Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Newcastle United (07/01/2023)

[SteV]

27 minutes ago, LFEE said:

So they did volunteer ??? That’s all I wanted to know. Reporting they were forced to is a different narrative. Agreeing to do so covers them for anything that were to happen whilst investigation took place. It shouldn’t be seen as an admission of guilt though and thrown back at them.

 

Im sure there has been some underhand things going on and the club and NUST have to be commended in the role they played but I wish reporters would just report the facts. 

Will be interesting to see if the reduction in capacity remains in place. Wouldn’t be surprised if it returns come next season.

They volunteered in the knowledge that they would be forced if they didn’t 

[LFEE]

 

[geordiesteve710]

5 hours ago, LFEE said:

 

Craig Hope is, and always has been an attention-seeking whopper. He's stirred this up for clicks.

 

That said, the reaction of their fans on Twitter especially has been ridiculous. As soon as anything broke back in January they to a man have held the narrative that the fans made it up because we got beat and if not then it was our fans fault anyway. There's a massive denial culture there and they're more than happy to use the "disrespect to the 97" line to silence criticism of their club despite the Hillsborough families themselves expressing outrage that the stand is still up. 

[Paullow]

Quite fitting that the last update on this thread was on March 16th, the day before their draw against Bolton, and the first of a 6 match winless run.

 

 

 

 

In the past 3 weeks, Plymouth and Ipswich have both won their 3 league matches, whereas Sheff Wed have played 6 matches and only gained 4 points. They've gone from being 5 points clear of 3rd with 2 games in hand, to outside the automatics, but played a game more. Crazy.

[Danh1]

3 minutes ago, Paullow said:

Quite fitting that the last update on this thread was on March 16th, the day before their draw against Bolton, and the first of a 6 match winless run.

 

 

 

 

In the past 3 weeks, Plymouth and Ipswich have both won their 3 league matches, whereas Sheff Wed have played 6 matches and only gained 4 points. They've gone from being 5 points clear of 3rd with 2 games in hand, to outside the automatics, but played a game more. Crazy.

Good, fuck them. 
 

Will probably find a way of blaming NUFC for their bottle job the way they blamed us for their stadium being a death trap. 
 

I like them as a club but aye, fuck them. Plymouth are a decent club, as are Ipswich. 

 

 

Edited April 7, 2023 by Danh1

[The Prophet]

Shame. Stand shagging aside, would like to have seen them come up.

[Nucasol]

On 07/04/2023 at 23:37, Paullow said:

Quite fitting that the last update on this thread was on March 16th, the day before their draw against Bolton, and the first of a 6 match winless run.

 

 

 

 

In the past 3 weeks, Plymouth and Ipswich have both won their 3 league matches, whereas Sheff Wed have played 6 matches and only gained 4 points. They've gone from being 5 points clear of 3rd with 2 games in hand, to outside the automatics, but played a game more. Crazy.

[bowlingcrofty]

Glad to see these fuckers have bottled the automatics. 
 

Here’s hoping the playoffs go the same way.

[Nucasol]

Delighted to see the concrete shaggers miss out.

[Stifler]

I actually like them, they are a historic club and shouldn’t be where they are.

I’d much rather have them in the Premier League over say Bournemouth, or Fulham.

I hope they win the play offs to be honest.

The way their fans took it so personally about the safety concerns is weird though. Their stadium does need improving, you can’t not acknowledge that. The sooner they get back towards the Premier League, the sooner they will be able to do just that.

[RS]

Was our fault they failed. We should never have complained about the death trap stand. 

[NUFC91]

2 hours ago, Stifler said:

I actually like them, they are a historic club and shouldn’t be where they are.

I’d much rather have them in the Premier League over say Bournemouth, or Fulham.

I hope they win the play offs to be honest.

The way their fans took it so personally about the safety concerns is weird though. Their stadium does need improving, you can’t not acknowledge that. The sooner they get back towards the Premier League, the sooner they will be able to do just that.

 

This...great club and fans. Went to uni there and can't knock their support.

[TRon]

2 hours ago, Stifler said:

I actually like them, they are a historic club and shouldn’t be where they are.

I’d much rather have them in the Premier League over say Bournemouth, or Fulham.

I hope they win the play offs to be honest.

The way their fans took it so personally about the safety concerns is weird though. Their stadium does need improving, you can’t not acknowledge that. The sooner they get back towards the Premier League, the sooner they will be able to do just that.

 

I always have a bit of a soft spot for northern clubs tbh unless there is no point to them and they only get in the way between us and Durham.

[TheBrownBottle]

4 minutes ago, NUFC91 said:

 

This...great club and fans. Went to uni there and can't knock their support.

Yeah, I always had a soft spot for them.  Big club with a grand history who’ve been ludicrously underperforming (club-wise not team-wise) for over two decades.  They overreacted to the criticisms of ground safety, but that’s hardly vendetta-worthy. 

[NUFC91]

1 minute ago, TRon said:

 

I always have a bit of a soft spot for northern clubs tbh unless there is no point to them and they only get in the way between us and Durham.

 

Would like to have forest Derby sheff wed, sheff united etc in prem. More games with needle and passion.

[TRon]

2 minutes ago, NUFC91 said:

 

Would like to have forest Derby sheff wed, sheff united etc in prem. More games with needle and passion.

 

Me too. Good shout on Forest and Derby as well, they still seem within touching distance compared to Brighton or Southampton.

[Wolfcastle]

Cant shift the old mindset of a regular away fan back in the day favouring the nearest clubs with the best allocations. Both Sheffield's qualified on account of that. Like how both grounds look on TV.

Know the problems with HIllsbrough and presume the top of the away end is no different to when I was there in the 90s at Brammal Lane in that you cant see the touchline. So of course they scored a goal that day that was questionably over the line or not and wasn't able to pass judgement.

[jack j]

Always thought Sheff Wednesday were a far bigger club than Sheff Utd like. Always preferred Wednesday as well until they started going on like fannys after our game

[huss9]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68567614

 

A safety incident at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium last year has been labelled a "near miss" after a licensing body investigation.

 

 

Edited March 15, 2024 by huss9

[leffe186]

9 hours ago, huss9 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68567614

 

A safety incident at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium last year has been labelled a "near miss" after a licensing body investigation.

 

 

 

Jesus Christ. More than 30 years later. 

[NSG]

Thought it was all our fans making it up because we were bitter we lost though?

[Danh1]

 

One of many damning tweets about how people believe that their shocking facilities and readiness for an emergency contributed to some poor bloke’s death today.

 

I’m a traditionalist and love old grounds, but this place needs bulldozed. And bulldoze any of the concrete shagging, slack jawed bastards defending it (again).