Egg shaped ball over the hills to play a group of men selected from the locals of Blackburn and Darwen at the ancient game of Scrag the Barstewards. The game was tryless but the Sheffield lads were awarded 15 penalties. Henry Bessemer converted every single kick to run out 45-0 winners. Bessemer was so elated with this feat that on arrival back in Sheffield he set about recording the fact for posterity. He designed and built a grand machine which he called in memory of his feat 'The Bessemer Convertor' Note it is shaped a little like the ball he put between the posts on no less than 15 occasions that fateful day. The machine was thought to be a useless white elephant ...However, he found that the attempt to have the biggest Pyro display Sheffield had ever witnessed was a massive flop The Iron just got very hot and became much reduced in carbon content and steel was born in far bigger quantities and much improved quality. The Lucky sod got knighted and became a millionaire. He went on to celebrate his good fortune in writing a song which he never actually finished. The original was called Hi Ho Sheffield City it was a fore runner to the song completed by Jeff Beck which he discovered laying in a dusty corner of Sheffields Mappin Art Gallery Of course this is why we have had world Superstars like and Supporting us over the years. So all that remains for me to say is COME ON WEDNESDAY DO YOUR STUFF WAWAW, UP THE OWLS ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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