“Look at what he has done” – Sheffield Wednesday fan pundit delivers verdict on Darren Moore’s future following play-off heartbreak

Sheffield Wednesday‘s 2021-22 season ended on Tuesday night at the hands of Sunderland, with the Black Cats being the team to progress from their League One play-off semi final.

The Owls went into the second leg at Hillsborough with a one-goal deficit to overturn thanks to Ross Stewart’s strike, and for the most part in South Yorkshire it looked as though Alex Neil’s side were going to frustrate them.

Lee Gregory though levelled the tie with just over 15 minutes to go, but in the 10 minutes of time that was added on at the end of the contest, Patrick Roberts delivered a deathly blow to Wednesday’s promotion hopes to level the tie on the night and send the Wearsiders to Wembley.

It meant a disappointing conclusion to the campaign for Darren Moore, who guided the Owls to fourth place in League One in his first full season in charge and saw his side really pick up the pace in the final months of the season, with the goals coming from all angles – especially on home soil.

Despite some fan frustration over Moore’s management during the play-off double header, FLW’s Wednesday fan pundit James Mappin believes that Moore must be kept on as manager for the 2022-23 campaign.

“100 per cent Darren Moore needs to stay as manager next season,” James said.

“Look at what he has done – the club when he first came in was a broken club, we were destined for League One, lots of deadwood and players on big wages, we got rid of all those, he’s brought in a squad that has done incredibly well this season.

“To finish fourth is a fantastic achievement – it’s not finished in us going up and you could probably say we perhaps should have gone up as automatics with the squad we’ve got.

“But he’s had a lot of injuries and he’s starting to turn the