Sheffield Wednesday Post Match Thoughts

[Pocket rocket]

Effort 100%
Integrity to win 100%
Quality well that’s what’s cost us.
Smith is pivotal to how we play but a weakness with his finishing.
The header was a bad bad miss.
This league is not that good that’s the most frustrating thing.
Oh and we don’t matter to the wendies apparently although they celebrated like it was there cup final.
Wonder if they will get charged for the fans going on the pitch?
Yeah course they won’t.
Steve Bruce remonstrated to the ref every time one of his players dived. Lost respect for him tbh.
Onto Reading.
UTM

[flourbasher]

Every week there are complaints at the standard if refereeing but we don't help ourselves.
Other teams are much better and more experienced in either drawing a foul from us or making sure they don't concede one against us.
Foriestiri was a master at it yesterday. Just enough to convince the ref it was a foul and then lots of theatrics to make the refs mind up for him.
When committing fouls the opposition are much more subtle than us putting doubt in the refs mind so many fouls go unpunished or at least no card is produced.

We,re too obvious and agricultural in our challenges at times.
Need to learn how to win fouls and not give them away so often. There's an art to it.

[tom12026]

It is a long time since I have been so ticked off at a result but salvation was on hand.
I walked through town,pinched a homeless persons dog,took it home and wellied it,
(I didn,t really but -----)

[animallittle3]

I still think you will stay up myself , those around you can't pull themselves clear either and I'm not convinced they have it in them to do so .

A couple of back to back wins and you will see some daylight emerging .

This isn't even half the mountain Warnock faced a few seasons back .

[Hazza Has A Gazza]

I’m not that convinced the ref got it wrong.
I thought they’d be 5 minutes injury time before their player got injured in the 87th minute, so 8 minutes in my opinion was correct.

Now that starts not on 90 minutes but when play resumes and it was at least a minute after the the 90 that play resumed.

The situation worked in our favour last season at home to Doncaster so we can’t have our cake and wat it.

Ok but as I remember the donny match, there were 11 added minutes and we got the winner in the 11th minute. May have gone a tad over with it being a penalty. The ref was Wednesdays best player by far yesterday. He was about to blow during the passage of play that led to their corner but hung on.

[jocksgloves]

A great night out and a good sleep puts everything into perspective. The fact we are disappointed says heaps about where we are now. We've given every team that's visited a run for their money except for WBA.
The effort and committment yesterday was immense, and once again we dominated a so-called bigger club, but without the extra skill and ability to finish them off.
Wednesday battled, and kept in the game with dogged defending, and when you do that, you always have a chance.
It was probably a hard game to Ref,lots of tough tackling and rolling about, and we should look at our ability to see games out, rather than focussing on how long the extra time period was.
I'm ultimately proud of yesterday's performance, and won't be taking any nonsense at work from my Owls-loving colleagues.
A win at Reading could we'll see this as a point gained.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

If you strip away the ref bias and the issues with his Mickey Mouse watch, did anybody else notice that he only gave free kicks when the incident was in relatively “safe” areas? ie like near the centre spot or out on the wing near the half way line. Similar offences in more dangerous areas he just ignored.

For such a pressure cooker game he was certainly “miscast”

[animallittle3]

Bear with me on the barnsley angle because it's relative .

Easter saturday in 2007 we go to Ipswich and get thumped 5-1 , as far as I'm concerned its over , we ain't getting out of this and we sink in to the relegation zone .

On Easter monday we play Brum at home who are going for automatic promotion , they bring 6k fans with them .

Nardiello scores 20 minutes off the end and we win 1-0 .

We then win the next two , away at Southend and home to Palace .

We win 3 out of the last 4 games and stay up at the expense of Leeds United .

We can even afford to lose the last home game of the season to Leicester and then get another hiding at WBA on the final day .

Put three results together and it's a different story guys .

Absolutely everything to play for you guys , stick with it .

[flourbasher]

WBA were the better side and they deserved their win but even against them we had two cleared off the line, hit woodwork twice, missed a pen and Towell was floored and another pen should have been given.
As our resident BFC pundit says, who talks a lot of sense, it only needs a team to go on a run of say 3 wins in 5 or 6 games and they will just about be safe.
Let's hope Reading aren't capable of that

[millertop]

Millers v Blades still the record attendance (just before it gets asked)