Ahead of tomorrow’s home game with Oxford and after an emotional day of happenings at S6, the Wednesday players penned the following message to the fans:

‘We the players want to say directly to you, our supporters, how much we appreciate the lengths you have gone to, to protect this great club that we all love so much.

Whilst we fully understand your stance and the measures you took to force change, as a group, not having you in the ground has been felt by all of us.

After what has been a period of division and a feeling of ‘disconnect’ between the club, the players and the fans, we now hope this is the time we can all come back together under the badge and enjoy our football again!

So we ask you, starting tomorrow against Oxford, please come back to Hillsborough and cheer the team on. Let’s make the ground a place for teams to fear as we do everything we can to get the points we are going to so desperately need.

Think back to the comeback against Peterborough, wins against Arsenal and Newcastle. That was you in the stands as much as us on the pitch!

We won’t give up and we ask you not to give up on us. Together we are stronger. Together we can fight.’

The players #SWFC