Aiyawatt sell the club

[Manwell Pablo]

3 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

I really do believe, we could be in the exact same position as Wednesday, and had a full boycott called for, I bet you would always get a good 10k who would go against that. Wednesday might have had a few 100

but it was a near enough full boycott.

 

I just put it down to more northern people being more passionate. As @Spanner73put it earlier, Sheffield industry was steel.

Leicester was woolly jumpers. Very appropriate 

I live in Chesterfield mate, and my birds a Sheffield United season ticket holder. And I have to call you out there. 
 

Wednesdays apparent massive boycott is well over stated. 
 

They have had over 20k at every league game, lower than 10k at league cup games but that’s par for the course.

 

their apparent “buycott” has had **** all effect compared to the other actions they’ve taken. 

[Dan]

9 hours ago, OntarioFox said:

Pointed out last week that a ten point deduction would put us in the relegation zone, and that the form of Sheffield United and Oxford was better than ours. It was more to play devil's advocate as that's around the harshest deduction we could expect before arbitration, but it's still within the realms of possibility.

 

The gap's now eight points, and we face Blackburn who are seven behind and one point outside it. How long do we have to slip until the gap is small enough for even a moderate deduction to put us well and truly in it?

 

It's not so much the band playing on as the Titanic sinks. At this point Top is playing Nero's lyre.

I'm not quite at the point where I think we'll go down but I'm far nearer than I thought I'd be. All Aiyawatt knows is decline - if anybody can get relegated against the odds it'll be us.

 

If the deduction is harsh, we are right in it. 1 win in 8 and can't score goals. Blackburn has the potential to be a new low under this regime and you can see a loss.

[Dan]

3 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

I really do believe, we could be in the exact same position as Wednesday, and had a full boycott called for, I bet you would always get a good 10k who would go against that. Wednesday might have had a few 100

but it was a near enough full boycott.

 

I just put it down to more northern people being more passionate. As @Spanner73put it earlier, Sheffield industry was steel.

Leicester was woolly jumpers. Very appropriate 

Wednesday have had it worse than us but they haven't fallen as far and nor do they pay wages (well at all!) as ridiculous as ours. We could fall even harder if not careful.

[OntarioFox]

3 hours ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Agree with all you’ve said except the Sheff Weds ‘quote’

 

Nobody at all thinks that we’re currently in as bad a situation as they were/are in

 

But the clued up ones realise we’re stood at the top of the same cliff they’re at the bottom of. 

Oh I'm with you, I think as soon as the parachute payments run out the club is essentially bust and we'll see the same miserable scenario as they've had at Hillsborough. I'm not sure it's going to be an overnight thing as soon as we inevitably fail to win promotion this year though - the cash injection from those payments should just about service the loans and wages we owe, but will mean more Oliver Twist transfer windows until things really hit the fan in 2-3 years time and we realise we have infrastructure to maintain as well as staff to pay.

 

Of course, none of this would be an issue if we'd had the vision to do our managerial business early and showed a little ambition to get someone like Enzo in to give us some direction and vision. But we don't do that anymore, and haven't done for a long, long time. It's increasingly obvious his tenure was a bit of a fluke, and when it was brought to a premature end our complete lack of vision and plan was exposed again. And our naivety to assume that he'd continue the 'project' knowing full well we were skint and would struggle to acquire the caliber of target he'd want.

 

It feels like a zombie club at the moment - fitting for the time of year I guess.

Edited 26 October 2025 by OntarioFox

[sm1]

I could tolerate Top if he changed the people below him, e.g. Rudkin, with a proper DoF (Steve Walsh).

[LCFCJohn]

6 hours ago, Manwell Pablo said:

I live in Chesterfield mate, and my birds a Sheffield United season ticket holder. And I have to call you out there. 
 

Wednesdays apparent massive boycott is well over stated. 
 

They have had over 20k at every league game, lower than 10k at league cup games but that’s par for the course.

 

their apparent “buycott” has had **** all effect compared to the other actions they’ve taken. 

I mean I live and work in Sheffield so I’m not speaking as a distant observer here…

 

I was specifically talking about the Middlesbrough game though. I know they have been pushing for this and there have been thousands still going. It’s been a slow build up but that game in the week was a great effort. 
 

My point way, I don’t think there is a single scenario in terms of how bad it could get here, in which we could achieve such a near full boycott as that game in the week. Thousands would still go. 
 

I know they have been taking other actions as well. But again, stopping spending money in the ground is such an easy thing to do even for those who (understandably), want to continue to attend and get behind the team. But we will still be raking it in with merchandise and food/drink sales.

[LCFCJohn]

6 hours ago, Dan said:

Wednesday have had it worse than us but they haven't fallen as far and nor do they pay wages (well at all!) as ridiculous as ours. We could fall even harder if not careful.

Agreed. Their playoff seasons were relative success after their decade to date at that point and meant they were quite fond of Chansiri for a while. 
 

I find it amazing when those who still defend and follow KP/Aiyawatt blindly chuck out the ‘be careful what you wish for’ and ‘look at Wednesday’ with no sense of irony.

 

But I do think there are similarities. Aiyawatt like Chansiri, didn’t earn his money and inherited it and struggled to run businesses. From comments he has made when facing criticism, it seems that he has a thin skin and fragile ego. These are the traits Chansiri has displayed during his time at Wednesday. 

 

And now we have a situation, like you say, in a much bigger scale than Wednesday where we are falling and not done yet. Still have costs our revenue can’t sustain and to boot, the owners main income source is struggling which is a recipe for investment to continue to dry up more so than it already has.

 

I being very careful what I wish for and looking very closely at Wednesday and that is the exact reason for change!

Edited 27 October 2025 by LCFCJohn

[Spanner73]

Hopefully the tide is turning against this disastrous owner ! 
 

 

[Sly]

What everyone needs to realise, is that whilst the stadium is typically full, that’s business success.
 

If it’s costing us money to be in the Premier League, as a business that’s a vanity project.
 

We have the 12th biggest attendance in English Football. 
 

We are most likely in the 30th - 40th bracket for attendance in Europe, even 70th - 80th worldwide. 

 

King Powers model has changed though. What do they want? It’s business 101 isn’t it? Water down the product quality but people still buy……

 

If the long term project is to make us profitable, then we’ll continue to slide, whilst the stadium will largely remain full. 

[sylofox]

On 25/10/2025 at 16:39, iancognito said:

Potential Chansiri situation. We're already underfunded, we just need an EFL embargo and a wage deferral and we're there.

I said this weeks ago to get picked on by the usual know it all fvckers on here.

 

Loaned upto the hilt parachute payments already gone and we still took another loan.

[The Year Of The Fox]

7 years on

[sylofox]

11 hours ago, Stadt said:

 

Donuts 

No we'd get done for having to many  players on the pitch.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

10 hours ago, Manwell Pablo said:

I live in Chesterfield mate, and my birds a Sheffield United season ticket holder. And I have to call you out there. 
 

Wednesdays apparent massive boycott is well over stated. 
 

They have had over 20k at every league game, lower than 10k at league cup games but that’s par for the course.

 

their apparent “buycott” has had **** all effect compared to the other actions they’ve taken. 

The only time their trust called a full boycott of the game the home end was 90% empty.

[Manwell Pablo]

9 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

The only time their trust called a full boycott of the game the home end was 90% empty.

 

It was a league cup game, they still got more than we'd normally get for a league cup game. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

6 minutes ago, Manwell Pablo said:

 

It was a league cup game, they still got more than we'd normally get for a league cup game. 

 

[CosbehFox]

They've utterly done me in the last few weeks. It's sad I don't feel too much when I see we've conceded. Maybe it will come back. In a bit of funk personally so who knows but it's mad how eventually it just dies on you. 

[Manwell Pablo]

29 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

 

 

And what was the official attendance for that game? I mean I know but I'll let you go and find it.

[cityfanlee23]

10 hours ago, sm1 said:

I could tolerate Top if he changed the people below him, e.g. Rudkin, with a proper DoF (Steve Walsh).

I think deep down most fans feel this way. If he brought SW in or even NP as Director of Football (health permitting) and gave them control over the footballing side, then came out with an honest interview of his own mistakes and how he is going to rectify where the club is, most would be prepared to give Top some time. 
 

 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

11 minutes ago, Manwell Pablo said:

 

And what was the official attendance for that game? I mean I know but I'll let you go and find it.

Are you suggesting the reported attendance of 21k was accurate? Use your eyes man

 

Looking at their forum they reckoned about 3500/4000 in the home end so about 85% empty in the home end.

[jayfox26]

1 hour ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

The only time their trust called a full boycott of the game the home end was 90% empty.

The people that actually attended really are morons aren't they? If our trust ever called for a full boycott we'd still get at least 25k. Football stadiums all over the country are full of people that have no knowledge or interest, they just have the finances to pass the time on a Saturday afternoon. Sad. 

[Nolucklcfc]

John texler is looking to buy. May move to a championship club after trying with wolves. 

[LCFCJohn]

32 minutes ago, cityfanlee23 said:

I think deep down most fans feel this way. If he brought SW in or even NP as Director of Football (health permitting) and gave them control over the footballing side, then came out with an honest interview of his own mistakes and how he is going to rectify where the club is, most would be prepared to give Top some time. 
 

 

Exactly! My biggest issues is the lack of accountability and the toxic culture that has been let get out of hand. The moves you have suggested would indicate in one go, that he has recognised this and handing the reigns to the right people to sort it out.

[AKCJ]

39 minutes ago, Manwell Pablo said:

 

And what was the official attendance for that game? I mean I know but I'll let you go and find it.

Do you believe that there were 21,578 people at that game?

 

 

[AKCJ]

 

This was the attendance for Sheffield Wednesday vs Middlesbrough.

 

Barely anyone in the home ends.

[RoboFox]

18 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

John texler is looking to buy. May move to a championship club after trying with wolves. 

Absolutely ****ing not.