canadianowl

Quick run down? Been pretty much absent for months

Let's hope so. I don't think we'll be out of the top 8 for much (if at all) of the season!

One thing that's never filled me with confidence watching Wednesday is manager after manager our players don't play with enough urgency and we can't counter quick enough to take advantage of momentum. So many times we win the ball back and the players switch the field via 2-3 sideways passes and the opponents have enough time to regroup and set against it. Maybe it's the (lack) of quality in the players themselves but you'd think footballers making 7-figures a year would have the skillset to able to do it.

England starting lineup for the first match

Who are the players who are out of contract? A lot of the top earners like Reach & co. right? This should cut a lot of costs for next season rebuild, yeah?

Yep, that's a really good point. I believe United and Liverpool supporters already tried the walkout style protest and it did nothing. If these people give up their season tickets thousands of tourists will buy them up and those supporters might get put on a 20-year waiting list to get them back. The best tactic, like you mentioned, is to deliberately have games cancelled, week after week, point deduction after point deduction. Can't have the team bus drop the players off when there are 10,000 angry supporters blocking the entry, can't kick off if there are constant delays for security reasons (albeit, not due to serious individual attacks or anything). Force the powers that be to make their decision and if it is to further punish the fans then at least they played their hand and there is no going back, now even the dumb naïve fence-sitters can deny who the real enemy is.

The problem with the Glazers from the beginning was the fact they acquired Manchester Utd through a leverage buyout. They never fronted their own money to buy the club, the whole deal was one disgusting backdoor deal with private banks to parasitically steal billions from the club. At least in the case of City and Chelsea those owners at least paid and invested to build them up the way they are. The Glazer deal should have never been allowed to happen and the FA, UEFA, FIFA should have then, and if they haven't still, implement regulations to ban leveraged buyouts from ever happening again. And all this talk of "the fans shouldn't be so hostile with their protest.." f**k that nonsense. They should continue get to get more hostile as time goes on. Whining about it on twitter does nothing, keep protesting and rioting and don't back down. You can never "legislate" these problems away by being giant fannies and doing nothing in the streets to enact the change you want. If it was good enough for BLM its good enough for football supporters. Don't back down, and don't shame the ones who have the balls to not back down.

I've been living under a rock, what's the deal with Hearts? I see their highlights posted on the SPFL youtube channel and they play their games at Tynecastle behind closed doors.

LIAM. F**KING. SHAW.

All I remember from Simon Donnelly was that goal he scored against Derby (that we allowed 2 goals in stoppage time...) and that's it. O'Donnell I genuinely don't remember a thing about him other than he passed away playing for Motherwell a few years after he left us. I wonder how many millions that alone cost us

De Bilde only cost about 3mil which even back then wasn't a crazy amount, he scored double figures in an awful team. The guy was just a complete nutcase but the 2 Scottish lads signed at the same time were a bigger waste of money.

Longest serving player by a mile and an academy graduate to boot. Would love to see him stay as long as he plays any part in the team.

Yep that's the name, and thank god

I remember reading the day Pulis was sacked we were set in bringing in a former Barnsley manager? The name escapes me but the Barnsley supporters said you're f**ked if you take him.

jUsT tWo MoRe WeEkS~~!!! FlAtTeN tHe CuRvE!!! The year 2021 is going to horrific in ways nobody here could have ever imagined. Will that be the last final wakeup call for the lemmings who still don't get it? I legitimately don't think so, a significant proportion of the public is beyond saving. It was a good run mate, can't get through to people though

The lack of finances since 2017-18 had to do with FFP, so this year being 3 years of spending nothing sort of clears our ability to spend more next year. It's why Chansiri has been so frugal whilst frustrating the fans but if we can survive this year then next year he'll probably buy 6-8 more players. It's why he brought in Pulis for this season instead of rolling the dice on a young manager that would actually go for it. I don't think it will work this time though, I'm positive we'll be relegated under the current setup.

The players are just playing the way they were told to play. No one in the squad can play to their potential playing anti-football. I wish the club went for Ryan Lowe and told him to just go for it and assure him job security for League One if it wasn't enough. We're going down regardless.

Why do people think we don't have the players to play more attacking football? We never score because players like Reach and Bannan et al can't play to their strengths... and our defensive players are good enough to just sit back and defend for their lives for 85 minutes. If it didn't work under Monk, then why the f**k would it work under Pulis? It defies any logic. This team will never win another game for the rest of the season set up like this. Roll the dice FFS and get our quick players higher up the pitch and just go for it. Who cares if we lose 5-3 if we're just going to lose 1-0 anyway.

See what happens when Harris plays on the right not left? He can actually swing the ball in at full speed instead of stopping and trying to switch his right!

Harsh for a red but what was Windass thinking?

After looking into Ryan Lowe's managerial career I'd love to have him back. Even if we went down due to lack of quality he would get us doing well in League One regardless. I am not a fan of Pulis and if he's hired it tells me DC has no damn clue and I'm kinda over it at this point. A player like Bannan or Luongo or Windass would prosper under Lowe but have (what's left) of their careers die under Pulis.

Well there was that one half-season under Big Ron with DiCanio playing out of his mind. That was the first season following Wednesday

Jeremy wasn't the finished product but you cannot coach pace like he had, omg the guy was lightening! Crazy how he quit football to become an Imam or something weird. To each their own I guess.