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Anyone worth having as owners will be fully aware of the crowds we get and the potential at SWFC. Seeing 20,000 for a club on -4 points, a team who would struggle to score in a brothel with Musk's money, and be lucky to win half a dozen games this year (all through no fault of the players/staff), is perfectly understandable and acceptable. Won't have any impact on serious players.

What a month or so for @Kris Wigfield. Gets to take over his club as administrator, get fans back buzzing, creating a positive vibe back at the club, generating income to see us through the process, and then this plastered all over a Wednesday forum! Going to miss Kris when he hands the club over to the Walton's.

Been a while since I watched this. Looks dated already by top half Premier League standards. Looks very White Hart Lane, which was deemed not good enough for Spurs a decade ago! I know we've fallen well below Spurs in the past couple of decades, but I'd hope our club has ambitions to be competing at that sort of standard in the future. Spending a tonne of money bringing Hillsborough up to White Hart Lane standards might not be the way to go...

It's pretty poor Sheffield and South Yorkshire miss out completely. Would have been a great opportunity for the smaller, newer stadiums in the region to get involved with Rotherham and Doncaster stadiums.

Love the openness of regular statements, but there are now more quesrions! When will the points deduction come? What’s the other bad news - assume it’s related to embargoes remaining; what else can it be? Will these issues turn off those who have put in initial bids for the club? No problem with losing to United yesterday, was expected. The future of this club and the imminent bad news is a problem!

Cool your jets Mr Walton, you’ll get the keys in the New Year!!

Here’s hoping you and your pals get to see at least a decade of Wednesday in the Premier League.

The Government have commited to £2b for transport for the project seemingly... whether that happens is anyone's guess, but The Blues owners seem very capable of putting pressure on the Government (pushing H2S deadlines at them).

It's also based on front loading, meaning we've operated all this season so far with 2025/26 season ticket money gone before a ball was even kicked! Usually, that would be in the coffers for the months leading through this season to part pay monthly bills.

Big club with big scale neglected for the best part of 30 years and as a result is available for a song will cost a lot of money to see a massive return on investment, shock horror. A club with a huge following and still one of the most successful clubs in the history of English football has high expectations (a properly run club with facilities for 21st century football looking to get back to the Premier League = high expectations?!), shock horror. Not the greatest first impression.

Have to agree with this bit. A derby is between two clubs in the same city, not big local games hyped up by Sky since the 1990's. Sunderland vs Newcastle, Derby vs Forest, Leciester vs Coventry, Swansea vs Cardiff, etc - not derbies. It is though - not many folk clearly fancy sitting below United fans. If the West Stand Lower could accommodate 2,300 Blades, we'd sell out the top tier for this game, no bother.

Oh, and we are 900 from selling out with 4 days to go. It's all a bit dramatic this!

All other big derbies are in the top tier and probably have better segregation that we do.

Steady on, hopefully we'll be taking their Championship place come May 2027!

I'll be boarding a Glasgow to London train at 11:55am on Sunday, and I'm currently planning how on earth I can stream the game with on-board wifi without a loss of signal every 2mins. Sitting on the West Stand Lower with coins lobbed at my head and being spat at would be a luxury in comparison!

IIRC, the new stadium got them into the spiral of debt, so it was a mechanism to carry on. They got promoted to the Premier League the same season too I think - at the expense of Sheffield United!!

Nah, Leicester cleared all their debts, ended up with their new stadium on the cheap, avoided a points deduction, and got promoted to the Premier League.

Aye, obtaining personal details in that manner would surely have got them into bother. IIRC club money was allegedly used too, and at a time when we were getting "loans" for cheap players?

Hopefully. Really like him, but a good fee in January rewards his excellent form for us, he's too good for League One (and at an age he shouldn't be there), and it shows the new owners have the right plan of selling when a players value is likely at its highest for us. £2.5-3.5m would give us a solid transfer budget for rebuilding in League One.

Wowzers! Horrible behaviour. Glad those days are long gone, probably worse - on a personal level for fans - than anything the last custodian did.

He went to the Boro game? Scab!

Think this has been corrected in the past - we effectively took on the remainder of his contract to 2016 (he'd signed a 3-year contract with Palace in 2013).

Barry Bannan.

New one on me that, thanks!

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