The FA have announced a number of changes to next season's FA Cup competition to strengthen its standing and 'enhance its magic'. Most notably replays from the first round onwards have been scrapped, meaning every tie will be settled over the course of one meeting. At present, replays are in place until the fifth round, but the FA has made the decision to ditch them altogether once Football League teams begin to enter the competition. The latter stages of the FA Cup will also be played over...
The Owls announced a sell-out of tickets for the match earlier this week, with over 30,000 expected at the game for the third time this season. The Baggies’ travelling support have also sold out their 2,400 away allocation, who will be based in the upper tier of the West Stand. Now Wednesday have released a further 1,250 tickets in the lower tier after talks with the Safety Advisory Group (SAG), which covers stadium safety as part of Sheffield City Council. The match will be the final...
A large number of senior figures are approaching the end of their contracts at S6, including the likes of long-serving figurs such as Barry Bannan, Liam Palmer, Cameron Dawson, Dominic Iorfa and Josh Windass. Promotion pair Will Vaulks and Marvin Johnson have both played integral parts in the Owls resurgence this season, while Di’Shon Bernard has been among the most consistent performers in a remarkable campaign. After an initial intention to go about contract talks in February, all talks were...
He’s a very matter of fact man, is ‘Thommo’. He makes light of the surroundings as we head through the corridors at OEC Sheffield in Hillsborough, and he and his colleagues are in suits rather than tracksuits as they attend The Star’s Football Awards in which Danny Röhl is being honoured. Thompson has been to a few nights like this over the course of his career, but at the start of this season he probably didn’t expect to be sitting at Röhl’s table as a key member of his technical team – but...
The promotion-chasing Baggies head to Hillsborough on Saturday knowing a win will all but secure a place in the top six barring an unthinkable goal difference swing in favour of Hull City. Their hosts will have designs on picking up three points themselves of course having climbed out of the bottom three last weekend, sitting one point clear of the drop zone. A whopping 25 points and 16 league positions separate the two sides, who are battling to achieve very different aspirations heading into...
Barry Bannan has admitted he would like to see Ipswich Town join Leicester City in the automatic promotion places with Yorkshire rivals Leeds United missing out. Sheffield Wednesday remain fully focused on the lower end of the Championship table with the relegation battle intensifying week on week. The Owls are currently one point and one place above the drop zone with just two games remaining to secure their fate. But the incredible battle at the top cannot be ignored with Leeds, Ipswich and...
Both Sheffield sides have had a strong campaign in 2023/24, and they headed into the clash at Bramall Lane occupying the two spaces behind leaders, Birmingham City, but with games in hand. Wednesday had one, United three, and a win for either side would see them rise to first place. For years the Blades have been the top dogs on the youth scene in the steel city, so they went into this home game as favourites despite the fact the two teams drew 2-2 at Hillsborough back in October in a game that...
The Owls still have a job to do this weekend as they look to maintain their place in the Championship, and while Röhl is fully focused on making sure they get the result they need at Sunderland this weekend, there is still some thought going into what happens over the summer. Wednesday are hoping that they’ll still be a second tier side by the time the final whistle goes at the Stadium of Light, but whatever happens there it would appear that the Owls boss has got a plan in place for their...
The Owls rose out of the bottom three for the first time since August with Sunday’s 3-1 win at Blackburn Rovers and head into the final two matches of the season with their fate in their own hands. Their foremost rivals for their first safety spot are Birmingham City, who sit one spot and one place behind Wednesday heading into a killer clash at Huddersfield Town in 23rd this weekend. News broke in the Midlands media that Blues captain Dion Sanderson has been charged with drink-driving and will...
The Owls captain has won numerous Player of the Season gongs, and been named in the EFL Team of the Season over the course of his Hillsborough career, but it’ll always mean a lot to him to be appreciated by the Wednesday fanbase. This week Bannan added to his collection after he was voted as the Wise Old Owls Player of the Year for 2023/24, seeing off the competition from his teammates to scoop the gong, doing so for the first time since 2016 when he shared it with Fernando Forestieri during the...
The Owls have been chasing the pack above them for months now, consistently relying on favours from other teams in order to try and make progress up the league table, but that is no longer the case. A five game unbeaten run, including three big wins, has put Wednesday in charge of their own destiny, leaving them needing just a point away at Sunderland in order to confirm their Championship status, and Röhl admits that it’s a nice position to be in after what they’ve invested since his arrival at...
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