Sheffield Wednesday Banter Archive January 02 2013

02 Jan 2013 21:52:45
Not a rumour but just a thought, tony watt from celtic would be quality, only 19 i think and is a defo goal scorer, hes just a bench-warmer at park head.

Hes there star youth for the future they wouldnt part with him for less than £5m min

Lots of prem clubs been watching since he scored against Barcelona !
So not really unknown and not a prayer of him going anywhere but to a leading prem side.

02 Jan 2013 19:49:33
Am seeing it again now the transfer window is open. People putting quite believable rumours about lower league players that could prove quite useful and could make the step up and play at this level and others saying that these are players we shouldn't go for as they play for lower league teams and are not good enough.

Some of these doubters are probably the same people that said Le Fondre wasn't good enough for us in league one as he was playing in league two. He seems to be doing quite well in the premiership now.

I think we should take a chance with some of the players we have been linked with, if nothing else they will add some energy as they try to prove themselves in this league. Although the cynical part of me says that even if we do sign them we DJ won't play them

Not saying you wrong but even if you right we cant afford that gamble with position we in now.
We need more quality and experience quick.

02 Jan 2013 21:29:49
Some guy who is 27 and only played for rotherham crewe and portvale isnt the sort of player we should be going for in our current situation

You can gamble on players like ALF when you in Prem cos you got quality backup, you cant gamble on players like him to get you to the Prem cos if you pick a wrong un you struggling.
We brought 16 gambles in already this year anyway - thats more than half our problem.
The other half of our problem is the bloke that brought em !

ALF signed for Reading while they were still in the championship if i'm not mistaken.

I can see the point that we don't have the time or opportunity now to have a gamble on these players but similarly I think that having a young player hungry to prove themselves along side some good proven players (the area where we have the problem lets be honest) could benefit the team if for nothing else he is something different that the opposition haven't seen before.

02 Jan 2013 17:51:30
Why the **** is palmer staying out on loan we could do with him back! And dj will prob sell him! another good young player gone but dj may have a 30+ player in mind! Uto

02 Jan 2013 14:23:17
Swfc to sign a striker and a loan move for another player maybe another CB as Miguel lleras agent has said we are not offering a contract to him and expects him to leave before end of January

Big talk and on Radio Sheff that LLera isn't being offered a new contract in the summer...new CB being lined up

02 Jan 2013 11:48:41
Swfc need to sign a proven striker and CB

Midfielder more so than cb for me. Although we prob need 3 or 4 new players.Deffo a striker.
Defence isnt too bad but they have to do too much because they are under the cosh because of midfield

02 Jan 2013 10:03:43
last week I came on here saying it
would be any three from four to go
down. Some agreed with me but one
or two did not. I did praise the four
game unbeaten run also.
Even despite that little run I still feel
Wednesday will need to go some to
finish fourth bottom. I said that even
Barnsley will have al little run of
results like we just had when their
new manager comes in. Peterboro'
and Bristol are more capable of
getting 2, 3 or more goals in a game
than Wednesday. I think peterboro
are the danger side. They loose alot
like us but because of their goalscoring
power they are more capable of
shocking a team like Cardiff away.
Our wins have come against bottom
half teams. Our win against millwall
was when they were struggling near
the bottom. Peterboro' know they
can beat even the top 6 teams on
any given day home or away.
When we play the hulls, leicesters
and Cardiff we play Ok but fire blanks
and lose the games. We need to
beat some of these sides when we
play them again. I stick by it Wednesday
will do well to stay up.

We will have a hard job but i still think we will overtake a few clubs that maybe we dont expect to.
Barnsley might improve but we will bring some players in and improve ourselves.
MM will have to spend a few quid though cos freebies are no good.
If we did happen to go down we would walk league one and enjoy it like we did last season

Dont want to but I have to agree with all that OP says, he got it spot on.
The only chance we got of outpacing 3 other teams at bottom is if MM spends £2-3mill in this window, which the rules do allow £3m this year, and bring in 3-4 good experienced players in key positions.
I dont think hes going to do that so we have to get lucky, really lucky, if we going to beat the drop.
But for the other poster to suggest that we would enjoy it is beyond me , we got to do evrything possible to stay up cos no guarantee you ever get back - anything can happen over a season !

No don't get me wrong , i think we will stay up but if we did go down i think we would be straight back up.
We enjoyed last season and we'd enjoy league one again because we just want to see our team win games.
If we did go down we'd be in a better financial position than last time and we have good young players and experienced L1 players that wouldn't struggle to get us up.
We struggle in this league but we have too much advantage over the clubs down there with our crowds and finances.
Obviously staying up is better.

Yes if we all stayed the same player and manager wise we would struggle.
But even then we should be able to manage 4th from bottom.
But i don't believe we will go down.
We will sign some players that will get us up the table.
We have 75% of a decent team(when reda is back).Just two good quality players would make all the difference and i believe we will get them.

DJ brought in 16 players already, how many are suitable quality for now?
Hes improved our defence by getting rid of Beevers and Llera and bringing in Gardner and Taylor ?
Hes tried to improve our goalscoring by bringing in Bothroyd and Sidibe?
What is your confidence based on ?