Siggi's Jonnson Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Do Wednesday get more bad luck than most other teams? With all the injuries yesterday in the same positions, seems only to happen to us. There are lots of other things in the past that seem to only to happen to Wednesday but not other teams. Does it even out like some people think? I am not talking about bad management either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue and white Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 I think the term is mismanaged as opposed to bad luck. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefdave Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Unlucky, as in "I'm just off to t'toilet for an unlucky". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animis Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 20 odds years of poor decision making at the top has resulted in mostly poor or average times, sprinkled with the odd moment of excitement. Even when we had the money and a decent team in 2015-17 the football was mainly attritional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siggi's Jonnson Posted October 4, 2020 Author Share Posted October 4, 2020 Like I said, not talking about bad management but things that only seem to happen to Wednesday. An example is the betting scandal of the 60s. It could have happened to other teams but didn't. The Hillsborough disaster, other grounds were just has bad at the time. These are just a couple of things which are big ones but even run if the mill things seem to go against us more often than not. Especially in the last minutes of games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfsmith Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Just the right time to remember the old old adage, ’The harder I work, the luckier I get.’ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emilianenko Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 No it’s just that we all are focussed on Wednesday 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCOWl Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Agree with one of the other replies, it's not bad luck for all these unfortunate things, a large chunk of it is purely mis-management or lack of ability, desire etc. Everyone has bad luck, but this is usually an irregular occurrence, ours seems to be regular so there is more to it than bad luck. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quist Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 We do not get rub of green generally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siggi's Jonnson Posted October 4, 2020 Author Share Posted October 4, 2020 How about the luck with managers. Atkinson and Bruce both going to manage teams that were the only teams they wanted to manage. Or Wilkinson leaving for Leeds only to win the league with half a Wednesday team. Also the time Wednesday would have qualified for Europe but all English teams were banned. And the time when Wednesday got relegated from the Premier League without parachute payments only for them to get given teams later. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birstall Owl Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, Siggi's Jonnson said: How about the luck with managers. Atkinson and Bruce both going to manage teams that were the only teams they wanted to manage. Or Wilkinson leaving for Leeds only to win the league with half a Wednesday team. Also the time Wednesday would have qualified for Europe but all English teams were banned. And the time when Wednesday got relegated from the Premier League without parachute payments only for them to get given teams later. When we went down in 1990 if that had been now ie PL era we would have done anything to stay up at the expense of Swindon, instead we just accepted it. Although knowing us and the nature of this thread maybe not 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S36 OWL Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 45 minutes ago, Blue and white said: I think the term is mismanaged as opposed to bad luck. Yep. Playing three at the back yesterday when we only had two fit centre halves. WTF is that all about.? Rather then change the system to suit the players available Monk bizarrely decides to play a teenage midfielder as a centre half. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreshOwl Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 It happens to other teams, believe you me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the monk Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 41 minutes ago, Animis said: 20 odds years of poor decision making at the top has resulted in mostly poor or average times, sprinkled with the odd moment of excitement. Even when we had the money and a decent team in 2015-17 the football was mainly attritional. You are going to get cained for that laddie It was pure 1970s Brazil, we finished 6th and 4th dont you know Other clubs fans still talk in awe about that side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asteener1867 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 46 minutes ago, Emilianenko said: No it’s just that we all are focussed on Wednesday True....Listen to most fans who's clubs are like ours...Forest, Derby, Leeds for years..Man City for long enough Its not "Bad luck" when you spaff out on Urby, Abdi, Rhodes etc...Its bad management at the top...The ONLY unlucky thing about recent years was Steve Bruce...THAT was unlucky...although I would say we were extremely "Unluhukay" before that 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 39 minutes ago, Siggi's Jonnson said: How about the luck with managers. Atkinson and Bruce both going to manage teams that were the only teams they wanted to manage. Or Wilkinson leaving for Leeds only to win the league with half a Wednesday team. Also the time Wednesday would have qualified for Europe but all English teams were banned. And the time when Wednesday got relegated from the Premier League without parachute payments only for them to get given teams later. After nearly a century of teams getting 2 points for a win, the first season they changed it to 3 points we just missed out on promotion and would have gone up had it not changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siggi's Jonnson Posted October 4, 2020 Author Share Posted October 4, 2020 Here is another one. Derek Dooley the most prolific scorer at the time and only 23, breaks his leg, but not only that he has to have it amputated. Who knows where Wednesday could have done at that time with Dooley in the team if it had only that hadn't happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brommers Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Thought we were cursed, rather than being unlucky. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Night-Owl Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 1 hour ago, Blue and white said: I think the term is mismanaged as opposed to bad luck. Agree. If it happens once in a while or out of the blue, then it could be put down to bad luck or an off day or something. However, when it happens frequently or all too often, then it's gone past luck and it's down to ourselves, with poor leadership, recruitment and mismanagement. We're paying the price of years of poor leadership and poor recruitment. Apart from several years in the 80s and several in the 90s it's been mostly grim throughout my lifetime, there's also been less than a handful of enjoyable seasons since relegation from the top flight too. History shows that it's more than merely just rotten luck and more mismanagement and poor decisions on and off the pitch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomtheOwl95 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 In terms of injuries, something hasn't been right for a long while now. That can't be all down to luck. Individually it can, Shaw yesterday for example was unlucky as was Palmer having to go off at half time. But the bigger picture would suggest we aren't doing something right given the amount we seem to pick up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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