Sheffield Wednesday

Sixer’s Sheffield Wednesday Soapbox: not enough to pass the test but A for effort

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 by malcolm

Malcolm Dawson writes……..there were plenty of positives to take from last night’s game, both on and off the field. Off …

Sixer’s Sheffield Wednesday Seven: out but not disgraced

August 17, 2018August 16, 2018 by Colin Randall

Pete Sixsmith was not to be found in the matchday (matchnight?) programme for the League Cup game against the Owls. But he was present for a 2-0 defeat in which there was plenty to admire in Sunderland’s performance. He reckoned we played some really nice football before poor Ozturk’s awful error in the first half allowed Sheff Wed to go ahead against the run of play. The result was sealed with a second Owls goal near the end. Another redeeming feature? Sixer’s first SAFC programme article should be in Sunday’s edition, for the return to League One vs Scunthorpe. This, however, is his first, succinct verdict on tonight’s exit from th EFL/Carabao/League Cup …

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Team (in the League Cup): Sheffield Wednesday

August 15, 2018 by Colin Randall

John McCormick writes:

Pete Sixsmith wrote about Sheffield Wednesday last season, as you no doubt remember. Today he makes a brief return to that fine old club and the only time we’ve played them in the League Cup. There’s not much more for me to say, given the circumstances of that meeting, as I’m sure you’ll agree when you read Pete’s account of what is, after all, only a game:

Sheffield Wednesday Who are You?: ‘League One might be good for you. We should know’

August 15, 2018August 14, 2018 by Colin Randall

Monsieur Salut writes: at around this time last season, Dave Briggs* gave us some great responses as a Sheffield Wednesday supporter before Sunderland’s trip to Hillsborough for a Championship game. He also got the result spot-on, saying we’d be ahead at the interval but they’d equalise and the match would end 1-1. Now the Owls are the fancied higher-league opposition – sorry, Eric, but technically the case – we went back to see how he was getting on. Dave would ‘like to think’ there’ll be a comfortable victory for his side, but accepts that team changes mean it could probably go either way. On the other hand, he fancies Sunderland’s promotion chances but is more pessimistic about the Owls’ Championship season, not least because of the impact of FFP transfer restrictions …

SAFC vs Sheffield Wednesday prize Guess the Score: we’re the underdogs

August 14, 2018August 14, 2018 by Colin Randall

Jake: ‘roll up, roll up for the famous Salut! Sunderland Guess the Score competition’

It is a fact of life as we find it, says Monsieur Salut. Sunderland start the Carabao Cup tie (league cup to you and me) against the Owls on Thursday night as lower-league underdogs.

While we all hope that situation will last for only one season – unless, contrary to the expectations of many of their own fans – Sheff Wed reach the Premier League, we have to regard them as, for now, the bigger team if hardly the bigger club.

Supporters are often divided on the merits of a good league cup run. The paltry attendances in early rounds bear witness to a fair degree of apathy.

My view is a simple one: I want Sunderland to win every game they play. It doesn’t happen, but that’s how I approach each match. So I’m rooting for a good, confidence-boosting result that takes us through to the next round.

Will Cardiff or Fulham join Wolves, and will Derby join Villa and Middlesbrough?

May 1, 2018May 1, 2018 by Colin Randall

This will be my final dodgy numbers post of the season. (If you haven’t seen the previous ones you can follow the link above, and/or those below). There is still a game to go, and two questions remain unanswered, but we can now look at the league table and judge how well our start of season pundits did. Their choices for the top six spots, in order of popularity were: Middlesbrough, Aston Villa, Fulham, Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday and Sunderland.

Three out of six, and wrong about the top two. Is that a “not bad” verdict or something worse?

Sixer’s Soapbox: Sheffield Wednesday make for a depressing Bank Holiday Monday

April 2, 2018 by malcolm

Malcolm Dawson writes…….there was no Northern League today. A light dusting of snow early morning and a whole heap of …

Sixer’s Sevens: Awful Defending Gives Sheffield Wednesday the Game

April 2, 2018 by Colin Randall

You might notice the headline has seven words. You might think Pete Sixsmith sent them. You would be wrong.

Pete’s own seven words, sent immediately post match, convey pretty much the same sentiment, only more emphatically, and they spell out the implications for Sunderland rather than for Sheffield Wednesday:

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Team: Sheffield Wednesday

April 1, 2018April 1, 2018 by Colin Randall

*Pete Sixsmith then (not so long ago) … he’s a lot trimmer now*

John McCormick writes: I visited the Statcat to check if we played Sheffield Wednesday in 1968 as I had memories of their supporters in the back room of the Cambridge when I was still an underage drinker. I found I could have been out a year in either direction as we were in the same division as them for a number of seasons, and they even went down with us at the end of that decade. I reckon I would have been at most, if not all, of those home games.

But I’m pretty sure I wasn’t there in April 1965, unlike a certain Pete Sixsmith:

SAFC vs Sheffield Wednesday prize Guess the Score: can we do it again?

March 31, 2018March 31, 2018 by Colin Randall

Guess the score and you may win a prize whoever you support

Seven games to go and after that resounding win at Derby on a very Good Friday, Sheffield Wednesday are the Easter Monday visitors to the Stadium of Light.

For once, it looks as if we may have to do without a Who are You? interview. Monsieur Salut did find a willing candidate. There’s a good reason why she may have overlooked it, or simply not found the time she expected to have: her dad, a lifelong Owls fan, died recently.