Sheffield Wednesday season thread

[OakMtn4Bama]

Up to 3rd..... One point behind 2nd

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

1-1 draw with Lincoln City. Still third

 

[Lucky Jack]

Let's go Sheffield Wednesday!

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

SW 4 Burton Albion 2 on Saturday. Still third, two points out of second.

 

[Lucky Jack]

They're hanging in there!

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

Still third after lackluster 1-0 win Sat. One point out of second.

 

[Lucky Jack]

They're hanging in there!

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

Ipswich lost. One point out of second, 3 points out of 1st.

 

[Lucky Jack]

They're on track for promotion.

 

[Lucky Jack]

Sheffield Wednesday won their FA Cup match against Mansfield Town today, 2-1.

 

[Lucky Jack]

Currently in 3rd, 4 points behind Plymouth Argyle. Next match is the 26th.

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

Up to second! Three points out of first with a game in hand.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Up to second! Three points out of first with a game in hand.

My Ipswich boys are hanging tough in 3rd, four points behind Wednesday.

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

TED LASSO THIRD SEASON TO BEGIN MARCH 15

Hallelujah

 

[selmaborntidefan]

It's everyone else's fault I now indulge Premiere League on Saturdays - just letting you know.

(Seriously - when I lived in England in 1975-78, the ONLY soccer on television was the FA Cup Final and then, in 1978, the World Cup. You watched the edited "Match of the Day" to see soccer).

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

It's everyone else's fault I now indulge Premiere League on Saturdays - just letting you know.

(Seriously - when I lived in England in 1975-78, the ONLY soccer on television was the FA Cup Final and then, in 1978, the World Cup. You watched the edited "Match of the Day" to see soccer).

I am surprised. Even though that was back in the Dark Ages, would have thought there would be a game of the week at least. Very little on here then as well. I started following EPL in the late nineties, almost no TV coverage here. Now the coverage is very good. Read where Chelsea spent more money in the last two windows than several of the European leagues combined. Cray Cray

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I am surprised. Even though that was back in the Dark Ages, would have thought there would be a game of the week at least. Very little on here then as well. I started following EPL in the late nineties, almost no TV coverage here. Now the coverage is very good. Read where Chelsea spent more money in the last two windows than several of the European leagues combined. Cray Cray

England still has a law against televising soccer (their "football") between 245 and 515pm TO THIS DAY. Those Premiere League games we get on Peacock? They don't get them on the telly if it's at those times.

It's sorta like the monumentally stupid thing that CFB did for TV and then MLB did as well (even the NFL decided you had to blackout the game locally. Over there it makes a modicum of sense only if, well, you live in Fantasyland. They've been trying to get rid of it for 30 years now.

The THEORY behind the law in England is, "Well, if the fans can watch Arsenal vs Liverpool on BBC1, it will hurt attendance in the LOWER DIVISIONS because fans who might go see Hartlepool United will instead stay home and watch the big match." And just like in CFB all those years until the Supreme Court told the NZAA to stuff it, the organization is controlled largely by the small teams, who vote in a bloc against anything they perceive may hurt them.

Believe it or not, I'm not going to the stadium to watch Colchester if they black out the battle of Manchester.

And btw - over there they'll go in and shut down pubs showing games between those times, too.

To. This. Day.

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

Yikes

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Ipswich beat Burton Albion (????), 4-0, yesterday and remain in 3rd, eight points behind Wednesday and five behind Plymouth Argyle.

1) Sheffield Wednesday
2) Plymouth Argyle
3) Ipswich Town FC
4) Bolton Wanderers
5) Derby County
6) Barnsley
7) Wycombe Wanderers - 6 (points behind sixth place)
8) Shrewsbury Town - 8
9) Peterborough United - 9
10) Portsmouth - 10

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Yikes

The idea that "if I can't see Arsenal vs Liverpool on my tube, I'll run over and catch Cambridge City" was always ludicrous. Not televising top league games isn't going to make people go to "fourth division" games (yes, I know the names have changed but that's how I learned it).