The Chansiri ‘WTF moment’ thread

[SallyCinnamon]

2 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

 

In isolation each of these things is batshit crazy

Put two or three of them together and alarm bells start ringing

Put four or five of them together and it's like WTFFFFFFF

But put them all into a list and you genuinely do have to make the point that some Wednesday fans have seen all of this happening week in week out relentlessly over and over and over again and tried justifying them all to fellow Wednesday fans

Any other football fan up and down the country who have no connection to Wednesday would read this thread and be absolutely gobsmacked.

 

 

[BRADDO]

51 minutes ago, Rev Owl said:

Standing in silence for the dead king of Thailand.

You could cut the embarrassment in the stadium with a knife.

 

That music went on for about 10 minutes and the game kicked off late

 

[cowl]

Wasn't Carvalhal involved in the kit manufacturing too?

[@owlstalk]

3 minutes ago, A12owl said:

Souvenir 150 year watches withdrawn and then offered without the 150 logo.  

Amazing when you think about it

 

 

[camffiti]

That time Chansiri invited Gids to stay for a long weekend 

 

[@owlstalk]

1 minute ago, cowl said:

Wasn't Carvalhal involved in the kit manufacturing too?

 

Judging by how late they were maybe he was sewing em all together

[0114]

When Steve Bruce left the club mid pre season. You’d think he would be out lining up the new coach? No he was on holiday and took 8 weeks to replace him with a manager that was already available when Bruce left!

 

Upon hiring Monk, when asked at the press conference why he had choose Monk, DC answers “because he did good with bad players”. 
 

 

[Guest hirstysfags]

53 minutes ago, Flat Owl said:

Kivo’s got a list as long as yer arm.....

He just wrote "ticket prices" in font 100 though.

[SallyCinnamon]

Didn’t he offer us all season ticket refunds after Carlos was sacked? 

 

[SallyCinnamon]

5 minutes ago, 0114 said:

When Steve Bruce left the club mid pre season. You’d think he would be out lining up the new coach? No he was on holiday and took 8 weeks to replace him with a manager that was already available when Bruce left!

 

Upon hiring Monk, when asked at the press conference why he had choose Monk, DC answers “because he did good with bad players”. 
 

 

Nearly as bad as calling his new manager ‘Pulis’ instead of Tony 

 

 

[BRADDO]

Do one DC you silly man.

[@owlstalk]

That time he said he wanted to scrap season tickets 

[FinnishOwl]

20 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

 

In isolation each of these things is batshit crazy

Put two or three of them together and alarm bells start ringing

Put four or five of them together and it's like WTFFFFFFF

But put them all into a list and you genuinely do have to make the point that some Wednesday fans have seen all of this happening week in week out relentlessly over and over and over again and tried justifying them all to fellow Wednesday fans

 

But you know how it goes. If you experience it all the time, it becomes harder to distinguish the warning signs. I wouldn't be surprised if DC had become very blind to what is happening and Pulis went too far by tearing the curtains down. IN AN EMAIL for god's sake..

[KivoOwl]

Lots I've missed out as I couldn't be arsed to update it for a while.

Jan 2015 -    First involvement - the signing of Sergiu Bus, Marnick Vermijl and Filipe Melo.
Apr 2015 -    Chief buddhist 'blessed' the ground.
May 2015 -    Three 'advisors' appointed - Glenn Roeder, Paul Senior and Adam Pearson. All three left within weeks.
Jun 2015 -    Signed Darrly Lachman, Marco Matias, Lewis Price, Lewis McGugan, Rhoys Wiggins, Modou Sougou
Jul 2015 -    Season ticket prices - cheapest Kop adult up from £360 to £395
May 2016 -    Losses of £11m announced
May 2016 -    Average price of cheapest POTG ticket over 15/16 season - up from £23.57 to £31.11
Jan 2016 -    Club badge of 40+ years changed. Fans not consulted
Jun 2016 -    Signed Jake Kean, Almen Abdi, Urby Emanuelson, Morgan Fox
Jul 2016 -    Lewis McGugan frozen out
Jul 2016 -    Stripes ditched from the shirt. Fans not consulted. Replica kits not for sale until after season has started.
Jul 2016 -    Season ticket prices - cheapest Kop adult up from £395 to £415
Jul 2016 -    Membership price up from £30 to £50
Aug 2016 -    Bizarre squad numbering announced
Sep 2016 -    Golden elephants placed outside of South Stand for good luck
Oct 2016 -    Two minutes silence for the recently deceased King of Thailand
Nov 2016 -    Puts CHANSIRI in place of SWFC on the North Stand seats
May 2017 -    Losses of £20m announced
May 2017 -    Average price of cheapest POTG ticket over 16/17 season - up from £31.11 to £33.26
Jun 2017 -    Signed Jordan Rhodes, George Boyd, Joost van Aken, Joey Pelupessy
Jul 2017 -    Season ticket prices - cheapest Kop adult up from £415 to £455
Jul 2017 -    George Hirst frozen out. Leaves for free.
Jul 2017 -    Replica kits not for sale until after season has started
Aug 2017 -    Club1867 announced. A bronze plaque for £1,500, with a 'free' 3-year season ticket upon promotion to PL
Aug 2017 -    DTaxis and Elev8 announced as kit sponsors
Sep 2017 -    Cakeball
Jan 2018 -    Jos Luhukay appointed manager
Jan 2018 -    Katrien Meire appointed CEO
Feb 2018 -    Fans polled regarding ticket prices and squad investment. 70% voted for ticket prices and squad investment to stay at current levels, 30% voted for lower ticket prices and promotion of youth players
Mar 2018 -    Losses of £21m announced
Apr 2018 -    Sean Clare frozen out over contract dispute. Leaves for free
Jul 2018 -    Membership price up from £50 to £90
Jul 2018 -    Replica kits not for sale until after season has started
Aug 2018 -    Ignorning the previous fans poll, no pre-season player signings for first time since pre-WWII. Youth players promoted into the first team squad
Aug 2018 -    Banned BBC Radio Sheffield from covering games, charging fans £4.50 a month to sign up to club radio instead
Aug 2018 -    Fans told that a transfer embargo has been lifted, having not been told we were in one to start with
Feb 2019 -    Katrien Meire leaves the club
Jul 2019 -    Profit of £2.5m announced, helped by the sale of the ground to Chansiri for £60m
Nov 2019 -    Charged by EFL over ground sale being included in the wrong set of accounts in order to escape P&S rules
Jan 2020 -    Unveiling of 10 year season tickets
Jul 2020 -    Finished 16th in Championship, three places lower than when Chansiri took over
Jul 2020 -    Average price of cheapest POTG ticket over 19/20 season - highest in club history - £33.33
Jul 2020 -    The first points deduction in the club's history, for breaking P&S rules over the sale of Hillsborough Stadium.
Sep 2020 -    Garry Monk allowed to run pre-season and sign five players on free transfers and loans.
Oct 2020 -    Fans still not refunded for matches they couldn't attend in 2019/20. Explanation being that too many supporters had asked for one.
Nov 2020 -    Garry Monk sacked, Tony Pulis appointed.
Dec 2020 -    Players not paid full wages.
Dec 2020 -    Tony Pulis sacked.

[StudentOwl]

2 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

That time he said he wanted to scrap season tickets 

Also that he would ideally do away with tiered pricing for POTD and instead have it on a scale depending on how well the team was playing.

 

This after half a decade of having more tiers for POTD than we win home games in a season, requiring an excel spreadsheet and an A-level in economics or a numerate subject to interpret properly. 

[Groundhopping Owl]

12 minutes ago, SallyCinnamon said:

Didn’t he offer us all season ticket refunds after Carlos was sacked? 

 

I remember this - didn't he attach a condition saying if you applied for a refund you couldn't buy another ST?

[helmut_rooster]

1 hour ago, SallyCinnamon said:

ICONIC 

 

[BigTavowl]

2 minutes ago, KivoOwl said:

Lots I've missed out as I couldn't be arsed to update it for a while.

Jan 2015 -    First involvement - the signing of Sergiu Bus, Marnick Vermijl and Filipe Melo.
Apr 2015 -    Chief buddhist 'blessed' the ground.
May 2015 -    Three 'advisors' appointed - Glenn Roeder, Paul Senior and Adam Pearson. All three left within weeks.
Jun 2015 -    Signed Darrly Lachman, Marco Matias, Lewis Price, Lewis McGugan, Rhoys Wiggins, Modou Sougou
Jul 2015 -    Season ticket prices - cheapest Kop adult up from £360 to £395
May 2016 -    Losses of £11m announced
May 2016 -    Average price of cheapest POTG ticket over 15/16 season - up from £23.57 to £31.11
Jan 2016 -    Club badge of 40+ years changed. Fans not consulted
Jun 2016 -    Signed Jake Kean, Almen Abdi, Urby Emanuelson, Morgan Fox
Jul 2016 -    Lewis McGugan frozen out
Jul 2016 -    Stripes ditched from the shirt. Fans not consulted. Replica kits not for sale until after season has started.
Jul 2016 -    Season ticket prices - cheapest Kop adult up from £395 to £415
Jul 2016 -    Membership price up from £30 to £50
Aug 2016 -    Bizarre squad numbering announced
Sep 2016 -    Golden elephants placed outside of South Stand for good luck
Oct 2016 -    Two minutes silence for the recently deceased King of Thailand
Nov 2016 -    Puts CHANSIRI in place of SWFC on the North Stand seats
May 2017 -    Losses of £20m announced
May 2017 -    Average price of cheapest POTG ticket over 16/17 season - up from £31.11 to £33.26
Jun 2017 -    Signed Jordan Rhodes, George Boyd, Joost van Aken, Joey Pelupessy
Jul 2017 -    Season ticket prices - cheapest Kop adult up from £415 to £455
Jul 2017 -    George Hirst frozen out. Leaves for free.
Jul 2017 -    Replica kits not for sale until after season has started
Aug 2017 -    Club1867 announced. A bronze plaque for £1,500, with a 'free' 3-year season ticket upon promotion to PL
Aug 2017 -    DTaxis and Elev8 announced as kit sponsors
Sep 2017 -    Cakeball
Jan 2018 -    Jos Luhukay appointed manager
Jan 2018 -    Katrien Meire appointed CEO
Feb 2018 -    Fans polled regarding ticket prices and squad investment. 70% voted for ticket prices and squad investment to stay at current levels, 30% voted for lower ticket prices and promotion of youth players
Mar 2018 -    Losses of £21m announced
Apr 2018 -    Sean Clare frozen out over contract dispute. Leaves for free
Jul 2018 -    Membership price up from £50 to £90
Jul 2018 -    Replica kits not for sale until after season has started
Aug 2018 -    Ignorning the previous fans poll, no pre-season player signings for first time since pre-WWII. Youth players promoted into the first team squad
Aug 2018 -    Banned BBC Radio Sheffield from covering games, charging fans £4.50 a month to sign up to club radio instead
Aug 2018 -    Fans told that a transfer embargo has been lifted, having not been told we were in one to start with
Feb 2019 -    Katrien Meire leaves the club
Jul 2019 -    Profit of £2.5m announced, helped by the sale of the ground to Chansiri for £60m
Nov 2019 -    Charged by EFL over ground sale being included in the wrong set of accounts in order to escape P&S rules
Jan 2020 -    Unveiling of 10 year season tickets
Jul 2020 -    Finished 16th in Championship, three places lower than when Chansiri took over
Jul 2020 -    Average price of cheapest POTG ticket over 19/20 season - highest in club history - £33.33
Jul 2020 -    The first points deduction in the club's history, for breaking P&S rules over the sale of Hillsborough Stadium.
Sep 2020 -    Garry Monk allowed to run pre-season and sign five players on free transfers and loans.
Oct 2020 -    Fans still not refunded for matches they couldn't attend in 2019/20. Explanation being that too many supporters had asked for one.
Nov 2020 -    Garry Monk sacked, Tony Pulis appointed.
Dec 2020 -    Players not paid full wages.
Dec 2020 -    Tony Pulis sacked.

It reads like a Harchester United timeline 

[FlyingOwl]

I backed him at the start. Naively. Out of hope. I backed the high prices and I apologise for that. This is whilst the club was riding a massive wave though and things were good. I couldn’t see where we’d fail. In hindsight, the red flags have always been there.

 

I went to one final steering group meeting a few years back, not been since. But it was the final straw. Nothing major but  the penny just dropped for me. He didn’t get the club at all. He was stubborn to a fault and the meetings were POINTLESS because he had no intention of doing anything we asked. Hours spent going over ticket pricing and he’d just say ‘well I did cheap tickets for this random Tuesday night game in the middle of winter and not enough people came to justify continuing’.

 

That fan survey he sent out where he asked if we’d rather pay high ticket prices for continued investment or if we’d rather pay lower prices and his investment into signing star players would significantly decrease. We voted for continued investment and I think we went on to have some of the worst transfer windows ive seen. 

 

The man’s a fraud. We’re his play thing. He’s not a businessman. 
 

Ultimately, and I don’t think I’m alone in saying this, but I really don’t care what league we’re in. I just want our club in the hands of someone who can run us sensibly, rebuild a club structure and culture that we can recognise again. As fans, ‘’aggressive attacking football’’ is always the dream. But ultimately I want a group of players who want to be here and would run through brick walls for each other. 
 

The way we’ve been run I think we’re really gonna need to take quite a significant amount of step backwards in order to go forwards again. The first step is getting rid of the man in charge though. It’s time to go!

[helmut_rooster]

1 hour ago, Flat Owl said:

Kivo’s got a list as long as yer arm.....

 

Orangutan arms?

Elephants *******?

Donkeys Dong?