Sheffield’s Struggle

[@owlstalk]

[sonofbert2]

We could have had a reyt laugh this season just by staying up after the points deduction.

 

It’s not like we haven’t had the opportunities but we’ve failed time after time after time in big moments purely and simply because of lack of bottle and leadership.

 

You can rant all you want about the chairman and the state of the club, various managers etc but what happens on the pitch is really what counts and this spineless bunch should hang their heads in shame.

 

We had a list of the mad stuff that the chairman has done.  You could easily make a similar list of stupid and pathetic stuff this team have done, out there, on the pitch over this season.

 

Failure to fight back in any game even to achieve a draw, losing from winning positions, stupid sending offs, missed chances, crumbling late on in games, the list is endless.

 

This club lacks leadership on and off the pitch and looks to have denied us, and this city, what could have been a good season of fierce rivalry in the same division next season.

 

Pathetic.

[TheEnchanter]

Aside from the diasasters off the pitch I don't think I've witnessed as much ineptness on the pitch in one season. We wazz away any decent chances in most games to gain any advantage or foothold and we do it in increasingly idiot and creative ways. This team on the pitch for the last 18 months or so has got to be one of the dumbest, idiotic, loser cultures ever created at the club. Again, it was allowed to grow like mould in a petri dish due to the lack of leadership structure and planning in all areas of the club off thr field. Overall it's been a nightmare and we haven't had chance to really have the last laugh at the Pigs on the way. 

[heppers]

It’s turd

[sonofbert2]

I can’t ever remember thinking, “Well, that justfucking sums us up!” as many times in a negative way over one season during my 40 years of watching Wednesday.

 

I’ve seen worse teams, far worse players, much worse football but I can’t ever remember a bigger bunch of such thick, spineless belltips.

[Manwë]

Imagine this team taking part in a steel city Derby at Bramall lane, United down to 10 men, legs flying everywhere.

 

The players have done us a favour this season to avoid it.

[TheEnchanter]

4 minutes ago, Manwë said:

Imagine this team taking part in a steel city Derby at Bramall lane, United down to 10 men, legs flying everywhere.

 

The players have done us a favour this season to avoid it.

 

Very true. Also, I think if we did stay up it would just be delaying the inevitable anyway.

[sonofbert2]

This current team is in 8th position in the division for taking the lead in matches and in 1st position for losing from a leading position.

 

This team has failed to take ONE SINGLE POINT when going behind in a game across the whole season so far.

 

Pathetic.

 

#wegoagain

 

[latemodelchild]

At the end of this season I want as many players as possible to leave. Those that go will never be forgiven by me for the pathetic displays over the last season and a half. Every time I see their names mentioned I will sneer at them and curse their very existence. 

 

Those that stay have a chance to redeem themselves and I will support them 100%, hopefully from the stands with my son. I will cheer their achievements and quietly mutter about their mistakes as per. I'll speak my mind on here but won't abuse. I won't go on twitter and call them names or vilify the club. Not my style that really. Achieves nowt. 

 

As for the owner and his management team. I have no words to say that I haven't already typed. I want him to change, learn grow and improve the club. I want him to have success with us. I want him to make money from us being successful. I doubt he will because he seems blind to the problems we face. I fear that his intransigence will rob us all of our club one day and I'll do anything I can to stop that. Until then I'll support the team on the pitch cos thats all we can do, and it's what I enjoy. 

[Jim]

Sheffield’s not big enough or passionate enough a football city to carry two clubs. It’s been blatantly obvious for years. If the city had one club like Leeds, Leicester or Newcastle it would’ve been far more successful.

[edwinowl]

Good thread this and agree with everyone on here. DC has hardly covered himself in glory since the play off debacle.  But we’ve had so many chances this year to get out of this hole and continually blow it.  Derby are there for the taking to be relagated and we’ve allowed them and or Rotherham an easy route out. Pathetic. 

[RichSheffWeds]

The players have been proven to be mentally weak. 
 

The stats on never coming back after going behind are frightening. 
 

Losing late goals regularly particularly against 10 men twice is unforgivable. 
 

Producing one top class performance every six months is an embarrassment. 
 

Whatever the issues at the Club, there is no excuse for the way we have caved in especially to bottom half clubs like Rotherham, Birmingham, Luton away, the list is endless. 
 

These players really should hang their collective heads in shame. 
 

Overpaid mercenaries. In any other walk of life they would have been cleared out long ago. Yet they get rich on failure. 
 

Somehow, we have to find a way to link income for players to success. 

[brando]

51 minutes ago, sonofbert2 said:

We could have had a reyt laugh this season just by staying up after the points deduction.

 

It’s not like we haven’t had the opportunities but we’ve failed time after time after time in big moments purely and simply because of lack of bottle and leadership.

 

You can rant all you want about the chairman and the state of the club, various managers etc but what happens on the pitch is really what counts and this spineless bunch should hang their heads in shame.

 

We had a list of the mad stuff that the chairman has done.  You could easily make a similar list of stupid and pathetic stuff this team have done, out there, on the pitch over this season.

 

Failure to fight back in any game even to achieve a draw, losing from winning positions, stupid sending offs, missed chances, crumbling late on in games, the list is endless.

 

This club lacks leadership on and off the pitch and looks to have denied us, and this city, what could have been a good season of fierce rivalry in the same division next season.

 

Pathetic.

Very good post..

[Ellis Rimmer]

11 minutes ago, Jim said:

Sheffield’s not big enough or passionate enough a football city to carry two clubs. It’s been blatantly obvious for years. If the city had one club like Leeds, Leicester or Newcastle it would’ve been far more successful.

that's a ridiculous post. It's not the fans fault we're in this position. Of course if it was a one club city there would be more chance of being successful but that's not what it's about. 

[Brissy-owl]

Sheffield struggle only for wednesday, utd will be planning a promotion back while we are planning to try and stay in league 1

[Spookone]

10 minutes ago, Jim said:

Sheffield’s not big enough or passionate enough a football city to carry two clubs. It’s been blatantly obvious for years. If the city had one club like Leeds, Leicester or Newcastle it would’ve been far more successful.

Never agreed with this - obviously if we had one team we would have an extremely large fan base. But the fact we were 1 game away from the prem and the blunts have just spent 2 seasons there shows we do.

 

We also both have very respectable fan bases in the grand scheme of things.

 

Bad management and very bad signings have caused our current problems and poor signings by the blunts have caused theres.

 

Clubs you mentioned such as Leicester and Leeds who only have 1 team have spent many years in the lower leagues.

[FinnishOwl]

41 minutes ago, TheEnchanter said:

 

Very true. Also, I think if we did stay up it would just be delaying the inevitable anyway.

I've been thinking the same. The last two-three seasons have been very much something else than fun, and the next season in Championship would definitely be our last as we have to replace almost a full squad during the summer. I can see a relegation the only wake up call we have left in the toolbox. And that it hopefully prevents Paxo from stuffing overpaid past-it players to the club anymore.

[SwellOwl]

The squad needs a huge overhaul. The players who are out of contract, I can’t think of many I would like to extend. We need a new look, a new identity. 

[doubleo]

14 minutes ago, Jim said:

Sheffield’s not big enough or passionate enough a football city to carry two clubs. It’s been blatantly obvious for years. If the city had one club like Leeds, Leicester or Newcastle it would’ve been far more successful.

I’m not sure I agree. You’ve only got to look across the Pennines - “Liverpool” is a smaller city and yet has 2 very successful clubs,  and only 30 miles from Manchester, plus all the Lancashire clubs such as Bolton, Burnley, Tranmere. Leeds is larger and has very little competition (Bradford and York), and nothing to the East or North for miles. I think it’s down to one simple thing - clever massive  investment.

[Owls-Fan]

18 minutes ago, Jim said:

Sheffield’s not big enough or passionate enough a football city to carry two clubs. It’s been blatantly obvious for years. If the city had one club like Leeds, Leicester or Newcastle it would’ve been far more successful.

 

Yeah not really sure about this,  Wednesday have a larger fan base than many of the current prem sides. Or at least an equal fan base but the better you are the higher your attendance tends to be.  If you look at the Saints attendances when they dropped to league 1 it was around 23-24k a game, then about 26k in the championship when they were top 2 and now 32k in the prem.  Wednesday can easily match that if you put a decent side on the pitch for people to watch