Lionel Fessi

Didn’t actually realise one of my friends has an account with TPP on from last season, so I can purchase 2. Any Wednesday fans who aren’t attending fancy letting me add you as a relative so I can purchase another ticket and assign it to you?

Will these hit general sale? Planning to bring 2 friends of mine (none Wednesday fans but anti pig) but I can only buy 1 tickets ffs.

Mixed feelings, I’ll agree SPL is a unique challenge due to the expectation to win everything all the time. I can see the appeal for Röhl. But the reality is as it’s incredibly uncompetitive, low quality and Scottish football lacks the revenue to even compete with smaller clubs in Europe the ceiling is tiny - Scottish football and by extension of that Rangers & Celtic are getting left behind by the investment in the EFL & other emerging leagues round Europe. That is why I think any upcoming manager or player view those clubs as a less attractive proposition now. Probably why they have struggled to attract any genuine ‘big name’ manager/players.

Does anyone know when tickets for the derby go back on sale? (Were they on sale already before tickets went down?). Ive never experienced a time like this, the results of the matches have never felt so irrelevant. Just want to turn up for the club.

Had a look on the Rangers sub Reddit and couldn’t believe how unhappy the majority of fans were about Röhl’s appointment - the entitlement from Scottish fans is unreal. Positive he’s going to be great for them, I’d argue it’s actually a step back in quality & competitiveness vs Championship but excited to see how he performs, pressure will be immense at that club.

2 - McNeil 4 - Otegbayo, Palmer, Iorfa, Horvath 5 - Everyone Else The last time I remember seeing an outfield player directly at fault for 2 goals was Odubajo vs Preston a few years back…I actually thought McNeil gave the ball away for all 3 of theirs today. Probably a glimpse into why he isn’t playing regularly, really poor zero awareness. Another dreadful performance, we’ve got absolutely nothing in this side. We look bad all over, Bannan is even struggling and was careless with the ball. Hard to take positives, we’re lucky Bristol seemed happy with just 3 goals, felt like they could have had more. Atleast Charles & Bernard back in a few weeks should limit these performances!!

Trying to keep this just about the players, manager & performance so just bare that in mind. 6 - M.Lowe & Bannan 5 - Everyone else The first full match I’ve actually sat down and watched this season. I thought we were pretty bad and could have lost that 4 or 5 nil. We are a complete shell of ourselves vs this time last year. We have problems all over the pitch. Horvath looks exactly like a 4th choice keeper, we have zero structure still in defending set pieces and going forward we are completely void of ideas, apart from pass it to Bannan. Players like Ingelsson, Kobacki & Cadz I can’t decide if I think they’re any good or if they just work hard and run around a lot…lacking end product so often. Similarly J.Lowe is a complete passenger, I still don’t know what he brings to the team.

Sounds absolutely mental doesn’t it? But I’d agree.. If by some miracle those 11 players can give us ~40 games we might have a chance, still a poor poor side but they’re capable of grinding away a few wins. Maybe we get lucky and a youngster like McNeil or Charles has incredible breakout season? In reality though that defence is a major worry, it was already under Röhl and we’ve lost 3 starters from last year plus plenty of experience… Palmer & Otegbayo are not good enough, Lowe could be off, Bernard is still injured and Charles is a massive unknown.

Even if those 11 stayed fit all season, still a bottom 5 side. On the upside there’s plenty of potential in there - Charles, Otegbayo,Cadz & Kobacki are all still very young and could all be hits. Plus there’s quality in there and players capable of putting in good performances, how consistent the likes of Ugbo, Svante, Chalobah & Iorfa will be is going to be crucial I’d even put J.Lowe into that mix. If we have any chance at all in staying up they’ll need to be fit & firing when it counts.

I always go back to that first season he came in and assembled a board of advisors at the club - Glen Roeder, Adam Pearson and Paul Senior. Lasted a few months then they all vanished. We never had a form of leadership at the club other than Chansiri since. No board. Big big problem. No other club in the football league operates like this.

I’ve been in this camp, as one of the best players at the club we’ve held him in the same light as Bannan. Expected to be 7 or 8 out of 10 every game and when he’s not, we probably don’t win and he gets a lot of stick. Fickle fans aren’t we? But that comes with the territory of being a good player. Especially one with the attitude & swagger Windass carried around. He’s been very good for us, nobody can argue with that. The attacking returns, THAT goal at Wembley and how instrumental he was to our success under Röhl - more so than probably any other player. But…he’s had his flaws. Injuries, consistency and at times he’s just the wrong side of selfish. As good as he’s been, let’s not pretend he hasn’t frustrated us all over the years and he could have been even better. Sad to see him go and even more frustrated it’s for nothing but thats all down to our shambolic owner. Best of luck to Windass, the type of player any side in this division would want in the squad.

Can’t see him at a game unless there’s a drastic uptick in our situation. Regardless of what you thought of him before this summer, it feels like he’s actively gone out of his way to sabotage the club these last 3 months. So so many issues across all levels - leadership, strategy, academy, training facilities, stadium, legal, players, financial, manager it’s actually quite unbelievable what a mess we’re in. I’ll give it 10 games, when we’re rock bottom with 5 points, zero signings and we get embarrassed by United, after that it will turn really nasty. It’s going to be a horrible toxic season that could quite possibly be one of the worst in the club history. Depressing, just at a loss for words now.

The only positive we can take it atleast the players have experience with eachother & Röhl, after everything we’ve been through this summer any game we avoid getting beat 4-0 I’ll take… Think we’re going to see a totally different style of play this season. If we have any chance at all of staying up we can’t try and replicate how we played with the likes of Windass, Gassama, Smith, Charles…impossible to replace them with bottom of the barrel loanees. Charles Valery Otegbayo Iorfa Lowe Palmer Bannan Svante Chalobah McNeil Ugbo

Utterly depressing no other way about it. On the verge of what might be one of the worst seasons of my lifetime. Windass Gassama Musaba Charles Smith Those 5 were our best attacking players last season and they’ve all left, with the exception of Bannan probably 5 of our best players from last season too. Really really depressing, the only positive is players mutually terminating contracts might lead to action from the EFL to force Chansiri out.

I always think this should really be ‘when they don’t play, who do we miss the most?’ To which, Bannan would win every single season, there’s a case again for him this year too. But, Shea Charles has been magnificent and without his influence in the middle I worry who could have stepped up. Bannans impact for certain would have suffered. Windass very good too, 17? G/A is hard to argue against and goals are by far the most valuable asset in any team. 1-Charles 2-Baz 3-Windass Interesting also, Musaba now has more goal involvements than Gassama…despite playing 1500+ less minutes. Food for thought on how valuable he is when fit. Not quite POTS candidate yet but Valery has been impressive as well, suits Rohls system really well and so good on the ball. Very clever player.