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OwlsFan

30/08/2010, 11:22 AM

Had the pleasure of being with 4083 other hardy souls in England's northeast on Saturday as I watched Wednesday score 5 for the first time in my life as they beat Hartlepool. I suppose you could say Owls spanked the Monkeys :D. Lovely 5th goal by Clinton Morrison who only came on as a sub. Nice compact ground. Result left Wednesday top of the league. Last time I saw that was when they were in the Premiership and they lead the way after 4 games under Pleat, Just avoided relegation though at the end of that season. I didn't see it, but I believe Jeff Stelling didn't take the result too well on Sky:

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Ipswich going well in the Championship. Be prepared for the media frenzy here if it continues. Leeds also getting back to where they belong (for the moment).

De Town

31/08/2010, 7:47 PM

I've been following Gillingham myself for a good few years now, ever since 2 of their players were on loan with Longford a few years back. Want to see Colchester do well as Dave Mooney is now playing with them, and he was a hero in Town colours. I've backed John O'Flynn for top scorer in League 1 as well so will be shouting him on for the season. Would like to see Ipswich go up, just to see Roy back in the Premiership.

OwlsFan

02/09/2010, 5:25 PM

Gillingham - reminds me of the days of Damien Richardson.

Closed Account 2

03/09/2010, 9:48 AM

Pardew had to leave West Ham after a difficult relatonship with some players, especially Carl Fletcher. I wonder if something similar has happened in this case.

De Town

06/09/2010, 9:39 AM

50/1..only one goal so far I think.

Closed Account 2

06/09/2010, 2:31 PM

Alan Pardew was involved in a touch up with Fletcher's wife.

OwlsFan

08/09/2010, 5:16 PM

Rumours are awash that Forest might go into Admin; Billy gets the sack; a possible take-over - there's no end to it and there is no statement from the Board - which doesn't help and only creates more speculation. Rumours pointing to the appointment of Martin O'Neill were doing the rounds a few weeks ago and this might stack up if an Irish backer came in.

Whatever happens, all is not well at NFFC.

Just wondering if anyone here has heard anything re an Irish consortium/possible investment or take-over?

Haven't heard anything but these sort of rumours often have no basis. There was a rumour of a Wednesday take over for the best part of a year and it came to....nought.

shakermaker1982

09/09/2010, 12:05 PM

I've not heard anything solid regarding Forest and an Irish consortium.

I think Doughty and MO'N (plus families) were spotted having a meal together and somebody put 2 and 2 together about MO'N replacing Davies. It got the fans a bit excited but Doughty and MO'N go way back apparently and are good friends.

I can see why Davies is annoyed. He needed to build on last seasons successful league campaign by buying a few players to help bulk up the squad but the acquisition panel take about 3 months to decide on something resulting in Billy boy getting frustrated and running to the local rag moaning about the lack of progress.

OwlsFan

13/09/2010, 9:24 AM

Johno got two today town. Hope he keeps it going now

Someone needs to update Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O'Flynn

Exeter's first away win in yonks. Wierdly I had a dream last night about attending a game there and I was put in a seat where I couldn't see the pitch but it was for blind people! Bet not many people dream about going to see Exeter play :)

Owls lose at home to Carlisle. Normal service resumes.

Sligo Hornet

27/09/2010, 11:54 AM

Watford have hit some very surprising form.....3 wins in a row scoring 11 and conceding just the one!!........up to the heady heights of THIRD in the table

AlaskaFox

29/09/2010, 5:00 PM

What do you guys think of Marlon King being back?

Lionel Ritchie

02/10/2010, 4:03 PM

Leeds lose again -mad that I think Shane Higgs going off injured and Alex Bruce getting himself suspended is probably going to turn out to be a good thing yet here we are.

OwlsFan

27/10/2010, 9:46 AM

Tony Mowbray replaces Strachan as the manager at Celtic and makes a pig's ear of it.

Tony Mowbray replaces Strachan as the manager at Middlesboro with some of the Celtic players who failed him.

I just love the managers' merry go round.

OwlsFan

05/01/2011, 8:56 AM

Darren Ferguson sacked by Preston. Alex Ferguson takes back the 3 Man U players the club had on loan at Preston. Hardly a football decision and I'd say the players are none too pleased.

Norwich and Leeds the surprise packages of what looks a weak Championship this season, having just come up from Division One.

Closed Account 2

05/01/2011, 2:56 PM

Tony Pulis (another fully paid up member of the Fergie Fan Club, see also Allardyce) has now demanded the re-call of his two loan players, Danny Pugh and Michael Tonge, from Preston back to Stoke. Obviously for footballing reasons, and nothing to do with his friendship with Baconface.

OwlsFan

03/02/2011, 9:41 AM

KK77

03/02/2011, 10:04 AM

Wednesday sack their Manager, Irvine. I suppose when you're leading three times against Peterborough and lose 5-3, it had to happen.

Hmmm, please God not Roy Keane. Roy Hodgson or Sam Allardyce would do or will it be someone who has been on the threadmill for a while like Ian Dowie.

Roy Hodgson is your man! The LMA manager of the year, can handle the media, will steady the ship and English into the bargain. Come on you know you want him!

DeLorean

03/02/2011, 10:49 AM

Think Hodgson and Big Sam are probably a bit out of Wednesday's league OwlsFan, but stranger things have happened.

Come on you know you want him!

Yeah, that's what he said!

KK77

03/02/2011, 11:34 AM

OwlsFan i am pushing the LMA manager of the year as the man for you not Sam! I know you said you'd take either but the LMA man is the man you want really! Go get him.

OwlsFan

03/02/2011, 12:11 PM

Interesting that Moyes has won it more often than even Ferguson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMA_Manager_of_the_Year

Only one Irishman there: Joe Kinnear. Now there's a candidate, dicky heart aside.

Hodgson isn't a bad manager. His few months in Liverpool weren't anything to write home about but considering the detrius he left by Rafa and his previous career, I'd take him.

KK77

03/02/2011, 2:09 PM

Interesting that Moyes has won it more often than even Ferguson.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMA_Manager_of_the_Year

Only one Irishman there: Joe Kinnear. Now there's a candidate, dicky heart aside.
Hodgson isn't a bad manager. His few months in Liverpool weren't anything to write home about but considering the detrius he left by Rafa and his previous career, I'd take him.

Says it all!

DeLorean

03/02/2011, 2:40 PM

I'm sure it is the award that a manager would take most pride in, being voted first by people that actually know about the game.

I see Danny Wilson is the only non-PL manager to have won it, or at least to win it for a season outside of the PL.

OwlsFan

03/02/2011, 5:24 PM

Danny Wilson! Made a pig's ear out of managing Wednesday but then who hasn't (Big Jack, Big Ron and Howard Wilkinson aside). Shows Ferguson is not particularly popular among his fellow managers and by and large the award seems to go to those who did well with a so-called lesser club.

DeLorean

04/02/2011, 8:53 AM

Hmmm, please God not Roy Keane

:eek:

Keane among names linked with vacant Owl's job (http://www.examiner.ie/sport/keane-among-names-linked-with-vacant-owls-job-144227.html)

OwlsFan

04/02/2011, 9:30 AM

I would dread to hear the day when an RTE Sports Report began with "Roy Keane's Sheffield Wednesday...."

DeLorean

04/02/2011, 10:47 AM

I would dread to hear the day when an RTE Sports Report began with "Roy Keane's Sheffield Wednesday...."

It surely Megson's if he wants it.

shakermaker1982

04/02/2011, 12:14 PM

Gary Megson would destroy Wednesday.
Dog **** football guaranteed.

KK77

08/02/2011, 10:49 AM

[QUOTE=OwlsFan;1447799]Interesting that Moyes has won it more often than even Ferguson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMA_Manager_of_the_Year

Only one Irishman there: Joe Kinnear. Now there's a candidate, dicky heart aside.

]Hodgson isn't a bad manager. His few months in Liverpool weren't anything to write home about but considering the detrius he left by Rafa

So what sort of manager is Kenny considering all this.........a King or a man with a magic wand that Hodgson said there wasn't? LOL

DeLorean

09/02/2011, 8:34 AM

So what sort of manager is Kenny considering all this.........a King or a man with a magic wand that Hodgson said there wasn't? LOL

He's obviously doing a good job there, but isn't it a bit early to be getting carried away? Can't blame you I suppose, it's been a while since ye've experienced the dizzy heights of 6th place!

KK77

09/02/2011, 8:57 AM

Just asking Owlsfan a question never said anything about getting carried away! Kenny has said since the start one game at a time and that we won't win all our games obviously but we will try. I agree with him totally as what's the point in getting carried away and saying for example we will go unbeaten this month when there's a chance we won't! Anyway going off topic now.

DeLorean

09/02/2011, 11:13 AM

I get the feeling if Kenny said his sh!t smells like daffodils you'd agree fully as well. Definitely going off topic now ha!

I'll try to redeem myself a bit. Heading over to Derby in a couple of weeks, going to their home game against Barnsley. Things are very rocky over there at the minute I hear, I think the fans are having some protest before their match against Leicester at the weekend. They don't seem to be happy at all with their American owners, who don't seem to have any interest in giving the club money to progress, a situation you'll be familiar with Rafa. They had their lowest attendence of the season on Saturday, just over 23,000, which is very poor by their exceptional standards. Suppose it doesn't help that their main rivals, Forest, are on such an upward spiral and even Leicester are experiencing more exciting times under Sven.

KK77

09/02/2011, 11:31 AM

OwlsFan

10/02/2011, 12:20 PM

So what sort of manager is Kenny considering all this.........a King or a man with a magic wand that Hodgson said there wasn't? LOL

So you're judging Dalglish on a few matches? Alan Irvine won his first 4 matches for Wednesday. Some fans were calling him "the Messiah" and...the club got relegated and he was sacked this season. Let's judge him after 6 months.

KK77

10/02/2011, 1:28 PM

So you're judging Dalglish on a few matches? Alan Irvine won his first 4 matches for Wednesday. Some fans were calling him "the Messiah" and...the club got relegated and he was sacked this season. Let's judge him after 6 months.

Were have i judged him? But if you want me to i can you know!

OwlsFan

19/12/2011, 1:28 PM

Sometimes you wonder why you're interested in this game. Sitting snugly in front of Soccer Saturday with Jeff Stelling and his panel of Alcos. Your eye watches the video printer. Big match today. The proverbial 6 pointer against local rivals, Huddersfield. Step out to put on some toast. 0-2 down when I arrive back. Ah well, that's that then. But suddenly 1-2 and then 2-2 at half time. No more channel surfing for me. This is going to be a tense 45 minutes. Ignoring "Unbelievable Jeff" Kamara and Phil Thompson almost having apoplexy in excitement everytime the ball goes near the goal in Bolton vs Fulham, screams of "Chance!!" from Charlie Nicholas, my eyes are glued to the scores coming in. Twice more Jeff Stelling brings us to Hillsboro. Wednesday now 4-2 up. "Unbelievable Jeff!!" that's what I say. 10 minutes to go and of course another visit to Sheffield and it's now 4-3. I start to eat my thumb nail. No more visits, no more visits please!! The final scores start to come in. The Blades win. Stelling says it's a great day for the Sheffield clubs. Is the other game over? Still no sign as I watch the scores coming in. They're nearly all in now but the Wednesday result remains in blue on the scorecard. 6 minutes overtime now surely it must be over. Jeff Stelling screams as only they can scream on Sky: "THERE'S BEEN ANOTHER GOAL AT HILLSBORO!! BUT WHICH WAY HAS IT GONE??". My heart sinks. The reporter relays the news as one can hear the referee blow the final whistle in the back ground. The 7th minute of injury time. 4-4.

Is there a worse feeling in the world than your team conceding a last minute goal? The result hangs like a cloud over my head for the whole weekend.

Sigh. What torture will the rest of the season and Euro 12 bring? Who cares? Bring it on...

KK77

19/12/2011, 3:35 PM

Sometimes you wonder why you're interested in this game. Sitting snugly in front of Soccer Saturday with Jeff Stelling and his panel of Alcos. Your eye watches the video printer. Big match today. The proverbial 6 pointer against local rivals, Huddersfield. Step out to put on some toast. 0-2 down when I arrive back. Ah well, that's that then. But suddenly 1-2 and then 2-2 at half time. No more channel surfing for me. This is going to be a tense 45 minutes. Ignoring "Unbelievable Jeff" Kamara and Phil Thompson almost having apoplexy in excitement everytime the ball goes near the goal in Bolton vs Fulham, screams of "Chance!!" from Charlie Nicholas, my eyes are glued to the scores coming in. Twice more Jeff Stelling brings us to Hillsboro. Wednesday now 4-2 up. "Unbelievable Jeff!!" that's what I say. 10 minutes to go and of course another visit to Sheffield and it's now 4-3. I start to eat my thumb nail. No more visits, no more visits please!! The final scores start to come in. The Blades win. Stelling says it's a great day for the Sheffield clubs. Is the other game over? Still no sign as I watch the scores coming in. They're nearly all in now but the Wednesday result remains in blue on the scorecard. 6 minutes overtime now surely it must be over. Jeff Stelling screams as only they can scream on Sky: "THERE'S BEEN ANOTHER GOAL AT HILLSBORO!! BUT WHICH WAY HAS IT GONE??". My heart sinks. The reporter relays the news as one can hear the referee blow the final whistle in the back ground. The 7th minute of injury time. 4-4.

Is there a worse feeling in the world than your team conceding a last minute goal? The result hangs like a cloud over my head for the whole weekend. Sigh. What torture will the rest of the season and Euro 12 bring? Who cares? Bring it on...

Yeah awful feeling alright.

bennocelt

19/12/2011, 6:25 PM

all on tv.....nah not really:o

OwlsFan

20/12/2011, 9:12 AM

It's actually worse of tv because you don't know what happening. At least at the game you can see whether you're on attack or defending. On tv you're totally in the hands of the Sky commentating team - in the dark until there is news but is that news favourable or not?:tremble:

DeLorean

20/12/2011, 10:11 AM

An epic match where your team were 2-0 and didn't lose though, look on the bright side. It just had to be 4-4 as well because there was no way Jeff was getting that excited about a 5-3 insurance goal, I'd say he does know which way it's gone!

OwlsFan

30/12/2011, 3:10 PM

Walsall 0 Wednesday 1 in the 91st minute. Walsall win the game 2-1. It could only happen to Wednesday.:(

OwlsFan

01/02/2012, 4:10 PM

I hear Leeds have sacked Grayson. Harsh. Warnock I suppose in line or dare I say Roy Keane.

shakermaker1982

03/02/2012, 10:42 AM

Forest need to ditch Cotterill asap. League 1 beckons again.

theworm2345

07/02/2012, 5:19 AM

Have a real soft spot for Barnet, so am hoping they can progress to the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final. I know most will scoff but for a club with little money it would be a massive day out and against the comparative riches of Swindon a nice underdog story.

theworm2345

10/02/2012, 8:53 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16968901
:D

Lionel Ritchie

21/03/2012, 6:27 PM

Neil Warnock reckons - “It wasn’t a time for bo**ocking the players after the game.”

I take it such times are reserved for nights when Leeds concede at least 8 or more at home then? :rolleyes:

OwlsFan

25/04/2012, 12:57 PM

Sometimes one can get such a boost following a team, be it big or small. Last night it was the turn of Chelsea fans. A friend told me the odds on that result when Barca were leading 2-0 was 900-1. Hence the eternal attraction of the game.

One of my few moments was last weekend. Blades and Owls fighting out for automatic promotion spot in Division One. Owls have a history of conceding last minute goals (who will forget Brian Kidd on his two knees on the pitch at Old T when Man U scored the last minute winner all those years ago against...Wednesday). They were also leading Huddersfield 4-2 and drew 4-4 this season, conceding in the 6th minute of injury time! The list is endless.

So Blades 4 points ahead this Saturday but tricky away game against MK Dons and Owls at home to their bogey side, Carlisle. Possibility of getting gap down to one point. Things going well as I still in front of Sky. Owls winning (1-0). Blades losing (Alan Smith once of Man U scores for MK Dons). Adds on Sky in the 80th minute so I go to BBC. Why oh why? Carlisle equalise in 82 minute. Wife leaves the room as she doesn't like to hear me cursing and swearing at Gabby Yorath. Back to Sky.

All the results come in in dribs and drabs. "Please please score". Only one result out of them all still left. Jeff Stelling says there has been a goal at Hillsboro and.....

1866

Such a buzz. Such pure joy at a game in England which would have no significance to 99.999999% of Irish people.

God, how I love football even though most of the time it kicks me in the teeth as it will probably do against Brentford this weekend. For the moment, I'll enjoy it.

bennocelt

25/04/2012, 2:58 PM

And you know what, even going to a game is better! Can you imagine that:p

OwlsFan

27/04/2012, 10:30 AM

And you know what, even going to a game is better! Can you imagine that:p

Oh indeed but sometimes not. Wednesday had won their first 6 games at home so I went to see the 7th (against Brentford). A turgid 0-0.

On the Championship front, it is interesting that for the second season in the row a team may may bounce from Div 1 to the Premiership (Norwich and now possibly Soton). Although I have a soft spot for Leeds, not displeased that Warnock hasn't made much of a fist of it so far. Coventry say hello to Division One for the fist time since the 1960s and Forest, who looked doomed a while ago, are now safe.