Sheffield Wednesday have signed Clinton Morrison on a free transfer. I think that's an excellent signing, he should be lethal in League 1.

I'm beginning to feel confident of our chances of bouncing back up to the Championship first time. We have bought well this summer 🙂

We're currently on pre-season in Sweden. Tonights result:

Vallens IF 1 - 11 Bristol City

Funny as that is, I wonder what exactly the point of games like this are. Things learnt about the squad tonight = 0

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Only a couple of weeks til we get underway  Anyone feeling very optimistic or very pessimistic since last discussed?

We have signed two players, both from lower leagues and we have a trialist who looks like he's staying. We've let go of 9 players. Other than that, very quiet. Rumours from my player mate about many millions available for transfers are either wrong or Coppell has decided not to go nuts, which is in keeping with how he usually manages a club. He's never been one for big money signings anywhere he's been. Obviously we still have a couple of weeks to go.

If the season started today I would expect a similar showing to last year and the year before (10th) lots of people are talking about the Coppell effect. Balls in my opinion. We have the same squad as we've had the last two seasons, minus 9, plus 2 untried at this level. He's a manager not a magician

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Anyone got any thoughts how Pompey may fair this season..? I think they may really struggle and i expect a whole lot more turmoil at the club.. upside is you football league fans can enjoy a nice friendly welcome at fratton park !!

Yes I think an up and down season for them, in the papers for the wrong reasons all summer really. I think a rather unremarkable mid table 14th for them,

However for us Owls, I think 1st in League 1 with 97 points and an unbeaten home record...

...I can dream!

I do think we'll bounce back up though

I would expect Wednesday to bounce back too, however, I'd urge caution having been in your situation. It aint an easy league to get out of. You'll need to get physical as well as play nice football. I'm sure Simon would echo these sentiments too.

Pompey? Not sure they'll struggle, but I don't expect them to be challenging either

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I would expect Wednesday to bounce back too, however, I'd urge caution having been in your situation. It aint an easy league to get out of. You'll need to get physical as well as play nice football. I'm sure Simon would echo these sentiments too.

Pompey? Not sure they'll struggle, but I don't expect them to be challenging either

You be travelling down there for the away game Matty...?

I would expect Wednesday to bounce back too, however, I'd urge caution having been in your situation. It aint an easy league to get out of. You'll need to get physical as well as play nice football. I'm sure Simon would echo these sentiments too.

Pompey? Not sure they'll struggle, but I don't expect them to be challenging either

You be travelling down there for the away game Matty...?

Possibly. It'll be one of our closest games. I only get to a handful of away games in a season, so tend to pick carefully. I'm already going to one dump (Elland Rd) this season, so not sure if I should add Pompey

Hi Simon *waves*

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We've barely spent a penny on transfer fees since the season ended and certainly haven't replaced Beckford in any meaningful way.

We are weak in central midfield as well.

I don't know what to expect, but at this stage 'distinctly underwhelmed' would sum it up.

 

 

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I would expect Wednesday to bounce back too, however, I'd urge caution having been in your situation. It aint an easy league to get out of. You'll need to get physical as well as play nice football. I'm sure Simon would echo these sentiments too.

Pompey? Not sure they'll struggle, but I don't expect them to be challenging either

You be travelling down there for the away game Matty...?

Possibly. It'll be one of our closest games. I only get to a handful of away games in a season, so tend to pick carefully. I'm already going to one dump (Elland Rd) this season, so not sure if I should add Pompey

Hi Simon *waves*

Hope you'll be joining us on a session rather than slumming it with your yokel mates.

I'll do all I can to make the away game, but as happens with us when we so much as fart the game will no doubt be moved for TV.

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I would expect Wednesday to bounce back too, however, I'd urge caution having been in your situation. It aint an easy league to get out of. You'll need to get physical as well as play nice football. I'm sure Simon would echo these sentiments too.

Pompey? Not sure they'll struggle, but I don't expect them to be challenging either

You be travelling down there for the away game Matty...?

Possibly. It'll be one of our closest games. I only get to a handful of away games in a season, so tend to pick carefully. I'm already going to one dump (Elland Rd) this season, so not sure if I should add Pompey

Hi Simon *waves*

Hope you'll be joining us on a session rather than slumming it with your yokel mates.

I'll do all I can to make the away game, but as happens with us when we so much as fart the game will no doubt be moved for TV.

I'll be getting completely wrecked and sleeping over the night in that place by you I went last time

I'm wondering about TV. We haven't played each other in the league for yonks. If we're doing well by then and so are you then you would imagine it has a fair chance of being picked by Sky. Not played each other for years, you're back in The Championship, Coppell attracts the media like flies around you know what. If we're bottom half and going nowhere then it'll just be seen as another game. TV chances deminish. If it did get TV and put back to something like a Monday or Tuesday eve then I'm screwed for being there. If it's one of the Saturday eve games I'll still be there, but just less drinking time after, which bothers me

What's your away allocation? Our away support is extremely good considering we only average 16,17k or for home games. We almost always sell out our allocation. Worth noting that our soon to be destroyed ground only has an attendance of 19k once you take out segregation, so when you factor in the tickets allowed for away fans (usually 2600 or so, more for some teams, up to 3k) then we do pretty much sell out the home allocation. God we need this new ground! I would imagine we would take 5k to yours if allowed. Obviously how we're doing will make a difference as it always does. Bottom 3 and people lose interest a bit

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Funny you should mention that. There's a thread on WACCOE speculating who'll bring their full allocation and it's clear that no-one realises how well you can be supported away from home.

You're guaranteed 1,710 in the SE Corner (Cheese Wedge)

http://www.wafll.com/wafll-gallery/wafll_-_elland_road/inside_er_-_the_cheese_wedge-107-thread.html

If you can sell them (which I suspect you can) you're also entitled to ask for 300 more, which means that you actually get the first two blocks of the south stand (to the right of the wedge on that photo) and a total of 2,700. That means a buffer area behind the goal and much wailing and gnashing of teeth because it deprives our fans of around 1300 'cheaper' tickets.

If you're a Category A it'll cost you £29, if a 'B' £24. I suspect with a good away following the club will need no persuading to make it a top priced game.

EDIT: Better picture of the South Stand

http://www.wafll.com/wafll-gallery/wafll_-_elland_road/inside_er_-_the_south_stand-108-thread.html

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I've no doubt whatsoever that we'll sell out all 2700  Naturally I'll be back here later on in the season when we've only sold 2k

We took 5k to Reading last year and year before because they allowed us the extra allocation. Only an hour up the road admittedly. We also took 4k to West Brom, although again that's just over an hour away. We took 3k to Newcastle and asked for another 3k, but they wouldn't allow it. If we expected to sell 6k for all the way up there then I've no doubt we'll sell less than half that for a shorter trip in a heartbeat

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Extremely grim reading for Cardiff fans. There seems to be something everyday at the moment:

http://thelonegunmanblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/cardiff-city-football-club-holdings-ltd.html

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A very sensible blog by an Ipswich Town fan.

 

 

Time to face up to reality?

Extremely grim reading for Cardiff fans. There seems to be something everyday at the moment:

http://thelonegunmanblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/cardiff-city-football-club-holdings-ltd.html

This is getting ridiculous now

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cardiff_city/8846369.stm

How much longer are these idiots going to be allowed to keep getting away with it? Wrap the whole ruined club up and do everyone a favour

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Not at all. Expected and planned for. It's not even a stumbling block. As someone who knows straight from the horses mouth exactly what's going on behind closed doors I can assure you the stadium is on track and will be built. As for Cardiff- was it not you on Facebook - a Cardiff fan - who said they should be wound up? This only a few weeks ago?😎

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More worrying for us is we lost in the week to Torquay 2-1

I know Tricky doesn't like reading this stuff, but as the forum's only Cardiff fan I like to keep him in touch, and there's something everyday at the moment  Here's todays offering, and it's a peach!

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footballnation/cardiff-city-fc/2010/07/23/chopra-quit-threat-piles-on-misery-for-bluebirds-91466-26912956/

Chopra is going to quit unless new players are brought in

 

City’s 21-goal star striker, coveted by Ipswich and other Championship clubs, warned he would go “if this club doesn’t sort itself out”.

Chopra said: “I’m well hacked off. If this club does not bring in new players, I’m off.

“I’ve had a enough of this. Nothing is moving with just a couple of weeks to go before the new season.

“I can see that we will struggle this season if people at board level don’t get real and sort this matter out soon.”

 

um.... you're under a transfer embargo you idiot!!!  Looks like he's off then. The manager looks to be off too  He's now "red hot favourite" to land the Fulham job

Rats leaving a sinking ship and still at least two clubs are owed a lot of money, plus the club are tens of millions in debt with no money to pay it off with. The end is nigh

 

In other news. Sheff Weds have been served with a winding up order. It'll be interesting to see how they're dealt with respective of the umpteen chances Cardiff have had

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Oh, let's hope Ipswich do something about Chopra. Then it will put more pressure on the debt ridden board to do a deal with us regarding Wickham. That's all I'm worried about.

And hot off the press - Whittingham is leaving for Forest!  Relegation here they come

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