PapaLazarou

No mention of SUFC or SWFC in an article about Sheffield football though?! Just a photo of Bramall Lane. Odd.

Heres the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/world/europe/sheffield-england-football-soccer.html

Never done that. I also prefer to attend games rather than comment on them from my Shackletons chair.

Been once. Never saw any bother when I was there.

Thing is, as this is a thread about the Sheffield club that I don't support, I wondered about posting things like (and I quote) "get them spanked" and "I really hope they get battered ". But then I remembered how old I was. And how pathetic that looks.

I heard it on here, of course.

You've got a real chance in this one. Millwalls recent form is appalling. P6, W0, D1, L5.

Especially Huddersfield, Stoke and Plymouth. Points make prizes.

To be fair, sometimes Wilder spouts as much sheeite as Kelvin does.

Richards used to run the new sponsor (Wandisco, now re-branded with a new name following fraud investigation. He departed during or immediately following that fraud investigation. He now runs Eyup, your previous sponsor, which may have also had financial issues, hence being replaced as sponsor.

By literal definition, a casino is a gambling site.

"Oh, just a few last bits of advice Dejphon. Don't mock Brentford (you know that "no way to run a club" and "no ambition" thing), because they might just end up in the Premier League, posting a £4m profit one of these days. Don't let the players have a shower before a game otherwise you'll use all the hot water. Do your due diligence on shirt sponsors. And remember - those people out there - they're called supporters. Have a great time you wily old Top Businessman. Oh and before I forget, theres half a bad of grass seed under my desk. Go steady with it."

*Richards

Richard used to run Wandisco (now Cirata), and does indeed run Eyup.

Cirata is the re-branded Wandisco. Shares plummeted after trading in its shares were suspended, as it was embroiled in a fraud scandal and investigation. Indeed, an investigation found that WANdisco’s revenue may have been overstated by about $15m and $115.4m in sales bookings was false. Some more info on your shirt sponser here: https://www.itpro.com/business/business-strategy/will-wandiscos-cirata-rebrand-mend-its-damaged-reputation

I think the new sponsor and the previous sponsor are owned/run by the same person.

Who on earth changes shirt sponsors half way through a season? https://www.swfc.co.uk/news/2024/february/owls-announce-new-shirt-sponsor/ Whats the reason behind this? And this is just hilarious: "Supporters will have the opportunity in the coming weeks of adding the Cirata logo to their official replica shirt at the Owls Megastore free of charge but are advised the outline of the previous sponsor may be visible beneath." You couldn't make this stuff up. Its better than Fawlty Towers.

From Wikipedia: In 1889, in his role as president of Sheffield United Cricket Club, he proposed that a football club should be based at Bramall Lane. It was named after the cricket club and so Sheffield United Football Club was born There’s quite a difference between “he proposed” and “he formed”.

They’ve only let Leicester score two so they can get that 2-2 draw. Remember where you heard it.

This gives a little insight re some of the financial issues: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13071465/MATT-BARLOW-Sheffield-Wednesday-dysfunctional-mess.html Some snippets from the article: The relief of occasional victory barely masks the shambles one of the great clubs of northern football has become. Punters know it because they live it every day and they hear what's going on. Hot water sometimes runs out after games, a problem blamed on an old stadium in need of a power upgrade and the habit of some players draining the system with pre-match showers. The heating broke in the offices before Christmas, although fixed within 24 hours and the club portable heaters were brought in. Pitches at the club's Middlewood Road training ground were frozen and unfit to use in the cold snap and the inflatable dome with its indoor pitch has been out of action for a year, damaged by heavy snow last year and not expected back up before next month. Röhl trained some days at Hillsborough, where the pitch is in poor condition as it often is in midwinter and reflects the neglect around the rest of the stadium. Urgent attention is required but money is tight at this level. Just three full-time ground staff tend the pitch at the stadium and those at the training ground. By way of reference, the ground staff at a Premier League club would be at least double this and often in double figures. What must Röhl make of it all? He has worked at Bayern Munich one of the best-run clubs in the world, and RB Leipzig with its space-age commitment to sports science. Sheffield Wednesday is a dysfunctional mess. Chansiri, son a canned fish tycoon, is thin-skinned and takes the criticism badly. From his angle, he bought the club when nobody wanted it. He threw millions from the family fortune at the Premier League dream and nobody thanked him for his efforts. That's because he fell short, losing at Wembley in the Championship play-off final in 2016 and the play-off semi-finals a year later, then the overspending caught up. Wednesday broke the EFL's Profit and Sustainability Rules, were deducted points for financial irregularities and spent two years languishing in League One before promotion in spectacular style. Good decisions and good appointments – and there have been some in nine years since Chansiri bought the club from Milan Mandaric - seem to be forever eclipsed by bad ones. Probably because there is no infrastructure to provide Sheffield Wednesday with the stability of a normal club. Instead, it blows around in the wind at the whim of the owner. Victory on New Year's Day against Hull City lifted them within three points of safety with the transfer market open and even Wednesday's notoriously pessimistic fans started humming the theme to Great Escape. They should have known better. Chansiri let Röhl and his team down as one deal after another collapsed in January. Conor Coventry rejected the Owls to join Charlton in a relegation battle one league down, as did Myles Peart-Harris, who opted for Portsmouth. Duncan McGuire snubbed them for Blackburn, who then made a mess of the deal leaving him without a transfer. There were echoes of the summer transfer window when Wednesday earned a reputation for being difficult to do business with, reluctant to pay fees to agents. Meanwhile, they still demanded money for players they desperately wanted out to make room on the wage bill. In the end, even more loan signings were thrown into the mix. When the window closed there were seven registered on loan but a maximum of five can be named in any match-day squad. Relegation looms but there is a bigger picture because what Owls supporters crave most is a break from this endless cycle of chaos and uncertainty.

Kelvin, by his own argument, must therefore feel that SWFC are inferior to Wrexham, Notts County, and Sheffield FC.

You’re hilarious. And deluded. I’ve never felt that my club was inferior to yours. Why would I? The fact that you “were here first” doesn’t interest me one bit. Show me where my animosity is in “all my posts”. And what an ironical thing to say, suggesting that all I do is ridicule. Have you looked back on your own posts? I’m not sure what “all way to quick” means though. However, I do believe one of the words you were looking for was “too”. PS - Glad to hear you’re still “and Owl”.

He a bit silly, isn’t he.

😂🤡😂 And you quote inferiority when you have…. ”a club that hasn't played in the top flight this century and has been relegated to the third division three times in that period, and is in danger of making it four? With a club that felt it necessary to reform as a legal entity and was incorporated in June 1990? https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02509978 With a club whose ground needs millions spending on it in order to bring it up to a decent standard? Not only suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder but also severe delusions. 🙄”

The revenue from player sales versus income from player additions is also quite shocking. He’s not a businessman really, is he.