David S

. Swfc, NYG, Moto gp, BSB, WSB. ride an R1 but not so much nowadays.

[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! 🦉

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

The truth about climate is the OPPOSITE of what they are telling us. We are coming out of an Ice Age: one of the coldest periods in Earth's history. There is no crisis, just natural warming, & it's a GOOD thing!

[Kris Wigfield @kr62209]

About time.

The world’s biggest sport is controlled by an organisation that has spent decades lurching from one corruption scandal to the next.

If England, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina ever moved together, FIFA’s leverage would collapse overnight.

Take back control of the game and give it back to the fans.

#ReclaimFootball

[David S @DSimmo81]

@YamahaRacingUK @OfficialBSB Swan

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

This wasn’t in the Labour manifesto.
Nobody voted for it.
There is no mandate for it.
We need a General Election.

[David S @DSimmo81]

@dan_N_smith Never

[David S @DSimmo81]

@AlexJPMiller Him? Missing a deadline?… doesn’t sound like him.

[JP 🇺🇸 @Jowl30]

To all them crying about our points deduction being revoked, listen to this lad

[Alan Biggs @AlanBiggs1]

I won’t mention his name. But when a certain club owner told me 10 yrs ago he’d rather take no money for a star player than be forced to sell him, it felt like an admirable stand on principle. I now know that, when applied to all situations, it was stupidity.

[J @thesirjason]

@Giants They drafted a tweener and an OL with a back injury. Could have had Styles and Downs.

[David S @DSimmo81]

I completely understand the giants picks… but… styles and downs are going to be a thorn in the side for a long time. #nyg

[David S @DSimmo81]

@GiantsNationPod Try and trade one of them to get the third rounder back, only as far as 12 though… if that’s not there, any combination of styles, downes, Tate or love.
Don’t like that dex has gone, but this opens everything up. Potentially a franchise changing draft now (if they get it right)

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

How The Blob Dumped Liz Truss

I now have a second source as to how they got rid of Liz Truss. There is a guy called Dougie Smith who is often described as a shadowy "fixer" or backroom operator at Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ). He worked for Cameron, May, and Johnson. Rishi Sunak was petrified of him.

According to Nadine Dorries he was the one adviser who could hire and fire anyone including a Prime Minister, according to an article in the Guardian. It also mentions he engaged in arranging sex parties for the wealthy, another source mentions his associations with high-society circles like the "Aspinalls poker set." These details contribute to his enigmatic, sometimes "Bond villain"-like reputation in Westminster commentary.

On Liz becoming Prime Minster 6 September 2022 one of her first decisions was to revoke Smith’s Number 10 pass. In a fit of pique Smith phoned up Andrew Bailey at the Bank of England. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's "mini-budget" on 23 September 2022 saw tax cuts that would need £45 billion.

On 28 September 2022, the BoE announced a temporary emergency gilt purchase programme without Office For Budget Responsibility scrutiny. Gilt yields spiked dramatically and the Bank of England announced a temporary emergency gilt purchase programme, a form of targeted quantitative easing. This was researched using Grok.

You can see Bailey would have done this with glee. Quantitative Tightening (QT) — the active selling of gilts from its balance sheet to reduce the money supply was announced before the mini-budget. (Grok) Gilt yields are higher under Labour.

-10-year gilt yield under Liz were 4.4%–4.5%, under Labour 4.65% – 4.85%
-30 year 5%-5.2% under Liz and under Labour 5.4% to 5.7%

Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England chaired the University of Cambridge branch of the socialist Fabian Society. How someone with such warped views ever gets to be Governor of the Bank of England is beyond me.

There is also a whiff of the Blob and the Globalists joining ranks, to stitch up someone who wanted lower taxes and less government. They would lose control.
Baroness Thatcher’s first budget designed by Lord Howe on 12 June 1979, saw tax cuts, balanced by increases in VAT. That fiscal year Exchequer receipts were £80 billion, eleven years later £200 million, accounting for inflation a real increase of 49%.

Liz was the nearest Prime Minister we had to Baroness Thatcher; she is a classical liberal. Losing control of the economy and ego was far more important to them, than serving in the best interests of the country.

https://t.co/RGq8PVinff

[David S @DSimmo81]

@bijolandendall It’s unbelievable Chansiri has only been given a 3 year ban from owning a club (2 years left as of the end of this season). He shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near another club again.

[David S @DSimmo81]

@henrywinter @added_on_time The rules were put in place to stop clubs being given an advantage over clubs in the below league, once admin is over. Delay a points deduction (indeterminate) until the end of next season to guarantee we don’t get promoted next season?

[Steve Chu @stevechu75]

Let’s all remember that around 75% of money owed is to Dejphon Chansiri. So the @efl position is to reward the person that their regulations failed to ban in time and punish the victims of his crimes #swfc

[David S @DSimmo81]

@RichardF1990 @DaleJohnsonBBC @Michael11975155 Id rather take this years relegation and another relegation to the 4th tier, and have all creditors but Chansiri paid in full.

[David S @DSimmo81]

@RichardF1990 @DaleJohnsonBBC @Michael11975155 Rich, the main creditor is Chansiri. It was him, and him alone that made the decisions that led to this. The club didn’t have a say on whether he put the money in as loans. The fact he’s now called in the debt punishes us again and again. Ie, a triple whammy….

[David S @DSimmo81]

@DaleJohnsonBBC @Michael11975155 I’m not saying it’s not the rules, just that as with other clubs, there has to be a time when enough is enough… very good explanation to the matter though dale.