Sheffield Wednesday (H) League 1 Monday 26/12/11. Boxing Day

[SWS1]

Hate to say it, but we're only 14 points away from the play-offs :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

And one off relegation place :( :( :(
BUT WOT A RESULT. :D :D :D
Now a climb up the table...
(Come on, Smithy, you did it before...) :mrgreen:

[SWS1]

A 2-1 win with Macken [72] and Nicholls[87] scoring late to secure the three points. Attendance: 8,062.

Why not? It IS Christmas after all 8) .

Any thoughts on the Euromillions numbers this week, Bath? :D

Come off it. What a terrible forecast! Fancy not guessing Gnakpa 90 + 1 and Smith 90 + 3. Hopeless.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[King Crimson]

Best team in the world!

I agree.

[walsallfcconnor]

yessssssssssssssssssssss

[SWS1]

Sadly, I wasn't there but a little bird tells me Weddy not a nice team and their supporters worse. Any truth in these accusations? One tends to overlook nastiness in the euphoria of such a victory.
:wink:

[Aldridge_saddler]

My chest hurts I have lost my voice and my throat is sore, and I am in shock!!! The Wednesday fans are a disgrace but what was worse was the lack of police intervention! However up the chuffing saddles!

[King Crimson]

Sadly, I wasn't there but a little bird tells me Weddy not a nice team and their supporters worse. Any truth in these accusations? One tends to overlook nastiness in the euphoria of such a victory.
:wink:

Typical Megson outfit: bunch of bigguns and bullies. A section of their fans are clearly filth too.

Couldn't have happened to a more fitting bunch. And the manner it did too. Better than winning five-nil.

I have a warm glow that even our enforced "lap of honour"around the stadium cannot diminish.

Mmm.... Winning. :D

[Darth Vader]

fudge LOVE IT.

What a game, best home match ever. Simply amazing. Cannot wait for TFLS.

That one Wendy fan got exactly what he deserved (a massive gash above his eye), came changing to us Walsall fans once their lot scored and got a good kicking for doing so, muppet, along with the other merry men who wanted some. Not going to lie it was absolutely wonderful to charge towards the Yorkshire Scunthorpe to our left once we score, and scored again. Haven't had a good fan charge for ages, I'm not a hooligan or anything but fudge hell I was up for it once we got near the rats.

Once again, AMAZING. I'm booming.

[bangsection]

We have now taken at least a point from four of our six games against the top 6 teams in the division and were 2-0 up away from home against another. As I've been saying for months, we are basically a Championship standard team who are dragged down to the level of the more prosaic teams in the division. As we are now comfortably in midtable after today's result I see no reason why we can't challenge for promotion with the addition of a Sodje in January.

[funk_hits_the_fan]

Having been an ever present for well over a decade it was my first game in almost 5 years today! What a result.

Just could not see where a goal was coming from, although we looked solid there was absolutely nothing going forward - although the same could be said for Wednesday - a typical Gary Megson team.

I'm hoarse, jubilant and have been well and truly reminded of how good it can be following Walsall. BIG SHOUT out to the Saddlers fans today, I have been on here a lot slagging of the lack of atmosphere but the boys & girls really got behind the side and gave the huge vocal Sheffield following as good as they got.

This board is often negative (including me a lot for the time) but I can't find any negatives today the way I am feeling. It's good to be back!

[Wyrley_saddler]

The scrap in the corner:

[Darth Vader]

Real scummy bastards in those 2/3 particular blocks.

[deanonev69]

jolly well LOVE IT.

What a game, best home match ever. Simply amazing. Cannot wait for TFLS.

That one Wendy fan got exactly what he deserved (a massive gash above his eye), came changing to us Walsall fans once their lot scored and got a good kicking for doing so, muppet, along with the other merry men who wanted some. Not going to lie it was absolutely wonderful to charge towards the Yorkshire lady gardens to our left once we score, and scored again. Haven't had a good fan charge for ages, I'm not a hooligan or anything but jolly well hell I was up for it once we got near the rats.

Once again, AMAZING. I'm booming.

Unfortunately,the BBC in their infinite wisdom have not got TFLS on tonight :evil:

Deserved that: we battled throughout, Wednesday got what they deserved and we got what our performance merited. I'm still stunned by the Whacker for MOTM decision though!!! Patterson is getting better as each game goes by and a big shout out for Lee Beevers who i thought was superb today.

As for their fans, arrogance personified! A group of fans who think that the appropriate response to being asked to sit down so that disabled spectators can watch is singing "we'll do what we want". Got to question some of the Police tactics though as not half enough of their fans were ejected: how you can simply walk on the pitch and behind stewards to get to opposition fans?

[Darth Vader]

jolly well LOVE IT.

What a game, best home match ever. Simply amazing. Cannot wait for TFLS.

That one Wendy fan got exactly what he deserved (a massive gash above his eye), came changing to us Walsall fans once their lot scored and got a good kicking for doing so, muppet, along with the other merry men who wanted some. Not going to lie it was absolutely wonderful to charge towards the Yorkshire lady gardens to our left once we score, and scored again. Haven't had a good fan charge for ages, I'm not a hooligan or anything but jolly well hell I was up for it once we got near the rats.

Once again, AMAZING. I'm booming.

Unfortunately,the BBC in their infinite wisdom have not got TFLS on tonight :evil:

Deserved that: we battled throughout, Wednesday got what they deserved and we got what our performance merited. I'm still stunned by the Whacker for MOTM decision though!!! Patterson is getting better as each game goes by and a big shout out for Lee Beevers who i thought was superb today.

As for their fans, arrogance personified! A group of fans who think that the appropriate response to being asked to sit down so that disabled spectators can watch is singing "we'll do what we want". Got to question some of the Police tactics though as not half enough of their fans were ejected: how you can simply walk on the pitch and behind stewards to get to opposition fans?

Really?! :(

[SWS1]

We have now taken at least a point from four of our six games against the top 6 teams in the division and were 2-0 up away from home against another. As I've been saying for months, we are basically a Championship standard team who are dragged down to the level of the more prosaic teams in the division. As we are now comfortably in midtable after today's result I see no reason why we can't challenge for promotion with the addition of a Sodje in January.

Comfortably in mid-table :shock:
Champioship standard team :shock: :shock:
Only need a Sodje :shock: :shock: :shock:
Actually, we won't get a sod-----je suis certain. :lol:

[SaddlerCraig]

Really?! :(

Yep none today or for new years game or so their schedule online says :cry:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/ ... 2011/12/31

[Graydon48]

Thank you to Megson and Sheff Wed for the 3pts.
Thank you to their scumbag fans for the extra revenue.

[Darth Vader]

Really?! :(

Yep none today or for new years game or so their schedule online says :cry:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/ ... 2011/12/31

That's criminal, MOTD shite is on.

[Welsh_Saddler]

Thank you to Megson and Sheff Wed for the 3pts.
Thank you to their scumbag fans for the extra revenue.

Absolutely right, especially on the revenue front. We actually had the 3rd highest attendance in League One today :shock: By some distance, too - the figures are:

Preston North End 17,518
Huddersfield Town 15,380
WALSALL 8,603
Brentford 6,338
Colchester 5,276 (and they managed to lose 1-6 at home!!!)
Yeovil Town 4,977
Wycombe 4,904
Scunthorpe 4,569
Oldham 4,459
L. Orient 4,162

A repeat of that figure on Saturday would be good, but I can't see Rochdale supplying 4,000-odd fans somehow......

[Whitti Steve]

Great game - they were as disappointing as Charlton to be honest. I'm guessing our sponsors wanted a photo with Wacka... have had nowt to do and won MOTM??? I though Paterson or Manny Smith deserved it. Three hard earned points... Well done Walsall for digging in and keeping going.

The scenes in the corner were horrible, not what I want my kids to witness... but lets not tarnish all their fans with the same brush, there were probably 20-30 who were really up for a scrap in that corner... those too drunk to realise they will get a tap on the door once the CCTV has been viewed (along with a few from Walsall I suspect). Not nearly enough police for such a big away following, but I thought they coped and handled it fairly well to be honest.

[gray]

What a day, It still hasn't sunk in. Absolutely incredible scenes at the end. I haven't seen the stadium like that for years! It would be so good if it was the same for more games this season as the players clearly relish it.

I don't encourage crowd violence but watching hundreds of Saddlers squaring up to hundreds of Owls fans in Megson masks was hilarious.

How Jimmy got man of the match is a mystery. He had very little to do, so its an insult to the team to say he was motm. It should have gone to Smith or Beevers who both gave their best perfomances in a Walsall shirt.

Credit to Wednesday for bringing so many fans, most were very well behaved. The police was shockingly unprepared.

[Ancient Moaner]

Well I'm going for 9,224 in attendance on a balmy boxing day to see the mighty Saddlers win 2-1.

Merry Christmas one and all

NINE THOUSAND??????? get this man to the nearest mental institution straight away...He even suggests we could actually WIN a match!....an I thought I wuz the barmy one!!!

Yep I admit it..yow wuz rite Rusky!!! but your attendance figure was way off the mark man.... :lol: :lol: :lol:
What a tremendous feeling to see a Walsall win again...thought it would never happen... :D :D :D :D
UTS! come on me babbies we can do it again.....

[boringteacher]

Jesus, I'd quite forgot what it was like to be thrilled by a game involving us!

The forces of light prevailed over darkness today, we deserved the luck we haven't had for ages as they scored from only the 2nd chance they had in the game (and a mediocre Butler was blatently pushed over for the first) just after we'd hit the bar. Wednesday were truely shite - I thought that you had to play football in the 3rd division to get promoted now, those pretend bagladies and charlton (we're so fornicating great) Athletic suggest otherwise.

I was still laughing so much at Claudes wonder deflection that I pretty much missed Manny putting the winner away - that and abusing the ref for failing to notice the elbow in the face on Nicholls from the corner it came from.

I'm so looking forward to reading the inbred South Yorkshire troll who is certain to appear soon.

[Rich Evans]

a great game but i made a flippent remark earlier about having the wendies locked in after the game for our safety perhaps this should have happend.

our stewards werent much better either allowing that wednesday fan to not once but twice get involved with our fans. :evil:

[priestley_saddler]

What a result, and what a turnaround. If we can follow this up by beating Rochdale on Saturday then we'll actually go into 2012 on back to back wins and just one league defeat in two months. Picture will look a lot prettier then.

The first half was very similar to the Charlton game, us more than holding our own against a top six side that flattered to deceive. Those that said typical Megson team were exactly right, in a first half which saw a grand total of 0 shots on target, from either team. The atmosphere in the stands was as good as its been for a while, but while there was plenty of huffing and puffing on the pitch there wasn't a great deal of quality that threatened to break the deadlock. Then Nicholls teed up Paterson who lashed a 20 yarder against the bar with the keeper standing still, and the game was suddenly galvanised into life.

So, inevitably, within 60 seconds we were behind. They broke down our right, evaded challenges from Paterson and Sadler, and a fine cross was matched by an equally good header. We didn't deserve to fall behind, but it had the feel of something we couldn't recover from. Trouble spilled over from the stands and on to the pitch, the game being stopped for a minute or two while the police and stewards tried to restore order*. The trouble threatened to spill over on to the pitch as Beevers squared up to one of their players and both were booked, while Clinton Morrison was involved in a spat with a section of our support while warming up.

As the atmosphere improved around the ground so did our performance on it. Wednesday did a Walsall and dropped incredibly deep, and for the first time this season we actually controlled the midfield with Chambers and Peterlin spraying telling passes and Paterson looking more and more dangerous when linking up with Nicholls. Right on cue Paterson was hauled off for Bowerman (a decision I thought was incorrect at the time), and Gnakpa came on for Taundry. The subs made an immediate impact with Gnakpa dominating in the air, and Bowerman managed to beat his man in the area before a heavy touch stopped him laying it off to Nicholls. We were getting crosses into the box but it just wasn't quite falling for us, Gnakpa whizzed one almost along the line that was dying to be touched in, but we frustratingly didn't have a man in the six yard box attacking it. But it just felt like this time we would actually score, even if the person next to me looked at me as though I'd got two heads when I suggested it.

The board went up for 5 minutes injury time and we were well on top. Gnakpa fights off a couple of half hearted challenges before smashing a shot 4 yards wide which took the biggest of deflections and flew into the other corner. It was no more than we deserved.

I expected us to sit back and take the point, or possibly to throw it away, but actually we went for the jugular. Wednesday continued to back off and looked like they wanted the whistle more than we did. Our pressure won us a free kick about 30 yards out and, while Nicholls was caught with a stray elbow and was lay on the floor holding his face as the ball came in (another violent conduct charge for an incident missed by the ref against us methinks), it went all the way across to Manny Smith at the back post who finished like a striker and ran away with his shirt over his head!!!

Macken was bought off to run down the clock and then the whistle went, and was just what we deserved given our performance today and the misfortune we suffered with Lester's equaliser at Chesterfield.

Although if we don't follow it up against Rochdale it will all count for nothing. Sadly I'll have to miss it as I'll have moved by then :(

*As for the crowd trouble, I think the stewards and police handled it well, and it calmed down after a few minutes. I think the problem was caused not by the numbers or lack of preparation from the police. It was simply how big an area the Wednesday fans covered. If they had, for example, given them the entire F2G stand rather than two whole stands they'd have been a lot easier to control as they'd have all been in one place. As it happened though, it meant that one end of their support was 150 yards away from the other end, that's a large area to cover. For the record, I'm not suggesting they should have given them the F2G, far from it. Just using it as a comparison of how much easier it would have been to control if they didn't have half the ground.

[gray]

That's true but they must have known for a while that they were going to be in half the ground, it's not like they didn't have time to get organised. Once they got their act together it was much better. The Wednesday crowd reminded me of the Villa fans in pre-season. It seemed like so many weren't sat in seats. I'm sure it wasn't the case but it almost looked like they'd oversold the stand.

[We-ARE-Walsall]

That's true but they must have known for a while that they were going to be in half the ground, it's not like they didn't have time to get organised. Once they got their act together it was much better. The Wednesday crowd reminded me of the Villa fans in pre-season. It seemed like so many weren't sat in seats. I'm sure it wasn't the case but it almost looked like they'd oversold the stand.

They are Sheffield Wednesday, they do what they want , apart from hold on to a lead that is :lol:

[gray]

That's true but they must have known for a while that they were going to be in half the ground, it's not like they didn't have time to get organised. Once they got their act together it was much better. The Wednesday crowd reminded me of the Villa fans in pre-season. It seemed like so many weren't sat in seats. I'm sure it wasn't the case but it almost looked like they'd oversold the stand.

They are Sheffield Wednesday, they do what they want , apart from hold on to a lead that is :lol:

:lol:

[wednesburysaddler]

only one word to sum up todays game SENSATIONAL

firstly about sheff wednedsday fans : a very large prescence with a few dozen spoiling it but apart from those nomarks the rest were very well behaved.

now walsall what a sensational performance from every single player today.
from the first minute to the last we battled for every ball and actually passed the ball to the same coloured shirt.
the hoof ball seemed to have gone and we passed the ball accuratly quickly and purposfully.

was nice to have a fantastic atmosphere in the ground and reminded me of those good old championship days.

was nice to shut up those 3,000 fans with the lateness of the goals and we were fully deserving of 3 points today although id have took one that late in game.

best match ive seen thise season and even if we have had lost i would have still praised the players today.

as for observations still think we lack an attacking midfielder with pace that can do some magic and play behind front 2 and bring them in to play and we do look a bit powder puff up front but if we could these 2 positions covered somehow then im sure we can climb the table even if we just finish 5th bottom.

thought the referee and assistants made quite a few errors today maybe the so called big club mentality bought the worst out of them
and motm for me was macken thought he had his best game for walsall

days like today make you proud to be a saddler

[Ancient Moaner]

BIG club in a little Division syndrome..United will overtake 'em and beat 'em to the automatic promotion place, (we hope)
Mind you, they might be fighting us for the place by the end of the season! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Got to stop taking those 'happy pills' Aldridge and Balzing will have no one to grumble at! :D :D :D ,