Stephanie Briody

Digital Agency Owner / Mum / Wife / Die Hard Owl ! 🍸💙☀️🦉

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

@MarcWilcox13 Loved this day singing the football league is upside down at the cricket club near the ground and it was bloody roasting!

[Sheffield Wednesday Supporters' Trust @SWFCTrust]

🚨🦉 Important Announcement🦉🚨

A new friend of Sheffield Wednesday and the Supporters Trust, who prefers to remain anonymous, has been incredibly impressed by the outpouring of support for the effort to raise money for this important cause and has made an incredibly generous pledge to match every gift, up to £35,000 raised by supporters towards this effort.

We’re currently on £27,910, meaning we need to raise the final £7,090 to unlock the full £35,000 contribution.

If we do, a £35,000 supporter-led campaign becomes a £70,000 investment in Sheffield Wednesday supporters and young people across our community.

That means more season tickets, more match tickets, more mascot experiences, more shirts, and the chance to reach even more children who dream of being part of Sheffield Wednesday but may never otherwise get the opportunity. It means creating memories with parents, grandparents and friends that will last a lifetime, helping young people feel connected to their club, their city and their community. The donor has recognised just how important family and community are in Sheffield, and wants to help open the door for the next generation of Wednesdayites.

The donor recognised something we’ve all seen: when Wednesdayites are given the chance to help one another, they step forward. In discussing the donation, they impressed upon us a simple message:

“We’re All Wednesday Aren’t We?”

That spirit is exactly what Sheffield Wednesday is about.

This fanbase has already achieved something remarkable.

Now we have the opportunity to turn £35,000 into £70,000.

https://t.co/82PfX7VMDL

💙 #SWFC

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

Could not agree more with every single word of this! It’s what I’ve said all along & continue to champion. That man deserves a chance, and the supporters to back him!

[Kris Wigfield @kr62209]

I've noticed there is still a lot of online questioning of Henrik Pedersen.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion - and friendly debate is one of the reasons we all love football - but I want to give an alternative view.

Firstly, the new owners have made their decision. They have chosen to give Henrik an opportunity. Whether people agree with that decision or not, surely the best thing for Sheffield Wednesday now is for supporters to get behind him and give him the best possible chance of succeeding. If he succeeds, the football club succeeds.

From my own experience of spending more than six months at the club and being there every day, this is what I personally saw and heard:-

• A coaching team that was fully behind him.
• Players who, despite operating in some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable, continued to play for him every week.
• A squad that never stopped competing, even with everything that was going on behind the scenes. In fact, I'm still amazed we didn't suffer some real hammerings given the challenges the group was facing.

I also saw a manager with relentless positivity.

Straight after defeats he was already looking forward and motivating players.

Every day on the training ground he attacked the job with energy and enthusiasm. Whether you agree with his methods or not, nobody could question his commitment.

What I heard was equally interesting.

Opposition coaches, scouts and football directors would regularly tell us what a remarkable job he was doing under the circumstances. Many simply couldn't believe how competitive he had managed to keep the team given the challenges he was facing.

Perhaps most importantly, some of the biggest clubs in the country clearly rate him……

Manchester City, Manchester United, Crystal Palace and Chelsea were all proactive in wanting to place or keep young players at Sheffield Wednesday. They weren't doing that as a favour to us. They were doing it because they believed their players would develop under Henrik and that he would improve the value of their assets.

These are clubs with some of the best recruitment and player development departments in world football. They must have seen something they liked.

Does any of this guarantee success? Of course not, it doesn’t even always work out for Jose Mourinho.

Football is unpredictable and nobody knows what the future holds.

But there is a big difference between questioning whether somebody will succeed and declaring that they cannot.

The owners have seen enough to give him a chance.

The people working with him every day have seen enough to support him.

Some of the biggest clubs in England have seen enough to trust him with their young talent.

That doesn't mean they are right.

But it does mean there may be more to Henrik Pedersen than some are prepared to acknowledge.

Now that the decision has been made, I hope supporters give him a fair chance.
Because every now and then in football, the good guy does win.

Wouldn't it be brilliant if that happened here?

Up The Owls! 🦉

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

@kr62209 He absolutely earned his right for a fair crack and I for one want to continue to support him, and I hope so much that he succeeds and proves the doubters wrong. He is also one of the nicest men & my kids absolutely love him.💙

[Sheffield Wednesday Supporters' Trust @SWFCTrust]

£16,500 raised in less than 24 hours. Absolutely incredible.

Every donation, every share, every message of support is helping us create opportunities for people who otherwise might miss out on being part of Sheffield Wednesday.

But we’re only just getting started.

If you’ve been thinking about donating, now is the time. Whether it’s £1 or £1,867, every contribution moves us closer to changing someone’s season.

Let’s see how far we can take it.

https://t.co/fotDzucU9r

#SWFC #WAWAW

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

I mean, this just feels so surreal. I don’t think we’ve just got our Wednesday back, I think we’ve got it back and the future looks absolutely amazing with the new owners! They just get it! #swfc

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

@WTIDPOD Absolutely loved this when I saw it. 🦉

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

@todwickrobswfc Agree. Fab watch rob!

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

@WTIDPOD @MattJohno1989 Another fantastic piece of content! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

@robstaton I’ve just said the same. Just another game. 🙄

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

@Gooseowl18 My 3 work out 180ish cheaper as daughter has dropped back to the lowest kids price so hers is half what I paid last year. Mine not dropped much but I wasn’t expecting it to. Pleased with it overall & pleased we’ve still got a bloody club to watch 💙

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

@swfc Made me cry this. So happy, and so glad to have got ours renewed. So much optimism 💙

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

@WTIDPOD Another great listen! Was laughing to myself about the season we paid in cash ONLY and I rocked up with £850 in my purse worrying I was going to get mugged on the way in to the ticket office with my 7 year old! What madness we let happen! 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

I love this man. Loved him them, love him now. Absolute menace! 🦉

[Sheffield Wednesday @swfc]

What a guy!

An absolute pleasure to have Sam Hutchinson back with us at Hillsborough this weekend 💙

[Kris Wigfield @kr62209]

There seems to be a lot of confusion on the SWFC zero point ruling when comparing to the zero points Derby also received.

Both Clubs paid/are paying 25p in the £ to unsecured creditors.

Derby’s owner completely wrote his debt off. The Wednesday owner was made a sizeable offer.

Derby paid 25p in the £ and left the tax man owed £10’s of millions (EFL Insolvency Policy directs 100p - discretion shown). Wednesday are paying off all owed (100p in the £) to HMRC.

I’m struggling to square why some feel Wednesday should get more than Derby got for exiting Administration when the shortfall to creditors is so much less in the case of SWFC?

Furthermore, the shortfall against EFL Insolvency Policy is also much less in the case of SWFC.

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

Worth 45 minutes of any Wednesday fans time. Probs worth other fans who are booting off that we’ve been “let off” listening to it too! 👏🏼

[Owls Extra @OwlsExtra]

⏰ Tomorrow. 7am.

@MattJohno1989 spoke with @KieranMaguire to discuss the takeover from a financial perspective.

He also gives his 'Top 5 Worst Financial Decisions' from the previous regime.

We've loved having Kieran on, but hopefully he's not back on for a while!

https://t.co/kaSszdgBoY

[Jake @jakerowl1]

Sheffield Wednesday haven’t dodged punishment, we’ve lived it and breathed it, for years.

Points deductions, transfer restrictions, stripped back squads, off-field chaos, and the worst season in the club’s history, all under an ownership model we as fans had zero control over. The damage wasn’t theoretical, it was real and it was brutal. It’s caused infighting, division and a complete loss of identity. We’ve been ridiculed beyond belief and we lost all pride in our football club.

Administration didn’t give us an advantage, it confirmed how far we’d already fallen. It was an escape from an owner who treat us with immeasurable disrespect.

A reset to zero isn’t leniency, it’s common sense. It’s the EFL recognising that you can’t keep punishing the same club, players and supporters for the same failure of one individual, over and over again.

We never asked for favours.
We asked for a level playing field. To be given the same opportunity as every other club in the league.

#SWFC

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

@WednesdayRob @storchyowl Absolutely fantastic 💙🦉

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

@kr62209 Thank you to every single person involved who saved the club we love so much! 💙

[Stephanie Briody @Stephyb26]

We got our Wednesday back! Yesterday broke me, but in a good way! This club 💙🦉 #swfc