BREAKING NEWS: Hallam FM this morning reports that Owls defender Richard Wood has been transfer-listed by Brian Laws after allegedly being asked to made the highest-paid player at the club. This follows prolonged contract negotiations which seem to have come to an unsavoury end with Wednesday's longest-serving player coming to the end of his current contract in the summer.

The club have confirmed via the official site that they are "not prepared to meet Wood's wage demands, which amount to making him comfortably the most highly paid player on the Hillsborough pay roll."

Brian Laws, said: "It is very disappointing to be in this situation but Richard Wood is going to be put on the transfer list. We have been talking to him about a new contract for months now but Richard and his agent believe he should be the highest paid player at this football club. We are not in a position to pay the kind of money he has been asking for and his demands are just too great.

"The gap in negotiations cannot be bridged because Richard is demanding an amount that we cannot justify paying. His opinion is that if he cannot get the wage he wants from Sheffield Wednesday he will go somewhere else."

"Richard and his agent have asked for something that they know we can't pay so I am very disappointed in a player who has previously told me he wants to be at this football club. We have made him an excellent offer and I am staggered that we are at this point."



After the dismal defeat at Vicarage Road last Friday evening it seems the pressure is really on to get a win down at Bristol City. Anything resembling a Championship-standard performance would be a start after some shocking away days already this season. We’ve had no Reading (yet) but the manner of the defeats at Port Vale, Derby and Watford were simply unacceptable and our away form has been dreadful ever since the playoff push of 2006/07. It’s typical of Wednesday that we can get one part right and not the other with our home form having steadily improved in our time in the Championship and Hillsborough no longer being a cauldron of fear for our own players.

It’s been said time and time again but until we can find some sort of consistency we’ll never be more than a mid-table side. I don’t think any of us expect Wednesday to go out and beat the West Broms and Newcastles of this world on a regular basis with our limited resources but surely it’s not too much to expect the odd acceptable performance away from home? Even at home we seem incapable of turning up for more than one half at a home although, Preston excepted, this seems to have been enough to earn three points for the most part. If only we could replicate the flowing football from that first half on a regular basis...




Wednesday have this week been praised both in parliament and by the Football League for the partnership with the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Members of Parliament put their name to an Early Day Motion proposed by Angela Smith, MP for Sheffield Hillsborough, and presented to the House of Commons on Monday.
"This House congratulates Sheffield Wednesday FC on its decision to engage as its main sponsor The Children's Hospital in Sheffield," read the Early Day Motion.
"Recognises the potential this creates for raising significant sums of money for a highly valued charity.
"Notes that this partnership has already raised £50,000 for the charity and that the first major business has announced a sponsorship deal which will benefit both partners."
The Football League's Director of External Affairs, Gavin Megaw, also praised the club’s community work.
"Communities are the lifeblood of Football League Clubs and this is yet another great example of clubs working hard locally to make a difference in their locality," he said.