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  1. Wasnt going to get a Managers job anywhere else based on his record. Right place at the right time
  2. If Cooper had started, Palmer would have played right wing back not Fusire
  3. When Bailey was coming on he was already walking towards the bench, imagine his surprise when Fusire went off instead of him
  4. And Bamford had a simple chance to make it 4 and shut us up about Boxing Day and tried to be too clever. Thanks Pat. We owe you
  5. I stayed to the end. Thanks to everyone who went early we didnt get stuck in traffic. Cheers all!
  6. Pederson proved today he’s a better assistant than manager. we should be playing 442. We’ve not got the players to play the way he thinks we can wilder didn’t even have to try to beat him today. Absolutely unacceptable performance.
  7. Embarrassed at the lack of fight today. Second to everything.
  8. Pederson is not the manager to take us forward. Got schooled by Wilder today
  9. Got extra Pashun points from the Wilderbeast for it though.
  10. Assistant to Jack Wilshire at Luton I think
  11. A more than third of the value of our lineup are our loan players!
  12. What's this got to do with Sheffield Wednesday Matchday?
  13. From Transfermrkt. Our lineups from the last game. We're going to be up against it but if we did it, how could they ever consider themselves to be Sheffields top team ever again. Come on lads, lets do them (no idea why its in Euros, other than every message I get from Transfermrkt is in German!)
  14. Though he had retired at Sheffield Wednesday
  15. It’ll be like every other game. Bit of singing in the first 5 then like a library for the rest of the game.
  16. Fee? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Fee
  17. I just wish we’d been able to hang on to Chris Powell to be honest.
  18. Jack Hunt has signed for Stockport. Good move for him
  19. mid 90’s he was in court accused of handling a stolen safe following a £63,000 burglary at a sub-post office at Dore as for the other, I’ve got an alibi Mel was my first Wednesday hero. Remember Wilko putting him up front and him scoring a load of goals in 88 I think it was
  20. Oxford United and Wales international Will Vaulks has been named as the winner of the FIFPRO player voice award. Vaulks, 32, was presented with the award at a ceremony in Lisbon, in recognition for his work in suicide prevention and raising awareness around mental health in football. “It feels incredible to be recognised at a global level,” Vaulks told The Athletic. “It’s a real honour and something that I don’t take lightly. It gives me an even louder voice, so that’s my main delight with winning it.” It is a cause close to Vaulks’ heart, as both his grandfathers, Tom, 67, and Hywel, 78, died by suicide when he was a teenager. “My granddad Tom was a real Jack the lad, he had a Kawasaki 500 motorbike, he was fun, he was single, he would let us stay up late when my Mum and Dad weren’t looking after us,” Vaulks remembered. “He had a phrase, ‘when the cat’s away, the mice will play’, which I’ll never forget, and that was when the parents were away, we could stay up a bit later, we could wrestle, we could mess about. “So, as a granddad, you can’t ask for much more as a kid growing up. But clearly he really struggled with his mental health and he took his own life in 2007. You look for all these answers and with suicide you don’t get the answers sometimes. So that was obviously really hard.” Just 18 months later, there was further heartbreak in the Vaulks household when his grandfather on his mother’s side, the Welsh side of his family, Hywel, also took his own life. “He was quiet, calm, loving. He and my grandmother, Brenda, only lived 20 minutes from us, so we were around their house all the time,” Vaulks recalled. “He was gentle and real good fun as well as a granddad. “He came to watch me play on the Sunday (before his death). He stood at the side of the post. It’s one of the images that you probably wouldn’t have remembered at the time if nothing had happened the next day, but because of what happened, I’ll never forget it. He told my Mum he loved her that night which was slightly out of character and then he disappeared in the morning and took his own life with no warning. “We don’t have an answer, we don’t look for that answer anymore, you do for a long time. But you don’t take your own life if you’re not in a really low mental health.” Vaulks spoke about the devastating impact that had on his family. “There was zero support for a 13-year-old who lost his granddad and zero support for a 14-year-old a year later who lost his granddad, there was nothing,” he said. “My grandmother (Brenda) pretty much completely lost who she was, all because of the trauma of losing her husband to suicide. She died in a home in the end. I got home from school one day and my mum had rang an ambulance for herself because she was so anxious, and was having panic attacks. “That’s, again, all because she lost her dad and was the one who found him. “You don’t just brush down and go again the next day when someone dies to suicide. It’s like a bomb goes off in your family and the tremors, like an earthquake, go on forever. “I was lucky to have an amazing support system and a strong family that stuck together and we’ve spoken about it over the years.” That explains why Vaulks is so passionate about championing suicide prevention and mental health awareness causes. “My main thing is I obviously don’t want people to suffer and take their lives,” he explained. “But I know the devastation that’s left behind and I don’t want families to go through what my family’s been through and you still go through it, forever, with a suicide.” Vaulks is an ambassador for the Baton of Hope charity, set up by journalist Mike McCarthy, who lost his 31-year-old son, Ross, to suicide. Their aim is to provide awareness around mental health, and bring people together whose lives have been impacted by suicide. One of their key initiatives is the Workplace Pledge, which urges all companies to commit to prioritising mental health in the workplace, with measures such as suicide-awareness training for all staff. Vaulks’ club, Oxford United, became the first in the country to sign up. what a great human being. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6807303/2025/11/18/will-vaulks-fifpro-player-voice-award/?source=athletic_user_shared_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta
  21. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/34107917 Undisclosed Fee apparently.
  22. Warnock could take the banter as well as give it out. Wilder definitely was the school bully, doesnt like it when it's aimed at him.
  23. Need to apologise to him at some point for going in his garden looking for a post office safe a while ago when he lived near me...
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