Ante's Bubbly

The shocking defending cost us the game. Its no good making difficult chances for us to score and then giving the opposition goal opportunities on a plate, which we did several times in that game and pretty much most games this season. With players like Sargent in their side its a wonder we didn't lose to be honest. I reckon if we had had him in our side all season though we would have more points now and be talking about staying up. Luckily for us he is having a bit of an Ugbo this season and we got another point. It makes you wonder where the next three pointer will come from and I daren't even wish for the obvious favourite, but knowing Wednesday... UTO!.

No apologies for this being a long post (if you read it) its a punishment post , but its no good cheering and singing for ten or 15 minutes then thinking, why arent we winning games now, or scoring goals where the ball has gone past the player nearest goal. It will keep happening a lot, so we need to get used to it. I think Jamal was annoyed to have missed, but to be honest he did well to even get a touch, because he saw it and reacted half a second too late. I think that's what annoyed him most, the fact that he was in a bad spot to see the ball coming in. I'm not making excuses for our strikers but its almost a waste of time playing them when they have to spend so much time in midfield and defence. We defend as a team and hope to score on the break or from dead ball situations. As soon as we attack as a team, we concede a goal, or just escape by some miracle or other, so usually its just the two up top chasing the ball around the opposition's defence while rarely getting anything other than a half chance to get onto in front of goal. As for Jamal, I thought he'd had his best spell for us recently was MOTM in one of the away games and a top 2 candidate in a couple of others. He was not as dynamic against Norwich, but he was half expected to be rested before the game. He still ended up playing and he did a lot that obviously went unnoticed, while others take the limelight. He runs and takes defenders with him to give other players space in front of goal and did a great job doing that for Bannan's goal. That chunk of space in front of Bannan was not accidental and has too often been wasted by players, like Bannan, blasting the ball miles over the bar, sometimes several times a game. I hate to see that, time after time from the same players, that really should know better than to lean back and kick the ball up in the air as hard as they can! People really need to manage their expectations this season and understand what is happening at our club. I heard a silly old season ticket holder in the South Stand actually say, "let's hope its serious", when Palmer went down injured against Norwich! The few players we have got are here because they want to be here, fighting for us and not just picking up the best wage they can get, like so many recent favourites that are no longer here. We have lost less games than the pigs, or Norwich and would be just one point behind the two of them if it weren't for the points deduction. Also, considering them both having a few seasons in the Prem fairly recently (and fairly often), I think we have done really well. All the teams we are battling this season have bunches of players on their benches that we can only dream of even having in our starting line up, but we are still there in the majority of games. If we get a stronger defence and midfield sometime this season, I would expect to see more goals from our strikers, but until then we need to support them in what they are doing well and just hope that we can minimise the damage that is done points wise, until we can get to the position where we can pick up enough points to at least have a tiny chance of surviving. Regarding survival, I think we should make a bigger point about the points deduction given to the the players and the staff. They have been the ultimate professionals when it has been very difficult for them financially and the EFL think it is ok for them to take a chunk more punishment while the one person who brought about the points deduction walks off scot free. Of course the fans always suffer and we are used to it, but from a mental health perspective I think they have all suffered enough without getting kicked in the teeth by authorities that sat back and watch our plight worsen every season without doing a single thing about it. Oh sorry, apart from docking us points and putting us under embargo. Thanks a lot EFL. Keep up the hard work, Lowe, Ugbo, Cadamarterie and Brown, most of us appreciate what you are doing! UTO!

I think he was just being polite and showing the kind of class that bad ex owner will never have. Don't forget Bannan is one of our biggest wee fans, so it was clever wording.

Yeah let's face it, that Röhl geezer was just holding him back. Seriously though, the team are now applying the kind of steely determination that we first had under Darren Moore when we overcame every obstacle (on the pitch, and through poor ownership/underfunding issues etc) to win promotion and then repeated under Danny when we beat nailed on relegation on the final day. If Pederson can keep us showing these levels of commitment with a bit more quality sprinkled through the team, he will really get us flying again. Its going to be an exciting loop the loop kind of ride, but we always do things the Wednesday way dont we.

https://www.swfc.co.uk/news/2025/october/24/faqs-for-fans-and-creditors/ The message on the club site made me all emotional. Don't say anything else nice for a bit or Im going to cry like a big baby

How very dare you! You would only be able to afford itchy sackcloth if your gaffer dint pay you.

You could see from Bannan's facial expression the other night, that he was really feeling it, seeing Hillsborough so empty like that. The players just getting on with it and giving it everything has been heart warming and heart breaking hasn't it. After all the **** they've had thrown at them, the state of the club, the staff being do badly treated etc and then us fans seemingly deserting them, it must have been really tough. I've got a lump in my throat thinking about what it will be like tomorrow and a lump in my trousers thinking about what it could be like in the near future!

Cheer up laddy twill neir happen!

All we need now is for a billionaire fan friendly buyer to snap us up and its a perfect end to one era and a perfect start to the next. We've even got a Wednesday season ticket holder as one of the three administrators! Cheers fellow Wedesdayites, now let's get back to WAWAW! UTO!

I was told he's been told to pack up his white chairs and go forth yes

No more goals until he goes? Yeah that's Ugbo fully mended. He nearly scored one by accident the other night, but their goalie just beat him to it. Its Like Christmas come early innit!

The way it has all panned out, what else could we have asked for? Hopefully it is a minimal return for bad ex chairman/owner and a great buy for new fan friendly owners. We're going out to celebrate tonight, hope we are well enough to tomorrow, to have a pie, pint etc in the ground again and cheer the lads on, win, lose, or draw. There will be a lot of eyes on the directors box tomorow and all employees that want to go, should get free tickets. UTO

Your sausage rolls are the best Mrs H, fart away!

Its just very expensive cheese on toast mate, however they want to dress it.

Finding a silver lining is important and you're right the building is still there. It still brings back happy memories, especially for me of meeting up in a packed pub before matches and then chatting about the games afterwards, as we climbed back to the top flight, then seemed to be on the verge of being truly massive, playing football.styles that everybody talked about, being used to watching us on MOTD, having a team packed with internationals, holding group games for the Euros, having one of the biggest grounds in the country, seeing fairly regular ground improvements. I saw a lot of those happy times while that pub was on the go. To be honest we used to go round most of the pubs in the area, but often started off there and wound our way up the hills and home.

Season ticket prices were hiked up by our bad owner, so all those wanting to save money just wait until better owners come in and you could get a much better deal. That is more persuasive to people determined to get an early bird season ticket. I am sure that any future owners would at least hold those early bird prices for later in the year. As a fan or as a new owner, I would be well miffed to see the bad owner walk off with half the season ticket money for next year along with the sale price. Especially after all the bad he has already done done to us over the years. Giving him money for a season that he will not fund or even be here for would be like letting a burglar out of your house with a handshake and telling him you'll keep the door unlocked so he can come back for the telly! He stole our money early doors for this season and many past ones too. Do not fund his over privileged lifestyle anymore!

Delirium Tremens?

Thank you. That is a lot less gloomy than a lot of the threads lately and cheered me up no end. It makes a great change to see lovely old buildings being turned onto pubs, than lovely old pubs being turned into supermarkets. I dont know if you ever used to go in the Beehive at Wisewood, pre-match? It was about 10 minutes walk from the ground, up Wadsley Lane, past the Park Hotel, left up Far Lane and on your right at the lights, where Dykes Hall Road crosses it. That used to be one of our local pubs before it became a Tesco Express. Me and a bunch of mates had a couple of pool teams and quiz teams that we played for in there and in the Premiership years it used to get absolutely packed. Sadly the decline of the pub went hand in hand with that of the pub and when I go back to that end of town for matches, see friends and family etc I don't like to go in it, because I have too many happy memories in there as it was. So its great to see the opposite happening with the Fargate. Not too far from the site of the Stonehouse and the old Crazy Daisy and hopefully a happy future venue for revelling fans celebrating Wednesday's return to the big time. UTO!

Knowing our bad owner he will want a bigger pay out from Sky because of badly affected attendance figures!

It was hard not to go tonight, especially after the players fought so hard, like they did 2nd half last weekend. It made me feel sick, but it did show that we mean business. Or should I say no business for bad owner, go away and shut door on way out! Can we boycott the pig game too? It will not show Sheffield at its best and really kick bad owner where it hurts him most, in his pocket. The nasty man says he does not need our money yet the first thing he did when he came in was bump up the prices for everything he possibly could. Get out and stay out.

The point deduction is against the team that play for the club not the owner of the club. If the EFL punished club owners financially every time the owner messes up then fair enough, but when our bad owner is out of the club and on his next sunny holiday, he will not care a flip of a coin about all the points deductions that the team have been given, but we will, the players will, and all the trainers coaches and staff will, just not him. It is his fault that the club/team have been docked points, no-one other than our bad owner, is ever going to argue about that, but there is a difference between punishing the one person responsible and punishing the fans, players, staff etc. I think the EFL really should think long and hard about what they do to us and what they do to him, because quite honestly their limp approach has made me feel sick after all the communications they have had from fans over the years regarding Chansiri and his "unusual business mistakes". The FA have lived up to their name and done exactly FA, FIFA do not want to know and that is why some of us fans have campaigned for an independant football regulator for years. Football is a mega -million pound industry with huge sums of money exchanging hands for wages and transfers that are undisclosed, hidden etc and that is only allowed to carry on because so many people have their hands in the pot. There is no such thing as a loophole, rules can be written in legal terms that prevent people from interpreting them any way that they like and punishments can be dished out much faster when every club agrees to abide by those rules. The fact that teams like Man City are allowed to get away with breaking so many rules is not about football it is all about money. The game should be ruled to the letters it is written in , not the ammended interpretations of expensive lawyers and any attempts made to bend a rule or misinterpret a rule should also be punished heavily. If a club is innocent they should have no need of expensive lawyers, which is another thing that njeeds stopping. Every club should be allowed the same level of representation and expensive lawyers and practises are only needed to put off, withhold or sidestep penalties that are deserved. Attempts to put off, withhold or sidestep penalties should see the penalty doubled and enforced or made payable immediately. All monies raised should be distributed fairly throughout all the other clubs that are affected by the rulebreaking. The IFR must have powers that enable them to stop the rot and punish those teams that try to buy their way out of any situation that they find themselves in through their own wrong doings. The EFL can then carry on representing the owners of clubs, rather than the clubs themselves, which as we have all discussed often enough, is the fans of the clubs, because they are the only things at a club that are ever present. Players, staff, chairmen, owners etc come and go, names might change, grounds might change and the geography of the club might change, but the fans are the club and, as long as we keep pressure on the government of the day, the clubs and fans have a proper representative to police the game and give it some much needed respect again. Right now the game is a dirty sport and it should not be seen that way.

Well done Wednesday! What a fantastic performance. We did not deserve to lost that game, but we were just missing that little bit of extra quality when we really needed it. The player should not have been let through at the end and it led to Horvarth getting sent off. Never mind. It looks as though the EFL will send us down with points deductions anyway, but the players should be proud of that performance. UTO!

The way I understand it, once notice is served it is not up to him, unless he pays up the money he owes the HMRC. He will get one last chance to cough up then that's it.

Yes, administration will definitely hurt him badly if it comes to it. Thais are big on face and keeping up appearances, so losing that would hurt more than anything. Whether he still has respect in Thailand is another thing, he certainly has none here in England. Quite a few oriental countries have a respect culture, much like we used to in this country and rich, powerful and old people are still shown respect there unless they do something bad enough to lose it, but face is something they definitely do not like to lose. Unless he is a totally different person in Thailand to over here, I suspect that there are few over there that respect him already. Bye bye bad owner

You got my attention with the whisky, but not sure about the rest of it. I am guessing that if not already done, our bad owner will be calling whoever offered him the most up to now, because whatever it was, it will be more than he can get any other way. He can try to play games with them over the ground, but he does not hold a very strong hand. Hopefully whoever buys will my have the clubs best interests at heart and pop some money aside to tide us over.