sheffield_dave

8 selfish d*ckheads.

Things are going to get ugly on the pitch over the winter. The club haven’t prepared any of these lads properly for a full season of football. There’s a reason every other club in the world has 6-7 weeks of intense pre-season training with a programme of friendly matches to make sure they’re ready, and we gave this group none of that. Staking an entire season and the clubs entire future on just winging it, and no surprise tha by October it already looks like unravelling.

Just like to say, to whoever is working at SWFC but acting on Chansiri’s behalf/supporting him (and let’s face it, you’ll definitely be on here reading this); Go f*ck yourself. You can rot in hell with the Chairman.

He hasn’t ran us to any sort of sustainable standard in the entire time he’s been here.

I think if I were to read a full list of quotes from him that take this sort of tone at the minute, my head would literally explode off my shoulders. As angry as we all are, I think we’ve collectively forgot a lot of the full picture of just how mad this has all been, and the disrespectful sh*te he’s shovelled our way for years.

Good for them, but it’s no longer a shield against criticism. We’re far enough into this now. “I just want to watch the football” is pathetic and spineless. Not to mention the absolute height of selfishness. People who just want their afternoon of “entertainment”. Are the players being paid properly for it? What about the staff opening the ground or serving yer pints? Who cares, doesn’t matter. I understand your point about the impact if most boycott and it doesn’t need “all”, but the “running of the club” will take it away from them, as well as everybody else. This level of sheer ignorance needs challenging and calling out, not handwaving away as people just choosing to be disengaged.

Dyche would be another disaster waiting to happen. You can say what you want about the quality of the SPL or the sides up there but the pressure and expectation at Rangers and Celtic is possibly without rival in English football. I mean someone like Arteta can have 6 years of "building" towards winning the league and still not manage it, and be relatively safe in that job. Dyche is a good manager with a good record, but his working expectations have pretty much topped out at "massively overachieve just by staying in the league". It's just not the same. I know there's a lot of water under the bridge around Ange but Rangers need to target their version of him. Easy to forget that when Ange arrived, Celtic had just lost the title to an unbeaten Rangers and were regarded as being in transition, and I think Celtic fans were just as wary of "he's not managed anywhere of note" as Spurs fans were about his time in Scotland. But he arrived there a winner, albeit at similarly smaller leagues, and left having built on that. Rangers need someone who knows how to win. Even if that's a "lesser" standard than appointing just another guy from the EFL.

I'd be curious to know what the legal defence looks like for a man who is completely failing to fulfil the basic obligations of his ownership of a business, including routinely missing payments to the state/tax payer.

Forest got their first win after 7 (I think) then picked up steam from there. They also had Cooper, Brennan Johnson (a £50m talent a year later) and a lot of Premier League talent on loan. And needed the play-offs to go up (so not a factor for United)

Had his business motivations and it was never philanthropy, but he undoubtedly had a genuine love for the game and I think his connections to all of his clubs were genuine. He saved us and I think his recent appearance in trying to reach out to Chansiri shows we must have repaid him with plenty of fond memories too. A proper, legitimate business mind with a genuine love of the game who knew how to provide a stabilising, progressive influence and move on. How we desperately need another of him now. RIP Milan

Said this the other day, but I think getting a result at Oxford and immediately carrying on losing makes things really interesting. I don’t think this is just a bad start. It’s clearly not as simple as Wilder going in there and getting some buy in to his bullsh*t so they get back to winning every week. There’s something wrong there. Type of thing that can snowball if you’re stacking losses in the league and sleepwalk through it being “a bad start” into something more, much like Luton and countless others over the years.

A reminder that the players are playing for free today having missed their 5th set of wages in 7 months. The start of the season has had some positive moments and results, but today is a lot closer to how this season is going to go as a whole. Not even competitive today, rolling into the most brutal winter months of the schedule as wages keep being missed, injury and suspensions mount up etc..

I don’t think it’s about convincing anymore. This far in, say watching a bunch of players who still haven’t been paid again, wondering why another set of away fans are applauding us.. it’s not about “convincing”. They’re just thick as f*ck. Not Wednesday as far as I’m concerned.

Watching this from your armchair is one of the protest actions many are currently taking. F*cking galaxy brain over here

Top effort every single one of you. It doesn’t come without consequence. It’s an impossible thing for others to expect, ask or demand. That’s people who have either risked their season ticket or had to wrestle with the dilemma of paying on the gate to go and do that. Not a bad word to be said about any of them.