The constant praise regarding Wednesday’s support.

[alcoblade]

United are the ones with outstanding support. Crippled from the late 70s to the late 90s with a dump of a ground, no prospects and a series of crooks and dodgy owners as Chairmen that make Chansiri look like a blessing. No Cup finals since the 1930s, no regular competitive top flight football since the 1970s, no FA Cup Semi Final and Euro and World Cup stadium grants modernising our stadium and yet comfortably outstripping the pigs for support despite all the damage done to our club and fan base. I should've added six consecutive years in the third only a few years ago.

Yes, and better support than our city rivals for the best part of two decades. Yet we don't feel the need to pat ourselves on the back every 5 minutes like they do.

It really is a sign of how low they've sunk.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Who'd have thought you'd say that Peter

Do you disagree?

They're either clinically insane or blindly loyal but either way it's still good.

 

[alcoblade]

Do you disagree?

They're either clinically insane or blindly loyal but either way it's still good.

That's it's astonishing?

Yes, I couldn't disagree more.

After a decent season last year and with the manager of their dreams, they sold several thousand less season tickets than us. Hardly any of them go this season, though they still count, so the number looks decent despite the ground being empty (I don't blame them for that).

There's absolutely nothing astonishing about it.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

That's it's astonishing?

Yes, I couldn't disagree more.

After a decent season last year and with the manager of their dreams, they sold several thousand less season tickets than us. Hardly any of them go this season, though they still count, so the number looks decent despite the ground being empty (I don't blame them for that).

There's absolutely nothing astonishing about it.

They've been in the doldrums for so long their status as a club I'd say is now below the likes of Bristol City and Preston.

But their support has never significantly dwindled as you would expect it to.

There's a million reasons to rip the piss out of Wednesday but their attendances isn't one of them.

As other people commented in this thread before me, they are well supported.

 

[S64 Blade]

It’s just endemic of social media clicks basically. It’s an easy way to get likes, comments etc. So, the trash media channels that post this type of shite keep doing it.

 

[Shawy24]

Forgive me if this has been covered a million times before but today I watched a regular Wednesday YouTuber praising them for selling their allocation for Derby and stating how fantastic their fan base is.I commented that they haven’t got the exclusivity on selling out away ends and that there’s plenty of clubs that ,in there situation would do the same.My comment promptly got removed.
Can someone explain to me why they feel that they’ve got to keep telling everyone how fantastic they are.It’s like a propaganda machine.

They’re a Cult.

 

[ForgeBlade]

They are well supported, I'll give them that, They've got a good "hard core" of supporters and they get consistently high away followings. I think a part of that at the moment is a collective "us-vs-them" mentality that they've managed to drum up due to their (imagined) "mistreatment" at the hands of the authorities and, to be honest, fair fucks to the ones that keep shelling out to travel all over and support their team.

Sadly though, this does help to contribute to the myth they've somehow managed to erect about them having in some way "exceptional" support, which they absolutely do not. Back when we were last in League 1 we were selling out every away ground we went to. It's what happens when a "bigger" club falls on hard times. The hard core of supporters double down and go "fuck you all, we're going to keep going and making noise." In that respect, Wednesday are not special at all. I expect it will continue for them in League 1 next season. They'll convince themselves (as a lot of clubs do) that they're only there for 1 season so they might as well enjoy it and proove how massive they are by selling out Stevenage, Peterborough, Exeter etc.

Where it gets odd is the consistent lies they tell, that are swallowed up and propagated by other people and the media. "30k every week if we were in the prem" etc etc. As someone further up said, in the whole history of football in Sheffield, they have hit this mythical average attendance figure precisely 10 times. We've done it 9. Yet they, and the nation at large it seems, have this idea that they're freakishly well supported when compared to us.

I do think they're a bit odd in their obsession with it, and how they imagine it makes them so "massive." It's part of their collective delusion in which it's somehow still 1993 and they're still a big club at the top end of football. I don't know why, but this is unique to them. They seem to base a huge part of it on winning the League Cup in 1991, but the list of teams who've won that in the last (for example) 50 years is bonkers. Oxford, Luton, Norwich, Middlesbrough, Blackburn and Swansea have all done it. Blackburn among that club have also won the Premier League in that time. Yet none of those groups of fans carp about telling everyone they're sleeping giants and one of the biggest clubs that's ever existed.

They're deeply, deeply odd. Well supported, but very very weird in their obsession with it and their desperation for everyone else to acknowledge it.

 

[Weasel]

They’re a Cult.

They are certainly a bunch of something that sounds very similar.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

They are in a right state & I for one am fkg loving it …it’s the last straw they cling onto ..it’s this entitlement has held back for years ..long may it continue

 

[Tony Currie]

The psychology's for Wednesday fans is one of diminishing returns.

They haven't been in the premiership for the last 25 years
They haven't beaten us since 2012
Since the year 2000 19 of the 26 seasons we have finished above them
In the last 20 years only 6 times have they averaged higher attendances

So they clutch at the only straw left higher away attendances when No source publishes Exact away followings (i.e., number of travelling fans) for every match. They live on hearsay - sad really.