Skipper Liam Palmer has issued a rallying call to the Wednesday squad after our relegation to division one was confirmed on Sunday.

With the Owls on the road to Norwich tomorrow evening in the first of our 13 remaining games in the Championship season, Palmer told the club website: “After the manager spoke, I said look boys, it’s 10 weeks, 13 games and we must have pride in our work, for ourselves and the fans.

”You’ve got to come in every day and work and it’s up to the senior players to drive that standard.

“We can’t just fall away now and give up. I think we’ve shown, in big parts of the season against a lot of teams, that we can compete but we know we have to be at our absolute best just to stay in games and keep going.

“We’ll never stop fighting for the badge and, as captain, I will keep driving that every day. It’s been no secret, all the things that have happened off the field, things out of our control.

“Relegation only tells half the story and nobody from the outside knows what it has taken to get to this point.”
Palmer also praised the backing of the fans through a season of turmoil, saying: “As someone who has been here all of my career and a fan myself, I just feel for them all.
“They’ve been amazing all season, it’s a tough time to be a Wednesday fan and it’s a tough time to be a Wednesday player. The fans know the reasons why we have been relegated, the writing has been on the wall a long time.
“So from me, they know what I think of them. These things tend to run in cycles and I’ve no doubt we’ll be back where we need to be.

“We’ll be back and they will be right there with us.”

Wednesday face more selection issues for tomorrow’s game at Carrow Road.

Gabriel Otegbayo will serve a one-match ban for his red card at Sheff U and Liam Cooper looks set to be sidelined after limping off late in the derby clash.

Olaf Kobacki, who recently returned from injury, is probably jailout again for at least a month while Marvelous Nakamba was ruled out of the match with Sheff U after suffering a facial injury in training.