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Shipley Owl

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  1. Agreed. I hate it whenever we have a kit with blue shorts. I always think it doesn't look like us. The 2023 promotion kit is classic Wednesday. Something like that with the loved badge will do very nicely.
  2. The Championship already has 46 eliminator rounds. If you finish 8th you probably aren't that deserving of a place in the Premier League. Again another decision which comes down to money.
  3. Our chants are average at best. Greasy Chip Butty poos all over them.
  4. There's a difference though isn't there. Fans protesting at away games can have an actual impact for the cause. We've seen that with the recent media coverage. That outweighs any small amount of cash going to Chansiri. There's no positive spin for us regarding buying a pint and a burger.
  5. This. Basing this on Cancer receiving 5% of away tickets. I don't know exact figures but let's say: 3,000 away allocation, at £50 a ticket, over 23 games, at 5%. I could be over-egging those averages too. £173k over the course of the season. That amount won't touch the sides of running us over 12 months. Our away support has done an incredible job already of protesting and highlighting on a national scale not just the owner's incompetence and our plight, but also the potential of our fanbase to a new owner. Let them continue attending away games (IF it is 5%), and boycott the home games to really hurt Cancer's pocket. For what it's worth I am boycotting everything, no games home or away, no shirt etc. I just don't think our away support are the issue here.
  6. Stupid question possibly but I have no idea. Does anyone know what percentage of an away ticket comes back to Wednesday? Until recently I assumed that a significant proportion goes to the club we're visiting, with it being admission to their ground. But from what I've read recently this appears misguided.
  7. Having seen footage from the first two league games, and read a large number of comments in the last 24 hours, it's abundantly clear there's a significant split in terms of home and away support. Our away support is amongst the best in the country. Absolute heroes. Fully behind the team, and never the regime. Will have definitely helped our away form last season. There's elements in our home support who are ostriches with their heads in the sand, at best. They'll get the club they deserve in the end. Chansiri's wet dream. The players know the protests aren't against them. Most of them will hate Chansiri as much as the fans. To not take a stand in some form because you don't think it will make a difference, just be honest and say you can't be bothered.
  8. "More away goals scored after two league games in the 2025/26 season. You'll never sing that!"
  9. The irony of this story being at the top of the BBC Sport page, right next to another headline about how great a start Gassama has made at Rangers.
  10. Cancer being the belligerent idiot he is has never learned. Like the time Newcastle came in for Forestieri. Once a player/manager has made their mind up, a normal owner would recognise the end result and look to bring in some cash. Not take a rigid stance and end up with nothing (worse than nothing in the case of Röhl). Obviously that's a normal owner at a normal club. Christ knows what that'd be like.
  11. Mad that this story isn't garnering much press attention. As fans it all just feels so helpless. But it's OK. The Premier League is the greatest league in the world. So there's always that. I'm struggling to like football at the moment. A combination of feeling sick over our current predicament, sorry for clubs in a similar situation, and to be honest anger at the power gap that's been created in the pyramid this century.
  12. Bannan finally gives up and walks.
  13. I'm grasping at straws, but if Bannan is still hanging around despite this, then maybe there's hope that a takeover is "relatively" close. It is of course the hope that kills us.
  14. Will also likely contain the same people who will slam the academy players for not being good enough this season, rather than address why they've been thrown in at the deep end in the first place.
  15. Exact same vermin who attacked the group handing out the anti-Chansiri flyers. I can't comprehend their reasoning. I presume they have miserable little lives, and want to inflict that misery on others to make themselves feel a little better.
  16. ITK. It's American industrialist Oliver Warbucks and his daughter Annie. Announcement expected Tomorrow.
  17. Surely a wind up or Blade. I bloody hope so anyway.
  18. This. The phoenix club would only have become a thing because our club has died. It's not like we'd be trotting off to follow some random team. For all intents and purposes it would still feel like Wednesday to me. Being at Hillsborough although preferable, isn't necessarily what makes us Wednesday. The fanbase would be made up of those of us who want to follow. That feel of belonging would be enough for me for it to feel like our club. If it did have to happen (and I hope it's not needed), I'd like the idea of us having some sort of German fan model by way of ownership. We should never have to suffer another Chansiri. And let's be honest. Chansiri won't be last of his kind in English football. There will be more cases like us. Eventually the regulator's going to have to come in and with sharp teeth otherwise the whole pyramid will be at risk one day.
  19. I think that'd be enough to make me Dai.
  20. I think in theory they would disappear as we're (including all these Sheffield 3 and the like shells) limited companies. However it depends if the debt is guaranteed by him in his name. I'm not sure if it is, but if it was then he'd still be personally liable regardless.
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