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Horvath: 7 Palmer: 5 Iorfa: 4 M. Lowe: 5 Fusire: 4 Amass: 7 Valery: 6 Bannan: 6 Ingelsson: 6 J. Lowe: 5 Ugbo: 4 Cooper: 6 Cadamarteri: 6 McNeill: 6 Webb (ref): 5

My mate and I said this constantly today, how the default setting in the modern game is to pass backwards and sideways to try and get out of trouble, when it seems that you're just causing more problems than it's worth if you don't have the quality to pass and move your way out of it. Back in the "old days", you were taught, and did, "get rid" first, ie: Don't put yourself our your team under pressure, get the ball up the field out of danger and reorganise, yet players and managers (coaches) seem absolutely terrified to do this and would rather put themselves in danger by playing a 10/20 yard pass sideways or backwards and creating more pressure and danger. The obsession with the modern game to pass sideways and backwards did for us today for their goals, we had chances also to be positive and put balls into corners or down the line but then chose to turn and go back. The modern game of football really is dreadful and unexciting because of this obsession to keep hold of the ball for as long as you can rather than just try and attack and create out of nothing.

I took two mates today who aren't Owls but wanted to support the club and spend in the shop etc, I wasn't bothered about the result, I expected a comfortable United win, which it was, we know our fate though, we know we are going down but I honestly thought that with all the recent goings on that the team would be fired up and would play with passion, heart, desire etc, even if, as expected we lost the game. My mates were hoping to see a fired up, passionate Wednesday give it to them from the first minute until the last, regardless of the score, but what we got was a passive, weak, meek and at times shambolic performance, I'm not slating the players at all, some individuals were better than others, I just thought the lack of intensity and urgency as a collective was disappointing, apart from when Ugbo, or was it J.Lowe who shoved one of them into the North stand hoardings, there was no bite, no aggression, etc, the game, as are most these days was played at a snails pace with no tempo or attacking flair, just going through the motions. As I say, not fussed over the result but really hoped to see a performance we could have been proud of and clapped them off for their efforts, instead we trudged away disappointed that we didn't really lay a glove on them, and I'll honest, 3-0 flattered us!

I've always found his accent really strange. Sounds like a weird mash up of Sheffield, East/South Midlands and West Midlands. Proper weird!

If Wednesday win I can imagine him coming out with something like "Everyone was against us cos of the situation they're in" Or "They had everything going for them and it was a moral victory for us" then onto ham sandwiches

Can it be slowed down a touch please, I really love this song but sounds like a really dreadful rap/gangster song when everyone sings it so fast. Oh and same for Wondering Wednesday. Cheers

I remember not long after the band first started, we had a Monday night game against Forest, Carbone scored a cracking first goal for the club, it was an absolutely Baltic cold night in November and the band were playing, there was only 16,000 or so there but the atmosphere was great as everyone joined in back then, the band joined in and kept things going back then. (The song that was known as the 'Utrecht song ' that is now more familiar as the one ending in 'famous Sheffield WEDNESDAY' seemed to go on forever). A Manchester United game also on a Wednesday night I think when Carbone scored another beauty and the noise and atmosphere was immense. They've become more of an annoyance and a parody as time has gone on and those heady days and nights of 1996/97.

They were at Wembley for the RL ashes, England v Australia.

5p from Pond Street, just make sure you keep 5p change from the dinner at the friary

Modern and functional I prefer to call them

Didn't our previous owner promise all that within 5 years of him taking over and was swallowed and regurgitated by many of our fans and many on here at the time despite some of us dismissing it all. I personally, wouldn't want the boredom of being in the PL and making up numbers just to appease foreign TV and tourists, however, a European trip!! I didn't go to the Spora away game but I've been to Luxembourg and loved the place, I also regularly watch football in Europe so would love to see the Wednesday abroad at some point

They have now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade_de_Luxembourg

Which is why most countries abroad, and even Ireland and Scotland now, have designated areas where there will be noise, flags, etc the people who don't want to watch a game in that environment can choose not to. The English football culture is terrible now, when there was terraces, everyone who wanted to sing and chant and let steam off all knew where to stand in the ground, people who wanted to watch the game quietly also had their places they would stand or sit, but since the grounds are now all seater and sanitised, people just have to all sit together, regardless of how they want to watch the game. I know the North Stand became the place to go for people who wanted to be a bit more raucous but that place should have been on the Kop like it had for decades. The other thing that you don't see abroad is home fans positioning themselves near the away fans for the "agro" side of things, indeed, in Germany especially, you'll often see away fans, in colours, in the sections nearest the away section, imagine that here!

Atmosphere and the way people consume/watch football has changed. Most people now spend most of their times looking at their phones compared to 20+ years ago when most people were engrossed in the football on the pitch. Not everyone sang their hearts out for 90 minutes back then but there was certainly more interaction between the stands and the pitch, but let's not forget that football has changed also, gone are the days when there was more or less action for 90 minutes, always something going on, a long ball/pass that split the opposition, a good run from a winger, a midfield busting charge etc, now, it's all slow, ponderous, possession based with very little risk which I, personally, find boring. What happened on the pitch raised the adrenaline and excitement levels in the stands, a thunderbolt David Hirst run and shot, a dashing Jermaine Johnson run down the wing, Chris Waddle teasing and embarrassing the opposition, Lee Bullen putting his body on the line to save a certain goal, Beni Carbone dazzling his way around defenders got the crowd excited and the crowd responded. People aren't really going to enthralled enough to sing and chant when Iorfa and Palmer are stood still passing between themselves and the keeper are they? It's not just football, society has changed, people no longer have the attention span either unless its on a phone screen.

https://www.pitchd.tv/post/ground-stade-josy-barthel-cal-spora-luxembourg No doubt will bring back some memories for lots of people.

I get that, but this is about the fans inside the stadium, deliberately making noise during a period of silence, not outside noises. It did have quite an eerie feel though with the explosions around the playing of the last post.

Yet again, another "minutes silence" ruined by people applauding following the playing of the last post. It's one of my biggest bugbears of modern life and I don't know how, when or where it came in, but certainly in the last few years, possibly post-Covid? Despite the 'last post' signalling the start of the period of silence to commemorate and honour the war dead, people start clapping it! Last night, as the last notes of the last post were drifting away, the usual clapping started for a good 30 seconds or so, (I saw the veterans' and representatives of the armed forces/RBL, shaking their heads, despite being bowed in solemn respect). Once that had died down then people started taking their seats and chatting away, despite the "minutes silence" still ongoing. Can I take this opportunity to remind everyone and ask everyone to share, it's from the forces veterans/RBL as to the etiquette of the remembrance day commemorations. Let's put a stop to the clapping and let's get back to observing a minutes SILENCE!

We were in the Grandstand and I could barely make out a word of it all. I heard Zico mention something about the bully and Hirsty about getting the club back but wasn't sure of the context etc.

Even worse when same people then have to sit through 90+ minutes of dross on the pitch!

Hopefully it's against my team, Emley, I'd be definitely getting a half/half scarf for that

I was one of those who didn't get the excitement and giddiness of finally "'having a rich owner who will get us back to the promised land' etc etc A rich owner shouldn't need to put ticket prices up by 40% instantly to "fund a squad to get us to the premier league". A rich owner shouldn't need the fans to contribute to "getting the club back where it belongs". A rich owner shouldn't have needed to use fans as a cashcow to fund his and the clubs' "ambitions" But he did, and from the start, and yet people, many on here, insisted for many years that we as fans had to pay more to see better players etc etc. Hopefully though, that's all behind us now and we can move forward, everywhere and nowhere, baby!

I shall grace the old place for only the 5th time since I saw through the "Thai businessman saviour" 10 years ago. Well done and thank you to all you regulars who sacrificed your supporter-ship for the greater good. UP THE MF'in OWLS!

Almost a big upset in the Sheffield and Hallamshire senior cup this week, Emley, 5th in the Northern Premier League Div 1 East (step 4/level ) against Kinsley Boys, top of Central Midlands Alliance Premier North (step 7/level 11). Kinsley were 2-0 up at half time and looking good for the upset, then a red card on 63 mins, an Emley equaliser on 68 and then it was all Emley, who eventually equalised in the 96th minute and then won the shoot out but a great effort from Kinsley in front of a very good crowd.

I've never known decent weather at Sandygate! I've been 6 times now with Emley and every time, there's been heavy rain, strong winds and usually, a mixture of both! It was no different last month in a drab 0-0 .