Fras

Proud Dad of two 👧🏼 ODP turned Anaesthesia Associate @ Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. Mostly tweets about SWFC & the clowns running the country.

[Fras @CrossFraser]

@AlexJPMiller @added_on_time Encouraging words. My only gripe is, given Wilson’s role, shouldn’t he be telling Pedersen how he wants us to play. The views might align, but essentially, that chat is implying Pedersen is the one deciding our playing philosophy for years to come, not Wilson.

[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! 🦉

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[EFL @EFL]

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[Fras @CrossFraser]

@andy4makerfield My Sad Captains is an elite choice. 👏

[Fras @CrossFraser]

@mallett_kieran I had a look at my camera roll yesterday for any photos of the night. Not a single image. Completely absorbed in the moment. How love sport should be experienced.

[Fras @CrossFraser]

@WereAllWeds1867 There’s a risk that it looks lazy recruitment making similar mistakes we’ve done in the past. However Bannan, despite his age, will still be a serious player at that level. But, if it was a choice between the two…I’d go for Vardy, purely for the Worldwide exposure it’ll bring

[Fras @CrossFraser]

Seriously impressive operator. Brilliant interview. #swfc

[Sheffield Wednesday @swfc]

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[Fras @CrossFraser]

@KelhamOwl @TWFootball1867 But a £200-300 outlay for 2 or 3 kids, would make you question it. Maybe I’m in the minority, but I don’t think an U 11 should be paying more than £5 for a match ticket, never mind pro rata for a ST (whilst acknowledging there’ll be 4-5 night games a season they won’t attend)

[Fras @CrossFraser]

@KelhamOwl @TWFootball1867 I’m not overly miffed about that the prices. They are what I sort of expected…but i think they’ve missed an opportunity with kids prices (particularly young kids). That’s all…I’m not going to get into an argument about it.

[Fras @CrossFraser]

@KelhamOwl @TWFootball1867 I think, especially given a decade of driving a generation of fans away, we should be making it practically impossible, for parents not to reintroduce their kids back to the club. I don’t think we should be looking to make money from kids, it’s about investing now for the future.

[Fras @CrossFraser]

@Goose_Creative I think of the blue centre stripe is “more Wednesday.” No idea if that is the actual cases for kits down the years though.

[Fras @CrossFraser]

@WereAllWeds1867 Honestly, don’t see the problem. There’s load of things clubs do, sometimes unethically, to gain the small margins. I think the impact of it has been hugely overstated.

[Alex Miller @AlexJPMiller]

Without going all pseudo-intellectual; at the heart of it, football is all about the shared human experience. Today will be one of those. Enjoy it; wear something daft, have another drink, cuddle a stranger.

Who truly knows what comes next, but for today who cares? Today is about the last year and the scale of shared achievement. It's about how people worked together and kept the thing breathing. And it's about the renewal of hope and possibility.

Park protests, leaflets, boycotts, embassies, Leicester, Boro, Megastore sell-outs, Oxford, endless togetherness on endless doomed away trips. Fear, defiance, faith. Personally, I'm proud and privileged to have witnessed the whole lot.

Today's society feels increasingly individual and cold and uninterested in the value of community. It wasn't without its moments, but the overwhelming feeling is that Sheffield Wednesday's 2025/26 travails brought it all back. Awesome in the true sense of the word.

UTO.

#SWFC🦉

[Sheffield Wednesday @swfc]

Big day tomorrow... 🥂

[David Storch @storchyowl]

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[Fras @CrossFraser]

@TWFootball1867 Where’s the “Undecided” option? I can understand, given the huge amount of work required & short time to instigate it (from when takeover complete), but I just think it puts added pressure on Pedersen to get off to a flyer. Lose a couple early on��the fans will turn.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

The media has convinced you that Keir Starmer is the worst Prime Minister in history. They're lying to you.