Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
It's similar to the Cardiff owner who thought red was a lucky colour.
We've got a great owner who doesn't get it wrong often.
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[Albion] Massive fan in peace
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It's similar to the Cardiff owner who thought red was a lucky colour.
We've got a great owner who doesn't get it wrong often.
Brian Munich
teH lulZ
- Jul 7, 2008
- 163
King of Thailand big fan of Sheffield Wednesday and a Kop season ticket holder was he?
Minutes applauses during games only occur for deaths of significant former players or high profile fans that have done a load for the club. Ceremonies before games are generally only observed for Remembrance Sunday or, as was the case in Brighton in 2015, following local tragedies that affected a load of people.
Stick your head in the sand and keep kissing your charman's backside. I'm sure you'll be fine.
spring hall convert
Well-known member
Best came in after Burke left didn't he?
Though to be fair with that one, as terrible as Best was, I'm pretty sure even Hughton thought it was a long shot and our other options were a ****ed Mackail-Smith & Chris O'Grady.
spring hall convert
Well-known member
I can't even begin to imagine what CH thought when he turned up and saw McCourt in training given his penchant for hard workers.
blue'n'white
Well-known member
I remember watching the team "perform" and there were no tactics - the whole team was just this amorphous blob in the centre of the pitch. And, as was pointed out, Fenelon and O'Grady up front. Truly shocking
Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
- 14,849
Not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but the appointment of that Dodgy Doris as CEO probably isn't going to help... 
I wouldn't write him off – ex-England managers seem to be doing ok when coming to the aid of 'beleaguered' clubs this season, in the PL at least... (unfortunately)
I wouldn't write him off – ex-England managers seem to be doing ok when coming to the aid of 'beleaguered' clubs this season, in the PL at least... (unfortunately)
Pinkie Brown
I'll look after the skirt
Not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but the appointment of that Dodgy Doris as CEO probably isn't going to help...
I wouldn't write him off – ex-England managers seem to be doing ok when coming to the aid of 'beleaguered' clubs this season, in the PL at least... (unfortunately)
There's usually an exception to most rules. I would reasonably expect McClaren to be that exception of past England Managers being a success.
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Deleted member 2719
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Whoo there boy, i am going to defend Sammi a bit here.
Am i right in saying he was governed by Burke and did not have the freedom of recruitment like Hughton now does, in other words they fed him a load of shite to polish, well lets face it was a tough ask.
Also Hughton has also had the fortune of the biggest budget that an Albion managers had pre Premier League.
Jimmehh
Well-known member
I dunno - maybe the wally with the brolly is about to turn his rep around
Unlikely
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
No. I actually don't know any wednesday fans that use owlsonline so surprised a Brighton fan is on there!
I sometimes read Owlstalk. Mostly to laugh when things go belly up, but I found the majority of posters very complimentary and fair, about our achievements last year.
Now I am genuinely concerned for your club's future. I wonder if it will head towards a Fans United moment?
But it wasn't so long ago remember that our CEO was calling us "customers". He doesn't use that word publicly any longer but I'm not sure that the underlying attitude is any different.
His track record is a bit better though..............and as for the owners, different planets.......
TWOCHOICEStom
Well-known member
I honestly cannot believe how little other fans care about who runs their club.
We are so bloody lucky.
We are so bloody lucky.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
The recruitment structure at the time certainly didn't help, but my god, Hyypia didn't help himself either. Tactics that seemed to involve our fullbacks being parked no further back than the halfway line, leaving the freedom of the park to gleeful opponents as our CB's desperately tried to patrol the alarmingly wide-open spaces around them. An insistence, week in week out, on maintaining our Axis of Feeble, JFC and Gardner in the middle of the park. Post-match interviews so monotone and morose after the latest defeat, it led to reports of some fans self-harming on their way home from games. Added to the fact he generally carried himself with all the energy and charisma of an elderly badger cripplingly afflicted with the latter stages of bovine tuberculosis.
He may not have had the advantages afforded Sir Chris. But nothing he has done since leaving us would lead me to believe we passed up a gem there.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Come on, they're hardly about to lose their ground or go out of business. There'll be more years of underachievement (quite standard by now) and maybe even another dip into the 3rd tier, but lets keep things in perspective. Their very existence is not under threat.
Meire is there? Oh my. Well Wednesday are doomed if she behaves in the same way as she did at Charlton.
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Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Offering a refund to all STHs for the last ten home games - dire straits to say the least
Horses Arse
Well-known member
Certainly started with the end of the Poyet era. Don't think Hyppia would have succeeded even with a decent squad but mistakes were made toward the end of the Poyet spell and thereafter for a while. Oscar managed it very well but must have seen the writing on the wall. Burke gets grief, and rightly so, but was lauded by the club and fans alike initially and by the club for a long while. We were fed the great story of the Burke/Albion recruitment technique at that time with much research on players attitude and approach aside from their football ability. I remember Barber lauding both the approach and Burke's role whilst we were presented with the likes of Kemy. Something was obviously wrong with the implementation of the approach but it lasted a long long time. So even with the right Chairman, CEO and a proven recruitment head (Watford previously??) it was still going in the wrong direction at that time.
Bloom is the best chairman out there I believe, better than Gibson et al, but we should be thankful for Hyppia deciding to resign. Sounded very much like he would have been kept on due to the statistical analysis indicating he wasn't too far off. Poyet and the Hyppia experience taught Bloom and Barber a great deal I believe, which supported Chris Hughton's work greatly. It could all have been so different and it took great leadership to reflect and learn from previous mistakes. Can't see Chansiri doing so though and hence your problems may well continue.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Chasing success, at any cost easily blurs a fan's perspective, especially in the Championship where the only way to not make a loss is to get promoted.
Without Tony Bloom heaven knows where we'd be now.
It doesn't take much to set a club on a slide that way though - a relegation to Lg1 with an expensive squad, plus owners / Chief Execs who don't give a shit and then want their money back can easily lead to a spiral of decline.
Brian Munich
teH lulZ
- Jul 7, 2008
- 163
There is if the egotistical chairman gets bored with owning a football club and decides to cut his losses and start asset stripping. Do you really think that this ex Charlton bird has been brought in to implement popular decisions?
Would give her one though.