Mortgageman

Easiest league boycott they could choose. Midweek, cold, game wouldn’t finish till 10pm. Against a team at the top. If you can’t boycott this then your blind loyalty to the club is actually hurting the long term future of it. I’m fully on board!

11:10 for his interview on the day of our promotion. First thing he mentioned in his interview was the fans. Was a pleasure to have him lead our club, he always said how the club belonged to us. He said that routinely long before the media was discussing the term. “ custodian” when discussing football ownership. Thank you Milan.

Not sure but hope it’s soon as I’ll definitely take one off each! Simple design, And it looks like profits will be allocated to children’s hospital charity as well as the trust. It’s well documented that Bracknall rejected an offer from the club to do their official short launch so the fact he’s doing the trusts one is superb!

Sorry if this has already been posted. It Cheered me up after today’s game! Could now become our “officially unofficial” shirts for the season now we’ve boycotted club merchandise.

The 10-minute scarf waving Chansiri out chanting was amplified ten fold as a result of the invasion. It was the loudest it’s ever been, disappointed that a few callers on RS said it brought “shame” or was a “shame” The only ones bringing shame to this club is DC and AP

HP’s job is to make us hard to beat and then build on from that foundation. Feels like we’re going toe-to-toe with teams whilst knowing full well they’re much better footballing sides than us. 8 goals conceded and 0 scored in three home games suggests we haven’t got the right plan at the moment. I’ve only got off my seat once this season as an ST and that was the Bannan overheard kick against Stoke.

There definitely should have been more in the second half. City took their foot off the gas massively. When you tried again in the final 2/3 minutes you almost for the fourth.

Watching the owls is always an emotional rollercoaster. But imo I feel like the fans were prepping for the ten minute point for the protest but after 5 minutes and conceding you have the stuffing knocked right out of you. Any hope of us competing gets killed and with it a sense of hope. I genuinly believe the Swansea protest singing was louder because we weren’t 1-0 down until 50 minutes . conceded after 1 minute against Stoke and 5 minutes against Bristol. It puts everyone on the back foot and then everyone just goes into that chatting amongst one another phase as we feel efforts on and off the pitch are futile.

Not every home kit has to be blue and white stripes. I liked the 150th anniversary shirt, the sondico pinstripe shirt and most of all the 95/97 shirt.

Always worth checking out online sources before believing an “article”. From a twitter account with 50 or so followers. Lots of disinformation around at the moment in our attempts to have positive news.

Thanks for sharing this. The form guide makes for interesting reading!

Somehow I’ve got Clint Hill mixed up with Gareth Ainsworth

The last time we protested on the pitch – 8th May 2004 Sheffield Wednesday 1-3 QPR It was the last game of the season – and also my 13th birthday – which is probably why it stands out so much for me. My dad took me to Hillsborough as a birthday treat, and I can still remember people handing out “Show Allen the Red Card” leaflets outside, complete with instructions on the back about a south stand protest afterwards. I don’t recall much about the game itself other than QPR fans absolutely loving life, celebrating promotion under Ian Holloway. But what I remember vividly is being up at the very back of the Kop with my dad, and seeing a swell of Wednesday fans starting to head towards the front as the game drew to a close. (I can’t recall how many there may have been, maybe a few hundred or so if that?) When the final whistle went, supporters began tumbling over the advertising boards and onto the pitch to vent their frustration at the club’s rapid decline (just four years on from relegation from the Premier League). The stewards tried their best – grabbing hold of teenagers while leaving anyone bigger than them alone. I was stood nervously by the boards, worried I’d be grabbed if I tried it myself, when my dad climbed over, turned back, grabbed me and carried me onto the pitch with him. I didn’t know what to do at first. I just had my red card leaflet in hand and followed others heading towards the directors’ box, waving it in their direction to make my feelings known. I remember boos from some of the home crowd – maybe because we’d interrupted what should have been the end-of-season lap of honour after one of the worst Wednesday seasons in decades. Meanwhile, my dad had run towards the players’ tunnel, where he shook hands with the QPR lads as they came off. The first was Clint Hill, who genuinely looked worried – understandably, given he wouldn’t have known what a rival supporter might do in that situation. I thought it was a really cool thing to see my dad do: as angry as he was with Wednesday, he still wanted to congratulate QPR for their achievement, recognising that we’d spoilt their party somewhat. Eventually, stewards marched us all back towards the Kop, and then we joined the protest outside the directors’ entrance. I can still picture the police horses trying to disperse us, and officers filming on camcorders. The sound travelled brilliantly under the stand – chants of “We want Allen out” and “Sack the board” echoing towards the directors’ entrance. Later that evening, we went for my favourite Chinese buffet at Jumbos (just opposite the Crucible – anyone remember it?). I sat there buzzing, thinking: “I’ve been on the pitch!” When I went back to school at Wisewood Secondary (before it got demolished) the following Monday, I was excited to tell my mates. But the biggest Wednesday fan in our group just sneered and said: “Oh, so you were one of those clowns on the pitch then?” I was completely baffled – I couldn’t understand why he thought protesting against the board was a bad thing. Looking back, it just shows how divided we were back then too. Albeit with a a much less polarising figure at the helm. Would be very interested to hear anyone else’s memories of that day and what your thoughts were at the time.

It’s silly and naive to think he would come out and publicly criticise the chairman. Much in the same way none of us would publicly criticise our own bosses over social media regardless of how deserved we thought it might be. No doubt they’ll be discussions of discontent amongst HP and the players like in most workplace staff rooms but doing things publicly rarely provides the desired effect. We all look after #1 and our families first and HP is no different.

Thought Brown lead the line well. Grainger looks a very tidy player and Rio Shipstone looks a real leader, always wanting the ball. You can see why he’s made senior appearances. I liked the look of 14 when he came on, and as alluded to earlier Asaba gave us an outlet with some good runs on the right side. . Unfortunate goalkeeping fumble from a cross lead to Watfords second goal but Wednesday stayed in the game well and then put Watford under pressure in the last ten/fifteen to get a deserved draw.