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[Sheffield Wednesday Supporters' Trust @SWFCTrust]

🚨🦉 Important Announcement🦉🚨

A new friend of Sheffield Wednesday and the Supporters Trust, who prefers to remain anonymous, has been incredibly impressed by the outpouring of support for the effort to raise money for this important cause and has made an incredibly generous pledge to match every gift, up to £35,000 raised by supporters towards this effort.

We’re currently on £27,910, meaning we need to raise the final £7,090 to unlock the full £35,000 contribution.

If we do, a £35,000 supporter-led campaign becomes a £70,000 investment in Sheffield Wednesday supporters and young people across our community.

That means more season tickets, more match tickets, more mascot experiences, more shirts, and the chance to reach even more children who dream of being part of Sheffield Wednesday but may never otherwise get the opportunity. It means creating memories with parents, grandparents and friends that will last a lifetime, helping young people feel connected to their club, their city and their community. The donor has recognised just how important family and community are in Sheffield, and wants to help open the door for the next generation of Wednesdayites.

The donor recognised something we’ve all seen: when Wednesdayites are given the chance to help one another, they step forward. In discussing the donation, they impressed upon us a simple message:

“We’re All Wednesday Aren’t We?”

That spirit is exactly what Sheffield Wednesday is about.

This fanbase has already achieved something remarkable.

Now we have the opportunity to turn £35,000 into £70,000.

https://t.co/82PfX7VMDL

💙 #SWFC

[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! 🦉

[SWFC Supporters Club 💙 @swfcsc]

@robstaton How long has it been hacked? The content that the hacker is putting out is really good

[SWFC Supporters Club 💙 @swfcsc]

@jamsandwich It kicked off at 3 didnt it? 🤔

[SWFC Supporters Club 💙 @swfcsc]

So many huge advances in TV technology, from QLED to OLED, 4K to HDR and the TV companies still can't deal with shade on the pitch when it's sunny #playofffinal

[SWFC Supporters Club 💙 @swfcsc]

@HoltChris This is one of our favourites Chris...

[SWFC Supporters Club 💙 @swfcsc]

Cmon Boro #swfc

[Second Tier podcast @secondtierpod]

This will always be regarded as one of the greatest moments in football history.

[SWFC Supporters Club 💙 @swfcsc]

@SouthamptonFC

[Mike @KopFinest]

Ouch🤣🤣

[SWFC Supporters Club 💙 @swfcsc]

Get on and listen to David Bruce tonight on the podcast live from the @SWFCTrust AGM - https://t.co/x9V2rBMXcm
#swfc

[Cole ▯🦉💙 @swfccom_]

📍Times Square, NYC 🇺🇸 #SWFC 🦉

[Rammie’s left bollock 🐏 @Ram1884_]

BREAKING: EFL have announced that Sheffield Wednesday will start next season on 100 points. They’ve used their discretion and because it isn’t Derby or Mel Morris they’ve deemed it reasonable.

[GrantK @GrantK12345]

#swfc
HMRC were paid 100%,
Football creditors paid 100%
Other unsecured creditors paid 25%,
- 25p in the £1 as needed.
Chansiri offered a structured 25% but don’t reply in time.

Not sure what fans of others clubs think, but I would say we have met a lot of the requirements

[JP 🇺🇸 @Jowl30]

To all them crying about our points deduction being revoked, listen to this lad

[Kris Wigfield @kr62209]

There seems to be a lot of confusion on the SWFC zero point ruling when comparing to the zero points Derby also received.

Both Clubs paid/are paying 25p in the £ to unsecured creditors.

Derby’s owner completely wrote his debt off. The Wednesday owner was made a sizeable offer.

Derby paid 25p in the £ and left the tax man owed £10’s of millions (EFL Insolvency Policy directs 100p - discretion shown). Wednesday are paying off all owed (100p in the £) to HMRC.

I’m struggling to square why some feel Wednesday should get more than Derby got for exiting Administration when the shortfall to creditors is so much less in the case of SWFC?

Furthermore, the shortfall against EFL Insolvency Policy is also much less in the case of SWFC.

[David Storch @storchyowl]

Wanted to take some time to reflect on a day I’ve been dreaming of for months.

Saturday was perfect. Will never be able to express how grateful I am for the warm welcome the @SWFC fans gave my family and me. The sun shone down on our wonderful club on Saturday.

It was the experience of a lifetime to enjoy the moment with you all…. To share our new crest designed by the incredible local agency Peter and Paul…. To share the news that after an incredible collaborative effort between my team, the @EFL and BTG we will start next season on zero points!…. To introduce you to our incredible new CEO, David Bruce…. And to witness over 30,000 of my newest friends singing for 99 minutes straight as our Owls closed out such a difficult season with a win.

I’d like to further highlight how grateful I am to the @EFL for their diligence and approach in working with us to ratify all issues and achieve our target of closing by 1 May.

It takes a village; but without the commitment and tenacity of Asher Simons, Clive Betts MP and James Silverwood in particular, we would not be where we are today.

It’s been an extremely emotional 48 hours for me after a long process, but now the focus is already completely on action. We are proceeding ahead immediately on all fronts and we will update you, the fans, as we go.

You are the reason Michael and I are here, the reason we have fallen in love with this city and this club. We will do everything in our power to ensure we don’t let you down.

David

#wawaw #uto #swfc

[Lee Turton @LeeTurton_]

Chansiri last involvement with #swfc was to get a better deal for himself out of the administration process with the pence in the pound, & he still managed to mess that up 😂 now that’s Karma 😁

[All Millers @rufc_news]

Funny the EFL made Bury Luton Bournemouth Rotherham Bolton etc etc rot with points deductions, these get off free.

[Carlos Carvalhal @carloscarvalha2]

SWFC desceu para a ligue 1.
Último jogo da época, estádio completamente cheio a vibrar…. Isto é amor 💙
SWFC was relegated to Ligue 1.
Last game of the season, stadium completely full and buzzing…. That's love 💙