Wednesday - V - Wycombe OMDT

[Lord Snooty]

"Now is the winter of our discontent"

 

It just goes on an on doesn't it. Like the drone voice in the back of your head which tells you that you have forgotten to lock the back door, or that you have left the gas on. There's always something with the Wednesday. Always something. 

 

 Tonight the news that someone has tabled a bid for the club. Someone who was calling themselves a shareholder of the club not a month ago, before quickly retracting the statement and within the week apparently cutting all ties -before they'd even been tied ,by all accounts,- citing "Irreconcilable differences with the club".   

Now there's a phrase we've come to hear a lot in recent years. But then the real sting in the tail-: 

 

"Unfortunately, due to forces around the club, it became untenable to continue especially as the chances of my reputation being affected became apparent.”

 

Due to forces around the club eh? Well, one needn't be Sherlock Holmes to have a wild stab in the dark what that might be referring to. But I don't want to get old Hargreaves in trouble, so we'll not mention names. But...

 

Now the thing is, support for the Chairman seems to be at an all time low. and understandably so, unless you're Moon touched.  Our club has failed to get it's clubs accounts in...again. We started the season on -12 points due to the irregular running of our wonderful club. Player's have been getting half paid, we're rooted in the bottom three, are manager-less, after sacking two managers before Christmas, a record surely even for us. 

 

 

We have half our squad out of contract in the summer, including half of our "He's only good enough for League one" players....who might actually come in handy should we find ourselves in League one, and a handful of promising youngsters who also might be needed if we end up in a division with an incoming wage cap. 

So far. None signed up. Not only is it staggering, it's actually terrifyingly ineffectual for a multi million pound business.  But then... we don't have a business savvy CEO overseeing things at the club.

 

We don't even own our own ground, after the owner sold it on the clubs before to the chap who looks back at him from his shaving mirror.

 

No; the pressure is on old Channers here, probably more than any other time of his tenure.  A bid coming in at this time heaps massive pressure on a man already under massive pressure.  It turns a screw. It ignites an unhappy fan base. 

 

"Gerrit sold and sling your hook" is a growing momentum I see all around - and I daren't even see what's being said on Twitter. 

 

However. 

As much as it might be a nice dream for Wednesday fans to think about this period of overspending failure to be packed away and a fresh new dawn to rise over Hillsborough... a quick look at the supposed bidders makes the eyes wince. 

 

 

It's that chap Alonso. He so recently departed. Got the backing of some unnamed backers from Indonesia. Hmmm. I'm not a fan of this un-named backers malarkey. It gives me visions of 2018 all over again, and truth be told, I still have some concerns as to who actually has their hand in the black glove that pulls the strings at Hillsborough. I'm not sure I'd want an out of the frying pan into the fire scenario. Though, of course, that would be typically Wednesday. 

 

Alonso is someone who claimed to be a Wednesday shareholder. The other year he claimed to be the agent of Celta Vigo winger Emre Mor, until the player said he'd never heard of him.  Alonso, is a chancer. 

 

Has he really made a bid? 

 

Or is it more likely  he's got the right royal lip on, after having his Wednesday ties severed, ties with a proper real club and not a made up one.

Rather than vague tweets, outright fibs and Website which offers nothing but "under construction" as a window in the business. 

 

No wonder he's smarting. Spivs do when the door slams shut on an opportunity to get in an exclusive members club.

 

Ties severed with a historic club that would have brought a certain Ties to a proper club which would have given his business a genuine legitimacy in the game.

 

This is surely an angry nonsense to make life a bit more uncomfortable than it already is for Chansiri and 'he who must not be named for legal reasons'.

A petty strike out against someone who's smarted you. 

 

 

 

 

 Of course, some will say that it would be better than the current situation!  Even though it is unlikely to be genuine and little more than a PR sniper shot. 

The thing is, to those who'd want it to be a genuine attempt, you have to say that when it's a case of having to decide the lesser of two spiv options then you know you're really in the mire. 

 

This is a move just to cause Chansiri a big headache. And up yours and a rods from old Erik to Channers and Pa  'he who can't be named for legal reasons'.

 

If I am wrong, and it would't be the first time I admit, I was once wrong in 1974, and the chap has made a genuine bid, did he really think it would be accepted? 

Of course not.

 

If he'd been genuinely working with Chansiri, which Chansiri admits he had, for the best part of a calendar year - (doing what, we're not sure- though rumour persists one of the things was trying to bring Hutchinson back on Pulis's nod.) then surely Alonso would be aware that Channers reckons he's spaffed £350 on the cause. The lost cause. Of course he would. 

 

Alonso would know absolutely 100% that a bid of £30m would be laughed straight out of town.

Would anyone accept a bid of 10% what you feel you have put in?

Of course not. And Wednesday are no different. 

 

Well, except perhaps when letting players go...

 

And that's the only possible reason it's been done - Maximum disruption. On the back of a heavy defeat too.  Perfect timing for a spat-blast to turn the fans up to boiling point from their regular simmer.

 

And the bid...£25m - £30m?

 

£30m would probably get you the Presto Stand  , half the cantilever and Jordan Rhodes's thumb! He know's that. 

 

He's playing a game. And he's probably guzzling Krug and playing with his hampton-wick, as we speak laughing his self silly.  

Meanwhile Channers is staring down a barrel of anger. 

 

Is it genuine?  Not to me. I think you get a hunch. 

Though you see what you want to see really don't you. 

 

And so... this is how we go into what is possibly the biggest game of the season, against Wycombe. The only side below us in the table. Defeat for either side is unthinkable. The pressure on the game is huge. More so for us perhaps because we still think we've half a sniff of survival and...

 

 

 

  "Sir..."

 

 "What is it, I'm in the middle of the monologue?"

 

 "Mr Hargreaves is on the telephone, Sir. He says it's a matter of great urgency"

 

 "Well, can't it wait? What does he want?"

 

 "He's calling a meeting of the Extraordinary League of Owlstalk posters,Sir. He wants to raise a consortium to buy Sheffield Wednesday"

 

 "Buy Wednesday! With what funds?"

 

 "He's going to use the subscriptions. Trev is going to sell some paintings, Andy is going to get the old Champion pies back on the go and sell them off the back of a tandem ridden by Grandad."

 

  "Still doesn't seem much?"

 

 "Well apparently, the dressing room section have also had a whip round and come up with 4 old Soviet Rubles, a Rainbow ribbon and an old CND pin badge, which apparently are worth well into double figures these days"

 

 "Crikey. Sounds legitimate. Better put him through." 

  

 

 

 

 

----------------------------------- THE MATCH -----------------------------------

 

WEDNESDAY

V's

WYCOMBE

9th February, 2021

Kick Off: 7pm

Hillsborough Stadium

 

Wednesday went ahead at Millwall on Saturday afternoon, caretaker boss Neil Thompson would have felt that his Owls side were well on their way to another important three points.

However, their second-half capitulation at The Den has put a different spin on things, with Wednesday now three points adrift of safety with their goal difference having taking a significant hit courtesy of the 4-1 defeat.

 

Conscious that he can have few complaints with the progression of his side in recent weeks, Thompson will hope that the setback is a minor blip in their bid to avoid relegation.

 

Gareth Ainsworth knows that a momentum change is needed at Adams Park.

Failing to score during either of those matches frustrated the Chairboys boss, who would have felt that progress was being made in the final third of the pitch.

Wycombe emerged victorious by a 1-0 scoreline in the reverse fixture back on October 31, a result which represented their first ever victory in the second tier.

 

 

  TEAM NEWS...

 

--------------------------- WEDNESDAY ---------------------------

 

 

Having suggested that some of his players were feeling the effects of a tough schedule, Thompson is expected to make changes to his Wednesday XI.

 

Kadeem Harris and Jordan Rhodes are likely to be among the players recalled to the side, as Thompson will know the value of a win. 

Massimo Luongo misses out with a thigh injury.

 

Wednesday possible:
Westwood

Lees   Dunkley  Urhoghide

Palmer   Reach  Pelupessy  Bannan     Harris

Paterson   Rhodes

 

 

---------------------------WYCOMBE WANDERERS-----------------------

 

 

Ainsworth will also make alterations to his Wycombe side, potentially handing recalls to Garath McCleary and Admiral Muskwe.

 

Anthony Stewart and Jason McCarthy are also pushing for starting roles in defence.

 

 

Wycombe  possible :
Allsopp

Grimmer  Stewart  Tafazolli   McCarthy

Wheeler   Ofoborh

Horgan    McCleary   Muskwe

Ikpeazu

 

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FORM GUIDE...

 

Wednesday  form: W W L W W L

Wanderers  form: L W L L D L

 

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COME 

ON

WEDNESDAY

 

 

[Everywhere & nowhere]

The Sisyphus gif is the best Wednesday thing I’ve seen - hats off to whoever made that

[Morepork]

I'm fed up of being W@nk and being associated with W@nkers......Sisyphus has a better chance of reaching the summit than we have of ridding ourselves of this utter W@nkdom were are up to our necks in........

W@nk, W@nk, W@nk......

 

2-1 to Wednesday 

 

 

Edited February 9, 2021 by Morepork

[Errol Flashman]

 

I nearly went put with a bird once wi Sisyphus.

 

Close escape. 

 

[heppers]

Must win game. We need to bounce back.

[marcx666]

The fact that 6 people think Alonsos "bid" is legit, is the most disturbing thing I've seen in ages, and I'm f*cking bipolar.....

[Drewswfc]

Cora, nobenders and emmerdale all rolled into one! That's what it's like following Wednesday. Never a dull moment. 

Need to win tonight and I think we will, I don't think it'll be pretty but who cares. 

2-0 to the blue n white wizards 

[Bakewell Owl]

32 minutes ago, marcx666 said:

The fact that 6 people think Alonsos "bid" is legit, is the most disturbing thing I've seen in ages, and I'm f*cking bipolar.....

I hate being bipolar - its great

[Wing Back]

This could be throw on toast.

With a huge dollop of throw and not much toast.

 

 

1-0 Wednesday...

Edited February 9, 2021 by Wing Back

[airborne_rat_of_s6]

Didn't realise that if Wycombe win this and their game in hand they would be on equal points to us. Cripes! Must win; absolutely. After the capitulation Saturday will we see a performance tonight? 

[bladeshater]

Play up Wednesday

[SwellOwl]

This game is massive tonight and the OMDT painted the picture of our predicament well!

 

My advice to the team, don’t blow it!

 

COME ON WEDNESDAY!!!

[Pablo Bonvin]

We need to win tonight obviously, but who knows? Turning out for this circus of a club must wreak havoc with the players’ minds.

 

As for the takeover, I’ll only believe it’s real when we’re advertising trips to Indonesia on our shirts......

 

Up the Owls FFS.

 

 

[Roscoe P. Coltrane]

THE WEDNESDAY

[striker]

Some may disagree, but I think this is a defining game to stay in touch,with some difficult games coming up.

 

Wycombe are low on quality, but high on fight so will have to match their aggression and energy as a starting point. But, is a game we should be winning. 

 

Recent home form is encouraging, but concerning that the players are already struggling a couple of weeks in, with another month of Saturday/midweek games before a break.

 

Still uncertainty around the club, it all feels like a waste of time, but hope for a little respite and a win to forget the circus off the pitch. 

[WalthamOwl]

Simply have to win this tonight. No excuses, have to get the 3 points. Wycombe are a shocking team, the fact they won their first game of the season against us was proper typical Wednesday. 

[OWLERTON GHOST]

7 hours ago, Lord Snooty said:

 "Well apparently, the dressing room section have had a whip round 

You know we are really in the cack when we turn to a bunch who's underpinning knowledge of SWFC is that  "Willie Henderson" is an appendage  enhancement lotion ....

 

We'll Be Reyt ...

[gazzamk2]

Thank you Snoots, difficult times, hopefully we'll be able to look back and laugh about it come the end of the season...

We'll have to be on our toes tonight. If we don't scrap for everything for 97 minutes we could well blow it. I just hope we show that we are up for a proper battle.

No mincing about tonight boys please.

[Greengrass]

Must win game.....again.

[Holmowl]

terrific thought-provoking stuff @Lord Snooty.

 

I haven’t voted and won’t comment as I’ve zero insight about what happens at our club. I do fear the worst though as from a business perspective our decision-making appears shoddy amateurism.

 

As for this evening, I’d expect changes. NT said what we all saw - we were massively leggy from HT. He can’t put out the same Xl.

 

I hope we see Harris and Rhodes start as a minimum. Rest Palmer and sit Penney out. Reach was no better but played wide left we know he is our biggest threat, and we need to win.

 

Paterson looked beat. Needs a rest, plus Kachunga has a bit more pace.

 

Hutch surely surely needs a rest, and it was noticeable that him being totally right-footed caused him to turn back to Westwood time and time again on Saturday. NT needs to think about that, because we can’t afford Lees and the right-footed Hutch to be our two wide play-it-outers.

 

Shaw could make a huge difference. We now know his engine size and it’s impressive.

 

Hope:-

 

Lees Dunkley Borner

Harris Joey Bannan Shaw Reach

Rhodes Kachunga